/Welcome to the 2nd edition of DevPulse: a monthly glance at stuff
happening among and for developers. Our goal is to create transparency
around the various efforts at Mozilla which support mobile, web & app
developers, and to facilitate greater collaboration.
/
/You can also read this on our wiki at
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse/April2014
/
/Enjoy!
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Developer world news
* *A window into web developers concerns.* Thanks to standards and
libraries, web developers are moving beyond browser compatibility
issues to challenges such as APIs for new features, and mobile
development. More insights from an analysis <http://mzl.la/1jfexyf>
of over 500,000 questions on Stack Exchange. (hat tip to Janet
Swisher <http://mzl.la/1iy8AQh> for the find).
Recent event highlights
* *PyCon*. Mozilla was a sponsor at PyCon <http://mzl.la/1eRwtn1>, the
largest annual gathering of the Python community. Several Mozillians
gave talks, including Selena Deckelmann <http://mzl.la/1haNiUg>, [
http://mzl.la/Rw48rQ Erik Rose], Dan Callahan
<http://mzl.la/1gRqM78>, and Greg Wilson <http://mzl.la/1i3aSCm>,
addressing computer science advocacy in K-12 education, API design,
website security, database-schema migrations, and software
carpentry. The Mozilla booth was quite busy with people asking us
questions about our technology (we showed off our Eideticker
<http://mzl.la/1jfhUoR> and power-measurement rigs), our mission
<http://mzl.la/1tjmqen>, our organization, our education efforts,
and of course how to contribute <http://mzl.la/1tjmzOS>! Many people
were interested in contributing to Mozilla projects that use Python.
It was a very positive experience (and thanks to Mark Cote
<http://mzl.la/Rw4RJE> for this update!).
* *Chile Hackathon*. The Mozilla community in Chile supported NASA's
International Space Apps hackathon, which spanned two days of
spreading knowledge of Mozilla and Firefox OS. Check out some fun
pix <http://mzl.la/1haOveg> and an app <http://mzl.la/1ngkRfv> built
using PhoneGap Cordova. If you speak Espanol, you can read the full
write-up <http://mzl.la/1gRsV2B> from community member Lourdes
Castillo <http://mzl.la/Rw5rak>.
* *Berlin Meetup*. Mozilla community members in Germany met in Berlin
this month to sprint on SUMO and MDN documentation translation.
Niklas Barning <http://mzl.la/1eJluLY> helped with providing German
voice-overs for Developer Tools screencasts and the group localized
the most important Firefox Developer Tools articles into German
<http://mzl.la/1eRykYY>.
Project highlights
* *MDN contributors grew by 15% in March!* Our goal for 2014 is to
nearly double the active MDN contributors per month to 1000 (with
"active" defined as the number of people contributing to MDN in the
past 30 days). 101 more people contributed to MDN in March than in
February, putting us at 665 current active monthly contributors. The
increase was driven by a combination of outreach, volunteers helping
on localization status pages, and better contribution/getting
started content.
o Read more details on our active MDN community shenanigans
<http://mzl.la/1lgnr5z>.
o See the full list of upcoming MDN events in the shared calendar
<http://mzl.la/1gRvykX>.
o Dive in to the full State of MDN for March
<http://mzl.la/1nuTzzu>, which highlights some of the newest MDN
documentation, initiatives and more.
* *Phase 3 of Mozilla's Phones for Apps program*is focused exclusively
on app "porters" with currently popular and well-rated
Cordova/PhoneGap apps. Cordova/PhoneGap developers are invited to
apply to participate. If the app is a good fit for Firefox
Marketplace, we ship a developer device (currently Keons) and one of
our evangelists works with the developer on any issues/workarounds
until the app lands in Marketplace.
*
o Status: Shipped: 99 devices; Delivered 83
o Featured: some very cool Firefox PhoneGap Apps that have come in
recently from this program:
+ Drag the Dots <http://mzl.la/1phnCiE> (UK)
+ Fruit Salad <http://mzl.la/1meOjT2> (Japan)
+ Find the Movie <http://mzl.la/1nuUmQT> (Greece)
+ BrowserQuest <http://mzl.la/1haRFyv> (Denmark)
+ Rormix <http://mzl.la/1kKgyGR> (UK)
o This post <http://mzl.la/1iydigZ> has more details on the program.
* *Got tools?* An 8-minute screencast <http://mzl.la/1eRBnjY> by
evangelist Jason Weathersby <http://mzl.la/1hVeAEe> shows how to use
Firefox developer tools to detect, analyze and correct performance
issues within a running Firefox OS application.
App & web developer perspectives
* *App Developer User Research* Larissa Co <http://mzl.la/1hUTogz> and
Cori Schauer <http://mzl.la/1hUTrcc> are in the midst of analyzing
contextual interviews they conducted with app developers in the San
Francisco Bay Area and Warsaw during March. They are not ready to
share the results until the analysis is done, but these photos
<http://mzl.la/QtY16r> should give you a sense of how this happens :)
Supporting developers together: we want YOU!
* *VisionMobile survey.* Mozilla works with VisionMobile
<http://mzl.la/1jRY0nc>, an industry analyst firm, to survey the
developer world on trends in mobile. The current survey closes May 9.
o /Complete/ the survey <http://mzl.la/1eRCal0> (allot about 10
minutes) so we can get up to date information on the changing
world of mobile!
o /Distribute/ this survey link <http://mzl.la/1eRCal0> so others
can also take it.
o /Promote/ the survey in your blog, twitter account and other
social media according to these guidelines
<http://mzl.la/1jgaQtm> from VisionMobile.
* *Apps & Marketplace Weekly Show & Tells.* Every Friday at 12:30pm
PST Mozillians show the latest greatest stuff underway to build a
fantastic experience for app developers in the Mozilla Marketplace.
Check out this wiki page <http://mzl.la/1iygOIo> for meeting details
and agendas.
* *What else?* Speak at an event, localize some code and more - there
are lots of other ways to get involved <http://mzl.la/1haTTOr> to
help developers build the open web!
--
*Diane (Bisgeier) Tate*
Program Manager, Mozilla Developer Engagement
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> -- @tbiz
<http://twitter.com/tbiz> -- US Mobile: +1-415-250-1724
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