Devrel/Minutes/2014-12-17

Attendees

• Dan
• Jason
• Sole
• Potch
• Havi

Jason updates

• budget - events funding has been removed
• welcome to the team - more 'recruiting' internal & external

Name of team

• devrel vs techevan vs dev-advocacy? Others?

Hacks blog year-end strategy

• do we want to do some sort of intro of new team via blog posts? Yes.
• wrap-up post: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hacksblog-year-end

Update on events

Community Evangelism

• Program to mentor & empower Mozillian developer evangelists in regional communities (in collaboration w/Tenser's team)
  • Havi looking for team buy-in / interest in aligning with Tenser to reboot "evangelism reps"
  • havi will schedule call w/Tenser before year-end and include others/report back

Workday Tasks

Top Conferences

• What audiences are we trying to reach?
  • web practitioners
• What kinds of conferences?
  • Partial list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev:Conferences
  • Potch + callahad: preference for more intimate 1 or 2 track confs for impact. reaching larger more engaged audiences for *real* also: serendipity
  • Sole: Way more impact / engagement at JSConf (tweets, etc.)
• how do we measure impact
  • SalesForce Radian6 is a social media reach / measurement tool. UserEngagement standardizing on it. Havi's skeptical, but it seems to be what PR is standardizing on.
  • Attendance, "vibe", sense of engagement (questions received, post-presentation conversations), Bugzilla bugs filed / revived. Guest authors recruited for Hacks blog.

CFPs - Suggestions

Product Teams

• Dan: Tools
• Potch: Desktop
• Sole: WebAPIs / Platform

Repo - and Project Ideas

• Tools App - GUI or Game based?
• WebRTC based App
• Framework Examples?
• WebNFC?
• Apple Hand-off app with Fred's Team

New Hire Suggestions

Media Training

• We should all have it. Emali Jason.

IoT

• Read http://ee.telenor.io/gonzo/hardware/2014/12/16/firefox-os-iot.html
• beagle board black: http://beagleboard.org/BLACK

Questions

• sole gets invited to conferences all the time - how do we "deal" with this
  • Redirect folks to the Bugzilla events form: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.dev-engagement-event
  • "That's terrible, because it's super slow. What if I just want to just say yes?"
    • ...if you want to do it, go for it. Form is there to help you triage.
  • Goal: you speak at 3 confs each quarter.
• Potch: Do we have a way to track open CFPs? @CallbackWomen is great!
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjzoXvTKg56mdDdBLXhfbHFwNE1hSlNKZzBCR2hBNUE#gid=3
  • http://lanyrd.com/2014/
  • Right now: we'll tackle this on a human-driven, standing agenda item in our meetings

Action Items

• Havi: Circulate etherpad for Hacks 2014 end-of-year post:
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/hacksblog-year-end
• Havi: Schedule call with Tenser to keep ball rolling on community - Friday 8am PST
• Jason: Query everyone to collect 1-2 specific, individual quarterly goals for Q1
• Jason: Sign everyone up for media training with Justin
• Dan: Figure out how we measure conference impact
• Dan: Figure out mailing list situation
  • Filed Service Now request to take over admin of techevan@mozilla.com
• January: Reconsider team communication channels
  • Slack? (closed bad, ux good)
  • Mailing list?
• January: Team name? Andreas likes DevRel, some of us like Developer Advocacy.
  • I vote for 'TEAM AWESOME' (case sensitive), but am flexible.