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

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

I am also thinking that if we have to count more on locals, then we
should put the start of it inside the summer vacation, n vlora at the
end of the vacation, so end of august, that way we would have more
people.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:56 AM, jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jamesmikedupont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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