Engagement/Developer Engagement/Evangelism Meetings/2012-04-05

Agenda

• How we run meetings
• Blogging planning and general code posting mess-uppery
• Code Post Permissions Issue
• Evangelism Reps
• Tie back to mozilla brand
• Apps Technical Content Strategy Plan
• Kilamanjaro / 'K90'

Attendees

• Barry
• Christian
• Havi
• Jeff
• Joe
• Rob
• Shez
• Stormy

Minutes

Meeting format

• Rotating facilitator
  • Next time: Christian H (April 19) - Havi, Shez, Robert Nyman will not attend (in LATAM)
• Secretary
  • Jeff will do it (thanks!) Jeff gets a t-shirt!
  • Send reminder to list the day before with etherpad and call for agenda items
  • Run meeting
  • Post notes to mailing list and wiki

Blogging Plan

• Calendar, not everyone invited
• Had surprise posts, including 3 posts today
• ACTION: Christian will invite all Hacks editors/authors to calendar
• wordpress plugin? Rob & Robert were looking at it
  • more for scheduling posts
• Hacks blog accounts need to be cleaned out
• User permissions too restrictive for posting code / video tags
  • asking Craig for help
  • file an IT bug? Joe filed one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742718
• Havi wants to post Latam tour post
• Give a couple of days notice, give others a chance to review

Discusssion

• Everybody watch for nuggets of info and help bring them to the team's attention.
• Nikhil Suresh - B2G questions / enthusiasm @nklsrh2
• (http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/01/interview-nikhil-suresh-on-building-his-winning-canvas-demo/)

B2G channels

• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/mozilla.dev.b2g
• IRC: #b2g (platform) or #gaia (front-end UI stuff)
• https://github.com/andreasgal/B2G
• https://github.com/andreasgal/gaia
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko

Evangelism Reps

• ~60 people who want to be speakers
• ~20 that are speakers and we didn't know
• Asking speakers to record and post on blog
• Need mentors
• World wide coverage: Asia, Latin America
• Need a training date, agenda?, how many trainers?, attendees?, material?, ...
  • ACTION: Christian to draft a training plan (Goal: Tuesday)

Events

• date conflicts?
• administrivia around speakers & events
  • need help for admin / tracking - no headcount currently
    • hacks for this?
  • cross-team position for 2013?
  • last-minute requests burns lots of cycles
    • need to evaluate if it is worth it
    • can say no!
    • educate Mozillians about event process so they can hand off more effectively
    • educate Mozillians about how they can take on speaking / event participation
    • ask speakers to sign up for make
  • a bunch of incoming events
  • tools/infrastructure for evangelism reps
  • methods for communication for evangelism reps
    • IT bug to create new list/group/thing - mailing list for evangelism reps
  • Event planners are using high level Mozilla people to bypass process. We need to educate all of them about the process.
    • make-me-a-speaker@

Tie back to mozilla brand

• One Mozilla look proposal: http://people.mozilla.org/~smartell/sandstone/
• Mozilla branding team would like to see things before they get pushed into an event
• What does it mean for personal blogs?
• Important for slide decks for evangelist reps - focus there first
• some sort of mix of a standard styling and individual flair (?)

Not covered

• Apps Technical Content Strategy Plan
• Kilamanjaro / 'K90'
  • will follow up by email