Devrel/Minutes/2016-10-03
Contents
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)
- Don't say Q******
- Q3 accomplishments - - send to Jason now, Q4 goals (add to workday later this week)
- debugger.html live code editing coming
- upcoming landings - jason will send out to us. sometimes for coverage, sometimes just for heads-up.
- safe browsing, web audio/webRTC, directory uploading, WebGL2, WASM
- WASM : Video vendor to do 3 videos 1) Luke Wagner, 2) founders of WASM 3) interview??
- WebGL - late October hacks post w/video
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics
- Michael Ellis - update on Brazil JS
- Hacks - needs content
- planning team time for HI workweek
- Dev Tools updates direct line via Sole.
Action Items
- [name] action
- Firefox 50
Potch - Directory Uploading - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288683 Not Assigned - WebRTC and WebAudio enhancements - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1213517 Dietrich - SafeBrowsing v4, Tracking Protection and Download Protection improvements - Send the DNT header when TP is on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1258033 Jason, Dan and Belen - WebGL2 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281250
Firefox 51 Dan and Belen : WebAssembly - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188259 Potch - IndexDB v2 - https://wiki.mozilla.org/TPE_DOM/IDBv2 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1271497
Non-Verbal Updates
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Jason
Last week:
- Q4 Planning - WebGL2, WASM and Servo Integration work
- Began learning WASM
- Started work with Marketing and WASM team to plan out video series
- Reviewed RUST video series
- Met with Games team and Platform to plan out work for WebGL2
- Started 2017 budgeting
- Setup travel for all things open and connect.tech
This coming week:
- WASM and WebGL2
Belén
Last week:
- My presentation at ViewSource is up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FdHqVDlXu0
- Prepared intro to HTML5 game dev class w/ Salva for a class at the game dev degree in Madrid
- Taught the class in Madrid on Friday!
- Got some press training (mock intreview) with Karolina
- Answer the branding survey
This coming week:
- Prepare lightning talk for Fronteers
- Attend Fronteers in Amsterdam (will be out Wed-Fri)
- Submit Q3 goals to Workday
Dan
Last week:
- Brief talk on Service Workers at Twin Ports Web Pros meetup in northern Minnesota.
- Immediate, unprompted feedback: implement the damn date pickers! https://bugzil.la/888320
- The 0xb -> 0xc update to WebAssembly killed my week.
- Last-minute rescue of Jason Boch's VSLive talk on Wasm by using an older build of Firefox
- Having to re-learn everything for my Wasm talk tomorrow (Wasm is now a stack machine, not an AST, etc.)
- Had to recompile the world, lots of key things (binaryen / spidermonkify) still broken
- In-browser APIs also changed in backwards incompatible ways (no more Wasm.instantiateModule), so emscripten isn't working either
This coming week:
- Speaking on WebAssembly at WebUnleashed in Toronto
Dietrich
Last week:
- Fixed speaker calendar import script, was executing too many calls too fast.
- Reviewed some CFPs for Tech Speakers
- Mass closure of all 2014/2015 events request bugs (WTF)
- TIA Jakarta speaker - speaker hustling
- Hawaii booking
- Mozfestation: Got builds working for ios and android, added new header image, added beacon count to header, only record and show beacons with mozfest URL, sending found beacons to server, only send to server if a mozfest URL, only send to server if never discovered before, show install id in settings, added data persistence for beacons, changed app icons and splash screens for ios and android, changed app store icons for Apple/Play stores, added notes for when mozfest hasn’t started yet and during mozfest dates but nothing found, submitted apps to Apple and Play stores, got leaderboard working in the sheet.
- js+iot event coord and gear
- Mozfest: check schedule, move mozfestation to tent, email zone members, make gear requests, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sG2nPX-vu4Dje6cJ-KlasRCgH_BgDm6q2iuBevYe3mg/edit?ts=57ed6fd1#gid=1692944562
- Goals Q3 and Q4, and Q3 wrap-up
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
- Finished a 34 day-long trip over 7 countries with a light "moving" exercise
- Post-RustFest errands and debrief
- Catching up on unfiled trip reports
- Here's one e.g. from Iceland: https://flaki.github.io/trips/?t=2016-08-jsconf-iceland
- Built a small static site tool to manage these (private-ish) textual notes but display richly formatted
- Got invited for the all hands!
This coming week:
- In Seattle/Portland for the week https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/782875171199787008
- Attending Google's PWA Roadshow in SEA
- Going to OS Hardware Summit in Portland
- Moderating the #debuggerhtml twitter chat on Tuesday
- Preparing for next week's workshop with Microsoft/Edge
Giovanny
Last week:
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Havi
Last week:
- Caught up on stuff - Tech Speaker followups from Berlin and before, funding TS at Mozfest decisions (mostly no),
- began editorial review of CFP homework from all the new tech speakers - on track to complete by monthly meeting
- Sent out short video links to all the tech speakers
- Published
This coming week:
- Budget planning/review for TS 2017
- All Tech Speakers monthly call - prep.
- Beating the bushes for Hacks posts
- Re-engage w/DevRel website project
- Design & communicate next steps for 'new grads' of TS program, begin content planning for Q1
- Scheduled Follow up call w/Flaki to determine 'makeup' requirements for new TS who didn't meet all the Summer Pilot requirements.
- TS budget planning for 2017.
Jen
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Michael
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Potch
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Salva
Last week:
- Attended TRIBE session
- Finished first materials for game course (Spanish only right now): Object Oriented Programming (https://clnznr.github.io/pvli2017/tema2/0201-oop-programming.html) and JavaScript datamodel (https://clnznr.github.io/pvli2017/tema2/0202-javascript-datamodel.html
- Presentation of game course: https://clnznr.github.io/pvli2017/tema1/0103-showcase.html
This coming week:
- Arrange meeting with Flaki and Jason to discuss about PWA
- Arrange travelling agenda
- Landing cache strategies on Service Worker Cookbook
- Redact Hacks Post on the Service Worker Cookbook
- Prepare first exercise for game course
Sole
Last week:
- tried to debug mysterious issue in mindblown.js - still unable to find what is going on https://github.com/sole/mindblown.js/issues/4
- lots of work on the framework too
- readying for beta release
- getting into devtools stuff too
- reviewing talk submission from mozillian
This coming week:
- ramping up on devtools and etc
- post on mindblown beta