RK's Rambling

November 1st to 4th I was spending my time in the beautiful city of Exeter, just after my 3 day rush hour at MozFest. I had a keynote talk (my first!) at GraphicalWeb. . @rabimba from @mozilla will be speaking #VR & #JS this year! Tickets available here - https://t.co/YfVykaBVCf pic.twitter.com/DIPgleMYW3 pic.twitter.com/XbWt7R6N9z — Graphical Web (@TheGraphicalWeb) October 21, 2016 GraphicalWeb was unlike most of my conferences. For starters, it was hosted by the famous Informatics Lab at the Met Office.  The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office until 2000) is the United Kingdom's national weather service. And informatics lab is part of it.The Met Office Informatics Team are a recently formed inter-disciplinary group who create prototypes to expand and improve the use of environmental data.  That's me, trying to fix my slides on the way My first day at the conference, I spent 30 minutes at the reception desk getting my Pa...

Mozilla Foundations is a curious organization. Though most of us have grown up getting acquainted with it by using Netscape and later Firefox, Thunderbird. There is also the foundation part where it undertakes a lot of projects to make the openweb and world as a whole a better place. Among many teams that help volunteers, budding developers dip their toes into code, help in evangelism, code contribution, advocacy is Developer Relations (DevRel) and they came up with an ingenious plan to come up with a team of volunteers passionate about these to come forward represent Mozilla DevRel. Havi Hoffman (from Mozilla Labs), Dietrich Ayala (From Platfrom Engineering, Firefox OS) and many others handpicked a group of people who eventually came to know as Mozilla TechSpeakers. (If you want to read more about it, this lovely piece by Havi is a must read!). I was fortunate enough to be in the first group (knows as pilot pilots). And eventually ended up being facilitator to the last group which g...