This session will teach community members how to approach and talk to developers about Firefox OS so that the developers want to create apps for this platform, and want to help other developers do the same.
Developer Outreach for Firefox OS - Mozcamp India - 2014-06-22
1. Developer Outreach
for Firefox OS
Frédéric Harper
Sr. Technical Evangelist @ Mozilla
@fharper | outofcomfortzone.net
Janet Swisher
Community Manager @ Mozilla
@jmswisher
2014-06-22
5. 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 developerEvery developer, who develop on the web
The target audience
…let’s target the low hanging fruit first
7. The Inspiring Equation
Sharing your passion about technology
+ Exciting developers about cool stuff
+ Showing them the benefits of using this technology
= Inspiring the developers
8. 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
17. Where can you start speaking?
Creative Commons: http://j.mp/1imN5Vh & http://j.mp/1imN6ID & http://j.mp/1pJJxyH & http://j.mp/SV4JTL
18. 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
19. 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
20.
21. 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
25. 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
26. 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!
29. 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
41. 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
42.
43.
44. 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.
45. 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
46. What do you want in the box?
Add your ideas: http://mzl.la/1lHokUc
47. 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