Daniele Scasciafratte

All the projects from the Open Source world has the same issues/needs that involve different area: localization, communication, promotion, organization, development, reporting and so on.
In my free and open source book I introduce all the various points, about my experience in various projects during the years with my learnings and suggestions.

The story of how Mozilla Italia added the Italian language to Common Voice and after an year generated the language model. With the help of a lot of people in the various related project, developing tools and scripts, find and gather the sentences, do promotion and finally generate the model for Italian.

A common issue in Common Voice is how to join and involve a community instead of doing all the tasks alone. Discourse is full of the same questions but there is no story or tutorial that show how this can be a way to work together for the same result, to benefit all the country/region. Mozilla is an inclusive community but the user case or the story behind from a specific community often is hidden and this is a problem, because Mozilla is open to everyone but the bureaucracy or the missing experience can be a blocker.

Please note that this replaces the talk '(re)Activating the Common Voice project at a local level' by Redon Skikuli.

A community is a big company with a different purpose: a passion. That passion is the key but is not enough to manage a community and let to grow and improve his effect every day. Coaching is a way to improve your action as community leader or volunteer without change your workflow.

Do you know that there are many little tips and approaches that can improve your community health and quality for the participation? What are the best practices, issues and how to manage them to help your community to grow?

Marionette is the library integrated in specific builds used for unit testing in Firefox. Using Python enables to automatize procedure or other stuff using the browser also in headless mode. Let's see how it is possible to simplify your daily job routine on internet like a pro.

Often there are tasks that are easily to automatize with scripting but this portal/website doesn't offer API. Develop a browser extension only for an internal usage can be an over engineering step but there is another way. Python is a powerful language and we can use it also to integrate in other services or to help a community. There will 2 real cases: how to export WordPress posts without having advanced backend permissions to reimport it later and how to automatize the reject of bad translation in the WordPress community based on terms.

An year ago I done a talk about WebExtensions and how much they are a cool, a year later and after Firefox 57/Quantum what is waiting to devs and users of the most customizable browser? Let's see together what is happened and what is coming to us!

Starting from the actual APIs, what you can do right now, what is missing and how you can help to improve the extensions API.

Do you know that Firefox now have a new technology that simplify the development of an extension? And also use and extend the API of Chrome? Yea, I am serious you can do an extension for both the browsers!

WebExtension are the future for addons in Firefox but this is not enough because they works also on Chrome, Opera and soon Edge without any changes!
Think about it, the cross browser addon issues are only an old nightmare! In conclusion because all this amazing news and how it is easy to extend Firefox will be available new APIs to customize the the Firefox experience in this year.