Devrel/Minutes/2015-01-12

Attendees

• callahad
• sole
• potch
• jason
• havi

Team Intro on Monday Meeting

• Names are hard. Havi, Potch, Sole, Dietrich, Dan
  • Also, the team is now called Developer Relations. (Andreas and HR like it.)
• We we are going to work on: talking, writing, interacting in 3 key areas:
  1. closer embedded relationships w/product teams > embedgelism
  2. grow community of technical speakers - mentorship, collateral, access to product teams
  3. closer relationships w/Research teams to advance new technologies
• Call to action: Got something cool? INFORM US. Got something to share w/developers - we can help you write or speak about it
  • Suggested channel to talk with us? #devrel IRC (mailing list coming soon)

Flames for non-Mozillians

• DevRel inventory available for evangelists' to distribute (w/discretion).
  • Service Now shipping request: https://mozilla.service-now.com/navpage.do > Service Catalog > Workplace Resources>Shipping/Receiving
  • Shipping doc for team-tracking: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjOq6DJG6L_xdEpFZFhkcEs1cEZDN3FRWkFWRExQcGc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

The blog: hacks.mozilla.org

• Would love your thoughts about Hacks, cadence, topics, new directions.
• Building Hacks posts into the workflow of what you do as evangelists: Recruiting new authors, new topics?
• Revisiting some basic assumptions
  • Sole: Hacks for things that are finished/vs personal blog for things in progress
  • Posting about Moz Product work in progress
  • New & notable posts (for all major products) on all the work we're doing.
  • Guests don't need to be "celebrity developers"
  • Matthew Claypotch: post - web audio OR firefox.html
  • Jason Weathersby: JS to asm.js
  • Sole will write when she's done with handing off old tasks - right now all's very hectic

DevRel team meeting: notes / process

• Gdocs / Etherpad / wiki / GitHub?

GitHub unfamiliar, Etherpad and Gdocs inaccessible. Wiki is best, most transparent option.

Team Embedding

• Goals
  • Improved Developer Advocacy and feedback
  • More knowledgeable Evangelist
• Current assignments
  • Dan - Developer Tools Dave Camp
  • Sole - WebAPI with Andrew Overholt
  • Others are TBD

Research Initiatives - ideas?

• IOT:
  • Beagle board?
  • To port or not to port: Porting FxOS to what?
  • http://www.visionmobile.com/product/iot-breaking-free-internet-things/
• HTML5 Browser Addons: investigate.
  • write all Fx Dev Tools as addons?

Community Evangelism Program

• Better 2-way communication with developers in regional communities
• Training on product enhancements
• Shared Collateral creation - Demos, scripts, source code
• One on One mentoring with Evangelism Team members
• Help With Expenses

Actions

• Jason: Draft team intro email to all@mozilla
• Dan + Havi: Get this data out of etherpads
• Spend calories thinking about iot boards