Engagement/Developer Engagement Archives

Websites & Developer Engagement
Team Lead: Stormy Peters	Mailing List: engagement-developers@lists.mozilla.org
The Websites & Developer Engagement community serves the Mozilla mission by promoting open Web-related technologies to developers: We work with product teams to communicate how developers benefit from Mozilla products and open technologies, to achieve our mission and product plans. We provide information, examples, and direct interaction, online and at events, so that developers (within Mozilla and in the broader Web community) understand and adopt open technologies and products. We foster the capabilities of Mozillians to communicate about Mozilla's initiatives and values to developers, so that Mozilla's developer community can grow.

Groups

• Web Productions and Websites
• Mozilla Developer Network
• Technical Evangelism

Roster

Note: Email addresses are @ mozilla.com

Name	Contact	Location	Project Assignments
William Bamberg	wbamberg@	Vancouver, Canada	Add-ons SDK (Jetpack) documentation
Craig Cook	ccook@	Emeryville CA, US	Websites, MDN, blog themes, etc.
Mark Giffin	mgiffin@	Los Angeles CA, US	Contractor working part-time on Apps docs
Jeff Griffiths	jgriffiths@	Vancouver, Canada	Add-ons SDK (Jetpack) evangelism
Rob Hawkes	Email: robhawkes@ IRC: robhawkes Twitter: @robhawkes	Bournemouth, UK	Games and Open Web Evangelism
Christian Heilmann	cheilmann@	London, UK	HTML5, Open Web Evangelism, BrowserID, Developer Tools
Havi Hoffman	hhoffman@ IRC: havi Twitter: @freshelectrons Flickr: freshelectrons	Mountain View, California, US	Labs & Apps Content, MDN Hack Day instigator @mozlabs
John Karahalis	Email: jkarahalis@ IRC: openjck Twitter: @openjck	Rochester, NY, US	MDN project management, Dev Derby engagement and contest management
Michael Kelly	mkelly@ IRC: mkelly Twitter: @osmose	Mountain View, CA	Websites, Flicks, Affiliates, Snippets
Paul McLanahan	pmac@ IRC: pmac Twitter: @pmclanahan	Durham, NC	MozillaLabs.com
Chris More	cmore@ IRC: cmore Twitter: @chrismore	Mountain View, CA	Web Productions
Barry Munsterteiger	barry@ IRC: barrym Twitter: @mozbarry Flickr: element56	California, US	Creative Instigator
Tristan Nitot	tnitot@ Twitter: @nitot Flickr: nitot	Paris, France	Mission Evangelism via Mission:Mozilla articles on the Hacks blog and Beyond the Code official blog (along with PR and Volunteer community development)
Robert Nyman	robnyman@ Blog: robertnyman.com Twitter: @robertnyman Google+: Robert Nyman	Sweden	Editor of Mozilla Hacks, HTML5, Open Web Evangelism, Firefox, WebAPI, @mozhacks
Jean-Yves Perrier	IRC: teoli Twitter: @teoli2003	Switzerland	MDN Documentation
Stormy Peters	stormy@	Colorado, US	Team Lead
Shezmeen Prasad	Email: shez@ IRC: shez	California, US	Developer Events Manager
Eric Shepherd	Email: sheppy@ IRC: sheppy Twitter: @sheppy	Tennessee, US	MDN documentation
Ali Spivak	Email: aspivak@ IRC: alispivak	San Francisco, CA, US	MDN Product Manager
Joe Stagner	jstagner@ Blog: http://misfitgeek.com Twitter: @misfitgeek Google+: Joe Stagner	New Hampshire, USA	Apps Developer Ecosystem & Partner Engagement, HTML5, Open Web Evangelism
Benjamin Sternthal	bsternthal@ IRC: bensternthal Twitter: @bensternthal	Portland, OR	Websites, AirMozilla, Betafarm, Mozilla Reps
Janet Swisher	Email: jswisher@ IRC: jms Twitter/identi.ca: @jmswisher	Texas, US	MDN documentation, documentation community steward, doc sprints; Apps docs
Christie Koehler	Email: ckoehler@ IRC: ckoehler Twitter: @christiekoehler	Portland, Oregon, US	Project Manager for Evangelism

