/Welcome to the 6th edition of DevPulse
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse/August2014>:
a monthly glance at stuff happening among and for developers, sourced by
many. Our goal is to create greater transparency and collaboration
around the various efforts at Mozilla to support mobile, web & app
developers./
Developer world news
*Developer survey.* Each quarter, consultancy Vision Mobile
<http://mzl.la/VM> surveys 10,000 app developers regarding tools,
platforms and strategies they use. Mozilla was a sponsor of the Q3
survey, whose results <http://mzl.la/1yaC4Il> were announced late last
month. Key findings include:
* HTML5 is the most widely used language at 42% of developers; Java,
the native language on Android, is the next most popular at 38%.
* A surprisingly high 47% of iOS developers and 42% of Android
developers are using something other than the native language on
their platforms.
* The majority of app businesses are not sustainable at current
revenue levels. 50% of iOS developers and 64% of Android developers
are below the ‘app poverty line” of $500 per app per month.
Developer Relations is working with the Insights & Strategy group to
develop intelligence and Mozilla-specific action plans from the survey
results. Expect to hear more.
App & Web Developer Perspectives
*Developer contributor profiles.* See how app developers have
contributed to Mozilla in Developer Relations' July 29 Town Hall
presentation:
* Video on AirMozilla <http://mzl.la/1sCo0aY>.
* Slides posted on the DevRel wiki <http://mzl.la/1r2Z2i6>.
*Firefox OS 2.0 redesign.* Contributor Elio Qoshi <http://mzl.la/Elio>
provides a nice introduction <http://mzl.la/FxOS2News> to some upcoming
features in the new redesign in Firefox OS 2.0
*Developer feedback.*
* Developers continue to provide constructive ideas for Developer
Tools on our UserVoice channel <http://mzl.la/devtools>. We have
also how shipped two versions of Firefox Aurora with feature
suggestions from developers through UserVoice baked into the product
(specifically, Firefox 32 <http://mzl.la/1nQ8NA1> and Firefox 33
<http://mzl.la/1pBoskZ>). The Developer Tools team also had a 99%
response rate to all submitted ideas!
* Developers can also provide feedback and ask questions and provide
feedback on Mozilla's Stack Overflow pages
<http://mzl.la/stackoverflow>. These cover Firefox, Firefox OS,
Firefox developer tools and HTML5 apps. Recent activity has
increased, with 26 questions gaining activity vs. 18 in June.
Project & Event Highlights
At *OSCON <http://mzl.la/OSCON>* in Portland this year Mozilla had five
speakers, multiple press interviews <http://mzl.la/LAS>, two
birds-of-a-feather sessions, an OSCON Kids Day Webmaker workshop, a
booth with Firefox OS and Developer Tools demos, and a social event at
the Mozilla Portland office. Whether partaking in free giant Firefox
donuts or receiving free Firefox airbrush tattoos, the OSCON attendees
knew Mozilla was there in a big way. Preliminary results include over
36K Twitter impressions, doubling the weekly rate of Flame
<http://mzl.la/FlameWiki> sales, and very significant increases in views
and interactions with Mozilla developer tools content.
*Chris Heilmann <http://mzl.la/CH>* has been busy! He delivered a
keynote at the inaugural ForwardJS <http://mzl.la/FWDJS> conference,
"The Next Challenge of the Web Is Us" <http://mzl.la/1r31yoz>, and wrote
a post on the Medium blogging platform titled "Bearable Wearables"
<http://mzl.la/Bearable> that questions the utility of smart watches and
suggests how they can be improved. Mozilla developer Solédad Penades
<http://mzl.la/Sole> talked about "Embracing Failure"
<http://mzl.la/1AYz5qJ> at Cascadia JS <http://mzl.la/CascadiaJS>.
*MozFest <http://mzl.la/MozFest14>* happens every year (this year
October 24-26) in London to raise public awareness of the open web and
increasing web literacy. MozFest draws a spectrum of innovators, makers,
educators, parents, kids with varying technology knowledge and is very
participatory with hands-on sessions and interactive workshops. Ali
Spivak <http://mzl.la/ali> is soliciting proposals
<http://mzl.la/1qZa64k> to help us get and share ideas for the web with
non-developers e.g. ideas for apps, web literacy, teaching web
development skills, etc. Final proposals for sessions must be submitted
<http://mzl.la/Propose> by August 22; when submitting, please note if
the track is for/by developers by indicating "Mozilla Developers" in
either in the description or the Affiliation fields.
*New on MDN!*
* Audio and video delivery <http://mzl.la/AudVid> developer
recommendations
* First publications for Service workers <http://mzl.la/SW>
* New additions to Web Audio API <http://mzl.la/AudioAPI> documentation.
* Docs added for the NFC API <http://mzl.la/NFCAPI>
"Geekery" Highlights
*Mozilla Hacks <http://mzl.la/HacksWiki>* seeks to have a diverse set of
authors representing Mozilla employees, community and the outside world
(e.g. Adobe, Opera) writing about both Mozilla initiatives and products
as well as topics useful for any developer building for the Open Web.
Here is a breakdown of this in action during Q2 + July:
* July: 9 authors (22% external)
* June: 14 authors (14% external)
* May: 12 authors (33% external)
* April: 12 authors (41% external)
Here's a sample from app developer Mahmoud Nouman: "Turn your Facebook
Page into a Firefox OS Mobile App" <http://mzl.la/FBFxOS>.
Engaging with Developers Together
* Submit a proposal <http://mzl.la/Propose> for a MozFest session.
* Start answering questions, following tags <http://mzl.la/SOTags> &
questions over time, and/or upvoting others' answers (answers
require upvotes to be considered complete) on Mozilla's Stack
Overflow pages <http://mzl.la/stackoverflow>.
* Write for Hacks <http://mzl.la/HacksWiki>!
--
*Diane (Bisgeier) Tate*
Program Manager, Mozilla Developer Engagement
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/>
di...@mozilla.com <mailto:di...@mozilla.com> -- @tbiz
<http://twitter.com/tbiz> -- US Mobile: +1-415-250-1724
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