WeeklyUpdates/2011-10-17
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Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 17 October
- NASA Cantina, Mountain View, 10 Forward, 5pm to 8pm - We host a cantina for the participants of the NASA Collaboration Summit from NASA and their partners. You are welcome to join us for some great conversation and food.
Tuesday, 18 October
Wednesday, 19 October
- Dutch Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Tour, Mountain View, 10 Forward, 9:30am to 11am - We host a group of dutch entrepreneurs on their tour through the Valley. Feel free to swing by and say hi.
Thursday, 20 October
Friday, 21 October
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox
- Mobile team having a work week in Toronto this week
- No other updates this week since it's eating much of fx-team's brains
Thunderbird
Nothing new this week.
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
- Mozilla Festival in London Nov 4 - 6: 400+ people now registered
- Want to fill the remaining space with as many coders and designers as possible
- Especially looking for:
- UX / UI designers. For design challenges like these
- Javascript developers
- HTML5 gaming, video & audio hackers
- WebGL hackers
- Interested? Wanna come? get in touch through festival [at] mozilla [dot] org
- Marcia and Pierros are running a "Contribute to Mozilla" area at the Festival. Please get in touch with them if you are interested in helping staff the pod areas and answer questions from potential contributors. Thanks!
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.
http://blog.webfwd.org/post/11319845945/webfwd-goes-global-welcome-to-our-3-new-fellows-1
| Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diane Bisgeier |
WebFWD adds 3 new Fellows |
Blog post at http://blog.webfwd.org/post/11319845945/webfwd-goes-global-welcome-to-our-3-new-fellows-1 | |
| Michael Coates | Engaging Security for your Website - The Security Review Process | slides | Web App Security Review Request Form |
| David Boswell | Share your story about how you got involved with Mozilla | Example: How I got involved with Mozilla (and why that wouldn’t work today) |
Add your link to the Stories wiki page or post to Mozillians forum |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Mobile QA
- Most folks attending the mobile workweek in Toronto.
- WebQA
- AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
- SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-10-11
- QA Community
- If you are attending the upcoming Mozilla Festival in London, please visit https://etherpad.mozilla.org/QA-Mozilla-Festival to add your name to the list to help staff the "Contribute to Mozilla" booth area!
- Automation Services
- Case Conductor Beta will be released to uTest on Oct 19th, 2011
Automation & Tools
- Lots of on-going work, many of us in Toronto for mobile work week.
- See here for notes
Security
Security Reviews Scheduled for this week
| Date / Time | Item |
|---|---|
| Mon Oct 17 / 10:00 PST | SPDY & bug 528288 |
| Wed Oct 19 / 13:00 PST | bug 675822 First sync desktop status page with upload progress bar |
| Fri Oct 22 / 10:00 AM PST | Safe Browsing Backend |
General Meeting Details * IRC Channel: #security * Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview * Dial-in Info: ** In office or soft phone: extension 92 ** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 ** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 ** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 ** Conference num 624
Engagement
PR
- Which Browser Has Your Back? That Would Be Firefox
- Mozilla boss Mitchell Baker stresses open approach for mobile platforms
- New Firefox interface to speed up Firefox on Android
- A Huge Speed Boost Is on the Way to Firefox for Android
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
WebFWD
Last week WebFWD announced 3 new Fellows to our Portfolio: MeeMoo, Synbiota and Verese. Details at http://blog.webfwd.org/post/11319845945/webfwd-goes-global-welcome-to-our-3-new-fellows-1
Introducing New Hires
- Patryk Adamczyk: joining the Mobile UX team, managed by Madhava Enros, located in the Toronto office.
- Olivier Yiptong: joining the Mobile Dev team, managed by Stuart Parmenter, located in the Toronto office.
- Harald Kirschner: joining the Innovation team, managed by Todd Simpson, located in the Mountain View Office.
- Mark Mayo: joining the Innovation team, managed by Todd Simpson, located on the Vancouver office.
- Christina Choi: joining the Stats & Metrics team, managed by Gilbert Fitzgerald, located in the San Francisco office.
- Adrian Gaudebert: joining the Web Tools team, managed by Laura Thomson, located in Lyon, France.
- Schalk Neethling: joining the Web Tools team, managed by Laura Thomson, located in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Stephen Lewchuk: coop student with Metrics team managed by Gilbert FitzGerald working out of the SF office
- Tantek Çelik: joining the Products team, managed by Chris Blizzard, located in the San Francisco office.
- Gary Kwong: joining the Security Research and Testing team managed by Brandon Sterne, located in the Mountain View office.
