Devrel/Minutes/2016-11-28

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Jason

Last week:

This coming week:

Belén

Last week:

• Made noise about the JS for game development guide. Good acceptance!
• Research for WebGL2 post
  • Also got in contact with Milan Sreckovic for feedback
• Set my schedule for Hawaii

This coming week:

• Draft WebGL2 post
• Survive the flight to Hawaii on Friday/Saturday

Dan

Last week:

• Finished async/await draft
• Reviewed work by a candidate for joining Mozilla
• Was otherwise too ambitious for Thanksgiving week :(

This coming week:

• I'm in Hawaii. It's *awesome.* They have delicious fruits I've never even heard of!
  • The abiu (Pouteria caimito) tastes like flan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria_caimito

Dietrich

Last week:

• Writing Bluetooth beacons post, worked on live-updated stats dashboard for beacon deployments
• Met w/ Katie about AR/VR beacon project for Hawaii

This coming week:

Flaki

Last week:

• Gave a talk on PWA in Budapest at HWSW Mobile! conference https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/801437921731629056
  • Was very well received, interesting conversations afterwards.
  • It was also quite adventurous due to my laptop's charger breaking in the last minute https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/801414670187950080
  • Slides: https://flaki.github.io/talks/web-or-bust/hwsw/
  • Detailed notes: https://flaki.github.io/trips/?t=2016-11-hwsw-mobile
• Attended Web Konferencia Budapest, it was a hoot!
  • Gabriel gave a talk on GraphQL
  • Manel was presenting about CSS Grids and other layout techniques
  • Both turned out really well, there will be a rec!
  • Detailed notes and links to slides: https://flaki.github.io/trips/?t=2016-11-webkonf
• Managed to get some pretty nice engagement on a few recent @mozhacks tweets by keeping them alive longer:
  • RDM: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/801093235552571392
  • Into Rust: https://twitter.com/mozhacks/status/800761260728078336
• Got accepted to Hawaii All-hands IoT lightning talks w/ https://twitter.com/clouduboy !

This coming week:

• Arrived in Munich on Sunday for JS Kongress
• Working on personal projects and productivity/automation tools

Giovanny

Last week:

This coming week:

Havi

Last week:

• Hacks blog, YouTube & Medium editorial: Editing and scheduling RDM posts for Hacks & Medium, CSS grid post, Rust & WebVR video management and more
• Drafting the 2017 Tech Speakers application form and invitation letter for Winter 2017 session. Will publish on 11/30
• Tech Speakers monthly mtg planning
• DevNewsletter weekly content
• Lots of communications w/TS about their activities and upcoming plans, beefing up the CFP calendar
• TS Winter 2017 Masterclass planning & initiating contracts.
• Various town halls this week and next

This coming week:

• Hacks: Today - Visualize animations easing in DevTools (pbrosset), to be followed by: Firefox Hardware survey for web devs, CSS Grid post by Helen (w/accompanying Medium post), Async/Await post
• DevNewsletter weekly content
• Finalizing / releasing the 2017 Tech Speakers application form and invitation letter for Winter 2017 session. Will publish on 11/30 and open the application queue.
• Hawaii prep & planning
• TS 2017 planning.

Jen

Last week:

• worked on devrel website
• created pull-request for Can I Use (properly this time, thanks Dan)
• chimed in on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504622
• promoted CSS Grid

This coming week:

• writing an article for 24 Ways
• prep for Hawaii
• email, paperwork

Lin

Last week:

• semver.crates.io surfaced at least one issue with Rust's Emscripten support: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/37952. That approach is blocked until issue(s) are resolved

• Looked into other possible demo projects for Rust/JS integration • Reviewed Quantum project docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-sho7uTnK1sMjZrZnZwdmtxaDQ • Dug into Servo (and especially GDB support for Rust) • Started research on memory safety for potential post

This coming week:

• Reviewing existing Servo outward communication for successful strategies

• Preparing devrel ideas re: Servo and Rust for discussion with those teams in Hawaii

Michael

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Potch

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Salva

Last week:

• PTO but...

• Talked to Google participation devrel about GDG's & spanish dev community operative.

• Organize next PWA team meeting in Hawaii (Wed, 7th, 10:30 AM)

This coming week:

• Meet tech speaker Alex Saldadrigas for the coming PWA roadshow in Oslo

• Send head up regarding Opera laid off staff

• Send GDG & spanish dev community operative summary.

• Come up with the PWA meeting agenda.

• Finish PWA state of the art (add URLs).

• Continue standards catch up.