Engagement/Developer Engagement/Evangelism Meetings/2012-04-05
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Contents
Agenda
- How we run meetings
- Blogging planning and general code posting mess-uppery
- Code Post Permissions Issue
- Evangelism Reps
- Tie back to mozilla brand
- Apps Technical Content Strategy Plan
- Kilamanjaro / 'K90'
Attendees
- Barry
- Christian
- Havi
- Jeff
- Joe
- Rob
- Shez
- Stormy
Minutes
Meeting format
- Rotating facilitator
- Next time: Christian H (April 19) - Havi, Shez, Robert Nyman will not attend (in LATAM)
- Secretary
- Jeff will do it (thanks!) Jeff gets a t-shirt!
- Send reminder to list the day before with etherpad and call for agenda items
- Run meeting
- Post notes to mailing list and wiki
Blogging Plan
- Calendar, not everyone invited
- Had surprise posts, including 3 posts today
- ACTION: Christian will invite all Hacks editors/authors to calendar
- wordpress plugin? Rob & Robert were looking at it
- more for scheduling posts
- Hacks blog accounts need to be cleaned out
- User permissions too restrictive for posting code / video tags
- asking Craig for help
- file an IT bug? Joe filed one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742718
- Havi wants to post Latam tour post
- Give a couple of days notice, give others a chance to review
Discusssion
- Everybody watch for nuggets of info and help bring them to the team's attention.
- Nikhil Suresh - B2G questions / enthusiasm @nklsrh2
- (http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/01/interview-nikhil-suresh-on-building-his-winning-canvas-demo/)
B2G channels
- Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mozilla.dev.b2g
- IRC: #b2g (platform) or #gaia (front-end UI stuff)
- https://github.com/andreasgal/B2G
- https://github.com/andreasgal/gaia
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko
Evangelism Reps
- ~60 people who want to be speakers
- ~20 that are speakers and we didn't know
- Asking speakers to record and post on blog
- Need mentors
- World wide coverage: Asia, Latin America
- Need a training date, agenda?, how many trainers?, attendees?, material?, ...
- ACTION: Christian to draft a training plan (Goal: Tuesday)
Events
- date conflicts?
- administrivia around speakers & events
- need help for admin / tracking - no headcount currently
- hacks for this?
- cross-team position for 2013?
- last-minute requests burns lots of cycles
- need to evaluate if it is worth it
- can say no!
- educate Mozillians about event process so they can hand off more effectively
- educate Mozillians about how they can take on speaking / event participation
- ask speakers to sign up for make
- a bunch of incoming events
- tools/infrastructure for evangelism reps
- methods for communication for evangelism reps
- IT bug to create new list/group/thing - mailing list for evangelism reps
- Event planners are using high level Mozilla people to bypass process. We need to educate all of them about the process.
- make-me-a-speaker@
- need help for admin / tracking - no headcount currently
Tie back to mozilla brand
- One Mozilla look proposal: http://people.mozilla.org/~smartell/sandstone/
- Mozilla branding team would like to see things before they get pushed into an event
- What does it mean for personal blogs?
- Important for slide decks for evangelist reps - focus there first
- some sort of mix of a standard styling and individual flair (?)
Not covered
- Apps Technical Content Strategy Plan
- Kilamanjaro / 'K90'
- will follow up by email