QA/Work Week July 2014

Welcome to Work Week Central for the July 2014 work week.

• When: July 28 - July 31
• Where: Mountain View headquarters; 331 E Evelyn St. Mountain View CA

Goal

The goal of this work week is to break down old, outmoded models of Quality engineering. And build ourselves a vision and a strategy to achieve our overall QA goal of becoming more relevant and impactful. We will do this by:

• Becoming more technical to engage with the web platform and our products on a deeper level
• Making decisions based on data and metrics and publishing those metrics for wider use
• Weaving community throughout everything we do

Expect to leave this work week with a set of tailored actions you will do differently to help us meet these goals.

Travel and Lodging Details

This is an invite only event. As much as we would have liked to invite everyone, it was sadly not possible. If you've received an email invitation, use the link to register.

You can book your own flights via Egencia up to June 26. Or, you can allow our travel agent to book them for you. After June 26, the travel agent will book your flights. Hotel will be booked for you, and we will be using the Hotel Strata in Mountain View for this.

When booking flights plan to arrive on Sunday at the latest. We start promptly on Monday at 9AM. You may use Friday as a travel day for your return flight if you so choose.

Schedule and Process

We will be offline the first two and a half days of the event (Mon, Tues, Wed until noon). We will make exceptions for emergencies, but you have a month. Do everything you can to plan to be offline if at all possible. This kind of a work week will not succeed if you're glued to your laptop instead of participating.

The formal schedule and agenda for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning will be uploaded once we have final head-count (because it has to be customized based on who's attending).

The rest of the time (Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, and Friday if people do not choose to use that as a travel day) will be open time in the schedule. In these open slots, we will do up to two tracks worth of sessions. All slots will be 45 minutes long. There will be at most 16 open slots for talks. If you want to sign up for one, do so below by adding more rows to the table. We can also do "co-working sessions" if we want, and schedule those as well outside of this to work on specific skills with others in attendance. Put those in the list below the table of talks and list the leader and the rough amount of time you want to lead a co-working session.

Slot Number	Presenter	Session Title	Abstract
1	Ctalbert	My example Session	Please erase this and put useful content here. This is just an example so that you can see the format of the table.
2	pragmatic	QMO Re-design (1 hour)	This will be a brainstorming session on QMO (quality.mozilla.org). The goal of the session is to come up with a concrete list of changes that we want to see on QMO. This will feed into the 2014 Q3 goal of coming up with mockups and workflows for the new QMO.
3	Aaron/Anthony	Let's talk about test-days	This will be get-together with other staff and members to talk about test-days and to present and talk about a revised vision and strategy for test-days.
4	rbillings	Create a badge	Feeling stuck on how to get started with badges? Come brainstorm ideas and/or walk through the process of creating a team badge. Practical ideas & next steps guaranteed.
5	rbillings	One and Done pro-tips	Want some tips on creating tasks? Lost on how to get started? Want ideas on what tasks you could create? Come brainstorm & get a walk through of the new Add Task feature within the tool.
6	gaby2300	Mozilla Hiapano's QA Team	Want to know how we work with our contributors? Come and see! Possible Co-Working Sessions These are sessions where a few people sit down head to head and work on skills or activities with one another in a room. List the leader of the session and how long you expect it to go. Slot Number Lead Time Required Goal of Session 1 Ctalbert 1 minute Show people how to work with wiki tables to prepare them for a career in upper management ;-) Seriously, delete this and put something useful here. 2 Mozilla Events There will be a Community meetup Thursday, July 31 - more details to come On Wednesday July 30, we will go have some fun at Campo di Bocce in Los Gatos. We'll play Bocce and eat some great food, and have a good time. On nights when there is nothing planned, we'll make reservations for small groups (around 10-ish) of us to go dine somewhere in downtown mountain view. It will be a good way to connect with people in a smaller setting. Other Suggested Events There were so many great suggestions for events that I've included them here. If you want to round up a slew of colleagues to go to do some of these in your evenings (or perhaps on the weekend before if you arrive early) please do so! Cantor Arts Center at Stanford Hakone Gardens Bowling Sailing iFly indoor skydiving Arranging a docent tour of the Computer History Museum (Geo has the hookup) This would have to be a weekend thing due to their business hours. We're too late (45 days notice needed) to go through the standard route for arranging a docent, but I might be able to get a colleague who works there to help out on shorter notice. [geo] Glassblowing Wine Tasting Paintball Go Kart Racing Indoor rock climbing at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale SF Giants game Lake Chabot hiking Relaxing and paddleboating up in Shoreline park in Mountain View (Taiwanese) Chinese lessons (in a fun way, not an exam!)