Developer Outreach for Firefox OS

Frédéric Harper Sr. Technical Evangelist @ Mozilla @fharper | outofcomfortzone.net

Janet Swisher Community Manager @ Mozilla @jmswisher

2014-06-22

http://mzl.la/mozcampEvan

COMMUNITY EVANGELISTS

Becoming a Community Evangelist

Inspiring

Enabling

Every developer, who develop on the web, using HTML Every developer, who develop on the web, using HTML already having an HTML or a PhoneGap app/game.

Every developer Every developer, who develop on the web

The target audience

…let’s target the low hanging fruit first

INSPIRING

The Inspiring Equation

Sharing your passion about technology

+ Exciting developers about cool stuff

+ Showing them the benefits of using this technology

= Inspiring the developers

Giving talks

v One of the most powerful way to inspire developers

v Help you reach many people at once

v Can be done at different level

v A lot of personal benefits for you

Presentation Arc

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Web APIs

Web Activities

Resources & Conclusion

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Introducing your story

Firefox OS

Web APIs

Web Activities

Resources

The end of your story

DEMO TodoMVC to Firefox OS

Where can you start speaking?

Creative Commons: http://j.mp/1imN5Vh & http://j.mp/1imN6ID & http://j.mp/1pJJxyH & http://j.mp/SV4JTL

Mozilla can help you

• Giving you training about public speaking

• Helping you find a speaking gig in your city

• Paying for travel, and expenses (need approval) to conference

• Adding you to our pool of speakers for BugZilla requests

Speaker Group

• MozSpeakers on Mozillians.org

• Add your speaking interests to your profile

• Link to Lanyrd or Slideshare, or any feed of your speaking activities

• Yammer: http://j.mp/1rdZaMi

• Speakers group

Blogging

Blogging is not just good for you, it help developers to be inspire by what you do, and what you share with them.

• Write on your own blog

• Write for the Hacks blog

SPEAKER IDOL

Rules

ü  Alone or in a team of two

ü  You have two minutes to present about Firefox OS

ü  The attendees will have one minute to ask questions

ü  The group will have one minute to give you feedbacks

Goals

1.  Helping to get more comfortable to speak in front of a crowd

2.  Starting in a pressure free environment

3.  Getting use to manage questions & feedbacks from attendees

4.  Receiving tips, and tricks to start on a roll!

BREAK

ENABLING

Enabling

1.  We continue to inspire people

2.  We take them from the excitement level to actually doing stuff

3.  We give them concrete tools to be successful

4.  We help them with any issues

Phones for Apps

RESOURCES

Mozilla Evangelists mailing list

evangelism@lists.mozilla.org

For discussion about evangelizing to developers about open web technologies and Mozilla products, through activities such as speaking, blogging, organizing technical events, and supporting web developers.

Subscribe now - https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/evangelism

Meetup in a box

• NOTE: This event type is still in the concept stage!

• Goal: To help Mozillians who want to host a regular developer meetup.

• What: A Github repo of “content packages” on topics related to app development, Firefox developer tools, etc.

What’s in the box?

• Presentation outline or slides

• Example code project

• Demo script

• Questions or points for discussion

Optionally:

• Link to Hacks post

• Link to screencast/online demo

• Exercise for participants to try

• Links to MDN articles

What do you want in the box?

Add your ideas: http://mzl.la/1lHokUc

Resources Events Request Form: http://j.mp/1oGvdDO

Mozilla Hacks blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/

Apps & Hacks newsletter: http://j.mp/1iEcg08

Phones for Apps program: http://j.mp/S9mK09

StackOverflow: http://j.mp/1aMhQM3

Developer Network: https://developer.mozilla.org

Transifex: http://j.mp/1ifbrAr

Firefox OS Gaia GitHub: http://j.mp/1lBdAVR

Firefox OS Boilerplate: http://j.mp/fxosBoilerplate

BugZilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Firefox Developer Tools Ideas: http://j.mp/1nN4cyy

Evangelist Mailing List: http://j.mp/1pFik04

Mozilla Rep Facebook Group: http://j.mp/1pcNVCA

Mozilla Rep Resources: http://j.mp/1lOvNQo

Frédéric Harper

fharper@mozilla.com

@fharper

http://hacks.mozilla.org

http://outofcomfortzone.net

Janet Swisher

jswisher@mozilla.com

@jmswisher