Thunderbird/2020 Virtual Summit
This page is lists the presentations and discussions for the Thunderbird Virtual Summit 2020.
All talks will take place on Zoom in the Thunderbird status meeting room.
Sessions are included in the Thunderbird Events calendar as ics | as html
Contents
- 1 Thunderbird in 2020
- 2 Taking care of the tree
- 3 Hey, we got designers!
- 4 How to begin with Thunderbird Development: A guide for University students and Junior Developers
- 5 Why we might want to start type checking our JavaScript and how that could even work
- 6 Developing integrated OpenPGP support
- 7 The importance of white space, a UI experiment
- 8 An Introduction to xpiLib and ThunderKdB
- 9 How to Improve Thunderbird Documentation
- 10 Thunderbird Vision
- 11 Thunderbird 78 Overview
Thunderbird in 2020
Type: Presentation
Host/Speaker: Ryan Sipes [:ryanleesipes]
This presentation covers the changes Thunderbird underwent in 2019 and early 2020 as an organization, and our plans to make 2020 the best year for Thunderbird yet.
Date/Time: May 5, 17:00 UTC
Watch it on YouTube|Watch it on LBRY
Taking care of the tree
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]?
Short presentation of how Treeherder works, how to star failures, file bugs and such.
Room for today changed too: https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/187067535
Date/Time: May 7, 13:00 UTC
Hey, we got designers!
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]
How we're working towards a consistent visual identity and improving usability through design iterations, and how we're trying to do it without upsetting you too much.
Date/Time: May 12, 17:00 UTC
How to begin with Thunderbird Development: A guide for University students and Junior Developers
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Khushil Mistry [:khushil324]
This presentation and discussion would cover my journey as a GSoC student and Thunderbird Intern. I will talk about the difficulties I faced and how university students and junior developers can start their contribution with Thunderbird.
Date/Time: May 14, 16:00 UTC
Why we might want to start type checking our JavaScript and how that could even work
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Paul Morris [:pmorris]
JavaScript is a dynamically typed language, but now TypeScript's tooling can be used to statically type check plain vanilla JavaScript files (with some help from JSDoc). Type checking offers various benefits that include catching certain classes of bugs sooner (before they get to users) and making code easier to understand. Tools like ESLint and Prettier have improved Thunderbird's JavaScript code and developer experience. Would type checking be a good next step and how might that work?
Date/Time: May 19, 17:00 UTC
Developing integrated OpenPGP support
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Kai Engert [:kaie]
An update will be given on the progress of the ongoing effort to add integrated OpenPGP support to Thunderbird, about the work that is still ahead of us, and we'll discuss your questions.
Date/Time: May 21, 16:00 UTC
The importance of white space, a UI experiment
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]
A little journey on how we can drastically improve the usability of Thunderbird by carefully implementing empty spaces.
Date/Time: May 26, 17:00 UTC
An Introduction to xpiLib and ThunderKdB
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Christopher Leidigh
xpiLib is the main resource and tool in the ThunderKdB GitHub repository. It includes the code library of every Thunderbird extension registered on ATN. There is also a search function for the library. The presentation will cover all of the resources available in ThunderKdB.
Date/Time: May 27, 19:00 UTC
How to Improve Thunderbird Documentation
Type: Discussion
Host/Speaker: Ryan Sipes [:ryanleesipes]
This discussion would cover how we might improve developer and enterprise user documentation. Would also like to touch on how to make the developer documentation easier to find for new contributors.
Date/Time: May 28, 17:00 UTC
Thunderbird Vision
Type: Discussion
Host/Speaker: Ryan Sipes [:ryanleesipes]
Let's have a (respectful) discussion about what Thunderbird is and isn't - and what the future could look like.
Date/Time: June 2, 17:00 UTC
Thunderbird 78 Overview
Type: Presentation & Discussion
Host/Speaker: Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]
Thunderbird 78 is coming up in mid 2020. Overview of what we can expect to see in that.
Date/Time: June 4, 17:00 UTC
