On Tuesday evening we had the pleasure of hosting Mozilla’s NYC Add-on Meetup at our office. It was the first time that add-on developers from the NYC-area met to exchange knowledge and get to know one another.
The presence of Justin and Rey - key AMO team members - greatly added to the event and we (the collective add-on community) want to thank them for coming in from Mountain View (Justin) and Ft Lauderdale (Rey).
Justin and Rey walked the group through:
- developer.AMO - what is going to be a fantastic (centralized) resource for add-on developers.
- Collections - a solid start with more good things coming soon, the Collections feature is helping Firefox users discover gerat add-ons while enabling add-on developers to obtain even better distribution.
- Contributions - Mozilla’s first foray into enabling developers to generate revenue from their add-ons, the group got an update and overview of the Contributions trial that is underway.
The conversation that occurred around these three presentations was top-notch and Justin and Rey were peppered with questions and insightful feedback.
The evening ended with Shaun from Drop.io presenting on their usage of JavaScript APIs within their Firefox add-on.
It was great to meet everyone and hopefully we can continue to have semi-regular add-on meetups!
Here’s the start of a list of attendees. If you were there leave your info in the comments:
- Rey - Mozilla
- Justin - Mozilla
- Shaun - Drop.io
- Eric G - Amplify
- Eric S - Amplify
- Jordan - Gliider
- Jared - Gliider
- Michael - Aviary
- Mike - “Builder of webpages, doer of homework”
- Mel - MrTech
There are others that I’m missing - comment so that I can add you :)
