All Hands/Austin/electives/submittedsessions

These electives were submitted for voting the week of Oct 23, 2017:

Mozilla Money Matters

• Presenters: Jim Cook + Mark Crandon
• Description: Ever wondered how Mozilla makes - and spends - its money? Hear an overview of the Business of Mozilla and Firefox: how we generate revenue, who our revenue and distribution partners are. And how we spend money too. You'll discuss all things money and Mozilla with Jim Cook, CFO and Mark Crandon, Senior Director, Business Development. This presentation is a hit with previous electives attendees and our new hires. Come join the conversation.

Ship happens: A better Firefox build and release pipeline

• Presenter: Kim Moir
• Description:

The Firefox build and release pipeline is crucial to delivering our products to customers. Over the past year we have transformed our pipeline to a more robust and scalable system using Taskcluster, Docker and in-tree scheduling. We have also implemented release promotion, which takes existing continuous integration (CI) binaries and transforms them for release, significantly reducing wall clock time.

Attend this session to hear exciting stories about how to replace components of a large running distributed system using the ominously named strangler application approach. I’ll discuss some metrics regarding the end-to-end time for our release process. I’ll also cover how developers can implement changes to transform builds and tests themselves in-tree.

Who should attend: Folks who want to learn more about how we optimize the build and release pipeline to be more scalable, robust and able to deliver product more quickly to our customers. As well, people who are interested in how to use the new tools to optimize their interactions with our CI system. This talk tracks the Grow Firefox topic because it allows us to collaborate with various teams at Mozilla to deliver our product more effectively.

Mixing up realities

• Presenter: Lars Bergstrom
• Description: From immersive virtual reality experiences to real world experiences augmented with 3d web content, Mozilla's Mixed Reality efforts bring the open web to all of these modern devices and platforms. Come to this session to briefly learn about what we're doing and then immediately dive in to hands-on experiences on your laptops, mobile devices, and some loaner headsets to try it out for yourself!