Devrel/Minutes/2016-07-18
Contents
Attendees
- sole
- jason
- ladybenko
- Michael
- gio
- callahad
- salva
- havi
- flaki
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)
- Get your goals in for Q3!
- Research wants a recorded Rust training series (no action reqd) -- Flaki: after MozLondon community members were asking about the Research "Rust Training" slides, they really liked it and wanted to give it to local folks
- Also DevTools: Working with Brian to have them present about how devtools were rewritten (Please include Gabriel Mickso in dev tools training, he knows React and is interested in learning more)
- CSS: educate peoples on it, write more on it
- Also put your goals in Workday
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussions
- [who] what
- Havi - looking for Hacks posts!
- Flaki - looking for Cool StuffTM (drop me your niceties to be tweeted on @mozhacks)
- Havi - What's the status of the new event form?
- Sole - What's up with BrazilJS? Jason: I think they've filled by now.
- callahad - we should find / collect resources for what to do if you're sick while on the road.
- We all have Travel Insurance: https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Travel+Insurance+-+Business
- https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PR/Travel+Insurance+-+Business?preview=/33099972/61250166/Mozilla%20Corp%20AXA%20Travel%20Assistance%20Program.2016.pdf <-- Print it!
- Michael: Call Pizza delivery people, tell them they'll get an extra $20 tip for bringing you something
- Belén: Hotels can be pretty good at this, too.
- Flaki: Try contacting the conference organizers
- Michael: Nodevember? YAY YAY
Action Items
- Sole to find out what's up with DevTools
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
- Reviews
Worked on Team presentation Rust - Talked with Azita about us getting properly trained on Rust to do a recorded talk Setup a couple of talks for ConnectJS Meet with Sencha and they showed us there Developer Tools
This coming week:
- Budget
- Rust training
- Servo
Belén
Last week:
- Worked on Web Animation demo (had a brainstorming session with Sam/Sole), been reading the spec, etc.
- Submitted proposal to ffconf (Full Frontal Brighton)
This coming week:
- Work on Web Animations demos! Goal is to have the examples finished by the end of the week so we can get feedback and polish the site the week before Firefox ships animations.
Dan
Last week:
- Presented 3 talks at OpenWest and also attended the SLC Python User Group. Went very well, despite new-venue growing pains.
- Got super sick during the trip.
This coming week:
Dietrich
Last week:
- Pitched Mozfest 2016 at the project meeting
- Wrote Dipesh’s endorsement for Reps
- Tech Speakers: Reviewing and editing for more facilitator communication
- Published blog post about MoFo Open IoT Studio in Scotland: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/753248482983485440
- More work on Meetup.com scraper script
- Modded the SensorWeb code to point to my own data collector (IFTTT->Drive), and wrote a blog post about it: https://twitter.com/dietrich/status/753385802978041857
- Prep meeting with Genevieve Bell and Diane Tate for next month’s talk
This coming week:
- Write a post about mozfest to encourage proposals
- Write a hacks post about web+iot+smartphones
Flaki
Last week:
- Tweets, lead off of the WebCombat tweet, leading in the Rust post, some Webassembly tweets
- TechSpeakers V2 stuff, organizing, helping out Havi and some of the facilitators
- This week's London PWA planning as well as other PWA stuff (Berlin, JSConf Iceland etc)
- Helping Mozilla Hungary folks with stuff back at home & some development (a Mozilla Quiz app is in the making!)
- Lots of VS Berlin-related mailings and discussions
This coming week:
- Going to NodeLive London on Wednesday, also mentoring on NodeTogether (similar to nodeschool, teaching node for diverse folks)
- Doing a PWA Workshop in London on Saturday with Alex Lakatos
- Working on a personal poject, codename Stardestroyer (for CFP and the Berlin TS Meetup. It's gonna be--- !!!)
Giovanny
Last week:
This coming week:
Havi
Last week:
- Rust post by D Herman last Tuesday on Hacks, best traffic of the year, building on momentum from Belén's posts and the Web-Compat team post
- Lots of Tech Speakers Phase 2 launch-related planning, comms, logistics, social engineering and tuning
This coming week:
- Today: 1st masterclass: The Art of Public Speaking - Jen Simmons (2pm PDT)
- Locking down details and contracts for next 2 masterclasses, post-Masterclass logistics and comms.
