Reminder, this meeting is tomorrow at 18h30 UTC --> join by going to the Vidyo room at this link:
https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mW6PX3WtirCaaP3ZcC9NyY2Wxjo On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:34 AM, George Roter <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The date that seems best given availability and not overlapping with the > weekly project call (as someone pointed out to me that Monday does) is... > > Thursday March 10th @ 18h30 UTC. > > The location is Vidyo here: > > https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=mW6PX3WtirCaaP3ZcC9NyY2Wxjo > > (George Roter's Vidyo room if you want to search) > > For those of you who aren't there, it will be recorded and you can watch > later. > > Regards, > George > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:52 AM, George Roter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Mozillians, >> >> Upfront, my apology that this update is coming later than promised. >> >> The purpose of this note is to give you an update on the transition of >> B2G OS for smartphones (which we’ve known as Firefox OS for smartphones) to >> a volunteer/contributor community owned, open source project. >> >> Let me start with the action: >> >> Please fill out this Doodle <http://doodle.com/poll/kt87ims5rscrkkgb> >> with your availability for the transition project kickoff meeting. >> >> Context: >> >> As you know, we are ending the development of Firefox OS for smartphones, >> which includes staff involvement in this project. However, we know that >> ending staff involvement abruptly would hurt Boot to Gecko (B2G) as an open >> source project. >> >> I’ve watched from the sidelines as some of you have organized efforts to >> keep B2G for smartphones evolving as an open source project in the years >> ahead -- this is inspiring. Mozilla will invest some resources now that >> will support a transition process that sets your volunteer efforts up for >> success. >> >> We are still working out the details -- and want non-staff input -- but >> we are planning for this investment to be approximately 5-10 staff members >> (exact details are still being worked out) for the next 4-5 months (again >> details to be worked through, with your input). Most of this effort would >> go toward reducing the complexity and ongoing maintenance costs of the B2G >> code base (more details below). >> >> Volunteer community ownership: >> >> The Connected Devices leadership team’s priority for this effort is >> ensuring non-staff ownership coming out of the transition period. As you >> all know, this means volunteer involvement right now! >> >> I have taken on accountability for ensuring this “ownership” transition >> is done as well as possible within the resource and time constraints. For >> my own role, this means serving and facilitating a bigger team of staff and >> volunteers who can come together to make this happen. >> >> From a brief analysis by staff, there are a number of important topics to >> be discussed and decisions to be made: >> >> 1. >> >> Determining the relationship between the B2G OS for smartphones >> project and Mozilla moving forward >> 2. >> >> Code transition specifics >> 3. >> >> Governance >> 4. >> >> Mentoring/get information to volunteer leaders/contributors >> 5. >> >> Build and test infrastructure >> >> >> This is a big set of topics already, and there may be more. Identifying >> these and making decisions will require staff and volunteers working >> together in the months ahead. >> >> To get this started, I’m organizing an open B2G OS for smartphones >> transition kick-off meeting. If you’re interested in guiding this project >> in the months ahead, please fill out this Doodle >> <http://doodle.com/poll/kt87ims5rscrkkgb> with your availability for >> this meeting. >> >> This meeting is open to anyone, and specifically designed for volunteer >> or staff community members who want to be involved in this transition >> period. >> >> I will take on “chairing” this first meeting, and have the following >> topics in mind as agenda items: >> >> 1. >> >> State of the code + code transition plan as it stands (staff leading >> conversation: Gregor Wagner or Fabrice Desré) >> 2. >> >> Goals/areas of decision for the transition period >> 3. >> >> Overall roadmap for transition, including specific timing >> 4. >> >> Forming Working Group(s) >> >> >> Let’s aim to keep this first meeting to ideally 60min and maximum 90min. >> >> Please add any other topics to this email/Discourse thread, or ping me on >> IRC or Telegram at geroter. >> >> Naming the project >> >> Aside from the above, there is the issue of the name of the project. >> You’ll notice that I have been using B2G OS instead of Firefox OS in this >> note. >> >> The current thinking by our brand team is to reserve the “Firefox” label >> for products that are actively being brought to market with users. This >> might include any new Connected Devices products -- they would only get the >> Firefox or Fox name once they were being marketed to potential users. >> >> I’d like your feedback on this, but my recommendation would be to start >> calling this project B2G OS for smartphones right away (instead of Firefox >> OS), with the volunteer community leadership of the project figuring out >> later if there’s another more appropriate name. >> >> Basic technical outline of the code transition work: >> >> The goal of this plan is to reduce the gap between B2G and other Mozilla >> products (Firefox Desktop and Android) to limit the potential for breakage >> coming from platform changes, and to overall improve the webiness of B2G by >> removing apis that won't become web standards. >> >> This effort spans several areas of the codebase: >> >> - >> >> deprecating packaged apps and security model >> - >> >> process model >> - >> >> low-level APIs >> - >> >> making Service Workers actually work >> >> >> We’ll give more details of this on the kickoff call, and will publish a >> draft overall plan to the project wiki >> <https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Community_Ownership_Transition> over the >> coming few days. >> >> >> To finish, I look forward to working together on making B2G OS for >> smartphones a first class open source project owned by the community, built >> for the community and still very much advancing Mozilla’s values. >> >> Onwards, >> George >> >> -- >> George Roter >> Head of Core Contributors, Participation >> >> irc: geroter | skype: geroter >> Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 >> Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 >> <650%20308%208443> >> > > > > -- > George Roter > Head of Core Contributors, Participation > > irc: geroter | skype: geroter > Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 > Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 > <650%20308%208443> > -- George Roter Head of Core Contributors, Participation irc: geroter | skype: geroter Cell - Canada: 416.670.2401 Cell - USA: 650.485.0079 <650%20308%208443>
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