Devrel/Minutes/2016-11-07

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Verbal Updates

Jason's Update

  • Only half of you have entered Q4 goals. Next week, Jason will start naming names. Get your goals in! (It's already November!)
  • Jason is getting grilled re: "where is DevRel putting examples that people can use?" We'll have to do that next year.
  • Sean may want us to start reaching out to notable Chrome-only sites to make sure they also work in Firefox.
    • Maybe a better job for the WebCompat team instead of us?
    • (Dietrich) Is doing QA for some of the wealthiest websites in the world, with our limited resources, really aligned with our mission? Could we have a better impact by focusing on contributions to major, open-source frameworks? The best compatibility story we've ever had is a large userbase; our talking to developers will have an infinitesimal, at best, impact on the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
    • (Jason) Salva's contributions to libsass is a great example of us doing this.
  • WebAssembly and WebVR will be big topics for us next year
  • Are we close to a post on Stylo? (Potch): Digging in, sending emails to folks to figure out how it differs from Servo Style.
  • Potch's Hacks post on requestIdleCallback was excellent: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/11/cooperative-scheduling-with-requestidlecallback/

Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics

  • [ladybenko] Do we have budget available for translation ES -> EN?
    • Spanish universities, by law, must provide materials in Spanish. We have lots of materials in Spanish. Can we pay to translate this stuff?
    • MoCo internal translators have declined and asked us to approach outside translators.
  • [callahad] Is there a single consistent theme we can rally around for 2017? E.g., Google DevRel's 2015 was "60fps", 2016 was "PWAs", 2017 may be payments or navigator.credentials?
    • Ideas: [potch] Reintroducing people to the (modern) web, [jen] Grid is going to be really huge, people are ready to ditch their css frameworks. Components / quasi-OO style guides are hot right now. Openings for accessibility as well. People have a whole new system with grid *and* flexbox. Feels like a back to basics year.
    • [potch]: Holy shit, I want to refocus on practitioner meetups. WordCamps. Etc. We already have enough of a line to "thought leaders," but I want to do better with these smaller, regional events.
  • [callahad] ...are we really supposed to be making "reusabe examples," or are other teams defining our work for us?
    • [jason] It's more about demonstrating our visibility, not necessarily reusability. Jen's layout labs are a hell of an example of something that is visible, discoverable, and useful, but not necessarily "reusable."
    • [jen] Our goal is to teach. Teach however works best for you, but also make sure there's a papertrail somewhere for rolling up our activities to management.
  • [Havi] Team dinner in Hawaii - let's find the best night for everyone
    • Yes! Let's do this. And invite Tech Speakers! Shoot for Wednesday.
  • [jen] Re-pitching the DevRel website. Let's actually show up on Thursday! Potch will be at Chrome Developer Summit
  • [potch] I did this mozilla-oldskool.png

Action Items

  • [callahad] Add Lin to mailing lists and mozdev GitHub org (done)
  • [potch] Update us once you know more about Quantum Style
  • [jweathersby] Review DevAdvocacy bugs with Callahad re: bug resolution rates
  • [ladybenko] Obtain estimate for translating Spanish content, report back
  • [callahad] Email "back to basics" theme idea to devrel list on Tuesday
  • [jen] Invite Lin to DevRel website meeting

Non-Verbal Updates

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Jason

Last week:

  • Teaching mostly
  • Some tweeting & prep for my PWA talks coming up
  • Booking flights and organizing trips for JS-Kongress, All Hands, Chaos Communication Congress (end of dec)

This coming week:

  • Didn't manage to stay put for three weeks :D
  • Jumping in for a friend, giving a PWA talk in Rotterdam on Thursday
  • Also giving it next week here in Hungary
  • Wrapping up with RustFest, preparations starting for next one late Spring 2017

Belén

Last week:

  • PTO + public holiday combo
  • Prepared for an interview in a podcast about HTML and CSS (Wecodesign)
  • Compilation of materials for gamedev course
    • Transcribe presentation + notes into readable articles (WIP)
    • Finished source code of exercises

This coming week:

  • Be interviewed in a podcast (just finished it a few moments ago) - to be published on Dec 6
  • Continued to work on compilation of materials for gamedev course
  • Set up a meeting to start preparations for a game dev workshop in BCN (organised by AdaJS meetup)
  • Convert mozdevs Github page into a list of the current content that we have right now

Dan

Last week:

This coming week:

  • Finish Hacks post on async/await

Dietrich

Last week:

  • Post-mortem meeting about Mozfest beacon program with Magnet team
  • Summary writeup of A-Painter for stakeholders
  • Thanks: florian, vr peeps, mozfest peeps
  • Shipped VR gear back to Berlin
  • Artist coordination for VR projects
  • Q4 goals
  • VR portakit coordination
  • Kicked off round two with General Assembly
  • Review and feedback on Mozilla Japan devrel 2017 plans
  • IoT developer research findings meeting review with Pinpoint
  • Closed VIIT R&D lab paperwork, submitted to accounting
  • Mozfest review blog post: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2016/11/04/mozfest-2016-privacy-vanity-beacons-painting-dilemmas-and-tents

This coming week:

Flaki

Last week:

This coming week:

  • Giving the PWA talk again at a conf in Budapest in 2 weeks
  • more pwa: work on the workshop materials, salva's doc
  • Staying in Budapest for almost 3 whole weeks, no flights, w00t! :D
  • Work on trip reports

Giovanny

Last week:

  • Back from London.
  • Report submitted for Atlanta trip
  • Refined API implementation in w3d

This coming week:

  • Post in my blog about MozFest
  • Speaking at local University about Mozilla projects
  • Submit report for London

Havi

Last week:

  • Hacks posts: Web Assembly Browser Preview (Luke Wagner in coordination w/Google, Edge, et al); Potch on Requestidlecallback, conversations about upcoming posts
  • Planned and hosted Nov monthly Tech Speakers meeting with TS presenters.
  • Copyedits and iterations of the Mozilla Developer News - to support Dev Marketing rebirthing the dev newsletter.
  • Began speaker outreach for TS Masterclasses Q1 2017 (Lara Hogan, ...); began Lab Facilitator outreach for Q1 TS session.
  • Published "Keeping it real with Mozilla Tech Speakers" on The Eloquent Woman blog about public speaking: http://eloquentwoman.blogspot.com/2016/11/keeping-it-real-with-mozilla-tech.html and again on medium

This coming week:

  • Publish "Topic updates via Push (Jweathersby), get guest draft on PlayCanvas started. Stylo post draft (Potch, Quantum vs Stylo style)
  • Many Tech Speaker conversations about events/event support.
  • Begin messaging about upcoming 2017 TS session/ understanding the relationship btwn new TS and next gen Reps

Jen

Last week: 

* added examples to labs.jensimmons.com and many more to labs.jensimmons.com/workshop

This coming week:

  • rebuilding my life now that conference season is over
  • paperwork — goal documentation, trip reports, expense reports

Lin

Last week:

This coming week:

Michael

Last week:

This coming week:

Potch

Last week:

This coming week:

  • Writing a post about Quantum Style (based on a stylo post draft)
  • Chrome Developer Summit Thu & Fri

Salva

Last week:

  • Came back from London + public holiday
  • Found an ownership for the PWA Team: Joe Cheng
  • Pull request for adding extra headers to web-push library and support Urgency, Topic and future headers

This coming week:

  • Host PWA Team Meeting
  • Attend Chrome Dev Summit
  • Compilation of materials for gamedev course
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