Devrel/Minutes/2016-11-14
Contents
Verbal Updates
Jason's Update
(Don't let Jason start talking until someone has agreed to take notes here)
- Reminder: Keep filling out the etherpad!
- 2017 Strategy review completed, but it was the day after the election, so... not too much feedback yet.
- Fx51 will have WebGL 2, start thinking about what we can do for that.
- Submitting budget request to get more formal video production training for evangelists
Announcements / Requests for Help / Discussion Topics
- [potch] Chrome Developer Summit
- PWA story has gone from "we want these to look like native" to "we want fast, reliable, and engaging websites"
- Lots of blowback on Alex Russell's statements re: using anything but Preact and Polymer Is Bad, but the talk is actually very very good.
- Does this open a door for us, re: Quantum? "They're saying it's bad to use these, but look, we fixed it on our end."
Action Items
(Last Week)
- [callahad] Add Lin to mailing lists and mozdev GitHub org (done)
- [potch] Update us once you know more about Quantum Style
- Waiting for design details to get finalized.
- [jweathersby] Review DevAdvocacy bugs with Callahad re: bug resolution rates (done)
- [ladybenko] Obtain estimate for translating Spanish content, report back.
- Got a quote! It was super high. Looking for alternative options
- [callahad] Email "back to basics" theme idea to devrel list on Tuesday (oops)
- Doing that now
- [jen] Invite Lin to DevRel website
- We're set here.
(This Week)
- [all] Go through Jason's email re: Trello and add comments.
- [jweathersby] Schedule one full day in Hawaii for teamwork
- [jweathersby] Set up separate 2017 strategy meeting
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
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This coming week:
Belén
Last week:
- Interviewed at wecodesign podcast
- Adapt my content of the JS for gamedev so it fits an article form instead of slides, and some of Salva's
- Got a quotation for translating the materials, it was too steep
This coming week:
- Meet (right after this meeting!) in personw with the members of AdaJS to start organasing a gamedev workshop in Barcelona
- JS for gamedev materials
- Finishing proofreading + editing Salva's content
- Compile it into ebook + online version
- Write intro, requirements, etc. w/ Salva
- Devrel website
- Input content as sample
- Do the index page at mozdevs github organisation (couldn't do it last week)
Dan
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Dietrich
Last week:
- OSU mobile VR capstone program plan review
- British Council AR/VR project support - hacked touch interactions and some other stuff into the demo to send for user testing.
- Post-Mozfest paperwork, expenses, etc.
- 2017 event planning for Asia itinerary
- Rust+Arduino foundation coordination
- Met w/ legal to talk over our transparency report
- Planned developer marketing research review w/ branding team and devrel
- 2017 budget planning
- 2017 strategy brief
- Talking w/ Shanghai makerspace guy about web api layer in android boards
- Talked w/ various folks about video practices at MoCo/MoFo
- Worked on AR demo
- SXSW VR planning
This coming week:
Flaki
Last week:
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Giovanny
Last week:
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Havi
Last week:
- Published Mozilla Push Server now supports topics
- Hacks posts on hold for one reason or another: Playcanvas and WebVR (stalled),
- Work on confirming speakers for TS 2017 masterclasses: Lara Hogan, Catt Small (ongoing)
- Booking team dinner for Hawaii
- Discussions about TS budget & how to differentiate program from Reps
This coming week:
- Rust videos launch on Hacks/medium/youtube 11/16
- Looking for Hacks posts on Servo compositor; PlayCanvas; DevTools post from Tim Nguyen & Bgrins (for early next week)
- Meet with People Rocket re: facilitation session
- Our proposed elective "Get Inspired by Mozilla Tech Speakers" (Havi & Ioana) has been accepted for HI workweek - w00t!
Jen
Last week:
- created Grid demo of Space Jam Grid: http://labs.jensimmons.com/examples/spacejam.html
- arranged to write for 24 Ways this December
- hosted CSS Layout Club NYC (standing room only) — presented on Writing Modes, CSS Grid, long Q&A
- opened ticket for Edge, requesting Writing Mode sideways be implemented: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer/suggestions/17059573-implement-sideways-rl-and-sideways-lr-values-for-c
- facilitated meeting for Dev Rel website, making plans for Hawaii
This coming week:
- paperwork from traveling
- DevRel website — assessing current status of content model (Is it ready to add content?)
Lin
Last week:
- reading up on Rust, reviewing their 2017 plan
• proposed semver.rust-lang.org and started dev
This coming week:
- finish semver.rust-lang.org
• start on Emscripten video using semver.rust-lang.org as an example • net mag profile on code cartoons
Michael
Last Week:
- TS spreadsheet update
- TS all-team meeting
- PTO – Florida
- I pulled my neck while playing with my nephew
This Week:
- Budget update
- Bi-weekly event feedback tracking update
- Event Feedback Form data visualization
- Tech Speakers meeting planning
- I have a sore neck
Potch
Last week:
- Chrome Dev Summit
- TL;DR More of the same from them around PWA, but with far less emphasis in "like native" and fare more emphasis on new stuff like web payments and URLs!
- Helped get crates.io back online
This coming week:
- Further Quantum research!
- Adding a newsletter signup widget to the hacks site
Salva
Last week:
- Hosted PWA Team Meeting
- Attended Chrome Dev Summit
This coming week:
- Compilation of materials for gamedev course
- Catch-up on several standards
- Finalizing state of PWA technologies document
- Come back to home
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