Devrel/Minutes/2015-01-05

Attendees

• Jason
• Sole
• Dan
• Potch
• Havi

Remaining obligations to other teams?

• Sole: handing/establishing some direction with node-firefox and apps eng friends but also working with that because I have a talk on fosdem later this month!
• Potch: a few Brick bits
• Callahad: Persona / Gmail bridge needs rewriting since Google is killing its OpenID endpoint in February. Collaborating with Shane Tomlinson in Cloud Services.

Topics in a Box

• What are they
  • re-usable technical content in finite/transferable modules (Sm, M, Lg)
  • speakers can use & reuse - accompanied by code/video/demos/examples/screencasts (!) -- easily maintained and updated
  • Example topics
    • SpeechRT
    • Inapp Payments
    • Localization
    • Inapp Advertising
    • WebRTC/Web Audio
    • NFC!
    • C++ to ASM.js example - LLJS
      • emscripten?
      • asm.js + canvas / webgl
      • asm.js + web audio <- mine!! (sole)
    • WebGL/Canvas tag Debugging
    • Developer Hud, Live Memory, New Perf Tool - Fxos App - Axel Devtools
      • "what the heck does the developer hud do?"
    • Valence Example "why should I use fx dev tools?"

MDN's Wiki for potential topics: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Projects/Content/TopicInABox

Recurring meeting with MDN

Havi to followup

Community Speaker Recruitment

• Havi + Dietrich to work on this
• Mozillian Andre Natal good person to beta test with?

IoT

• Currently evaluating boards to port FxOS to. Currently looking at BeagleBoard.
• Want to be involved in picking boards? Talk to Jason.
  • Luke Crouch is very interested in this; Callahad has emailed him.
  • Potch is interested in getting Firefox to talk to Arduino. *** How do we RS-232?
    • Or an intermediate solution with the extra board shield that does wifi or bluetooth?

Product Team Leaders

Want: Who should we talk to for each group we want to work with?

• DevTools: Dave Camp
• WebAPIs: Andrew Overholt?
• FirefoxOS: Fabrice Desre
• Platform: ? ... maybe Andrew knows something! sole will ask him
• Cloud Services: Mark Mayo owns, but Ian Bicking/Toby Elliott may be more responsive

Conferences for 2015

• JSConf (May 27-29) CFP closes Jan 30 @ 9 AM Pacific http://2015.jsconf.us/call-for-speakers.html
• NodeConf (June 8-9). "Reverse CFP" at https://github.com/nodeconf/US-CFP

Good resource? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8824760

Q&A

• Where are we at with the Event Sponsorship Form? Should we fill it out?
  • Yeah, fill it out. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.dev-engagement-event
  • Also, there's this thing. Worth trying to update it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/events
    • Callahad has reached out to see if we can get direct access to edit that page.

Action items

• Havi: Combined MDN & Hacks team mtg
• Jason: Shared calendar
• Potch: will reach out to Fred to collaborate on "Hand-off" project (aka Continuity)