QA/MozCamp2009

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The main purpose of this page is to brainstorm some ideas for sessions we might want to have at MozCamp in October (October 2-4) in Prague.

Proposals from Clint

  • Litmus and Localization -- we are starting the Litmus re-write effort, and by October we will have a small but functioning shadow of a site to demo. I'd like to demo this to the localizers and get their feedback on the approach the design and their ideas for what would help them most.
  • (and related to point 1): I'd like to talk to Localizers - this is one of our largest and most critical communities. I think we have a lot to learn from the way they organize and the way they keep each other engaged. Because of that, we also have a lot to learn about community driven tools to help out. I can't promise them anything, but if there are tools that are needed that would aid those communities, it is not a huge stretch to generalize such a tool so that it could help QA as well. So, I'd like to go to listen and talk about tools and the role of community facing tools to help: build community, keep track of projects, crowd source, and lower the bar to entry into the mozilla project
  • Advocacy and Community Building - I am rolling out my own ideas around community building through personas. And if this turns out to be successful as I start using it for the test development team, I want to present on it and engage with other community builders out there to understand how this might be more broadly useful. I also would love to start a giant "community building" crowd sourced movement that is run by each localizer/localization team to recruit more people to join the Mozilla Project. I think this is the heart of the "Next Million Mozillians" that Surman has been talking about, and some percentage of those next million will be QA folk, so it behooves us to continue having a presence in these conferences. It also lets people realize how to get involved and how to build their own communities, which is what we have to do. We're all going to fair better the more innovation we push out to the edges -- to quote blizzard :)

Proposals from Tomcat

  • A session on grassroots Mozilla Community" that would cover the OpenSourceMeetup Event Series etc with Mark Surman

Proposals from marcia

  • A session on Friday on how to get involved in Mozilla QA (with Tomcat)
  • Follow up session regarding ways that QA and l10n can work more closely. Perhaps chofmann and sethb can provide ideas about this session as well.
  • Maybe try an "Unpanel" style session where we all sit in a circle with the participants and the group dynamically chooses the panelists and the questions - then each of the panelists answers one question. I think Tomcat attended a session like this and mentioned it to me in passing.

Proposals from Henrik

  • A session about Mozmill in general and with a special focus to test creation and execution on localized builds (with Clint). A lot of localizers will attend MozCamp so we should have a good audience and possible candidates. Details to be determined...

Mozilla Staff Attending

  • ctalbert
  • marcia
  • whimboo

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