Summit2013/Sessions/Sunday
1:15 - 2:30pm
Distributed Leadership and decision making
Location:
- Brussels: Hall 300
- Toronto: Willow Room Centre
- Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon CD
Track: Purpose and Strategy
A well-facilitated inquiry and skillshare on distributed leadership. Skills Learned: Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Facilitating distributed meetings/planning/group actions. Potential Outline of Session:
- Nature of Mozilla -- one pillar is human capability; more mozillians moving the mission forward
- history of the huge chunks of mozilla that people made up on on their own and we incorporated into the centralized piece
- Some issues with distributed decision-mkaing: risk, mistakes, surprise, messiness
- What do we do now: how we build more APIs to the centralized part of mozilla?
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Laura Thomson, Ioana Chiorean
- Toronto: Regnard Raquedan, Lukas Blakk
- Santa Clara: Alina Mierlus, Vineel Reddy Pindi
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxktf
Ideas into Action: Next steps for me and my team
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 310
- Toronto: Conference F
- Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon E
Track: Purpose and Strategy
Four breakout sessions with a joint shareback round. Determine what winning looks like as measured by Mozilla's four pillars of activity. Tools, roadmap and things you can do when you return home. How you can adapt the 3-year plan to your local context and the projects you care about. How you can multiply the mission. Skills Learned: Metrics, Building Open into your Project, How to Identify the NoM in your ideas & highlight/promote/grow those
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Karen Rudnitski (Sr Product Manager for Firefox for Android)
- Toronto: Larissa Shapiro, Selena Deckelmann
- Santa Clara: Ernest Chiang (One of the Mozilla Reps, SUMO Leader in MozTW Mozilla Taiwan community)
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enyki5
Designing your project for participation
Location:
- Brussels: The Arc
- Toronto: Willow Room East
- Santa Clara: Grand Ballroom Salon AB
Track: People and Process
Nearly all projects will benefit from community involvement; however, there are different approaches and best practices that can better enable a project for wider contributions. This session will capture best practices and challenges to build a project with community involvement.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Laura Hilliger (working with Mozilla Reps to help them deliver #teachtheweb professional development content)
- Toronto: David Eaves (creator of the community building workshops that includes a 'Designing your project for participation' module) or Emma Irwin (One of the Mozilla Reps who will be delivering the community building workshop content), Jess Klein
- Santa Clara: Benjamin Kerensa (One of the Mozilla Reps, delivering the community building workshop content) and Soumya Deb (Leader in Mozilla India)
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxm4A
Community tools - what do we currently have
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 313/315
- Toronto: Windsor West
- Santa Clara: Portland
Track: People and Process
The topic of tooling seems to be a frequent one. Let's discuss the needs of the various members of the community and determine if there are shared tools in which we as a community should invest.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Josh Matthews, William Reynolds (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
- Toronto: Michael Hoye, Ricky Rosario (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
- Santa Clara: Pierros Papadeas (members of the Community Building Systems Working Group)
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enyrua
Working with corporate (closed) partners
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 311/312
- Toronto: Conference C
- Santa Clara: Santa Barbara
Track: People and Process
How to stay open at Mozilla while meeting our needs: Creating a shared understanding of how Mozilla can work in a closed environment and a roadmap for introducing open concepts to our partners.
Facilitators:
- Toronto: Lawrence Mandel, Lukas Blakk, Bhavana Bajaj
- Brussels: Dietrich Ayala, Mark Côté, Chris Lee
- Santa Clara: Chris Peterson, Alex Keybl
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/1enywhl
Workshop on Contributor recognition guide
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 314/316
- Toronto: Windsor East
- Santa Clara: Seattle
Track: People and Process
Workshop to share tips and tricks for how recognize contributors to your project that would cover badges, swag, events and more. Also hack on the draft Recognition Guide at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Recognition
Facilitator:
- Brussels: Michelle Marovich (Lead Recruiter) and Lizz Noonan (Brand Campaign Coordinator/Creative Contribute Community Co-manager)
- Toronto: Jeff Beatty (Community Building for l10n)
- Santa Clara: Rosana Ardila (Community Builder for SUMO)
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZxsJo
Moderated discussion on how we will think about product opportunities in the cloud
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 210
- Toronto: Conference D&E
- Santa Clara: Prospector Suite A
Track: Product and Technology
Mozilla has a proud history of championing user control of data, but there are both huge user benefits and competitive pressures to having some cloud-enabled data and services. How should Mozilla approach this problem in a way that pushes the mission forward while being pragmatic to the needs of the market?
