Mozilla DevRel in Asia

DevRel Mission

• Represent the Web platform and Mozilla products to developers
• ... with publications, software tools, public speaking.
• Advocate on developers’ behalf internally to influence Mozilla engineering
• ... by filing bugs
• ... participating in product and architectural discussions
• ... contributing to product engineering

Technical Surface Area

Web Platform

Firefox Desktop

Firefox Add-ons

Firefox Android

Firefox OS

IoT/WoT

R&D (Rust, Servo, WebVR)

Probably more...

Geographic Surface Area

Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea

Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos

Myanmar, Bangladesh, India

Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Phillipines

Probably more...

Scaling DevRel

• Can't cover all the areas
• You know your regions best
• Parachuting rock stars has limited impact

Taipei Office

• 150+ people
• Mozilla's largest presence in Asia
• Huge engineering presence
• Some community activity
• Some speaking appearances
• Some publications
• ... but not a part of the program.

How we can help

• Event coordination
• Speaker training
• Content training
• Recognition for activity!

How you can help

• We need a team member
• Represents Taipei to Mozilla
• Represents Mozilla to Asia
• Event coordination
• Coordinator - Speaker - Developer - Socialite