Summit2008/Sessions/Proposals

2008 Firefox Summit Session Proposals

The Firefox 2008 Summit will include three full days of sessions. All Firefox 2008 Summit attendees are invited to propose and lead sessions.

Sessions is the generic term covering "presentations," "tutorials," "BOFs," etc.

Please only propose a session that you intend to lead. If you'd like someone else to run a session, talk with or email them directly to discuss.

Please create a new wiki page for your proposal that includes headers for Session Title, Session Leaders, Summary, and Agenda.

Please let us know if you think there is a benefit from having an open session to include people who are not attending the summit. We will do our best to accommodate, but we may not be able to.

Proposals

Link your Summit session proposals here.

• Managing/working with remote people [mrz, would be interested in a round-table discussion]
• Customizing Distributions: What, Why, and How (and what's planned) [kev]
• Partnering: What the heck does it mean, anyways [kev, who will also try and rope jay into participating]
• Localizing Firefox 3: Analysis of good and not so. "Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel." [Axel, l10n-drivers]
• Evening hackathon (teams gather together to prototype cool bluesky ideas, do demos at the end) [zach]
• How to stop guessing what the community thinks—the Community Surveys project [sethb, stas]
• Guerrilla marketing brainstorming session [polvi (& William)]
• Discussion on growing Mozilla in Asia (focus on Asia ex-China, ex-Japan) [gen]
• Behind the smoke and mirrors: Mozilla PR case studies - better title tbd [melissa & nicole]
• What questions should we be asking with our data? [ken]
• How user-to-user support is the gateway into Mozilla for non-developers [sumo team]

Add-ons Related

• Ways to increase add-on adoption & discoverability (lifestyle themes/add-ons, favorite-ing, recommender, international reach, news feed) [basil]
• Add-Ons Management in Firefox (Add-Ons Mgr, add-on locale packs, languages, dictionaries, plugins, dependency, updates) [mossop]
• AMO Features & Roadmap (site improvements, role of sandbox, new ideas) [basil, clouserw, morgamic]
• Add-on Metrics & Stats
• AMO Editorial Process (streamlining editorial work, policy needs, recruiting, etc...) [basil]
• Catering to Add-on Developers (authoring and publishing process, docs, platform services, Fx API changes, newsletter, authoring tools, AMO API's) [Mfinkle?]
• AMO L10n processes (roadmap, current challenges, ideas for improvements) [clouserw, mic, etc.]
• Mozdev and the wider developer community. Deeper ties with AMO, added value, and more [kinger]

Web Platform Related

• Rich Media on the Web [vlad]

Mozilla Platform Related

• Using MDC:Mercurial [bsmedberg,jorendorff]
• XPCOMGC introduction and planning [bsmedberg]
• Hardware Acceleration & Gecko [vlad]
• 1.9.1 progress updates and feature culling [roc]

Mobile Related

• Device APIs [dougt, aza]
• Fennec Update [christian]
• Embedding [blizzard]
• Zephyr: The Firefox Phone [aza]

Messaging/MailNews/Thunderbird Related

• Brainstorm: How to ensure quality for Thunderbird with 1 full-time staff? [davida, ???]
• Radical ideas for making Thunderbird massively popular [davida]
• Thunderbird 3 planning [momo staff, etc]
• MailNews Refactoring [kairo, momo staff, etc.]
• Next Generation Instant Messaging
• Beyond protocols: thinking about user experiences of communication [clarkbw, davida, ?]
• Mozilla in Europe - the impact of Fx 3 and initiatives for strong

2H08 growth (Jane)

• ..

= Labs = (DRAFT)

• Thinking About Web Services, Context and the Role of the Browser [cbeard]
• Weave [thunder]
• Snowl [myk]
• Ubiquity [aza]
• Prism [mfinkle]
• Lifecycle of a Labs Project []
• Open Innovation at Scale []
• Brainstorming Session []
• Javascript Tricks used in Labs Prototypes [thunder]