• More from Dev Day Boston

    March 30th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with no comments »

    more from dev day boston…

    After lunch, lightning talks started again.

    • luser gave a good presentation about Breakpad. Here is a helpful post from bsmedberg.
    • Window talked security, starting off with her thoughts about metrics in the security world. She mentioned some people/projects with new ways to look at metrics, including securitymetrics.org, metricon, Dan Geer (of MIT) and Allen Jones (at MSFT). Finally, she discussed how instrumental the Mozilla community has been in fixing bugs, and gave a shout out to the bug bounty program.

    Now…we’re breaking into discussions, including more on SD/gaming, security, the build system, community, FUEL, and mentoring & teaching (w/ Dave Humprhey from Seneca). Overall, this has been a really cool day. IMO, we should definitely do more of these.

  • Blogging from Boston Dev Day

    March 30th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with 2 comments »

    Asa and I have traveled to Boston for the dev day that is happening. You can probably get a sense of what is going on by reading the schedule on the wiki, so what can be relayed that you won’t read there? Well…the Hotel @ MIT is sweet, though the air conditioning is on and it 45 degrees outside. About 35 of us are sitting in a big conference room, each of us equipped with an orange thermal “Boston Dev Day” mug as a gift from Mozilla. Shaver is cranking us through the morning schedule like John Stewart emcee-ing (sans tux) at the Oscars…keeping it light-hearted and only a *bit* behind schedule…and then ahead of schedule…great job Shaver!

    Lots of great presentations so far.

    • Mark and John presented on extension building for Firefox. Check out Fuel to learn about a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them.
    • Beltzner talked about Mozilla Labs, including Joey, The_Coop, and UI experience (using some great slides from Alex Faaborg).
    • BSmedberg presented about LXR and Bonsai – super helpful for developers who want to search for check-ins to the source or who want to track how things have changed.
    • Rob Sayre presented on Mozilla’s automated testing for Fx 3 and Gecko 1.9.
    • David Humphrey from Seneca College up North talked about teaching Mozilla. IMO, this is a great place to focus some community efforts. Check out Teaching Mozilla.
    • Then Asa and I talked about community. Yeah…it was the same schtick…we want to help the community…send us your ideas! :) (p.s. Pav is still making a weekly request for a pony. Sorry…not part of the program.)
    • Vlad presented very cool 3-d features, specifically related to the gaming world.

    Off to lunch…more later…

  • Mozilla Lab Forum

    March 29th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with no comments »

    Mozilla Labs launched a new forum site this past week. It’s a good place to log new ideas if you have them. This forum will be an excellent compliment to the resources we are providing through the community program. If you have a new idea about ways to support the community, I encourage you to send it my way. However, if there are ideas for new feature requests or project ideas, it might find a better home at Mozilla Labs. I’ll be following the forum closely and encourage everyone to participate. If you have an idea and don’t know if you should email me or post it on the Mozilla Labs Forum, do both. Congrats to Basil, Deb, Jeremy, Justin and Paul for launching getting it up and running. Check it out and please participate.

  • Boston Developer Day

    March 27th, 2007 by seth bindernagel with no comments »

    Asa and I will be heading to the Boston Developer Day this Friday. We’d love to meet as many community members as possible, so if you’re there, please say hello. You can always email me in advance. sethb at mozilla dot com.

    I also went to the prior dev day in Mountain View where I met different guys from the community. Mostly, I wanted to make sure people had a way to get in touch with me when a need or new idea comes about.

    Just to recap, the purpose of us traveling to the developer days is to meet people and generate ideas. We want to make sure each member of our community knows what resources can be made available to volunteers who have a need or have a cool new idea that will benefit the community. Mostly, we trying to understand where we can help and how we can support ideas where a relatively small amount of assistance will benefit a large group of people.

  • Excitement around Developer Day

    March 22nd, 2007 by seth bindernagel with no comments »

    I am going to be at the developer day this Sunday (March 25) in Mountain View and then the following Friday (March 30) in Boston. Having met members of the community in person at various events, it’s really great to see people face-to-face.

    Asa and I will be at both dev days to say hi to everyone and learn about any possible resources we can provide to the community. If you are going to be there, please drop me an email. I’d love to meet as many people as possible.

    If you’re interested in coming, here is more information on the Mountain View Dev Day.

    ..and, the Boston Dev Day…

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