Devrel/Minutes/2016-07-25
Contents
Attendees
- sole
- Jason
- ladybenko
- havi
- flaki
- potch
- Michael
- gio
- dietrich
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
- Add your talks here when you get the link: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/devrel-talks-2016
Discussions and Action Items
- havi to get short url for feedback form
- sole to talk to helen re braziljs + form
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
- PTO
- Testing DevTools - Debugger.html
- Started learning DevTools framework
- Budget Review
- Cross Functional meeting
- Devtools feature drop meeting
This coming week:
- More DevTools
Belén
Last week:
- Worked on web animations demos https://mozdevs.github.io/Animation-examples/
- Was interviewed for a Spanish-speaking podcast about the tools I use for development, my way of working, etc. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/colofon/id1133816395
- Got my proposal rejected for DrupalCon :(
This coming week:
- Make web animations page prettier so it's ready for launch
Dan
Last week:
- Food poisoning
- Lots of post-OpenWest administrivia
This coming week:
- Define Q3 goals
- Push on WebExtensions for Firefox 48
Dietrich
Last week:
- Q3 goals
- reviewing code for RPi with Gio
- techspeakers planning
- planned first review JS curriculum for General Assembly
- built a gcal->gsheets dashboard for # of talks by staff and TS
- finished the meetup.com harvester script
- friday night skype talk for Hyderabad IoT Hackathon
- talked to a group of different people about academic program funding
This coming week:
- mozfest stuff: blog post, reachouts, etc for final week before cfp closes
- write about smartphones+iot
- more work on meetup.com harvester, and figure out next steps
- GA curriculum review session w/ devrel & mdn folks
Flaki
Last week:
- Got back from Thailand straight to London (40 hours, 6 airports. was TOUGH)
- Helped Ashley Williams facilitate Node Together London
- Great turnout, very diverse group, learning basics of coding/node
- https://twitter.com/HackyGoLucky/status/755878334828085248
- Went to Node Live London
- okay talks, a bit of instrumentation/ops/benchmarking-heavy topics though
- all the folks from the workshop on the day before were invited as well!
- also, free!
- did some ViewSource cross-promo, tried to get folks to talk about spidernode/positron, but not much interest
- https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/756168866879901696
- PWA Workshop
- Organized by Alex Lakatos (TechSpeaker) and London JS Meetup
- Great turnout, 30+ people
- https://twitter.com/petebd/status/756796534621167616
- Very nice feedback, questions and etc.
- "That was a most insightful deep dive into the life of a #ServiceWorker and coding it up; thanks @slsoftworks" https://twitter.com/m_lorek/status/756892417131999232
- Some tweets in hacks, not a whole lot of content available unfortunately :(
- TechSpeakers
- Facilitating with Rizky for V2 Labs
- Helping out Summanth for V2 Labs
- Organizing Google Sub-Saharan African PWA presence
- Helping with events & organizing TS appearances (e.g. Stockholm Rust meetup for Jan-Erik)
- ViewSource
- Helping out with speakers, social media and general organizing tasks
- Helping getting the PWA Discussion Area under a roof with Salva
- Facilitating RustFest sponsorship/cooperation
- Organizing a Rust Discussion area with the help of the RustFest folks
This coming week:
- First TechSpeakers V2 Labs!!! (facilitating two, actually)
- RustFest finalize VS sponsorship details, start ticket sales
- Organizing travel and conferences for august/september
- VS/TS Meetup/RustFest, Tessel Project Team meetup, JSConf Iceland, PWA Roadshow SSA, IDF San Francisco
- Still trying to get us a PWA workshop in Iceland
Giovanny
Last week:
This coming week:
Havi
Last week:
- Launched Tech Speakers Phase 2 summer pilot w/Jen's masterclass: The Art of Public Speaking. Lots of administrivia before, during, after.
- Got contract signed w/Cate Huston & Chiu-ki to deliver CFP workshop talk for TS P2.
- Debugging personnel issues related to launch of TS P2.
- Struggled in vain to dig up a Hacks post. :-(
This coming week:
- Publish a Hacks post. (fingers crossed)
- Monitor the Phase 2 Labs to make sure everyone has support and things are moving forward.
- Debug the booking process for Berlin, and help the Tech Speakers prepare.
- Prepare for Masterclass 2 (Aug 1 in SF):
- WIP (work-in-progress): Adding captions in Air Mozilla. working w/Airmo team.
