[sponsorship] Re: [FOSS-AL] focus on prishtina

["jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what is the status of the flossal ngo?
what about a poster, we need a poster design.
who has reviewed the papers? we need a list of speakers.
I have produced many possible keynote speakers, is anyone interested in them?
we have no sponsors until yet, so we are going to plan on having no
travel budget, that means we need to contact the possible speakers and
tell them that we are still working on funding and how likely they
will come. we need to get exact costs from each speaker.

next we need to look into hotel costs, we can also do the camping thing.
if we have little funding we can just camp and everyone brings thier own food.
everyone pays thier own transportation. we would need at least good
showers, toilettes and such.

the problem is when you setup a  camp, you cannot  move it easily. We
also need backup plans for rain or storm.

what about also focusing on tirana for albania and doing a camp there?
or vlora, i am sure it would be nicer to camp.

lets get a discussion going !

mike
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Baki Goxhaj <banago@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It sounds like a good option. I don't have much to say right now, but
> barcamping seems a great idea to me. I hope we can have a discussion about
> this to get this to the next level.
> Kindly,
> Baki Goxhaj
> www.wplancer.com | www.banago.info | www.lintuts.com
>
>
> On 12 June 2010 22:26, jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> After some discussion with the flossk team, I would like to make a
>> change in plan for freesb2010.
>>
>> I suggested before that we extend the events to tirana and shkoder so
>> that we can have presentations there as well.
>> This is a good idea, because it takes the focus away from one place,
>> and we bring the events to more people in more places.
>>
>> We had plans of going to prizren and gjakova as well, so I would like
>> to suggest the following addition to our plans.
>>
>>  I am going to suggest that we extend the freesb all the up to the
>> beginning of sfk09. We would move all the events in kosovo to the
>> 20-24 of Sept in Prishtina.
>> We would find sponsors to bring buses of people from vlore, tirana and
>> shkoder to Prishtina. and we would setup a large military type refugee
>> camp for tenting. Basically we would have for our local guests tents
>> for them to stay in. that way we can save on hotel costs.
>>
>> The freesb events should be in a barcamp type style, that way we can
>> avoid having the fixing of speakers.
>> We will contact the different unis in prishtina for hosting events. We
>> can also have a big hack tent where we can hold the event as well.
>> In case of major rain, we should have backup plans for each day.  The
>> outdoor tents will need power and wifi coverage. it could be alot of
>> fun!
>>
>> The talks in prizren and gjakova and other places are still open for
>> discussion. I think a one day trip there on sunday the 19th is also
>> possible, we will see.
>>
>> We will still aim for a small mini conference in vlore, tirana and
>> shkoder, but because we have no sponors, and very small teams, we
>> cannot hope to bring many international speakers there. We hope to be
>> able to find more people who will stay an extra day in prishtina to do
>> workshops.
>>
>> The good thing about this is that freesb is an event that we can
>> change as needed, we can be flexible and we dont have a big steering
>> committe to worry about. I hope that we can also have fundraising
>> sales there for flossk and flossal, so that we can raise money by
>> selling teeshirts and have commercial sponsors and food sales. that
>> was not possible at the sfk09, so we should make sure we can do that
>> in freesb10.
>>
>> I think that by taking away the pressure on albania, we can give that
>> team time to grow, they are just starting and things will take time to
>> work.
>>
>>
>> What do you think? Please respond? I am open to all suggestions.
>>
>> mike
>>
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