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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 
- All the Mozillians who helped host & spoke at the Mozilla Girl Geek dinner. It was a great success! Video: https://air.mozilla.org/mozilla-girl-geek-dinner/ Photos: https://plus.google.com/photos/117791572332002155814/albums/5954423413503101217
- Special thanks to Mitchell, Emily, Sunny, Didem, Margaret, Larissa, Mary, and Michelle for speaking as well at to all those who did demos of various Mozilla technology to the attendees.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 09 December
Tuesday, 10 December
- from 9am, all day, MTV 10-fwd and Air Mozilla: Apps Quarterly review by the Marketplace and Apps group. Agenda[1]
- 1300 PST : Security Champions - Vidyo #624 & #Security
Wednesday, 11 December
- 11am, MTV 10-Forward and Air Mozilla: The Offline Initiative (for offline-capable web apps) brownbag
- What's hard about making web apps offline-capable?
- What are we doing to make it easier today?
- ... and in the future?
If you want to learn more, join our brownbag on Wednesday and/or read the Offline Initiative strategy!
Thursday, 12 December
- 1000 PST: SecReview - Firefox Account + Sync
Friday, 13 December
- 12 noon: Community Building in 2014 brown bag in SF Commons and Air Mozilla
Saturday, 14 December
Sunday, 15 December
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop & Mobile
Speaker Location: SF (johnath)
- Release/merge week!
- Australis stays on central, aurora merge is happening from the holly branch
- Sassy new android about:home design is shipping in FF26
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location: Armen (Vidyo)
- We want to disable Desktop nightly builds and Windows 7 testing for mozilla-b2g18 and mozilla-b2g18-v1.1.0hd
- NOTE: This is not about mozilla-b2g26
- These branches are only taking security fixes
- If you have any concerns please raise it up on dev.b2g
- Killing ESR17 and Thunderbird-ESR17
- No more Firefox and Thunderbird ESR17 releases
- Disabling builds/tests on tbpl
- Updates to ESR24 will be available
Webmaker
Non-verbal. Lightning presentation to follow below.
- Hour of Code is this week! As part of Computer Science Education Week, Webmaker is joining with other education and technology partners around the world.
- People everywhere will get together for a one-hour introduction to computer science -- to demystify "code" and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, creator and innovator.
- Webmaker has projects, teaching guides, and ways to get involved here.
- Stay tuned for more in a lightning presentation from Lainie DeCoursy.
- Also check out Dave Humphrey's fantastic blog post on his daughter's first Git Hub pull request: Hour of Code Spawns Hours of Coding
- And this blog post by Tanha Islam, Student ambassador & WoMoz in Bangladesh about her experience with Thimble for Hour of Code
Open Badges
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Community Building in 2014 brownbag
- Date: Friday, Dec 13
- Time: 12:00 noon pacific / 20:00 UTC
- Location: SF Commons area and Air Mozilla
This will be the last day of the Community Builders work week to plan for 2014 and we want to share what we’re working on. Learn about resources that we'll be putting in place to help you increase participation on your team.
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox Marketplace
Speaker Location:
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Martin Best | Game Platform Strategist | Mozilla and Goo's Game Creator Challenge [2] | Toronto (via vidyo) | Yes | [3] | |
| Lainie DeCoursy | Webmaker Mentor and Hive NYC Communications Manager | Hour of Code - Mozilla Webmaker tutorials and how to get involved | My house in Brooklyn | No | Webmaker blog post [4], David Humphrey's blog post [5] and Code.org [6] | |
| Sean Bolton | Contributor | new Air Mozilla features | SF | No | example page: https://air.mozilla.org/mozilla-girl-geek-dinner/ | |
| Chelsea Novak | Community Engagement Manager | Firefox Affiliates Update | SF | No | Link to Affiliates survey http://bit.ly/1eHWFfd | |
| Kristin Baird | Brand Engagement | Vans Triple Crown of Surfing | SF | No | Link to deck: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1GebstPAR10TyWf2Wt7TJ8srTA8RWkmpS0aqEQOxaEFI/edit#slide=id.g297be085c_22 | |
| Amy Tsay | Community Manager - AMO & Marketplace | Add-on Pick-of-the-Month for December | MV | Elmo | Link to download Bluhell Firewall: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bluhell-firewall/ |
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! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.
Introducing New Volunteers
| New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley (ComputerWhiz) | anyone in SF | anyone who is free | Canada | sumo? |
| Who is the new volunteer(s)? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where is the new person based? | What will the new person be doing? |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | 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? |
| Mark Striemer | Wil Clouser | Mountain View, CA | Canada | Marketplace |
| Abel Lin | CJ Ku | Recording from SFO | Taipei | Firefox OS - Media Recording |
| Eric Petitt | Peter Scanlon | SFO | SFO | Engagement |
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
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Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Social Support
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