Devrel/Minutes/2017-01-16
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16 January 2017 ^-- MLK, Jr. Day in the US, meeting may get postponed to Tuesday or cancelled...
Contents
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
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Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics
- [name] summary
Action Items
- [name] action
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
This coming week:
Belén
Last week:
- Met with VR team
- Submitted bug re: sourcemaps https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues/1654
- Repo on github to handle very simple HTML5 decks https://github.com/belen-albeza/minideck (very similar to Sole's and Potch's).
- Worked on my HTML5 games talk for Front Fest
- Submitted proposal to JSConf.EU
This coming week:
- Finish the materials for Front Fest talk
- Make the game/s for the HTML5 games workshop in BCN
- Meeting with Sandra to sync on upcoming events / developer roadshow
- Submit to some CFP
- Make a glossary and give it to Peiying so students/volunteers can translate the JS guide
Dan
Last week:
- Archived etherpad from last week, trying to stay on top of that
- Further progress on WASM collateral prep
- Met with :spersing re: DevEvents in 2017 and a possible Mozilla Road Show
- Updated calendar info / best practices on the Wiki
- Submitted Q1 goals
- Assisted in estimating our average reach per talk and per event
- Reported on DevAdvocacy progress from Q4 2016
- Traveled to Australia!
This coming week:
- At linux.conf.au, keynote on the 18th
- Submit lingering expenses
Dietrich
Last week (Jan 9):
- Wrote Medium post on beacon experiment at Mozfest: https://medium.com/@dietrich/infectious-ideas-scaling-the-physical-web-c04bd1261fa2#.yrvbt4z35
- Tested the clipping/masking in the pen at https://css-tricks.com/clipping-masking-css/ and worked with Yoksel to update the parts to show Firefox support.
- Planning for Taipei office speaker training.
- Feedback on IoT events planning in India by community there.
- Working with MoFo and Seneca college on planning for Thimble support for IoT and VR/AR projects.
- Submitted to IoT Asia.
- Planning and coordination for MDN Roadshow.
- Planning and coordination for Open IoT Studio events in 2017.
Last week (Jan 16):
- Submitted Q1 goals
- Closed Communicasia, mostly closed Digital Nepal (adding A-Frame workshop and more talks in Kathmandu), coordinating with Digi.Travel.
- More work on personal page
- Framework for demo talk
- Feedback for Firefox UX on including my Always Right add-on in Photonic
- Hacked on better Meetup.com search
- Gave a speaker training focused on classroom teaching to Taipei office: https://autonome.github.io/taipei-academic-spkr-training/#1
- Various VR things: A-Painter feedback for event demos, mobile kit
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
This coming week:
Giovanny
Last week:
This coming week:
Havi
Last week:
- Reviewed and coordinated reviews of all Tech Speaker submissions, team review and decision on final 35 participants for Winter 2017 Tech Speakers program
- Renewal of Flaki's Q1 contract and beyond
- Communicated to all applicants with complete applications either Yes or No
- Communicated to all Facilitators and arranged monthly call including orientation call for new tech speakers
- Finalized contracts for Masterclass presenters - Lara Hogan (Feb 6), Catt Small (March 2), Denise Graveline (March 9)
- Published A=Frame VR case study/guest post
- Data and slide review for DevRel's presentation in today's PLR
- Attended all day Behavioral Interviewing training pilot
This coming week:
- First Tech Speaker call of 2017 - agenda to include orientation of new speakers, Jason on topline devrel priorities, overview of the 2017 landscape.
- Filling out the Tech speakers Winter session with some Tech Briefing talks. Finalizing the Lab teams. Locking everything down.
- Finding new Hacks posts.
Jen
Last week:
- Attended the CSS Working Group meeting in Seattle
- Lobbied Apple, Google and Microsoft to implement the `sideways-*` value for writing modes. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166941
- Met with Nat McCully, at Adobe who did the Japanese implementation of InDesign and other Adobe software, to learn about page layout and typesetting in Japanese and other Asian scripts
- Working on some additional vertical writing mode demos
- Wrote 1100 words on An Event Apart and 2017: http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-10-2017/thinking-about-an-event-apart-and-2017
- Gathered a bit of feedback on people’s expectations for CSS Grid: https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/818443686228987905
- Stats for article on CSS Writing Modes: 23 Dec - 9 Jan: 14,096 page views (https://24ways.org/2016/css-writing-modes)
- Article on Quantum translated into French (https://blog.mozfr.org/post/2017/01/Remplacer-moteur-avion-en-plein-vol) and Persian (http://rokaweb.ir/اخبار/اخبار-دنیای-وب/تعویض-موتور-جت-در-هنگام-پرواز/) (Original at http://jensimmons.com/post/jan-4-2017/replacing-jet-engine-while-still-flying total views so far: 23,542)
This coming week:
- Hosting CSS Layout Club meetup in NYC: https://www.meetup.com/CSS-Layout-Club/events/236242011/
- Working on demos, adding to my all-day lecture, and starting to write my 2017 one-hour talk. Researching Asian graphic design, vertical writing modes. Reading more CSS specs.
- Planning Q1
Lin
Last week:
- Developed first pass of script for WebAssembly talk
- Worked on Rust WebAssembly demo (Enigma)
- Provided dev advocacy feedback on Rust WASM pipeline
- Reviewed CM's WebAssembly article
• Met with Sandra about road show planning
- Met with BL
This coming week:
- Finish WebAssembly talk script
- Start on drawings for WASM slides/article
Michael
Last week: Reviewed ~75 TS Applications and video submissions Finalized list of accepted Tech Speakers for Winter 17 Took 2 days of PTO Processed ~5 TS invoices Processed ~7 TS req bugs Data and Graph generation for PLR Working with Accounting to track down/correct issue causing missing flight costs from 2016 Prep For Alison Meyers, Guest
This coming week:
- TS Facilitators meeting w/ Alison Meyers
Planning Meeting with Masterclass presenter TS Monthly Meeting TS new members onboarding meeting (prep & delivery)
Potch
Last week:
- Wrote draft of Quantum communication plan
- Helping get WebGL2 demos uploaded
- Discussed devrel strategy for wider WebExtensions rollout
- Met with Ben Sternthal to brief him on Devrel site
This coming week:
- Hoping to finalize Quantum comms plan
- Helping stage content for new branding rollout
- Getting trained as an add-on reviewer!
- CfPs for Days!
Salva
Last week:
This coming week: