Devrel/Minutes/2016-09-26
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Contents
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
- View Source was awesome
- We got re-orged
- No new initiatives for our team -- we've got enough on our plate
- Sole is transferring manage a DevTools team. Boo. But also congratulations. But also boo.
- Trying to make DevTools process more dynamic, responsive to developers
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics
- [ladybenko] could someone help me to promote this talk ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kED5eDjMfGM&feature=youtu.be (tweet https://twitter.com/ladybenko/status/779670559714082816 )
- Jen has a six page, printed article in Net Magazine's September issue (big in the UK). Congratulations!
Action Items
- [name] action
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
- Developer Release planning
- Meet with Sean to detail most of our initiatives
- Edited and released two posts on hacks:
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/a-web-for-everyone-interviews-with-web-practitioners-david-walsh/
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/09/firefox-49-fixes-sites-designed-with-webkit-in-mind-and-more/
- Meet with VisionMobile to discuss developer metrics
- Monthly financial review
- Started working on debugger.html presentation
- Started judging js13kgames competition
This coming week:
- DevRel 2017 planning
- Finish judging games
- Review rust materials
- work on debugger.html presentation
Belén
Last week:
- Holidays! So I'll update what I did the week earlier, since I miss the last meeting:
- ViewSource Berlin
- Spoke there: "You might not need a CSS framework", very good feedback from people
- HTML5 games booth, which was really exhausting (I was all by myself some shifts) and I shouldn't have committed to it in the first place since I was speaking too :(
- CSS craftsmanship meetup
- Delivered the CSS framework talk –for the very first time in Spanish!
- It was recorded, and the video is up on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kED5eDjMfGM&feature=youtu.be
- Very good feedback, both at the event and on Twitter. Almost 400 views in a week
This coming week:
- One year at Mozilla!!! :D I wrote a post at my blog https://belenalbeza.com/one-year-at-mozilla-as-a-remote-worker/
- Expenses :(
- Event feedback form for ViewSource + CSS Craftmanship BCN
- (Friday) Salva and I will be on a uni in Madrid delivering a class at the game development degree
- I'm attending Fronteers next week and was invited to do a lightning talk – so I need to prepare it.
- Beginning of my press training
- Got invited to participate in a development podcast about my role at Mozilla… hopefully press will give me clearance for that
- Prepare materials for game dev classes
Dan
Last week:
- Organized travel and lodging for four upcoming events, including keynoting LCA in Australia next January
- Prepped for talk tomorrow at the Minnesota Developer's Conference
- Consulted with Jason Boch re: his talks on WebAssembly at Visual Studio Live.
This coming week:
- Prep for talk at WebUnleashed 2016
Dietrich
Last week:
- Converted tech speakers starter deck notes into Google slides and shared with everyone: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ceH_mV4t7ugZsnVAtbsqb0ki1tD5Pr4dAVusxpLEsSI/edit?usp=sharing
- Converted tech speakers list of presentations to wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers/Presentations
- Bubble: recreated the image, logged detailed steps, for the London Design Festival
- Lots of Mozfest stuff
- Hosted the PDX R User Group in the office
- Coordinating hardware sponsorship for PDX Science Hack Day, and doing a lightning talk during the event kickoff
- More work on the University of Pune proposal for the new IoT lab there.
- Forked Magnet and hacked it for Mozfestation, our Bluetooth beacon game for Mozfest. Ideas are viral… gotta catch em all!
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
- Was at (twilio) Signal Conf in London
- Was less corporatish than expected, seen some really fine talks even!
- Wrapping up with RustFest
- Catching up with Mail/trip reports/etc
- But already booking/arranging October rounds
- Tweetstuff & mozhacks
This coming week:
- Moving apartments :(
- Debugger.html twitter chat on Tuesday
- Moderating
- RustFest post-mortem
- Wrapping up financials with Sandra and others
- Releasing photos, first talk recordings https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/779781237129043968
- Prepping 2017 edition (april/may in Kiyv, Ukraine)
- Finalizing Seattle workshop with Nolan
- Working on final schedule, content, materials, etc
- Finalizing supporting staff/mentors etc.
