Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, September 17 at 10:30 AM Pacific
• Video: David Boswell's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369 - conf 9634#
• Back channel: #webdev

Agenda

• MozCamp
  • Recap of Contributing to Mozilla Websites session
  • Takeaways from session:
    • Firebug + Firediff for easy CSS hacking without needing to install site
    • Designate one or two sites as entry point sites and focus VM efforts on that
    • Use this content as a script for a screencast?
  • Preparation for giving running this session at MozCamp Asia

• mozilla.dev.webdev
  • Getting this in front of volunteers
  • Documenting when and how to use this for webdev staff

• Reducing barriers for new contributors
  • Top priority
    • Making contact and bug tracking information easier to find on sites (bug 766906 (Rik)
  • Other ideas (need to prioritize)
    • How to fix a web site bug screencast (Ricky/Luke/Buddy)
    • Linking to the Github page template in footer of pages on Bedrock (Rik)
    • Hosting VMs for contributors (bug 486363)
    • Improving documentation and clarifying how different sites have small but significant differences to be aware of
    • Reaching out to Petri team to see if they could help make it easier for front-end webdev contributors to access to a staging site

• Webdev hack days
  • Creating a template and working with Reps to have them run events for webdev team
  • Virtual webdev hack days plan
  • Piggybacking on real world events

• Creating a workflow for how to handle webdev inquiries
  • Documenting current workflow
  • Enhancing current process (follow back up with promising leads 2 weeks after first contact, recognizing volunteers with a public post or swag after finishing first mentored bug)

• Community metrics
  • Next steps with Webdev conversion metrics
  • Tracking effectiveness of reducing barriers to entry
  • Is there a need for a more in depth Webdev dashboard beyond the conversion points?

• Piggybacking on other contributor efforts
  • Coding pathway: How to make use of http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and collaborate with Coding Stewards
  • Design pathway: Are there relevant CSS and web design contribution information to add to Design wiki page for design contributors?

• Anything else?

Action Items

• Sancus to talk to Developer Tools team about being able to export patches from Firefox developer tools -- useful for people making small HTML and CSS changes without needing to get site running locally

• Ben to take a pass at rearranging content on Get Involved page starting with easier sites to contribute to (eg, Bedrock) and moving more complicated sites lower down (eg, AMO)

• Luke to look into pushing installable VM of Bedrock forward and will check with Les

• Sancus to take a pass at creating a screencast version of his MozCamp session for Get Involved page

• Luke to send note to new webdev forum about how the public forum will be used compared to internal webdev forums

• David to link to webdev forum from webdev Get Involved page

• Luke and Laura to organize Tulsa webdev hackday in November