Devrel/Minutes/2015-09-08

Attendees

Jason

Dan

PTO all last week.
Got my first two patches ever into mozilla-central, affecting Fx and FxOS!
- https://bugzil.la/1196734 and https://bugzil.la/1199566
Updated an old add-on to work with modern Jetpack
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-accept-language-switc/
- Next up: port it to a WebExtension and blog about the process
Confirmed speaker on Rust at a local "Functional Future" themed meetup in Oct.
- Two speakers, Rust vs Elixir.
Working on Push API demo for cmills
Published DevRel welcome kit / resource guide at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Devrel/Resources
- (TODO: include Dev Rel Events request how to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.dev-engagement-event )

Dietrich

Raspberry Pi 2 - SOW from a contractor (mozillian!)
Getting content pings: eg, screencasts for TV app dev
Working with branding and legal on branding for community builds of firefox os. that shit gotta look good.
WebVR session for MozFest
Developing devrel plans for TV with Joe Cheng - rpi dev path, tvs for devrel, hacks posts, events (sept), comms channels
FOT: Michael Kohler for helping coordinate Mozilla’s participation in TV Hack Day Berlin, even though he cannot attend.
IoT meetup planning - developing session on consumer advocacy and policy related to data privacy and security
Got an example of replacing notifications added to MDN by tweeting the request. And then asked @mozdevnet to do it to ;)
Finished chapter six of fxos book
Worked on a talk outline: IoT and the War for Your Mind
Designed proposal on heuristic mode detection for Web interactions, based on Jonas and Pdol’s ideas, for PSU Capstone fall program
Talked with Epicodus code school on building an intern program with them.
Sent 40 Flames to Taipei for academic programs, and 20 to Switzerland for IoT training workshop.
Hosted PDX quantified self meetup

Havi

Lots of prep for Tech Speakers phase 2
blog posts in progress: CSS Grids (by PBrosset), PSU Capstone post, WebRTC post,
Inspired by Dan's resource page, I updated Writing Guidelines for Hacks (from zero to something): https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevRel/Hacks
Introduced Tech Speakers program at last week's project meeting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wvDrxn-xVU) - aligned splendidly w/Geo Roter's announcements about Participation Leaders (bit.ly/participationleaders)
TOPIC I WANT TO DISCUSS HERE: Funding for 5-10 Tech Speakers to Mozfest to work on a mini- Tech Speakers "participation track" as a means of scaling the program.

Potch

Sole

Nick

Jen

presented at An Event Apart last week — 400 people. They were very excited about the new layout technology (Shapes, Viewport Units, Rotation, Flexbox, CSS Grid, and more) — and excited about ideas of what we might design with it.
talking to John Allsopp about speaking in Sydney and Melbourne next April
still filling out paperwork and getting setup
recording The Web Ahead with Brett Gaylor today, discussing Tracking

Sandra

Reminder to direct any sponsorship/speaking requests to the form (and can cc me): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.dev-engagement-event
View Source Conference is getting speakers and sponsors lined up!!
- Speaker Paul Ford, keynote, would like to chat w Dev Rel team (sandra to arrange time)
- Ali to announce in upcoming Monday Morning Call.
Upcoming events sponsored by Dev Rel:
- Web Unleashed Sept 16 & 17th in Toronto CA (Potch Speaking)
- Open Air Sept 25th in London (Sole Speaking)
- JSCONF EU Sept 25 & 27 in Berlin (preceeded by Reject JS, in between with TV Hacks) - trying out WebIDE using MDN documentation (Demo Lounge): support from Flaki, Andrzej Mazure, Andre Fiedler, Evelyn from Taipei
- Paris Web Oct 1-3 in Paris (Mathieu + Julien)
- ADA Lovelace Festival Oct 27 & 28 in Berlin (Sole)
- How to Web Nov 26-27 in Bucharest (TBC)