- Traveling to Tallinn before flying out to Seattle
Giovanny
Last week:
This coming week:
Havi
Last week:
- PTO in Southern Spain. Great adventures and surprises, including getting my camera stolen with a cardful of best ever photos from Madrid and Granada. Meeting my BF's family in Granada! Now, total jetlag. Hotter here than Berlin or Granada.
- Uploaded, labeled and distributed all the Tech Speaker videos from Berlin (Luckily I'd downloaded that card before leaving Berlin)
This coming week:
- back from Berlin and PTO, getting caught up on Tech Speakers business, and back to speed on Hacks calendar, org change, etc.
- Send out Phase 2 Summer Pilot survey to all participating tech speakers.
- Review the CFP submissions 'homework for all the Phase 2 tech speakers.
- Meet Ryan Pollock, new Platform Product mktg guy
- Next steps for TS program, planning next iteration of Phase 2 for Q1 2017.
Jen
Last three weeks:
- My feature article from the Sept issue of Net Magazine was also published online: http://www.creativebloq.com/features/6-web-layout-myths-busted
- Wrote a 30 min version of my talk, traveled to Berlin, and presented at View Source
- Researched layout design and the Bauhaus school when in Berlin, at the Bauhaus Archiv
- Met many times with Rachel Andrew, getting deeper into layout, Grid, and what it will take to teach the industry over the next year
- Traveled to Lisbon, Portugal
- Spent 3 weeks coming up with a new version of the CSS Regions specification, and writing a presentation
- Presented my ideas for Regions and styling Grid cells to the CSS Working Group + epub working group, Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/jensimmons/proposal-to-csswg-sept-2016, response: https://storify.com/jensimmons/presenting-a-new-idea-for-regions-to-the-csswg
- Talked to folks from Mozilla (Jet & Baron), Igalia, Apple, and Microsoft about the expected timing for the launch of CSS Grid
- Traveled to London
- Presented at Generate Conf, response: https://storify.com/jensimmons/revolutionize-your-page-at-generate-conf
- Traveled home
This coming week:
- Writing a new talk on Flebox
- Presenting on Flexbox Wednesday night at CSS Layout Club in NYC
- Preparing for upcoming 6 hour lecture on Layout on Nov 1
- Admin stuff, future travel plan stuff
Michael
Last week:
- Started audit for overdue Tech Speaker Trip Reports
- Tying-up loose ends from Berlin Events (invoice, metrics)
- Sent post-event email & satisfaction survey to Tech Speakers
- Processing Invoices from Germany and Brazil
This coming week:
- Completing post-event reports for Brazil JS and View Source
- Completing audit for overdue Tech Speaker Trip Reports
- Reviewing and finalizing Q3 goals
- 2017 Budget Planning
Potch
Last week:
This coming week:
Salva
Last week:
- Attended to Service Worker F2F at TPAC in Lisbon
- Worked on OOP lesson for GameDev course
- Met with Google devrel Spain to know about coming events and projects
- Implemented offline strategies recipes for the Service Worker Cookbook
This coming week:
- Review comments for offline strategies recipes
- Land libsass PR
- Publish a post on Hack and Mozilla Hispano to publicise
- Work on GameDev course starting Friday, 30th
Sole
Last week:
- Lots of work gone into mindblown.js - lots of documentation! but looking good
- Listened to preview of podcast to provide all the links. Looking good too, it should be published tomorrow.
- Reviewed Salva's PR to serviceworke.rs
- Playing conference tetris to fit two in just one trip
- Amused by Sam's surprise gift! https://twitter.com/supersole/status/778900950954237952
- This tweet has been retweeted a lot https://twitter.com/supersole/status/778529426103496704 - people like the clear content and advice (I just posted the image and the link to the post). People want to do good, but have no idea how, way too often.
- Brought laptop to 'genius bar' as my SPACE BAR is failing. Sometimes only o_o. I should type less furiously maybe.
- Getting a cold
This coming week:
- More work on mindblown.js
- Recovering from the cold