{"id":11488,"date":"2014-06-03T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=11488"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:41:15","slug":"first-appmaker-milestone-beta-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/first-appmaker-milestone-beta-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Appmaker Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/logo_brickphone_big_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11489 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/logo_brickphone_big_2-600x237.png\" alt=\"A work-in-progress Appmaker logo\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"magicdomid1440\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Our first official <strong>Appmaker Heartbeat Milestone<\/strong> was extra long and action-packed. Here&#8217;s what we got accomplished:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ace-line\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ace-line\">\n<ul class=\"list-bullet1\">\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Thanks to Mike &#8220;<span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Pomax&#8221; Kamermans, Scott Downe, and Simon Wex, <\/span><strong>Appmaker got better, faster, and stronger<\/strong>, and has more <strong>cross-browser support<\/strong> with updates to its <a href=\"\/\/polymer-project.org\">Polymer-Web-Components-based infrastructure<\/a><\/span><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">, and a data schema management UI and API for components.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Chris De Cairos helped Appmaker snuggle up to Webmaker by integrating Webmaker Login and MakeAPI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Luke Pacholski hatched some new branding concepts, which will become headers, logos, and favicons soon (logo above is just a taste &#8212; more to come!).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">John Bevan, Fuzzyfox, Adam Lofting, and Bobby Richter <a href=\"\/\/github.com\/mozilla-appmaker\/appmaker\/issues\/1325\">held a workshop in London with volunteers from UNICEF<\/a> where fundraising and app-making collided<\/span><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Amira Dhalla, Michelle Thorne, and Bobby got busy planning activities for the upcoming MozCamp Beta.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">Jess Klein <a href=\"\/\/jess.makes.org\/thimble\/MTMyMzM2ODQ0OA==\/mobile-design-kit\">created a meta-Teaching-Kit<\/a> for Mobile Ideation, Design, and Creation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Laila Takeh from UNICEF UK <a href=\"\/\/spiralforms.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/26\/the-tension-between-brand-and-digital\/\">wrote a blog post<\/a> about branding and reputation in a culture of digital makers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"magicdomid217\" class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">And finally, a plan to release <strong>Appmaker Beta<\/strong> <strong>as a part of Maker Party<\/strong> was devised and sketched out into Heartbeat milestones. That means <strong>Appmaker will be a fully-fledged app-creation, app-learning, app-publishing, and app-sharing tool by July 15th!<\/strong> And, if bi-weekly webmaker.org updates aren&#8217;t enough for you, feel free to jump over to our <a href=\"\/\/github.com\/mozilla-appmaker\/appmaker\/issues\/milestones\">github milestone page<\/a><\/span><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\"> to see what we have planned.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ace-line\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ace-line\"><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\">For those of you who are keen on learning more, check out the <a href=\"\/\/github.com\/mozilla-appmaker\/appmaker\/wiki\/Progress\">Appmaker Progress wiki<\/a><\/span><span class=\"author-g-2yhicrs7tog1fsok\"> to see more details.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first official Appmaker Heartbeat Milestone was extra long and action-packed. Here&#8217;s what we got accomplished: Thanks to Mike &#8220;Pomax&#8221; Kamermans, Scott Downe, and Simon Wex, Appmaker got better, faster, and stronger, and has more cross-browser support with updates to &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/first-appmaker-milestone-beta-launch\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}