Devrel/Minutes/2015-08-10

Attendees

• sole
• callahad
• dietrich
• Jason
• potch

Standing Agenda Items

Weekly Team Update from Jason

• Hiring / offer meeting with HR following this one
• Team bonuses to be discussed in 1:1's
• Upcoming info on team priorities and add-on SDK
• Want to work on Servo demos? Talk to Jason

2-Minute Updates

Jason

• Hacks Editing
• Servo Testing
• PTO

Dan

• Conference prep!
  • Ongoing coding, outlining, slide-making
  • Loaded a bunch of USB sticks with DevEdition, flashing tools, and the latest Flame image
• Submitted 4 proposals to JSConf Colombia (FxOS, IoT, WebAssembly, Rust).
  • All rejected.
• Local OpenSourceNorth conference filled all speaking slots without a formal CFP.
  • Added as a backup speaker
• Updated my Lanyrd profile to make sure it reflects my Q2/Q3 talks
• Moderated some Hacks comments; fixed double-html-escaping in code samples
• Interviewed a candidate
• Ordered business cards (srsly, paper ones!)
• Researched the Mobile Brazil conference, call scheduled for tomorrow
• Upcoming: MidwestJS on Thursday, OTSConf Saturday + Sunday, London next week.

Dietrich

• Wrote up what is developer relations for Adrian who is doing a push for Mozilla Hispano
• Reviewed two chapters of the book Application Development for Firefox OS
• Working with Alexandre for Hacks posts on Sony devices and Docker images for server builds of FxOS
• More editing of Moz.jp’s WoT proposal
• Working with a local under-privileged kids robotics club to get them devices and training for IoT
• Talked w/ EBU about doing a workshop at their annual conference
• some partner training coordination (and damn this got convoluted fast)
• gradients post finished up and on Hacks
• worked with alexandre lissy on sony+fxos post for Hacks: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-sony-devices
• drafted a post on the fxos iot dev board options
• worked w/ william, brian king on how to play together on fxos participation
• first cross-org IoT meeting, worked on defining outcomes/goals
• met with FxOS head of product management to design how to open that area up
• moar tech speakers planning!

Havi

• Re-entry last week - catch up on Hacks posts/editing: CSS Gradients & Unbreaking the Web; ES6 - Subclassing
• Hacks monthly report (July)
• Revving up Tech Speakers Pilot 2 - invites pending, conversation w/People Rocket about format and materials
• Ongoing conversations/support/followups with Pilot 1 pilots

Potch

• Stickers!
  • Stickers.
  • If you want to order Firefox logo stickers for yourself, let me know- I can send you the stickermule re-order form
• Trainspotting 40 is the primary goal for today!
• Hacks Redesign
  • Opening up a Creative Team bug for review / thoughts
• Platform Status Dashboard
  • Happening, but slowly with other priorities

Sole

• Went to Manchester last week! http://soledadpenades.com/2015/08/10/an-introduction-to-web-components-at-manchester-geek-nights/
• I think I'm done with Web Components for a while
• Turning my speaker fee for Bucharest conference into three tickets for underrepresented developers / students: http://soledadpenades.com/2015/08/10/events-coming-up-next-august-and-september/#smarttickets
• Sent bugs to a few other projects: web components, mozvr...
• Mini post on Nightly's audio indicator https://twitter.com/supersole/status/628523657875300352 (but people were more interested in the Pointer Events tweet judging by the activity)
• Booking travel & logistics: it's time consuming, and self service >>>> travel agents

Nick

• Rebuilt and signed VR addon
• More VR tooling
• SIGGRAPH

Reminders

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