Alumni

Name	Contact	Location	Notes
Chris Blizzard	Email: blizzard@	California, USA	was Director of Evangelism, then Director of Product Platform Management, now at a start-up
Jay Patel	IRC: jay Twitter: @jaybhai	California, USA	was Product Manager for MDN, now working at TiVo as Product Manager for Apps & SDK
Paul Rouget	Email: prouget@	Europe	was Evangelist, now in Developer Tools

Projects

Project Name	Description	Primary Contact
Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)	The Mozilla Developer Network is a resource that brings together various developer communities within the Mozilla universe and provides a platform for developers to learn, share, and collaborate. Planning and tracking for MDN	Ali Spivak
MDN Documentation Center (MDC)	Within MDN, this is the wiki-based body of documentation, for web developers and Mozilla developers	Eric Shepherd
Demo Studio	A place on MDN for developers to share demos of new web technologies	John Karahalis
Dev Derby	A monthly demo contest on a chosen technical theme	John Karahalis
Documentation Sprints	A document sprint is a short time period when people from the community gather for focused effort on writing documentation for MDC.	Janet Swisher
Ask MDN	A fortnightly Twitter session on a chosen topic, where Twitter users can ask questions to a panel of experts on that topic	Rob Hawkes
Open Web Gaming Developer Engagement	Informing and helping developers with HTML5 & JavaScript game development.	Rob Hawkes
Mozilla Hacks	Mozilla's blog targeted to web developers. It includes technical articles, demos, and news from Developer Engagement members and guest bloggers. Here are some helpful tips for posting on this blog.	The following people have admin access to the Hacks blog. Contact one of them if you need account changes (such as to add a user for a guest post).: Chris Heilmann, Luke Crouch, Jake Maul, Janet Swisher, Paul Rouget, Robert Nyman, Eric Shepherd, Stormy Peters, John Karahalis
Boot to Gecko (B2G)	Mozilla's project to offer the Open Web as a platform for mobile devices	Robert Nyman
Mozilla Hacks Weekly	A weekly blog post with links and reading tips from the Developer Engagement Team	Robert Nyman
WebAPI Developer Engagement	Outreach around Mozilla's WebAPI initiative	Robert Nyman
Firefox Developer Engagement	Informing developers around progress with Firefox and the Web Platform	Robert Nyman
Mission:Mozilla	A Series of interviews of Mozillians targeted at Web Developers, bringing together 3 things: Mozilla's mission, Mozilla's people and Mozilla's technologies. In other words, what Mozilla does, who does it within Mozilla, and why (in relation to Mozilla's mission).	Tristan Nitot
Add-on SDK & Builder	Blogging, Events and community work aimed towards promoting the Add-on SDK. Writing documentation for the Add-on SDK, and maintaining the tools used to generate it. See the Developer Engagement Jetpack Plan.	Jeff Griffiths, Will Bamberg
Apps Developer Engagement	Helping developers understand and succeed building and distributing HTML5 Applications.	Joe Stagner, Havi Hoffman
Conference speaking & participation]	Mozillians speaking at and attending conferences and meeting the local communities.	Shezmeen Prasad
MDN Events	Community Events promoting Developer Engagement projects to web developers. Developer engagement team supports events for web developers, apps developers and technical writers.	Jeff Griffiths, Havi Hoffman
Addons Developer Community	Events, communication and stewardship in support of the Addon Developer community.	Jeff Griffiths
Where Is Mozilla - Global Events List	Centralized events list for where Mozilla is represented	Shezmeen Prasad
Swag Store & Event Request Form	Ordering, tracking and reporting swag merchandise. Integrated event, sponsorship and swag request form.	Shezmeen Prasad
Evangelism Reps	Empowering the community to be Evangelists for Mozilla world-wide.	Shezmeen Prasad
Web Productions and Websites	User-facing website project management, development, and design.	Chris More
Hardware Deployment	Deploying B2G hardware to Mozilla staff, contributors, and external developers.	Christie Koehler, Stormy Peters
Firefox OS Developer Engagement Plan	Technical Evangelism outreach activities to inspire developers to build open web apps for FFOS	Havi Hoffman, Mark Coggins
Beyond the Code blog about the Mozilla Mission	Writing stories about what makes Mozilla special: our mission, how we are organized, our not-for-profit nature, our openness	Tristan Nitot