- Content planning for Berlin Meetup
- Hacks posts anyone? (potentially: Martin's MIDI post, Sam on Servo, Potch post on CSS add-on????)
Jen
Last week:
- presented at the UN with Jeffrey Zeldman, on the history & future of web design, for the UN Open Source Initiative: https://storify.com/jensimmons/speaking-with-jeffrey-zeldman-at-the-un — 550 people attended
- presented 3-hour workshop on Grid for CSS Layout Club July in NYC
- jumped into a debate about commas in forthcoming CSS color() function, 1) on CSSWG call, 2) long Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/753664695563943936, 3) blog post: http://jensimmons.com/post/jul-14-2016/comma-separate-or-not-comma-separate
- finish and filed quarterly report
- more research on Grid
This coming week:
- traveled from NYC to Mountain View, will be traveling tomorrow to Vancouver. And leaving Vancouver Saturday for Washington DC
* making revisions in collaboration with editors at Net Magazine for forthcoming article in Sept issue
- Monday, presenting for Tech Speakers at Mozilla Mountain View and online
- Tuesday, speaking on a panel at Design & Content
- Wednesday, giving an all-day workshop at Design & Content
- Friday, presenting my 1-hour talk at at Design & Content
- following Monday, presenting at An Event Apart DC
Michael
Last Week:
Egencia accounts (for Tech Speakers) have been switched to the correct cost center. 4 first-time egencia accounts need to be created for TS’ers who do not have one.
Started Brazil Visa application
Registration/sign-up of Tech Speakers for View Source conf passes (TS deadline = COB Friday)
Brazil JS planning w/ Sandra (content for booth, Staff and voll. list)
Phase 2 rollout w/ Havi
new email alias: MozMike@mozilla.com
This Week:
Finishing Brazil Visa application
Jen Simmons presents Masterclass 1
Finalizing New Visa letters for View Source attendees
Finalizing BR JS 16 TS attendees
Continuation of Phase 2 rollout w/ Havi + Facilitation of Phase 2 groups
Potch
Last week:
This coming week:
Salva
Last week:
- Tweak communication strategy for talks √
- Two talks at Tenerife Lan Party (one recorded. Full assistance: about 70 - 80 total) √
This coming week:
- Creating a Mozilla theme for reveal.js √
- Optimizing presentation repository √
- Talk to Harald about strategy for the PWA Cross Functional Team
- Give talk on Offline Strategies for PWA Dev Summit Madrid at BBVA Innovation Center √
Sam
Last week:
- Removed server side components of existing servo demos (DuckDuckServo & DIVMosaics)
- Improve performance of DIV Mosaics demo to make it look better
- Working on Element.animate style-guide demo + Brainstroming with Belen and Sole
- Developed showcase index page for servo-experiments repos. which provides a visual entry point into the experiments, using GitHub pages - https://mozdevs.github.io/servo-experiments
- Filed bugs for Servo and FF: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12411, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286509
- Brainstorming Servo demos with Sole, filed these as issues on the github
- Research on browser rendering performance and reflow
This coming week:
- Submit deliverables
- Expand demo ideas on servo-experiments repos. - in need of one more idea to make up the 'three Servo demos'
- Focusing on image/iframe 'portal' demo
- Progress Element.animate demos and polish where needed
Sole
Last week:
- Brainstorming about Web Animations with Belen and Sam
- Reviewed article on Web MIDI, author was extremely happy "Just got feedback from the great @supersole on an article I've got in the making and wow, it's so so helpful. Thank ye <3" 😃
- Researched Servo and stuff for upcoming talk - wrote skeleton etc, got Sam to have a look at it too!
- Responded to Press request on developer tools/productivity
- Emails emails emails
- Preparing goals
This coming week:
- Keep discussion going on MediaRecorder requested features from developers etc
- Find out about more Servo stuff for talk
- Work with Sam on Cool Demos™
- More emails emails emails and follow ups on various podcasts, articles, etc etc