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== Attendees ==

* callahad
* sole
* havi

== Standing Agenda Items ==

=== Weekly Team Update from Jason ===

* (Jason's offline this week)

=== Nonverbal Updates ===

''' Jason '''

* (offline) Jason is at an offsite w/ Andreas

''' Dan '''

* This week: 2 talks + 2 panels at dev.Objective in Bloomington, MN.
** 1) Perf Tools and Valence, 2) Rust, 3) (panelist) future of CFML, 4) (panelist) feedback for conference organizers
* Rust talk from PyCon up to ~8k views, getting another round of buzz on Reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/35hmv7/an_introduction_to_rust_one_of_my_favorite_talks/
* Last Week OpenWest! 3 Talks + TA'd a workshop
** Rust talk: Extremely well received. http://joind.in/talk/view/14086
*** "Great talk, completely demystified the memory management angle."
*** "Content was perfectly scoped for the time available [...] Live demo of speed performance and FFI use  in Python was excellent."
*** "This was by far one of my favorite talks of the entire conference. Dan  has a unique ability to distill a potentially complex topic into a very  clear and concise explanation. [...] Great, great, great talk!"
** Web Components: Well received, but I'm personally getting a bit skeptical of the promise of Web Components and the health of the specs. http://joind.in/talk/view/13923
*** "Great balance of information and live coding!"
*** "Dan took the "teeth" out of web components for me with this talk, turning it from something confusing and intimidating into something  understandable and exciting. Thanks so much for a clear, insightful talk!"
** FxOS Talk: Not well attended (~7-8 people), limited discussion. Sole's catserver demo was, however, delightful. http://joind.in/talk/view/14010
*** (sole) Internet is for cats. We should make Firefox OS for cats too. Firefox OS cat edition.
** FxOS Workshop: About a dozen people, attendees were generally extremely interested in the potential of using JS to hack on IoT hardware. http://joind.in/talk/view/14077
*** AJ (workshop leader) was extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic. He's built real things for FxOS and it showed. The workshop could have benefited from stronger up-front organization / pacing, but I believe it was still a complete success for almost all attendees.
* Lessons learned from OpenWest:
** People haven't used our tools in a while, and are impressed when they see them.
** Valence is worth its weight in gold when talking to front-end developers.
** ...but the shortcomings of our Responsive Design View are a blocker for people coming from Chrome.
** WebSocket debugging is important to a surprising number of folks.
** WebVR reliably blows minds.
* Fun Tweet from OpenWest: "I'm literally downloading Firefox dev edition right now" followed by a "me too!" https://twitter.com/ellotheth/status/597270870856323072
** This was after a small demo of Valence and the perf tools to folks in the hotel lobby

''' Dietrich '''

* (offline) Dietrich is in Asia next two weeks. 

''' Havi '''

*Pauses to applaud callahad! 
* Mozilla Tech Speakers program midpoint (going into Week 4 of 6)
**seeking incoming feedback from pilots
**pilots have chosen their topics 
**several are actively out and about now: e.g., Flaki at jsconf Budapest, writing post about Rust; Kaustav en route to Singapore to teach FxOS; Michaela planning MozCoffee in TOR. 
*Hacks blog: Check out the ES6 in Depth series: 

''' Potch '''

* (offline)

''' Sole '''

* Not sure if impressed or scared at callahad's week O_O WOAH
* made a drum machine as a new 'toy' for the JSConf.Budapest talk which is a new version of the EmpireJS talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrWH3WO0xrE
* also a number of other modules, lots of modules!
* joined biweekly SW meeting, expressed the urgent need to be able to debug Workers
* I also answered a Stack Overflow question. I got 15+ points! PARTYYY!!!

=== Reminders ===

* Add Hacks ideas to https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevRel/Hacks
* Review the CFP calendar

== Other Topics ==

=== What specifically does MoCo, more broadly, want us to be evangelizing? ===

Deferred to next week.

We want to be able to make demos that align more directly with where the rest of the marketing organization is going to be pushing.

=== Q & A === 

'''callahad''': sole, did you build your own image for the Nexus 4, or do are there ROMs somewhere?

'''sole''': Mozilla Taiwan has a series of tools that can access the pvtbuild server which has prebuilt system images https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool

'''callahad''': with Dietrich out of the office, do we have an interim way to send Flames?

'''havi''': I can possibly find ~15 in MV.

We had a catharsis triggered by Havi's phone ringtone.

=== Anything Else? ===

* Flaki working on a Rust post for Hacks, callahad to review
* WebComponents Hacks post: Sole will review, callahad to also review