WeeklyUpdates/2015-10-19
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 Welcome!
- 3 <meta>
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla
- A huge THANK YOU to Mexico community members Alejandro Gomez, Mauricio Navarro and Luis Sanchez, who did a great job as instructors / organizers of a Firefox OS application development training in conjunction with the University Corporation for the Development of the Internet (CUDI), which ran from October 2 to 4 at the National Polytechnic Institute, a top public college in Mexico.
- Thanks to the Mozilla German community and Mozilla Berlin office, for representing at Berlin TVHackDay and for help with promoting the DT Privacy Symposium - happening in Berlin on Oct 23, with some Mozilla Berlin speakers. Thanks André, Mario, and EVERYONE ELSE!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 19 October
Tuesday, 20 October
- Building and shipping software at Facebook
- Tuesday, October 20 - noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UTC
- Mozilla Mountain View + [1]
- Blurb: Facebook has over 1 billion monthly active web users and pushes new versions of its website twice a day. At the same time, Facebook also has over 1 billion monthly mobile users and pushes new versions of its 6+ mobile apps every 1-2 weeks. Shipping at this speed and scale is driven by a very small Release Engineering team with a large supporting cast. Learn about the cutting-edge tools, distributed systems, processes, and culture Facebook relies on to ship effectively.
- Speaker: Former Firefox Release Manager Christian Legnitto, who has spent the last four years shipping software at Facebook.
- Questions: #airmozilla on IRC
- Mozilla Github security changes for third-party application access
- tl;dr: 3rd-party applications will lose access to the Mozilla organization in GitHub at 1700 UTC / 1000 PDT unless they are pre-approved. Very old SSH keys may also lose access if they are not verified at https://github.com/settings/ssh .
- Traditionally 3rd party applications have had full access to all repositories (public and private) for an organization when any member enables them. When combined with aggressive 3rd party applications many of our repositories are divulging information unintentionally. Github recently changed the way they do application permissions and we're enabling their new system.
- Questions: If you run into any problems with Github, please join us in #github or email github-owners@m.o and we'll get you fixed up. Thanks!
Wednesday, 21 October
Homebrew Website Club Meetup (every other Wednesday)
Be a part of the open web with your own website.
- Brighton (UK) (@68middlest),
Göteborg (SWEDEN) (at Steampunk Bar),
Portland (at Cup and Bar), and
San Francisco (at MozSF 1st floor, host: Tantek Çelik) - 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
- 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night
Any questions? See the wiki page for detailsCreate or update your personal web site!
Share what you've gotten working, ask the experts questions.Join a community with like-minded interests.
Bring friends that want a personal site!
or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom - Weekly Bug Verification Day
Thursday, 22 October
October Brantina: Data As Empathy
Thursday, October 22 - 9am PT / noon ET / 4pm UTC Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla
To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?
Our October speaker Frances Haugen will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She'll help us understand how data - done 'right' - connects us to millions of users we don't know personally. And she'll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.
Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, Frances has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters.
Host: Matt Grimes, User Advocacy
Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.
Hashtag: #brantina
Friday, 23 October
Saturday, 24 October
Sunday, 25 October
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Fall Campaign Update
The latest in our project call updates on our Fall Campaign in preparation for our Nov 3 Rally For The User.
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Sara Haghdoosti + Jochai Ben-Avie
Germany Campaign Another significant way Mozilla is working to give users control of their online lives is happening in Germany! This month we launched our first non-English advocacy campaign - a huge milestone that happened because of some great collaboration between MoCo and MoFo. The campaign raised concerns about a data retention bill in Germany and we mobilized thousands of people to take action.
Special thanks to:
MoFo
- Jon Buckley (developer)
- Ali Al Dallal (developer)
- Scott Downe (developer)
- Jordan Gushwa (design)
- Sara Haghdoosti (campaigner)
- Adam Lofting (metrics)
- Bobby Richter (project manager)
MoCo
- Jochai Ben-Avie (policy)
- Jean Collings (snippet)
- Jessilyn Davis (email maven)
- Marshall Erwin (legal/data)
- Barbara Hueppe (PR)
- Alex Klepel (PR)
- Chelsea Novak (community engagement)
- Abigail Phillips (legal)
- Chris Riley (policy)
- Urmika Devi Shah (legal)
Community
- Sebastian Hengst (translation/contributor)
- l10n
Partners
- Digitale Gesellschaft
- Compact
- NetzPolitik
- EDRi
Firefox and Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Peter Dolanjski, remote
Foxfooding Update
- Watch out for regular communication about changes and fixed bugs in the product
- Changes coming in next OTA update:
- New Homescreen - better performance, code clean up to support Pin the Web. App Grouping is not present and will be refactored in future.
- Pin the Web - Save any webpage to your homescreen. Makes use of Web manifest and metadata. Will evolve over coming releases.
- Please test these areas of the OS and file bugs as usual through Bugzilla Lite (hold down volume up and down buttons) or Bugzilla
CTO Update
Speaker Location:
Content Services
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per topic. 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. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 "widescreen" format, please indicate in the "Sharing" column below.
Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Sharing | 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, 4:3 or 16:9) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Andy McKay | Add-ons | Web Extensions | Vancouver | No | Web Extensions, its happening | Web Extensions |
Mike Hoye | Social Engineer | New-Hire Onboarding For Engineers | Toronto | No | All the excitement is happening in the Engineering-Onboarding vidyo room. | Bugzilla: 12:00-2:30PM EST, 9:00-11:30 PST. Build And Go: 12:30-3:00PM EST, 9:30-12:00 PST. Firefox, Product And Architecture: 2:00-5:00 EST, 11:00-2:00 PST. Communication And Community: 1:00-3:00 PM ET, 10:00-1:00 PM PT |
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 | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
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Who is the new volunteer? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be contributing from? | What will the new person be working on? |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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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? |
Christopher Hutten-Czapsky | Vladan Djeric | Toronto | Remote (Waterloo, Canada) | Firefox performance |
Meera Pisharody | Allison Banks | Mountain View | Mountain View | Director, Global People Operations |
Jim Small | Michelle Marovich | Mountain View | San Francisco | Technical Recruiting |
Christopher Grebs | Andy McKay | Vancouver | Germany Remote | Making AMO even more awesome |
Don Marti | Mary Ellen Muckerman | SFO | MTV/Remote | Disrupting Advertising |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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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? |
<meta>
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
Cloud Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
Web QA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- MozReview no longer requires an LDAP and SSH account to initiate code review, making it usable for first-time contributors
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Social Support
Youth Mozilla community
Find the Latest Project news from our Twitter Updates With Just a small update this week we would like to announce 2 internal Mozilla partnerships
1) Sumo with the mission to kick off Army Of Awesome
and
2) Mozilla Clubs network brining clubs to schools and local community's
were also attending Mozilla Festival 2015 so feel free to contact me there
Contact
Email: stefancosten<at>mozilla.org.uk
IRC: #YoMo