Devrel/Minutes/2015-09-21

Attendees

• callahad
• Jason
• Havi
• jensimmons
• \n
• potch
• belen

Standing Agenda Items

Weekly Team Update from Jason

• Belén is here! Will be intro'd by sole on the Project Meeting next week
• Spent most of last week on an IoT workshop
  • Taipei office has a "Web Everywhere" initiative that might dovetail nicely
  • CHIRIMEN project possibly coming to the US
  • FlyWeb project also ongoing
  • Findings to be presented to Steering Committee in next week

2-Minute Updates

Jason

• IOT workshop and trying to get Gio in for port
• Budget review
• Emscripten example
• RTL posts editing

Dan

• Investigated Lanyrd's capabilities.
  • Go for now, summary on list
• Push API demo wrapped up, ran into bugs with our implementation of spec
  • https://bugzil.la/1159641 - pushManager.getSubscription() prompts user instead of returning null in absence of subscription
  • https://bugzil.la/1206302 - pushManager.subscribe() rejects with a string instead of a DOMException
• Worked on Promises / Async talk for TCCC19 ( http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com/Sessions/Fall2015#s30 )
• Reached out to Blue Jeans Network about supporting WebRTC on Firefox
  • No response yet
• Surveyed Reddit to help inform what WebExtensions and APIs we need before deprecating XUL/XBL/XPCOM
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3l74qf/so_webextensions_are_happening_what_addons_are_on/
  • Summary to be sent to list

Dietrich

• (offline)

Havi

• Participation Leaders initiative: helping to review >350 applicants to come up w/a cohort of 100-150 participants who will attend 3 "Global Gatherings"
• Hacks blog: Today - Let's Build a WebExtension, http://t.co/PZA1kTtcxH upcoming: Subresource Integrity, Trainspotting Fx 41, MozVR
• Conversations to understand about addons for Fx 2.5, future of marketplace apps vs web apps (WADI project)
• Met w/Josh about a WebVR/MozVR series. Followup/timing tbd
• Todo: Write Firefox Apps & Hacks newsletter featuring View Source, Addons story,

Potch

• Spoke at FITC's Web Unleashed last week in Toronto
  • Slides: http://potch.github.io/workers-talk/
  • Talk was not recorded, I want to do a screencast of it since it went over well - that's a pity, judging from those slides that's one sweet talk :( :D
• Hacks redesign
  • Lee Tom came back with some visual anchoring
  • will implement elements of his visual mockup: https://bug1194334.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8662645

Sole

• At SmartWebConf
  • Last week: Nordic.js and SmashingConf - I've got half written reports for both, will tell you when they're done. Both excellent places and different audiences, so yay! Talk well received. People interested in Web Audio!
  • I'm starting to recognise workers at the airport. Also starting to worry a bit about that :-P

Nick

• Hacks Post: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/stereoscopic-rendering-in-webvr/
• VR text rendering with Signed Distance Fields (SDF) research
• Metting w/ CMills about MSE
• Going to file bugs against reveal.js and impress.js (CSS animation performance)
• Comms
• Recruiting trip Friday
• Beers w/ Dietrich & eviljeff in MV
• All concert-ed out (Foo Fighters & Dave Chappelle)

Jen

• lots of conference travel prep for Fall Season (Sept-Nov): bookings, email, expense reports
• heading to Responsive Field Day this week, Thursday-Saturday
• rewriting my one-hour talk to fit in 20 mins
• meeting with various Mozillians, getting plugged in: Havi, Brad Cohen, Philipp Sackl
• been reaching out to lots of industry colleagues about new role at Mozilla
• Episode 106 was published — Gerry McGovern get, all about focusing on customer's needs for a site, instead of the organizations needs
• Won Pocast of the Year at The Net Awards: https://thenetawards.com https://twitter.com/thewebahead/status/644986399003922432

Belén

• NEW HIRE! YAAAAY!