Documentation Drivers

The table showing the people responsible for driving (not necessarily writing) developer documentation in specific areas has moved to Topic drivers on MDN.

How can you get involved?

Contact Us!

• Mailing lists:
  • mozilla.engagement.developers: General discussions of anything in the scope of developer engagement.
  • mozilla.dev.mdc: MDN Documentation Center discussion and content production.
  • mozilla.dev.mdn: Mozilla Developer Network website development.
• IRC Channels:
  • #devrel: Discussion of anything related to developer engagement (or "developer relations", hence the channel name)
  • #devmo: Discussion of developer documentation content in MDC
  • #mdndev: Development of the MDN website
  • #mdn: General questions about MDN
  • #webprod: General questions about Web Productions and Mozilla Websites

Meetings

Websites & Developer Engagement meets every other Wednesday at 8:00 am Pacific Time (16:00 UTC winter; 15:00 UTC summer).

• Agenda and Notes

The Evangelism team meets every second Thursday at 8:00 am Pacific Time (16:00 UTC winter; 15:00 UTC summer) on the Thursdays when the larger Developer Engagement meeting isn't happening.

• Agenda and Notes

These meetings are open to the community, use the information below to join:

• Dial-in information: 1-800-707-2533, pin: 369, conf: 463
• Back channel: #devrel

The MDN community meets every other Wednesday at 10:00 am Pacific Time (18:00 UTC winter; 17:00 UTC summer) in #devmo on irc.mozilla.org.

• Agendas and Notes
• MDN community calendar

Engage Developers!

• Submit demos!
  • Demo Studio is always open. Any type of demo, anytime.
  • Get developers excited about our monthly Dev Derby!
  • If you see a cool demo, encourage the author to submit it.
• Help everyone discover the great content.
  • Add a Promote MDN badge/button to your website or blog.
• Help everyone discover the great content.
• Write a guest post for Hacks (for example, a case study or walk-through of a relevant project you're worked on, such as an HTML5 game).
• Tell us about conferences you attend and you want to speak at (currently with the Conference checklist form).
• Contribute to MDC! Look for these tags:
  • NeedsTechnicalReview: Correct any problems, and remove the tag.
  • NeedsEditorialReview: Correct any problems, and remove the tag.
  • NeedsExample: Write a code example, add it to the page, and remove the tag.

• Organise Mozilla events participation
  • First step: if you want help with an event -- speaker, sponsorship, pizza budget, schwag, whatever - pls email dev-events@mozilla.com
  • Where is Mozilla?
  • If there's a conference you want Mozilla to speak at, sponsor, or support you to attend, please fill out the Conference Checklist, which helps us prioritize all the requests we get.
  • See Speaking and Events for an explanation of our priorities.
  • The Conference Handbook has advice for speakers.

Resources

• Outreach Channels:
  • MDN website
  • Hacks Web developer blog
  • @mozhacks on Twitter
  • Hacks YouTube channel
  • @AskMDN on Twitter

• MDN Creative Assets
  • All the MDN logos and swag creative available here:
    • HTML5 rocket sticker File:MDN hackDay sticker.pdf

• Conference Playbook: tips on attending conferences, from battle-scarred veterans