Weekly UK Community Call [Wednesday 19 December 2018]

Communities UK
#21

Today’s call happened. Yay! Topics of discussion were:

  • Firefox Support Sprint (we’ll participate June 3-9)
  • What supporting general users is really like
  • Android virtualisation needs - for me that sounded like a Snap instance of Android Studio
  • The mysterious testing tool :sparkler:
  • UK Community Picnic (June 2)
  • Why I had to cancel May 26 Mozcoffee
  • Onboarding contributors
  • Mentoring program
  • New cookies option in Nightly
  • 2FA in Firefox user accounts
  • Emerging Tech projects
  • Mobile GeckoView
  • All-hands
  • Mozfest onboarding meets content
#22

I was a little short on time to cover last week’s call. Apologies for anyone inconvenienced by this!

Thursday June 28th call will be going ahead as planned.

  • Link to Zoom from 7pm [deleted zoom link] (Desktop, iOS, Android)
  • To join via a phone dial +44 203 695 0088 and meeting ID: 851 320 458#
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#23

Another weekly call in the bag. Quite a chunky review of a ton of projects, Mozcoffee, Mozfest, testing android apps, onboarding new contributors, Ada Lovelace Day, Privacy Lab, UK events, and more. It was a good one. This next week has even more not listed there. Plenty of opportunties for you to get stuck in even if you’re new to us.

#24

Thursday already! Another UK-wide community call TONIGHT from 7pm BST.

I’ll be trying something a little different tonight…

testing JITSI

Meet Jitsi uses WebRTC, and is free and open source (FOSS). Link to follow…

#25

Meeting over ran and I could not get Jitsi camera to work. Defaulting to Zoom

Available the next 30 mins.

#26

Trying Jitsi again tonight ftom 7pm UK time. [edit: this failed, link now deleted]

If that does not work for you, please message below in this thread and we’ll default back to Zoom: [deleted live link]

#27

Test results on Jitsi:

  • again the video would not work
  • tested in Nightly it worked, came back 45 mins later it would not. Restart Fx and it connected at last.
  • poor resource use in Linux
    • seemed to work OK on my Arch but an HTOP saw all 4 cores running at about 90% with one thread running at 140%
    • on Seburo’s Linux box you could hear the fans running like it was going to crash any second
  • defaulted back to Zoom
    • it uses around 50% less resources on both our laptops

I will be testing Vidyo WebRTC on another call in a couple of weeks at last. Will be interesting to see how they manage to implement the APIs. Having worked on the MDN web docs for WebRTC I can appreciate how complex that ecosystem is.

For now I don’t feel Jitsi is right even for our small group. We’ll likely use Zoom next time unless someone comes up with a better solution to the problem.

#28

Thursday July 26 call has been cancelled.

#29

Weekly meeting scheduled for 7pm tonight. Maximum of an hour.

#30

Weekly meeting about to start. I was going to have to cut it to 30 mins but it can go longer if necessary.

Jump on in if you have something to share with the UK community!

#31

Sorry for the late start. A busy afternoon. Open UK Community call is now live, for anyone looking to chat about their efforts with Mozilla and the Open Web movement. It’s often not a big number of people connecting so feel warmly invited to participate.

CALL NOW CLOSED [live link deleted]

#32

Weekly meeting now getting started for anyone wishing to join us.
{link removed}

#33

that same link for the call happening right now (Aug 30)

#34

I have to cancel tonight’s call folks I’m sorry. Catch you next week… Thursday September 13.

#35

Tonight’s call now live well it was :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Watch every Thursday for the link.

#36

UK Community call getting started if you’d like to join us. Open call to talk about all UK Mozillian’s goings on.
[call link removed]

See you all again next Thursday, September 27 at 19:00 BST

#37

Seriously where on earth did that week go?? I’m here to rock out another weekly UK Community open call from 19:00 BST.

{link removed}

see you next week!

#38

There will NOT be a UK Community Call during the week of MozFest.

#39
#40

…and there will not be a UK Community call the week AFTER MozFest either. We’re mostly quite tired. Well I am :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Let’s chat November 8.

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