Devrel/Minutes/2016-07-11
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Contents
Attendees
- ladybenko
- havi
- jason
- dietrich
- sole
- sam
- michael
- potch
- dan
- jen
- gio
- flaki
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
- Q2 Reviews! I want to get them closed out by the end of the week. Getting your accomplishments to me by the end of the day will really help make that possible.
- Q3 goals next week.
- Step up and help with the devrel team website
- DevMarketing launched their Medium channel: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech
- 2 of the 4 initial articles were 1:1 copies from Hacks. We're looking into that.
- Risk of hurting the cadence of Hacks, since more Mozilla publications are now looking for authors.
- Our team needs to step up; Belén's articles have been doing great.
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussions
- [havi] Launch of Tech Speakers Phase 2 Summer Pilot - Jen Simmons will deliver opening Masterclass on "The Art of Public Speaking" (title tentative) on Mon July 18, 2pm PDT on airmo.
- [havi] Brazil JS planning
- [havi] What's going on with Hacks & Medium Tech ? And, yes, Mozilla Hacks seeks lovely technical posts, preferably not written by committee.
- In future, better editorial controls/review on Medium Tech
- [Belén] Web Animations API is going to be released early August. Who wants to craft some demos? :D
- [Jen] Let's setup a weekly meeting for working on the new DevRel Website
- can we have this weekly meeting after our team meeting on Mondays ?
- [callahad] Kudos to :salva for setting up the etherpad template! <3 <3 <3
- [jweathersby] More kudos to :salva for pulling together all of the engineering folks responsible for PWAs and moving things forward.
- "More people should be like Salva"
- [michael] We need to lock in people to go to BrazilJS. Does anyone currently have plans?
- Helen Holmes is speaking there this year.
- Potentially too late for US folks to get visas :-/
- Perhaps don't get a UK passport hey, what's the worst that could happen? ;)
Action Items
- [jensimmons] Schedule the website meeting
- [EVERYONE] Get your Q2 report to Jason
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
- Servo Testing - Keyframe animation working - https://twitter.com/JasonWeathersby/status/751474501058228224
- Reviewed Platform Relations plan and dashboard
- PWA Cross functional team meeting
- PTO Most of the week.
This coming week:
- Working on reviews
Belén
Last week:
- Had (another) surgery on one of my toes :_(
- I'm revamping my HTML5 game dev talk so it's more practical and I'd be creating a game step by step. So far I have the game https://belen-albeza.github.io/html5-games-101/game/index.html but I still need to make new slides.
- Submitted a proposal to DrupalCon Dublin ("you might not need a CSS framework")
This coming week:
- WebAnimations demos
- Submit proposals to FFconf Brighton ("You might not need a CSS Framework", "Simplifying front-end development")
MISC:
- Interesting reddit thread of Unity's exporter to WebGL. Some people say it rocks, a lot say it has a lot of glitches depending on which browser they are using. https://m.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/4rzxzk/is_unity_a_viable_option_for_creating_web_based/?utm_content=buffer56ee8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mweb_redirect&utm_campaign=buffer&compact=true
Dan
Last week:
- Prepped for OpenWest -- three talks: ES6, PWA, and WASM
- Got my calendar updated and under control for Q3/Q4
- Signed up to speak at Connect.JS in Atlanta (PWA) and WebUnleashed (Wasm)
- Reviewed a MOSS grant application and agreed to be the application's Mozilla Champion
This coming week:
- In Salt Lake City all this week to speak at OpenWest.
Dietrich
Last week:
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
- Gave a talk at Ruhr.js (and a lightning talk)
- Well, as it happened, it was _almost_ that Baela did the lightning talk :3
- Helping the ViewSource arrangements still
- Helping out Havi with TechSpeakers V2
- Tweeting and working with Social Media to push the WebCombat[sic!] post on @mozhacks :))
- On a hacker-retreat in a rainy place;
- Catching up on backlog / working on a little "super star destroyer project" ;D
This coming week:
- More catching-up and super-star-destroyering!
- Want to do a workshop of this at the TS meetup ;)
- Prepping for next week's PWA workshop with Alex Lakatos in another rainy place (London this time:D)
- TechSpeakers Phase 2 prep!
- More ViewSource planning and travel planning
- Writing Q2 backlog of trip reports and twitter report
Giovanny
Last week:
- Worked on last part of Raspberry PI base
- Met with Dietrich to disccuss developer workflow
This coming week:
- Generate working image for the Raspberry PI
- Plan a Blog post about how to create/run demos/examples on the RPi
- Submit sponsor request for JSConf CO this year
- Prepare a CFP proposal (event TBD)
Havi
Last week:
- Lots of minutiae in place for launch of Tech Speakers Phase 2 summer pilot - 40 new Tech Speakers from ~16 countries, and ~15 Tech Speaker alums acting as facilitators. Did a major sort exercise of matching newbies to facilitators by timezone
- Publishing the WebCompat / cross browser testing post and all the surrounding hoopla
- Managed to get my nick password reset after ~2 years of trying. Thanks Callahad! Still can't seem to talk to rogeroger... :-(
This coming week:
- Putting all the details and communications in place for next week's launch of Tech Speakers Phase 2 summer pilot
- Locking down contracts for our MasterClass speakers, writing comms and templates to help our Facilitators get their groups off the ground
- Working on coordination
Jen
Last week:
- Finished writing Feature Article for Net Magazine, making revisions as requested
- Commissioned a cartoon for a graphic in Net Mag (one that I'll also use in my talk this year and likely long into the future)
- Published a new demo series: http://labs.jensimmons.com/#spices to highlight Grid `auto-fit` features, now that it works in Nightly
- Interview published (shot in April) https://www.webdirections.org/blog/video-conversation-jen-simmons/
- Met with Havi about speaking for tech speakers program and started writing the talk
- Documenting Q2
- Coverage of my 2016 talk & presentations in Australia http://webdirections.org/downloads/respond16Wrap.pdf
This coming week:
- Presenting with Jeffrey Zeldman at Design Driven for the United Nations Open Source Innovation Initiative on Tuesday
- Hosting and faciliating CSS Layout Club NYC on Thursday
- Writing a talk on next Monday at Mozilla Mountain View on
- Preparing for a Panel Discussion in Vancouver on next Tuesday
- Writing an all-day workshop in Vancouver on next Wednesday
- Preparing for a presentation in D.C. for the following Monday
- Filing Quarterly report
- Filing Expense reports
Michael
Last week:
This coming week:
Potch
Last week:
- Worked on getting the CSS Grid tool to a promotion-friendly state.
- Drafting a Hacks post on said tool
- Tested out a RPi 3 Corsica screen configuration
This coming week:
- Publishing said post about said tool!
- Devrel Site work
Salva
Last week:
- Lots of hours in flight
- Speaking at Tech In Asia
- Finishing PWA workshop
- Create the agenda for the PWA Cross Functional Team
- First meeting for the PWA Cross Functional Team
This coming week:
- Creating a Mozilla theme for reveal.js
- Optimizing presentation repository
- Tweak communication strategy for talks √
- Talk to Harald about strategy for the PWA Cross Functional Team
Sole
Last week:
- Coconuts
This coming week:
- Fighting jetlag, catching up on email, doing reviews for an article on hacks, start joining Sam's servodemos efforts
