Mozilla Add-ons Blog

Tuesday night was our first Bay Area Add-ons Meetup since starting the group, and we had a great turn out (around 40 people) with lots of interest from both existing add-on developers and folks interested in add-ons. Based on feedback from our meetups across the country over the last few months, we decided to try out an informal style of a panel of Nick Nguyen and myself talking about what’s currently happening with add-ons and AMO, followed by Q&A on any topic.

Before and after, there was plenty of time for socialization with the attendees and the feedback so far has been that the panel and Q&A was very informative, and we enjoyed our opportunities to talk with add-on developers one-on-one and listen to their concerns. We’re hoping to start having these meetups every other month, so make sure to join our group to be the first to know about the next one.

As a quick reminder, our rescheduled Bay Area Add-ons Meetup is tomorrow night at 7pm at Mozilla HQ in Mountain View, California. Stop by to talk about add-ons (and get free sushi!). Please RSVP if you plan on coming.

We canceled last week’s Add-ons Meetup due to bad weather in the area, but have rescheduled it for next Tuesday, October 27. If you’ll be in the Mountain View area next Tuesday, please RSVP and stop by for free food and add-ons discussion!

For more information on the event, see our meetup page.

Our last San Francisco Bay Area meetup in May was very successful, with great turnout and positive feedback afterwards. Since then, we’ve had a number of meetups across the United States and learned a lot about what developers are interested in talking about.

Based on that, we thought a recurring meetup group here in the Bay Area where add-on developers and enthusiasts can talk about the issues they face and get answers to their questions would be extremely helpful. We’ve started up the Bay Area Add-ons Meetup Group and will have regular gatherings.

The first of these is coming up on October 13 at Mozilla’s new office in Mountain View. Rather than the previous meetup style of presentations, these meetups will be very informal, with lots of time for networking, Q & A, and discussions. We may have one very short presentation at the beginning to kick things off, but after that the attendees will set the agenda for what happens.

If you’re interested in coming, please RSVP at meetup.com. If you’re in the Bay Area and are interested in add-ons but can’t make this one, you can join the group to be notified when we plan the next one. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone in less than two weeks!

Thanks to everyone who attended our Add-ons Meet-up on Tuesday. We estimate about 50-60 people came, and Alex Sirota has posted some great photos he took.

The night started off with pizza and a presentation by Nick Nguyen on the state and roadmap of AMO. Aza Raskin of Mozilla Labs then gave a presentation and demo of Jetpack, followed by presentations by Justin Scott on Collections/Bandwagon and developer.AMO. Wil Clouser talked about our plans for an add-on parsing tool, followed by a Chromebug demo by John J. Barton and a presentation on games in Firefox by Justin Hall.

We recorded all of the sessions and will be posting them on this blog in the near future. Finding a way to split up a large ogg video is more challenging than expected — helpful tips welcome!

If you attended and haven’t already given us feedback, we’d really appreciate a response to our quick survey so we can make the next even better. Stay tuned to this blog for updates on when that will occur.

We’ve posted the schedule for our upcoming Add-ons Meet-up on the event wiki page. It’s a jam-packed night of add-ons, including:

• presentations from the AMO team on our roadmap and upcoming projects
• Mozilla Labs will demonstrate a new prototype
• add-on developers from the community will give talks and demos on their creations

We’ve had a great response so far, and it’s not too late to RSVP if you’re interested in coming. Details can be found on the event wiki page.

On May 26 at 7pm we’re going to host the inaugural Add-ons meetup here at Mozilla. We’ll serve pizza and refreshments and give you a little presentation on what we’ve done so far in add-ons as well as what we plan on doing in the future. We’d love to hear your feedback!

For now we’ll plan on having this at Mozilla HQ- we’ll post any changes to the blog as well as to RSVP’d guests:
1981 Landings Dr
Mountain View, CA 94043

Everyone is welcome to attend- and presentations from any add-ons developers are encouraged. Let us know by filling out our RSVP form, so we know how much pizza to get!

RSVP form

Hope to see you there, and if you can’t attend in person, virtual participation will be possible on air.mozilla, phone, and IRC. We’ll be sure to archive the presentations so you’ll be able to check them out in the future. We plan on having this be a regular occurrence, so we’ll continue to refine this formula as we do these.

Thanks!

Re-posted from Gen Kanai’s post the Mozilla in Asia blog:

I am happy to announce that our localizer for Bahasa Indonesia Firefox, Romi Hardiyanto, is giving a presentation on Mozilla Add-ons development at Information System Department Park, ITS Campus Sukolilo, Surabaya, Indonesia on April 24th at 14:00. Similar details are at Spread Firefox:

Indonesia Mozilla Add-ons development talk – Spread Firefox

UPDATE: the maximum capacity for the event is 150 attendees.

UPDATE: the HΛniF project and PureZilla will be presented

This event is open to non-ITS students. If you would like to attend, please contact me via email (see link at Spread Firefox) or please leave a comment on this blog with your email and I will forward your names to the professor.

I would like to take this moment to thank Professor Nur Aini Rakhmawati Gunawan of the IT faculty of the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember for hosting this event and making this event happen.