WeeklyUpdates/2013-08-12
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Contents
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
- Thanks to the 61 developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 50 of whom were brand new volunteers
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 12 August
- MAKER PARTY: New York, USA: Five-Day, Beam Center's Design-Build One-Week Summer High School Intensive workshop, will introduce techniques related to analysis, data-gathering, diagramming and precedent study. Building on these ideas, the students will then be guided through simple design techniques including sketching and model-making, with the ultimate goal of transforming parts and pieces of the Beam Center facility through their understanding, ideas and actions.
- MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day, MakerKids' Minecraft and Digital Media Creation Camp, will teach how to create skins, install mods, and even setting up servers! Campers, will get to create your their world in Minecraft, learn how to 3D print, experiment with vlogging (video blogging) and podcasting, and more!
- MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day, Handmade/Textile Musuem of Canada present DIY Summer Camps & Crafting Across the Generations. Handmade! invites kids to spend some time offline this summer and craft their own creative experiences at the Textile Museum of Canada.
- MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day Holocaust and Human Behaviour Teacher Seminar. Using Facing History’s unique sequence of study, teachers will explore the range of choices that led to the failure of democracy and ultimately the murder of millions of Jews and other targeted groups. The seminar investigates the complexities of human behavior, judgment, memory, and how individuals can make a difference in the world today.
Tuesday, 13 August
- MAKER PARTY: Pittsburgh, USA: The Labs @ CLP - South Side Summer Workshops. Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, South Side branch, is hosting an intensive workshop in interactive art for students all over the city
- MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #1. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.
Wednesday, 14 August
The Mobile Meeting (SuMo) at 10:30am on air Mozilla (please note you need to login to watch the meeting)
- MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #2. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.
Thursday, 15 August
- MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #3. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.
- 10:00 PST::Security Review, Social Share
Friday, 16 August
- MAKER PARTY: Chicago, USA: Chicago's Summer of Learning Summer Showcase. Learners who earn badges through Chicago Summer of Learning will access fun learning showcase events towards the end of the summer. The Summer Showcase will be a celebratory showcase event on August 16, where learners will showcase work they created all summer, enjoy performances by their peers, and recognize the badge earners who earned the most badges.
Saturday, 17 August
- MAKER PARTY: Vizag, India: Three-day Bay Parties Webmaker workshop. More than 1000 kids, from the city of Vizag, are invited to participate in this series of Maker Party events.
- MAKER PARTY: New Castle, UK: Mozilla Maker Party Newcastle workshop. After a successful event last summer, Mozilla's followed up with a return to the Centre for Life and an afternoon of making and hacking!
- MAKER PARTY: Philadelphia, USA: Maker Celebration at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Makers and Creators of all kinds are encouraged to submit an application to show off their work in the lobby of the Parkway Central Library at our Maker Celebration. 50 participants/groups will be selected and given half of an 8-foot table to show of their work. During the Maker Celebration, the Free Library will be exhibiting Connected Messages, a 2013 DML 5 Summer Youth Programming project. Connected Messages is a digital and physical mural project that’s being constructed over four weeks by youth in five Free Library locations.
- MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013?Tokyo vol.2. Participants will learn to remix movie clips.
Sunday, 18 August
- MAKER PARTY: Gopalganj, Bangladesh: Mozilla Maker Party, Gopalganj workshop. Gopalganj will be the second city of Bangladesh that will hold a maker party this year. In this event participants will discuss webmaker projects, its tools, using the templates, creating new ones, etc.
- MAKER PARTY: Visakhapatnam, India: Two-day Bay parties webmaker 2 workshop. VIZAG is an effort to build a Mozilla and FOSS community in the city. With the global maker party, VIZAG community takes its first steps in contribution to spread Open Web ideologies and create Mozilla presence. The event would include a sessions on Mozilla Webmaker, hands-on with Webmaker tools like Thimble, Popcorn and X-Ray Goggles.. FOSS, Mozilla Initiatives and Contributions and a FOSS quiz.
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- We shipped a browser last week!
- Mixed content blocking
- "Enable Javascript" and "Enable images" footguns moved to about:config
- Share button in SocialAPI
- Network monitor
- Release notes
- Get your sync-dev on
- Run the UX branch, y'all.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- We shipped a browser last week!
- Dynamic toolbar hiding
- Specify default search engine
- FHR
- hu and tr locales
- Release notes
- New stuff coming is amazing!
- NFC-Bump sharing!
- New locales (swedish! British! Catalan!)
- Firefox icon rebrand!
- WebRTC maybe!
Thunderbird
Thunderbird 24 is about to reach beta - It's the next mainstream version ad ESR version. We need more users using beta - currently we have a ratio of 0.43% of beta users versus mainstream. We'll have testing activities and they'll be announced on https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/thunderbird-testers
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: No audio.
- Ongoing conversation about automating the Github+Bugzilla workflow for Gaia developers.
- There's currently a bug preventing any text messages from starting with "yo,". Or feature.
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:
- March 22, 2011: Firefox 4 launches and Mozilla starts move to a rapid release model with new versions every few weeks
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location: San Francisco
- DB team helped track down an issue on Firefoxflicks which was preventing new user creation
- Inventory
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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.
Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
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Who Are You? | What Do You Do? | What are you going to talk about? | Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) | Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Kate Naszradi | Summit Communications Director | Summit Weekly Updates | San Francisco | No | Summit Registration Page,
Registration questions: mozillasummit[at]shworldwide[dot]com, Summit hash-tag: #mozsummit | |
Alex Wafula | Mozilla Reps Council Member | Mozilla Reps Camp | San Francisco | No | ReMo Camp Page
400 Reps in more than 80 countries Averaging 3 events per day | |
Stacy Martin | Privacy | Mozilla sponsors NNEDV Tech Summit | San Francisco | No | ||
Dino Anderson, Sean Bolton, Emily Chardac | Language Learning | Rosetta Stone Update (Badge) and Lexicon | San Francisco | No | Language Learning badge |
Roundtable
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
Who are you? | Area of question | Question |
---|---|---|
What's your name? What do you work on? | Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. | What would you like to know? |
Welcome!
Let's say hello to some new Mozillians!
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marcus Cavanaugh | Dylan Oliver | MTV | SFO | Firefox OS |
Luke Pacholski | David Ascher | Vancouver | Vancouver | Engineering |
David Major | Benjamin Smedberg | MTV | MTV | Engineering |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|---|
Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
"Given how easy Persona is to use from a user’s perspective, it’s a shame that there aren’t more services that support it. But maybe now that millions of new email addresses will just work with it out of the box, it will give developers more confidence in the system and get them to support it." - Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch
ZTE's Firefox OS Smartphone Coming to U.S. Via eBay, PC Mag
Mozilla’s Persona Login System Now Supports All Gmail Addresses Out Of The Box, TechCrunch
Firefox 23 tackles security and social, fixes 13 bugs, ZDNet
Firefox updates preach sharing, shielding, and a bit of 'Awesome', CNET
Mozilla’s Firefox Phones Get Operator Billing Through Bango, TechCrunch