WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-09
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Video for today’s meeting
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Friends of the Tree
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 9 May
Tuesday, 10 May
Brown Bag
“Of Browsers and Robots”
Daniel Casner from Anybots on in-browser controls and telepresence robots.
12:30PM in Ten Forward
Wednesday, 11 May
Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.
Thursday, 12 May
Friday, 13 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 5 & 6
- Merge from mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta still planned for May 17 (next week!)
- Beta meetings are already happening, Mondays at 2pm. See dev.planning for details.
- Migration of beta users from old FF4 betas has begun – progress updates next week (or at the Wednesday, 11am product call)
- Merge from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora still planned for May 24 (2 weeks!)
- New blog for tracking updates to the channels process: blog.mozilla.org/channels
Firefox 4
Mobile Firefox
Thunderbird
- Having a community run litmus testing Event next week in order to make sure that nothing is regressing. Details on how you might help are in this email.
- String freeze for Miramar at end of day tomorrow
- Comm-central will branch for Miramar at the same time
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
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.
| Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Marketing Manager | Laura Mesa | Coming Mark Up Campaign | N/A | The site will have a dark launch later this week–I’ll send en email when its live so you can help test! |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Desktop Firefox
- Push of FF 5.0 Beta
- WebQA
- Pushes this week:
- Socorro 1.7.7.2 — adding a “Channel” field to crash reports
- Mozilla.com 2.3
- MDN 0.9.4.2
- AMO 6.0.8
- Includes the switch to EdgeCast’s CDN
- Personas, May 3rd
- SUMO 2.8.1 on 5/3
- QA Community
- Write up of last week’s London Tester Gathering event: http://blargon7.com/2011/05/london-tester-gathering-with-mozilla/
- Awesome Firefox 4 launch party in Cluj, Romania. Blog post pending. But here are some pics
- Successful test day on friday
Automation & Tools
- Meet Toolbox: a place to find our tools http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/
Security
Engagement
PR
- Why We Need Firefox
- Mozilla fights DHS over anti-MPAA, RIAA utility
- Mozilla resists request to remove Firefox tool
- Mozilla Takes a Stand Against Department of Homeland Security
Events
Creative Team
Contributor Engagement
- Update on Contribute Inquiries:
- The contribute group answered inquiries from over 1600 people using the Get Involved page. Before Firefox 4 and recent awareness efforts we got 300 – 400 a month. That’s a growth rate of over 400%!
- Wrapped up the Mozilla Tech Tour in Senegal.
- William Quivigier, Anthony Ricaud, Mounir Lamouri and others concluded a week of Mozilla talks and a Firefox 4 [1].
- More info:
![[1]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5677906366_f7bd4a3ab2_b.jpg){kind=link}
Support
- New blog – Verdi helps you with Firefox
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Kyle Huey
- Abhinav Sharma
- Hernan Rodriguez Colmiero
- Shawn Gong
- Paul Stansifer
- Nikhil Marathe