Devrel/Minutes/2016-10-10
Contents
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)
- Send Q3 accomplishments to Jason. Reviews will be completed this week, with or without your input.
- Meeting w/Moz Japan dev rel this week
- Prepping for Wasm release in early 2017Q1. Build momentum with hacks posts, demos, etc.
- DevRel input wanted in http://mbebenita.github.io/WasmExplorer/
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics
- [name] summary
- [dietrich] Mac OS Sierra & SSH
- Link please?
- [dietrich] mzl.la account
- We have an enterprise account with Bit.ly that lets us create custom links; Dietrich has the credentials if you need to do that.
- [MikeE] Tech Speakers class getting ready to graduate. MozTS have given ~119 talks so far this year.
Action Items
- [name] action
- Firefox 50
Potch - Directory Uploading - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288683 - Not Ready to be covered. Jason, Dan and Belen - WebGL2 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1281250 Slipped a version
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 (Bevis Tseng in Taipei will work up some examples and write post for end of month, Potch enlisted to review)
Awaiting Web Console
Non-Verbal Updates
( Consider tracking your activity in IRC by talking to the 'rogerroger' bot in #devrel. Logs appear at http://www.standu.ps/project/devrel )
Jason
Last week:
- Worked with Luke Wagner to come up with a plan for the developer focused materials for WASM rollout.
- Tracked down all Trello changes slated for 50/51 and determined status
- Met with Google to discuss collaboration on PWAs and other joint technologies
- Explained our current plan for Technology rollout on Tech Speaker Monthly Call
- Met with Rensselaer to discuss collaboration - https://rcos.io/
This coming week:
- Reviews
- WASM Assets
Belén
Last week:
- Prepare lightning talk to give at the jam session at Fronteers
- Attended Fronteers in Amsterdam
- Nice insights about progressive enhancement
- Cool presentation about data viz with D3, and another one about SVG animations
- Nadieh Bremer https://nbremer.github.io/hackingthevisualnorm/
- Sarah Drasner http://slides.com/sdrasner/functional-fronteers#/
- Controversial talk by Nolan Lawson (Edge) where he advocated for JS-only sites https://nolanlawson.github.io/fronteers-2016/#/
This coming week:
- Prepare slides + assignments for the classes next week at Madrid's uni
Dan
Last week:
- Presentation on WASM at Web Unleashed in Toronto, little bit of pickup re: the 0xc binary changes https://twitter.com/getify/status/783340938802237440
- Long discussion in the Toronto office with Platform and DevTools re: what our priorities are.
- Met with one of the guys working on porting Markdown and Typogrify to Drupal 8.
This coming week:
- Prep for PWA talk at Connect.Tech in Atlanta next week
- Report on Q3 activity
Dietrich
Last week:
- Hacked on W3D with Gio, got it working locally.
- Hacked up Leaking Blue, using smartphone in the window to log Bluetooth devices going by. will see if anything interesting shows up in the logs.
- More Mozfestation work to get iOS app store approval, finally made it in. Stickers ordered from Stickermule.
- Got the mzl.la credentials if anyone needs them for customizing paths in shortlinks to mozilla domains.
- Lots of Mozfest haranguing - space coordination, equipment reqs, VR painting coordination
- Got Vanity>Privacy>Vanity working for Mozfest - streaming WebRTC on local subnet for selfiecams
- Chatting w/ Reps about devrel strategies
- Safebrowsing: Nothing for developers really
- Kicked off the Oregon State University senior capstone project to work on mobile VR/AR performance.
- Did a lightning talk on IoT for the kickoff of PDX Science Hack Day
- Hooked up the PSU Capstone folks with PDX office
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
- Did the Debugger.HTML chat last week, turned out pretty funky!
- We did rope in some folks from the Atom team to help out with Atom integration :P
- In Seattle/Portland for some stuff
- Went to Seattle stop of Google's PWA Roadshow
- It was a good, well-attended event
- Learned a lot about Google's latest devtools tooling, we should replicate at least some b/c they're rather handy.
- See detailed notes at https://flaki.github.io/trips/?t=2016-10-pwa-seattle
- Been to Portland for
- Open Source Hardware Summit
- It was super rad! Open source and/or 3d-printed bionic hands, rockets, satellites, electronic violins
- Was representing Tessel (+Rust) & Mozilla
- Science Hack Day Portland
- Missed the second day but was at the first day and it was RAD
- See notes for tweets & excerpts
- https://flaki.github.io/trips/?t=2016-10-oshw-portland
- Open Source Hardware Summit
This coming week:
- Joint MS+Moz PWA Workshop in seattle
- With Potch & Nolan Lawson
- Decompress.
- Prep for Hackference next week and Mozfest
- Starting to prep for my PWA talk in Mobile Era Oslo, got LOADS of new ideas in the last few days!
Giovanny
Last week:
This coming week:
Havi
Last week:
- Contractor logistics with Flaki - updating contract, Hawaii, upcoming deliverables
- Tech Speakers t-shirt coordination and distribution
- Tech Speakers guest blog post draft for Denise's blog (The Eloquent Woman)
- Tech Speakers monthly call - agenda planning, speaker recruitment, reminders etc
- Completed editorial review & feedback of all the CFP homework submitted by Summer Pilot tech speakers (learned a great deal about the group and their interests)
- Ran Q3 numbers for Hacks - not as bad as I thought :-)
- Introduced Tech Speakers to the 2016 Tech Women interns at Mozilla
- First draft update of Tech Speakers wiki to be more current and clear
- Conversations w/Dev Marketing about hand-off of Apps & Hacks newsletter.
This coming week:
- Ongoing outreach looking for Hacks posts - October is slow so far.
- Take a look into DevRel
- More conversations w/Participation about TS collaboration at events and at specific programs
Jen
Last week:
This coming week:
Michael
Last week:
- Wrangled post-event reports for Berlin Meetup, Brazil JS, and View Source
- Tying-up loose ends from Berlin Events (invoice, metrics)
- Phase 2: Welcome meeting with Tech Speakers
- Post-event survey asks
- Q3 accomplishments
This coming week:
- YTD budget #’s
- Onboarding new TS graduates
- Q4 goals
Potch
Last week:
This coming week:
Salva
Last week:
- Scheduled a meeting with Flaki and Jason by October, 19th
- Arrange travelling agenda: attending MozFest to talk to Samsung and Chrome Dev Summit
- Landed cache strategies for Service Worker Cookbook
- Draft for Hacks' post on Offline Strategies
This coming week:
- Finish first block of teaching JavaScript
- Prepare first exercise for the game course
- Finish Hack's post on Offline Strategies
Sole
Last week:
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