Mozpad Meeting Notes
We had a great discussion on Wednesday about where to take Mozpad. Thanks to everyone who attended. Mukunda posted the transcript on his blog.
Some highlights from my perspective: we agreed that Mozpad should be focused on making Mozilla platform products more appealing to developers, but should not itself be a destination site for product information. Instead we should use the appropriate Mozilla websites (particularly MDC). I’d still like to have a nicer-looking Mozpad site to summarize our activities, who is involved, how to get involved, etc. Mukunda said he might be able to help make this happen since my graphical design skills haven’t developed much since fingerpainting in kindergarten.
Further agreement that there isn’t a XULRunner/WebRunner dichotomy. We can work on improving materials for both, and in fact there is considerable overlap (considering that WebRunner is a XULRunner application).
Personally I am planning to finish my API project and shift my focus to documentation, especially high-level descriptions of the products and why they are important. I’m hoping to find time to give some thought to what the XULRunner and WebRunner sections of MDC should look like. One of the various first steps is obviously to coordinate with the relevant documentation people at Mozilla. You know who you are. I’ll be in touch.
Hopefully we’ll see further progress on the outreach website(s) as well (the equivalent of SpreadFirefox but for the platform). Mark Finkle said he would try to get Asa to give us some guidance from his experience with SpreadFirefox.
Finally, we seemed to agree that Komodo was worth looking at in the context of a Mozilla platform IDE since they already have most of what we need. Discussions will continue once we’ve had a chance to take a look.
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