Jen
Last week:
- traveled to Mountain View
- wrote a talk for presenting for Mozilla Tech Speakers
- presented The Art of Public Speaking for Mozilla Tech Speakers series
- created many more slides for CSS Grid Workshop
- researched Grid & how it works, more deeper
- making revisions in collaboration with editors at Net Magazine for forthcoming article in Sept issue
- made a demo of a bug in Grid regarding ordered list numbering http://labs.jensimmons.com/examples/image-gallery-grid-1-bug-demo.html
- reported Grid
- bug via email and two bugzilla tickets https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4522 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171419
- traveled to Vancouver
- spoke on a panel about Product Design w/folks from Adobe & Instagram for the Style & Class meetup in Vancouver
- selection of Tweets about the Style & Class meetup https://storify.com/jensimmons/style
- presented an all-day workshop on Grid and other CSS properties for layout
- presented Revolutionize Our Page at Design & Content Conf in Vancouver
- response to talk at Design & Content https://storify.com/jensimmons/design-content-conference
This coming week:
- presenting today at An Event Apart Washington DC (Monday)
- traveling back to NYC
- making travel plans for next week — when I'll be traveling to Pennsylvania for a week-long face-to-face with Helen Holmes to design Dev Tools for Grid and other layout properties
Michael
Last Week: Re-Pinged TS’ers w/o Egencia Account Confirmed cost center switch Opened booking in Egencia for Berlin Phase 2 – Master Class 1 – Art of Public Speaking Turn in Application for BR Visa Re-Pinged TS’ers on View Source volunteering
This Week: Oversee booking of flights for Berlin Phase 2 – Lab Session 1 – Art of Public Speaking Pick up Brazilian Visa Finalize Official registration of View Source Participants
Potch
Last week:
This coming week:
Salva
Last week:
- Creating a Mozilla theme for reveal.js √
- Optimizing presentation repository √
- Give talk on Offline Strategies for PWA Dev Summit Madrid at BBVA Innovation Center √
This coming week:
- Set the agenda up for the second PWA Cross Functional Meeting
- Meet with Belen and Carlos to discuss about the course of video-game programming in interpreted languages
- Meet with Google to talk about a developer community
- Start efforts to fix LibSass
- Review SW spec for the F2F
Sam
Last week:
- Filed Servo issues https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12503, https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12554
- Working on Servo hacks article draft (with help from Sole)
- Tried out a demo idea - wall of GIFs and images - although this didn't work out in the end (GIFs not implented yet in Servo)
- Developing book shelf demo
- Web animation api examples
This coming week:
- Complete hacks article for publication
- Complete book shelf demo - sort out copyright on books, reformatting, chase Servo on crucial bug fixes
- Research and start work on "reading view" demo
- Web Animation api examples
- Checking out Neon JS (maybe it could make for a good hacks article?)
Sole
Last week:
- Finally cleared my mind on the structure for mindblown.js, some work happening there although nothing visible yet. Things are moving!
- Made Web Animations demo comparing JS vs CSS: https://mozdevs.github.io/Animation-examples/js-animations-vs-web-animations.html
- Positive feedback and interest in Twitter each time we post about the examples we're building:
- of course found a devtools bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1289070
- Gave feedback for Sam's article
- Trying out Servo bits and pieces. It ate all the memory on my computer https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/12519
- Talked to security start up SECR, they've got an interesting product for web developers who are not devops - they gave me access to try their product
- Wrote post about talking in tech and it made its way to hacker news and lalala, surprisingly very positive response overall - people agree with the sentiment
- https://soledadpenades.com/2016/07/20/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/
- https://twitter.com/supersole/status/755776711782957056
- Very happy I disabled comments before it got popular, ha
- Arranged podcasts and conferences
- Showed up at the Code Node event that Flaki went to too, for like 10 minutes after the gym, said hi to everyone and left home =)
This coming week:
- Talked to Paul Adenot to find out about cool fresh stuff on Web Audio to write new Hacks article. Paul is amazing and gave me a treasure trove of data to talk about. A nice article is coming!
- Might talk to outreachy intern re support networks etc
- Arranging more podcasts and travel
- Figuring out support for Servo in Android and more ways to make it shine vs Firefox (i.e. working with Sam on the demos) - thinking of how to show off Servo nicely in conferences