QA/Community/Dev Day

Mozilla has a rich history of hosting "Developer Days' which allowed community members to gather to meet and talk about what they are doing in the Mozilla project. To this end, the Mozilla QA team would like to host a QA Developer Day event(s) in 2008. We want to target having an event in both the U.S. and abroad, as our community reaches far and wide. Here are some preliminary thoughts after a meeting held with Mary Colvig, marcia and ctalbert on February 22, 2008. Those notes are can be found below:

March 2008: Current Plan for Possible Developer Days

OSCON, July 2008

• We may be able to have a mini testing event at the actual venue. Mary Colvig is coordinating and we are awaiting updates from her - as of 3-19-08 there is no definitive word. We may also be able to host our own event in a nearby hotel if we do not want to leverage off of rooms at the existing event. A number of Mozilla folks will be at this event so it may be a good one to target.

European Developer Day (June 5, 2008)

• As of 3-19-08 there is still no defined location for this event.

Seneca test day event

• Dave Humphreys of Seneca put a newsgroup post out and wants to host an testing event in Toronto that would focus more on automated testing. We are still discussing our involvement in that event and whether we will try to collaborate with them to have some other sessions.

• Idea 1: Piggyback off existing Engineering Developer Days Planned for 2008

This idea was discussed. Currently Mary is waiting for a list of planned events from shaver. The earliest event we could target would be the European Developer Day which is planned for early June 2008, location TBD

• Idea 2: Have our own Developer Day Event

We would have to identify the location of community members and figure out a location that works well.

• Idea 3: Try to meet up community members at a conference (Birds of a Feather)

We could target conferences where we can meet up with QA community members and talk about testing (more informal) Possible ideas offered by Mary:

• Special session at OSCON in July (San Diego, CA)
• SQE conferences. There might be folks interested in testing. They could apply for a community grant and then attend the conference. We could have 1-2 QA folks from our end meet up with them at the conference location. StarEast is held in May and StarWest is held in October.

The consensus from the Mozilla QA team is that we should target Ideas 2 and 3 for this year. The best to time to target an event would be after we ship FF 3.

• Ideas for Sessions (from Mozilla QA Team)

• • Live Testing Session
  • Test Development
  • How to write a reduced testcase (mw22?)
  • Leak testing (also for extensions) for the ages (tomcat)
  • Litmus/Localization Testing
  • Performance testing automation
  • Buildbot related stuff
  • security/js testing
  • QMO community building

• Reference Documents
  • Mozilla Developer Day events held in 2007 - http://wiki.mozilla.org/DeveloperDays

Rough 2008 Event Calendar (events Mozilla is participating in, from the Events Team)

• http://www.spreadfirefox.com/event (Events Cal on Spreadfirefox)

March:

Influencer:

• Freedom to Connect, Mar 31 - Apr 1: Gen Kanai speaking and Zak Greant and Frank Hecker also attending. The Foundation is also sponsoring.

Developer/community focused:

• SxSW, Mar 7 - 11: John Resig and Brendan Eich speaking. Other potential activities: Developer lunch with Resig & Brendan
• Firefox 3 parties and download fests, Mar 31: Party planner & party packs

April:

Influencer:

• RSA, Apr 7 – 11: Johnathan Nightingale speaking.

Developer/community focused:

• FISL, Apr 17 - 19: Mozilla panel and workshop. Potential keynote.

May

Influencer:

• D, May 27 – 29: Mitchell invited to speak

Developer/community focused:

• @Media SF, May 22 – 23: Brendan speaking
• @Media London, May 29 – 30: John Resig speaking
• Firefox Summit, Mountain View: TBD

July:

Developer/community focused:

• Guadec, July 7 – 12: Possible sponsorship.

• OSCON, July 21 – 25: Consider potential sponsorship and joint efforts with O’Reilly or other FOSS organizations to celebrate our respective anniversaries.