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Lloyd Hilaiel
- Toronto: John Jensen
- Santa Clara: Toby Elliott, Vishy Krishnamoorthy
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17ZxrFk
The future of web gaming
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 211/212
- Toronto: Conference B
- Santa Clara: Prospector Suite B
Track: Product and Technology
The web is poised to become a platform for games, which opens up opportunities for new markets and independent developers. With WebGL, asm.js, and key web API's like Pointer Lock, Audio, and Video, Mozilla is making the future of web gaming a reality. Find out where we are and join us thinking about where to go from here.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Vlad Vukicevic
- Toronto: Martin Best
- Santa Clara: Alon Zakai
Session Etherpad: http://mzl.la/17Zxu3U
Open Sessions
UP: User Personalization
Time: 1:15 - 2:30pm (Brussels only)
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 214/216
- Toronto: Windsor West on Saturday @4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Santa Clara: Prospector Suite A on Friday @1:00 - 2:15pm, 2:45 - 4:00pm
Track: Product and Technology
Personalization is happening on the web but often done with fragmented tracking data and without user control. Join a discussion on how Mozilla can make things better for everyone for a more personal web experience that respects the user.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Justin Scott
- Toronto: Olivier Yiptong
- Santa Clara: Ed Lee, Maxim Zhilyaev
Session Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/summit-sessions-up
Untapping Mercurial's Potential
Time: 13:15-14:30 (Brussels)
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 201 A+B
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
Mercurial is the canonical version control system for Firefox. Mercurial is a very flexible and extensible version control system. However, this power is not fully realized by many. In this session, I'll talk about how Mercurial works and how to untap Mercurial's potential so users get the most out of Mercurial. If there is interest, I can expand this session to cover comparing and contrasting Mercurial with Git.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Gregory Szorc
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
Security Champs
Time: 13:15-14:30 (Brussels)
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 214/216
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
We're looking to increase community involvement, specifically in our security champions program were already engaged community members take on a specific role to champion security in their part of the project.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Curtis Koenig
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
MDN is Easy!
Time: 13:15-14:30 (Brussels)
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 213/215
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is well-known for being one of the world's most detailed, complete, and useful sources of developer documentation. Yet there is always so much to do — the MDN team relies heavily on contributions from volunteers and other Mozilla teams to keep on top of things. The good news is that anyone can easily make a positive contribution to the site: no change is too small, and everything counts! In this session MDN team members will lead a hands-on exploration of what you can do to improve MDN and how, whether you want to write tutorials or reference material, submit demo apps or translations, fix bugs on the site itself, or improve visibility for your favourite project or API.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Jean-Yves Perrier
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
Open Invention Network
Time: 13:15-14:30 (Brussels)
Location:
- Brussels: Studio 213/215
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A
Patent Non-Aggression in Linux and OSS: Ken Bergit of the Open Invention Network (""OIN"") will lead a discussion on the open invention network in the context of Linux as it has evolved from the enterprise to the mobile, desktop, auto and home marketspaces and the OIN's efforts to encourage active cross licensing among companies that recognize the centrality of Linux to future growth strategies. He will also discuss the parallels between open collaboration/open source through various technology projects as a modality for innovation and OIN's 600 plus strong community of licensees who collaborate through the OIN cross license while still competing in the market.
Facilitators:
- Brussels: Urmika Devi
- Toronto: N/A
- Santa Clara: N/A