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<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>Sorry for the radio silence on the Virtual Summit. After
conversations with presenters around times and dates it seems that
the consensus was having a more spread out Summit where people
could tune in over a longer period and have more time to digest
the content was better. Also, I decided to forgo the Doodle polls
as presenter availability was more limited for some than I
anticipated. There is still one talk time TBA (as you'll see
below). I will post updates to times to this thread if things
change.<br>
</p>
<p>All talks will be recorded and posted to LBRY and YouTube, so if
you miss a talk don't worry. The schedule is posted on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/2020_Virtual_Summit">this
page of the wiki</a> (as well as below) - and the links to the
videos after the talks will be posted to that page after the talk
is done.</p>
<p>The talks will take place in Zoom, in <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/549511776">the status meeting
room</a>.<br>
</p>
<p>So, here is our list of talks and times:</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Thunderbird_in_2020"><b>Thunderbird
in 2020</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation
</p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:ryan@thunderbird.net">Ryan Sipes [:ryanleesipes]</a>
</p>
<p>This presentation covers the changes Thunderbird underwent in
2019 and early 2020 as an organization, and our plans to make 2020
the best year for Thunderbird yet.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 5, 17:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Taking_care_of_the_tree"><b>Taking
care of the tree</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion </p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:mkmelin@thunderbird.net">Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]</a>?
</p>
<p>Short presentation of how Treeherder works, how to star failures,
file bugs and such.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 7, 13:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Hey.2C_we_got_designers.21"><b>Hey,
we got designers!</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion </p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:alessandro@thunderbird.net">Alessandro Castellani
[:aleca]</a>
</p>
<p>How we're working towards a consistent visual identity and
improving usability through design iterations, and how we're
trying to do it without upsetting you too much.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 12, 17:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="How_to_begin_with_Thunderbird_Development:_A_guide_for_University_students_and_Junior_Developers"><b>How
to begin with Thunderbird Development: A guide for University
students and Junior Developers</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion
</p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:khushil@thunderbird.net">Khushil Mistry
[:khushil324]</a>
</p>
<p>This presentation and discussion would cover my journey as a GSoC
student and Thunderbird Intern. I will talk about the difficulties
I faced and how university students and junior developers can
start their contribution with Thunderbird.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 14, 16:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="Why_we_might_want_to_start_type_checking_our_JavaScript_and_how_that_could_even_work"><b>Why
we might want to start type checking our JavaScript and how
that could even work</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion
</p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:paul@thunderbird.net">Paul Morris [:pmorris]</a>
</p>
<p>JavaScript is a dynamically typed language, but now <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/">TypeScript</a>'s tooling
can be used to statically <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-checking-javascript-files.html">type
check plain vanilla JavaScript files</a> (with some help from <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jsdoc.app/">JSDoc</a>).
Type checking offers various benefits that include catching
certain classes of bugs sooner (before they get to users) and
making code easier to understand. Tools like ESLint and Prettier
have improved Thunderbird's JavaScript code and developer
experience. Would type checking be a good next step and how might
that work?
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 19, 17:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="Developing_integrated_OpenPGP_support"><b>Developing
integrated OpenPGP support</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion
</p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:kaie@kuix.de">Kai Engert [:kaie]</a>
</p>
<p>An update will be given on the progress of the ongoing effort to
add integrated OpenPGP support to Thunderbird, about the work that
is still ahead of us, and we'll discuss your questions.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: (TBA)</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="The_importance_of_white_space.2C_a_UI_experiment"><b>The
importance of white space, a UI experiment</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion </p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:alessandro@thunderbird.net">Alessandro Castellani
[:aleca]</a>
</p>
<p>A little journey on how we can drastically improve the usability
of Thunderbird by carefully implementing empty spaces.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 26, 17:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Thunderbird_78_Overview"><b>Thunderbird
78 Overview</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Presentation & Discussion </p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:mkmelin@thunderbird.net">Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]</a>
</p>
<p>Thunderbird 78 is coming up in mid 2020. Overview of what we can
expect to see in that.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 28, 13:00 UTC</b>
</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline"
id="How_to_Improve_Thunderbird_Documentation"><b>How to Improve
Thunderbird Documentation</b></span></h2>
<p>Type: Discussion
</p>
<p>Host/Speaker: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="mailto:ryan@thunderbird.net">Ryan Sipes [:ryanleesipes]</a>
</p>
<p>This discussion would cover how we might improve developer and
enterprise user documentation. Would also like to touch on how to
make the developer documentation easier to find for new
contributors.
</p>
<p><b>Date/Time: May 28, 17:00 UTC</b></p>
<p>---</p>
<p>If you have an feedback or wanted to submit your own talk or
discussion item - please ping me and I will do my best to
accommodate. This is our first of this type of event since I've
been on the team so I am sure there is much that we will learn
along the way.</p>
<p>Ryan<br>
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