Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Monday, January 21 at 10:30 AM Pacific
• Video: David Boswell's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369 - conf 9634#
• Back channel: #webdev

Agenda

• Action items from last meeting

• • Proposed phases: Algorithmic, peer, then determine popular badges
  • Launching phase 1
    • Schedule: https://openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org/web-dev-badges
    • Luke and Brian Brennan to connect re: technical integration
      • Pulling data out of selected Github repositories
    • Design
      • Open design process announced last week
      • Designs to be posted on flickr with the webdevbadges tag
      • Do we want to do more promotion?
    • February 7 brown bag at Grow Mozilla discussion
    • March 1 launch for phase 1
  • Future phases
    • Discuss questions about webdev community badges
    • Security review of https://badgus-dev.allizom.org -- bug 797857 (Les)
    • Tying into Web Literacies -- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Learning/WebLiteracies

• Reducing barriers for new contributors
  • Top priorities
    • How to contribute to a Mozilla web site screencast (Sancus)
    • Making contact and bug tracking information easier to find on sites (bug 766906) (Rik)
    • Firebug + Firediff for easy CSS hacking without needing to install site (Sancus)
  • Other ideas (need to prioritize)
    • Linking to the Github page template in footer of pages on Bedrock (Rik)
    • Improving documentation and clarifying how different sites have small but significant differences to be aware of
    • Reaching out to Petri team to see if they could help make it easier for front-end webdev contributors to access to a staging site

Placeholder

• Tulsa Webdev hack day
  • Looking for mentors to prepare contribution opportunities and be available online during event
  • Using this as a template for Reps to run other webdev hack days

• Creating a workflow for how to handle webdev inquiries
  • Documenting current workflow
  • Enhancing current process (follow back up with promising leads 2 weeks after first contact, recognizing volunteers with a public post or swag after finishing first mentored bug)

• Piggybacking on other contributor efforts
  • Coding pathway: How to make use of http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ and collaborate with Coding Stewards
  • Design pathway: Are there relevant CSS and web design contribution information to add to Design wiki page for design contributors?

Action Items

• Emily to set up follow-up meeting with John Slater to review badge submissions

• Luke and Ricky to work through issues getting data out of Github

• Group to talk through preparing for badge brown bag next Monday

• Emily and David to talk about how to roll out case study later in the quarter