Devrel/Minutes/2016-06-27

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Attendees

  • ladybenko
  • sole
  • sam
  • potch
  • salva
  • callahad
  • jweathersby
  • dietrich
  • havi
  • jen

Verbal Updates

Jason's Update

(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)

  • Introducing Sam! Summer intern in London working with Sole on Servo demos.
  • Last day to enter Q2 goals: tomorrow.
  • Platform talking points sent out -- read them: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DCMiYMnXm1ykkDAANzQbRa_vcX7ueLSegkwRM1nVcj8/edit#heading=h.74d51grsqkpt
  • No meeting next week: US Independence Day. But please fill out the etherpad regardless.
  • Jason: OOO 4 hours today and Friday, SMS or email if you need to reach him.
  • Platform group wants to see much more video content from our group.
  • Keyframe animation landing in Servo shortly. Very, very cool. Landing bits of Servo in Gecko is a huge goal this year.

Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussions

  • [name] summary
  • [callahad] Meeting format tweaks
  • [callahad] On tracking progress with http://standu.ps / rogerroger
  • [havi] Shall I cancel next Monday's meeting? (Fourth of July) Yes! DONE!!!
  • [havi] Trip report form? Use the current form for now.
  • [potch] PWA / PAWS stuff
    • What would it be like to start with a traditional website and incrementally add PWS technologies to it?
    • Step a little bit away from Google's "PWA" branding.
    • Potch: I'd like to go on this journey and see what it's like, and the more the merrier! Join me!
    • I'm doing Pangolink (https://github.com/delapuente/pangolink) for that! It is not cross browser compatible yet but that's the final idea. To be compatible with browsers current versions.
  • [jen] Dev Rel website
    • There are many requests for things that our team want to get online.
    • Good news! We've already had those ideas, they're in the plan, and this is a real project!
    • Belén and Potch are already putting in effort to make this happen. Join us!
    • Lots of Basecamp invites went out, not everyone logged in. Please do. That's where all the planning is happening.
  • [potch] DevEdition seems broken in Workday. And Release. And Chrome.
  • [havi] Tech Speakers Phase 2 applications are now open! You may be asked for recommendation letters. If so, please return them as quickly as possible.


Action Items

  • [who] what
  • [callahad] Send Notes from London, schedule trip report discussion
  • [callahad] Try to mark things as Done in Workday, report to Potch if it works. (Havi confirmed that Beta 48.0b2 worked for her)


Non-Verbal Updates

( Consider tracking your activity in IRC by talking to the 'rogerroger' bot in #devrel. Logs appear at http://www.standu.ps/project/devrel )

Jason

Last week:

  • Met with Sencha to discuss tooling, issues and possible collaboration
  • Worked with IronYard on upcoming Devrel presentations
  • Met with Eclipse to discuss developer needs
  • reviewed webcompat article
  • Servo testing
  • Caught up with London back log
  • PTO

This coming week:

  • More Servo experiments

Belén

Last week:

  • St. John's holiday 🔥💥🔥 // Brexit + Spanish Elections => crying in the floor in fetal position
  • Tinkering with different font pre-loading techniques / libs /etc. Just finished today a nice repo with some demos integrated with Phaser https://mozdevs.github.io/webfont-preloading/

This coming week:

  • Drafting a post for hacks
  • Attending Gamelab in BCN Wed-Fri, which is the most important game dev conference / event in Spain. There will be talks, round tables, workshops as well as an exhibition.


Dan

Last week:

  • Recovered from London.
    • Also, applied for my first EU UK passport to ease future travel.
    • Finished travel / lodging planning for OpenWest and JSConf Iceland, began updating talks.
  • Lots of work with WebExtensions:
    • Fielded several questions about porting from Chrome
    • Examined a few open source Chrome extensions, uncovered a few bugs
    • Began mapping out semantic clusters of popular extensions
  • Upgraded my Linux laptop to Fedora 24, which broke it for a day, blocking work on the dashboard. Fixed now.
  • Deployed TLS certs from Let's Encrypt to several servers, got an A+ on Qualys's SSL Labs test. Yay!
  • Wrote a few hundred lines of Go and Rust in side projects, now mostly comfortable navigating Rust, cross compiling, etc.

This coming week:

  • Q2 summary, Q3 goals
  • Write up notes from London, follow up on agreed action items
  • Make sure everyone's successfully using rogerroger
  • Audit more Chrome add-ons to figure out which would be no-op ports to WebExtensions
  • Test new webcam covers for swag potential. (Done: camJAMR, Next: Soomz, Webcamera Cover, CamPatch)


Dietrich

Last week:

  • Open IoT Design Sprint in Anstruther, writing up a post today

This coming week:

  • Catching up after 3 weeks traveling - goals, travel planning
  • lots of planning/coord for speakers at code schools
  • set up SensorWeb sensor


Flaki

Last week:

  • Recovering from LDN
  • Been teaching the whole week again
  • Tweets are crazy hard with no content coming in, everyone on PTO (living off of canned material and some MozLondon spills)
  • Organizing my hackerretreat, London trip for July (for NodeJS Live London)
  • Organizing JSConf Iceland travel and putting together my Ruhr.js talk
  • Submitting for fall confs (Open HW summit, NodeJS EU)

This coming week:

  • Loads of teaching, wrapping up work
  • Prepping for my ruhr.js talk, submitting few more proposals
  • Arranging RustFest/ViewSource details and PWA workshop for London
  • Helping Havi w/ TS v2 & application review
  • Hacker-retreat next week finally!!


Giovanny

Last week:

This coming week:


Havi

Last week:

This coming week:

  • NEED TO KNOW: what is status of new trip report form?
  • Promote and process applications for TS Phase 2.
  • Lock down & schedule masterclass speakers for summer
  • PTO: Wednesday
  • Host monthly Tech Speakers call Thurs
  • Hacks?
  • Try to identify technical localizer for Japanese to English


Jen

Last week:

This coming week:

  • Finishing article for Net Magazine
  • Catching up with paperwork
  • Polishing and pushing new demos on labs.jensimmons.com
  • Working on Layout Land
  • next step with CSS Grid Inspector extension


Michael

Last week:

This coming week:


Potch

Last week:

  • Bascially re-wrote the CSS Grid Inspector addon
  • Got a chance to try the virtual-dom package
    • Cool way to use a virtual DOM without having to pull in all of React and its build tools
  • Spoke at the inaugural DinosaurJS on building web stuff for the TV
    • Was well-received!

This coming week:

  • More CSS Grid tool work
  • Research "CSS: The Perfectly Cromulent Parts"
  • Devrel Website Content Type schematics
  • Build a PWA, then take it apart

Salva

Last week:

  • Attending PWA Dev Summit in Amsterdam.
    • Meeting with Alex Russell to talk about new PWA related APIs and Way of Working
    • Meeting with Paul Lewis
    • Meeting with Jake Archibald
  • Reviewing e-mails from MozLondon

This coming week:

  • Writing thoughts about different meeting held at MozLondon √
  • Reviewing Platform Story Arcs √
  • Tweak Tech In Asia talk
  • Meet with Barbara about PWA future √
  • Prepare India PWA Workshop
  • Open conversations with Edge Team √
  • Improve Pangolink PWA (worker integration)

Sole

Last week:

This coming week:

  • NOTHING because I'm going on holidays #sorrynotsorry
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