Devrel/Minutes/2016-01-11

Attendees

• jason
• sole
• belen
• jen
• potch
• nick
• dan
• dietrich
• havi

Standing Agenda Items

Weekly Team Update from Jason

• Hooray! Everybody is back from PTO and back up to speed
• Spent a ton of time reviewing expense reports, end-of-year event sponsorship requests, etc.
• Sole's intern coming in this summer!
• I must finish your review this week. I can't do this without your Q4 report. PLEASE GET IT IN
• Who's available for GDC March 14-18? (most of us)
• PLEASE use the DevAdvocacy Bugzilla keyword
• PLEASE create more video content
• Put your Q1 goals in by the end of the week

• Actions:
  • Havi: Get stats on last two WADI posts on Hacks and forward them to Bill Walker (dwalsh & myk/oghliner)
  • Dan: Look into Uservoice + DevRel thread going to Discourse instead?

2-Minute Updates

Nick

• Peninsula.js logistics
• RTCPeerConnection
  • ICE video/Hacks

Potch

• Working on tons of CFP stuff
• Working on a talk about building "ten foot UIs" for televisions. E.g., office dashboards.
  • Viewport units, etc. Provides framing to show off lots of DevTools and newer CSS features
• Working on Peninsula.js website
  • Trying to do something similar ot WaffleJS or BrooklynJS
• Putting together a talk on hotreloading when working on DevTools

Havi

• Check the CFP calendar - many CFPs closing this Friday and end of month.
• Preparing to launch first Tech Speakers session of 2016 (will be all-women, beginning in early-mid Feb)
• Content planning for tech speaker training & other content for Singapore Leadership Summit (participation)
• Hacks needs posts - please...
• Managing / facilitating consulting / debugging on current activities of the 16 current Tech Speakers

Jen

• booking confences, 13 booked, including with 2 workshops, 1 more in progress, waiting to hear from the CFPs: An Event Apart (all 7, one w/workshop), Enhance Conf, Respond Sydney & Melbourne, Web Design Day Pittsburg, Design & Content Vancouver (w/workshop) are booked
• planning a CSS Grid workshop in NYC with fantasai for late Feb: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/events/grid-workshop
• wrote a piece for A List Apart
• had interview at Ampersand Conf transcribed, edited the transcription
• bunch of connecting to people
• email. email. email. trying to get caught up

Sole

• Lots of meetings with many people about many topics
• Sent proposals to a couple conferences, did quite a bit of research before writing/sending one to make sure I would not submit something that already exists
• Merging PR from Boo (contributors!!! yay!!!), adding another example
• Preparing for a session about how to do a thing with Web Audio
• Maybe doing some meetuping about connected devices here in London

Jason

• Worked on getting Intern Job Listing setup
• Getting GDC planning started March 14-18
• Finalized Headcount
• Dev Edition 45 Release Devrel Planning
• Quarter Reviews
• Reading WebRTC specs and digging through Mozilla code to see how Firefox Implements to work on Nicks project
• Still working on Dev Advocacy Feedback loop with Engineering
• NDA with chipmaker for COAP stack

Dan

• Reported Q4 goals
• Applied for Indian visa
• Worked on Rust talk for CodeFreeze this Thursday
• Reviewed old Hacks articles on XHR+CORS and Hardware Acelleration for accuracy -- CORS w/Fetch?
  • Still accurate, but we might want to put together an updated Fetch+CORS and Gecko HWAccel posts to point to
• Worked on DrupalCon India talk on WADI; got Bill Walker's Mozlando deck to crib from.

Dietrich

• Techspeakers round 3 planning and candidate selection.
• 2015 round-up
• Q1 goals
• talk for NCU next week
• worked on a a-frame component for mapping items on a cylinder
• tested a-frame + gamepad on android

Belén

• Came back from holidays on Thursday (I BAKED THIS ) wow! can we get one mailed to MV? :P
• Doing videos for Global Game Jam
• Preparing proposals for a few CFP
• I'm presenting the JS gamedev talk at Betabeers BCN meetup on tuesday next week, so I need to adapt the slides a bit.
• I've been asked by some Uni student association in Portugal to give a talk there in their tech week, but I have mixed feelings (lack of diversity)
• Was bored on Sunday and drew this https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5w4mptq48kpmi5/webangelist.png?dl=0

Reminders

• Add Hacks ideas to https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevRel/Hacks
• Review the CFP calendar

Other Topics

(Try to keep things timeboxed and concrete. E.g., can we actually make a yes/no decision in this meeting? If not, discuss on list first.)

Q & A

• Are any of us going to MWC?

• • If we need DevRel to be there, we'll send Belén.

Anything Else?