Devrel/Minutes/2016-11-21

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Verbal Updates

Jason's Update

(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)

  • Hawaii: Planned activity? Jason's going on a hike. Everyone is welcome to join. Already have a location. Still figuring out time.
  • Team meeting: Tuesday afternoon + 2 hours Wednesday morning before lunch.
    • Main topics: 2017 Planning, TechSpeaker visualizations from MikeE, etc.

Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics

  • [Jen] a story about `font-display` and Can I Use
    • font-display started going around on Twitter. Lets you control what to do if your fonts aren't loading quickly. FOIC / FOUC / etc.
    • Implemented in Fx43, but never actually on-by-default. PR'd against CanIUse to fix their data to show it as behind a flag.
    • Also requested listing initial-letter.
    • [linclark]: Also, new RDM in DevTools can throttle your connections so you can test this!
  • [jweathersby] Evangelists on working groups? other Mozillians' reactions to us on working groups - David Herman (yes!), some questioning of expertise. "Let's bring a web perspective"
    • [linclark]: Criteria for evaluating impact on any given working group - influence of groups vary widely. how to judge? e.g. HTML data
    • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Standards [dietrich]: let's meet w/W3C shepherd David Baron in HI
    • [potch] community groups as a lightweight path into culture and impact on working groups. Potch participates here: https://github.com/WICG/

Action Items

  • [name] action

Non-Verbal Updates

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Jason

Last week:

This coming week:

Belén

Last week:

  • Finally finished editing and published online our JS for gamedev guide in Spanish! Theory, guided exercises and assignments https://mozdevs.github.io/js-for-gamedev/es/ \o/
    • We will publish the (source code) solution for the assigments once the uni students have submitted them to their professors
  • Started research on WebGL 2 for a post for Hacks
    • Waiting to hear back from J.Gilbert to get his feedback on which features he considers are most relevant
  • Met with AdaJS organisers about a gamedev workshop in Barcelona next quarter
    • We will probably do 1 short-ish talk and a full-day workshop on February/early March

This coming week:

  • Keep on Research WebGL2, start writing a draft
  • Hopefully make a lot of noise about our JS for Gamedev guide :)

Dan

Last week:

  • Almost finished draft of async/await post for Hacks
  • Rebuilt and verified the C -> WASM toolchain works in Nightly and Canary
 (Dan, need to talk to you about this -- belén)
  • Progress on DevRel Website: have my own fork, making a mess of it :)
  • Proposed 2017 theme on mailing list, thoroughly rebutted
  • Began planning schedule for Hawaii

This coming week:

  • Finish async/await post (today)
  • Finish tentative Hawaii schedule
  • Merge a few DevRel website changes into the main version
  • Wrap up outstanding expenses

Dietrich

Last week:

  • Spoke at the Portland JS + IoT meetup on humanizing IoT by developing with Web APIs on smartphones. http://www.slideshare.net/dietrichayala/humanizing-iot-with-smartphones-and-the-web
  • Reviewing IoT developer research results
  • Yet more budget and planning for 2017
  • Compiled statistics for Mozfestation project
  • Wrote a piece for Open IoT Studio’s publication for Hawaii
  • Strategy brief for 2017 collaboration projects
  • More web AR hacking
  • Planning for Hawaii beacon + AR experiment

This coming week:

Flaki

Last week:

This coming week:

  • Giving my NLHTML5 talk again on Wednesday at a Hungarian conf
  • Webkonf is over the weekend, Manel and Gabriel (TS) are speaking
  • We're planning some Mozilla-presence too
  • Leaving for JS-Kongress Munich on Sunday

Giovanny

Last week:

This coming week:

Havi

Last week:

  • Lots of Hacks blog editing and coordination: helped with daily publication of Rust videos/playlist/Hacks post & updates: wrote 1st draft of Rust and the Future of Systems Programming, also work on RDM post.
  • Video maintenance & curation on Mozhacks YT
  • Conversations w/upcoming MasterClass speakers/potential speakers, initiating contracts, initial scheduling of Q1 TS session
  • Coordination of video from VR workshop organized by Moz & W3C

This coming week:

  • Publish & schedule: RDM post, ongoing promo of last 3 Rust videos/medium posts; aync await post from Dan.

Jen

Last week:

This coming week:

  • paperwork

Lin

Last week:

  • semver.crates.io POC is up.
    • got buy in from crates.io team
    • blocked on Emscripten + semver crate issue. brson is looking into it.

• First PR to Servo landed: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/14271

This coming week:

  • Digging in to Servo/Quantum internals/plans
  • Starting CraterConf talk prep

Michael

Last Week:

  • TS EFF (Event Feedback From) Audit/Update
  • TS EFF Visualization Deck
  • TS Winter17 Facilitation Meeting

This Week:

  • Budget (Bill.com) Audit w/ Izette
  • Bi-weekly event feedback tracking update
  • Event Feedback Form data visualization (continued)
  • Tech Speakers agenda planning

Potch

Last week:

This coming week:

Salva

Last week:

  • Summarized PWA strategy for 2016
  • Set action points to continue PWA strategy of 2016
  • Came back to home

This coming week:

  • PTO
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