WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-19

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Friends of the Tree

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Joe Drew and jdm nominate Mihai Sucan for his incredibly supportive review comments for new contributors, like in bug 704295.

Jean-Yves Perrier (in behalf of the MDN writers team) nominates Florian Scholz for creating and maintaining the Doc Tracker Tools.

Upcoming Events

Speaker Location: Mountain View

This Week

Monday, 19 December

Brownbag: Why Capture-the-Flag Hacking Contests are fun.

2pm Pacific - 10 Forward

Frederik Braun will present the concept of capture-the-flag style hacking competitions, describe the existing game types, and emphasize each type's special strategies.

Tuesday, 20 December

Brownbag: Designing for Trust - User Interfaces and Privacy

2pm Pacific - 10 Forward

Ilana Westerman will be speaking about her firm's experience with user testing privacy workflows and user expectations in mobile phones and mobile UIs.

Wednesday, 21 December

Wednesday is SUMO Day! Help Firefox users and those who upgraded to Firefox 9 on the contributor-powered Firefox support forum.

Thursday, 22 December

Friday, 23 December

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto

• FF9 release tomorrow for desktop and mobile (including the sexy new tablet UI)!
• Migration day is tomorrow

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

• No voice update this week
• Check out our new weekly round-up of news and press

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.

Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details	Location
Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information	What location will you be transmitting from?
Aakash Desai	Mozillians.org Dashboard Demo	Metrics Dashboard (Click on "Mozillians.org")		Mountain View
John Slater	mozilla.org Redesign / One Mozilla	One Mozilla Blog		SF
Cheng Wang	SUMO Day is Wednesday!	[1]	SUMO Blog	MV

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation Services

• Released Selenium IDE 1.5.0
• Released FlynnID for registering Selenium nodes to Selenium Grid
• Blog post: Hooking Android up the the (Selenium) Grid

Automation & Tools

• Restarted cross browser startup test. Getting data, but now finding bugs in the dashboard. You can see some data here
• BMO/Pulse integration is being reviewed
• BMO/Orange Factor (war on orange) integration in security review
• Landing patches to get reftests turned on for native fennec
• Robocop (native fennec UI automation) is landing this week
• More updates here

Security

Date / Time	Item
Wed Dec 21 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Thu Dec 22 / 10:00 PST	ThunderBird Big Files
Fri Dec 23 / 10:00 PST	HOLIDAY

Calendar and Meeting details

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

• Zooey Deschanel, Jonah Hill, Other Celebs Compete In Mozilla Firefox Charity Challenge
• Mozilla teams up with celebs like Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen for social good
• Mozilla Firefox Challenge Pits 12 Celebs in Battle of the Most Charitable

• Can Firefox Become A Game Platform?

• New wardrobe for Android Firefox surfaces

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Apps

• As of 12/16 2580 total registrants to the Developer Preview
• Smooth launch of both the Developer Preview and Apps Developer Community on MDN
  • https://apps-preview.mozilla.org
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/apps

Note: Can all Mozillians please register asap for the Developer Preview.

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
New person's name here	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Tasha Simpson	Jane Finette	Mt View	Tasha is joining the User Engagement team for 4 weeks working on various consumer content projects.