Devrel/Minutes/2015-03-16

Attendees

Jason about to start cracking the whip on content kits. Team up and make it happen. Otherwise, there will be spreadsheets. And assignments. Homework!
Jason spoke at DevNexus last week -- expected a web focused audience, but that wasn't quite the way things worked out.

Jason

Dan

Demoed my Python/Rust FFI talk to ~60 people on Thursday
- Very well received, but folks are still confused about Rust vs. Go.
Now to wrap up my other PyCon talk...
Speaking at Midwest JS (August) on Firefox OS app development
Submitted to Cascadia JS Fest
Persona Gmail Bridge will be deployed today at 9:30 Pacific
- This concludes up my technical obligations to that project
Ongoing work on developer event funding
Initial Valence Content Kit feedback from groovecoder:
- "the content kit itself is good; the good parts of valence are so slim and buggy that I'm going to pass on the talk at TWD. :("

Dietrich

Android devrel talk w/ Margaret, Jason - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/androidvangelism
Tech speakers pilot schedule nailed down, a bunch of other stuff
Built Firefox OS ports quilt - https://dietrich.makes.org/thimble/LTIxMTM3MzIwOTY=/firefox-os-ports-on-xda-developers
Patch to make Firefox OS faster everywhere - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1143226

Havi

Mozilla Tech Speakers program updates:
- 6 confirmed candidates for Mozilla Tech Speakers, 2 still maybes
- Working on a plan for Speaker Training that scales based on:

- https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers
- Swag requests for program is in progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142179
Firefox Apps & Hacks newsletter shipping later this week (If I can get it done)
Hacks blog: Upcoming -
- An analytics primer for developers by guest author/Rormix app developer Mark Wheeler
- How to make a browser app on Firefox OS (post from TW engineering)

Potch

Submitted to CascadiaJS
Working on SocketPeer, a simplified library for peer-to-peer data channels with web socket fallback:
- https://github.com/cvan/socketpeer
- pair-written with cvan
  - will this demystify Data channels? 8-)
working on outline for flex-box content kit

Sole

back from Berlin - there's a) a great bunch of people there b) lots of coffee
conclusions from meeting with various people: the web needs both good offline support + more people with different use cases involved in spec writing. most of the examples/specs assume perfect conditions.
getting closer to pushing apps to fx devices via adb with NODE! yay-helpful for future hacks
heard some cool SW/UI/interaction/app design stuff coming out from gaia V3, might work with people in the London office to prepare some nice demo etc (maybe a hacks article?)