Apps/DevEngage/Content/DevEcoEngage Meetings/2012-07-10
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Agenda
- Quick updates & report on action items
- Introducing Julie Choi - Firefox OS phone plan
- Barry Munsterteiger/Creative Instigator on Particle
- Bryan - NPR app plan/update
Attendees
- Havi, Fred, Daniel B., Barry, Janet, Mark G., Julie C., Joe, Bryan, Diana
Administrivia
- Recurring meeting will be Tuesday, 11am.
- Room change, this week only
- Raw notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/apps-dev-content-2012-07-10
- last week's raw notes: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/apps-dev-content-2012-07-03
Action Items
Action items: Proposals for the 2 weeks ahead in preparation from FISL and upcoming App Hack events. We need to prioritize the documentation tasks.
Janet & Mark
- Tutorial: Restructure the existing MDN Getting Started tutorial to be more modular, sequential and fast-start friendly: Prioritize MDN over Developer Hub
Janet & Daniel Buchner
- Developer Hub: Come up with a Developer Hub plan and timeline for Q3-Q4
- what is top priority Apps content w/delivery dates (should map closely to tutorial priorities on MDN)
James Long, Fred & Mark Giffin
- Tutorial: Using Mortar to build Tweetness
- https://github.com/jlongster/tweetness
- Fred will discuss w/James to see if he can deliver 1st draft by 7/20
- Mark to write and post to MDN by 7/25 in time for FISL hack day
Bryan, James Burke & Mark Giffin
- Tutorial: Walkthrough of NPR app demo Install module -- installs to Moz Marketplace, Android store & iOS
- Install module screencast delivered
- Next steps for NPR demo app (Can James work on screencasts while Bryan is out?)
Tofumatt/Fred
- Writing server-side components for my App?
- Fred will discuss w/Tofumatt, establish timeline. (Possibility of having TofuMatt present this in Brazil in early Q4)
- Define the tool chain
- Documentation plan / craft tutorial
- Question: Is there a simple client-side app we can document in a tutorial style? Fred and I were having trouble coming up with one.
- Fred has a game called Serpent that uses WebGameStub template, but it is keyboard-based, not mobile friendly. Is this worth documenting?
Minutes
- Updates on Action Items:
- Mowa Online Demo: Janet, Joe & Fred attended. Thanks to Diana for facilitating.
- Summary: the tool is better than anticipated, but has some flaws, some changes would be required to work w/it.
- Mowa wants Mozilla branding, but consensus is they are not quite up to snuff. Also, there may be business/partnership issues
- They've requested access to submission API - Fred is in favor.
- Daniel: is pro tool choice, but we need to distinguish levels of relationship amongst tool providers. Be inclusive and provide access to many solutions, but set a certain quality bar. Allow multiple submission partners. How do we reach the long tail?
- Mowa Issues: they are targeting non-developers (Janet), they have no support for offline (Joe). How important is this?
- More discussion around creating an app generator that builds an HTML5 app -- and issues of FF APIs in B2G vs WebKit compatibility issues
- Particle and Neutrino
- Barry Munsterteiger, Creative instigator on Brand team w/Pete Scanlon - they are working w/Particle Subatomic video from Google IO, a dev shop in SF. Neutrino is a proprietary, responsive framework/platform that hides all the JS, and works directly in HTML/CSS markup.
- They are currently prototyping for B2G. Markup-based plan in progress.
- NPR Demo: James rewrote some components, modularized the demo. Changed the tutorial strategy to go with
- Install module tutorial - Single event install across all platforms. Just finished. Screencast forthcoming
- Next up: Offline module demo
- Mozilla Hack Day (Havi reports)
- Good attendance and interest in tools ~30 Mozillians & interns
- 8 demos total: 5 by interns, 3 by Mozilla staffers
- 2 Winning teams: Snappy, MinimaList (demos at Apps Show-n-tell)
- Video forthcoming
