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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
- Fabio Magnoni, Luca Toledo, Clauber Stipkovic & the Mozilla Brazil community for all their help and legwork for Basecamp
- Richard Milewski, for Air Mozilla awesomeness (2x last week in support of the Mozilla Apps Hack day)
- Luke Crouch, Les Orchard, Ali Spivak, Eric Shepherd, David Walsh, John Karahalis and everyone on the MDN team who worked on the MDN Kuma wiki this past weekend
- Everyone who came and hacked for Mozilla Apps Hack Day on Sat. & Spencer Hui, who came and shot video
- Terry Rather for answering more than two dozen messages sent to webmaster(at)mozilla.org every day
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 09 July
Brownbag at 3pm: Add-ons Made Easy with Builder & SDK
The event will take place in 10 fwd, and will be broadcast in the SF commons and over Air Mozilla
Tuesday, 10 July
Wednesday, 11 July
- Brownbag, Wednesday 1-2pm PT, Ten Forward, Mountain View:
- Challenges to Mozilla adoption in China
- Exploration of Chinese internet environment
- Internet Explorer version skew
- Implications of text input being difficult
- Proliferation of plugins
- Web / banking compatibility
- Mozilla Online initiatives
- By Gary Kwong; based upon a week of observations/interactions with our Mozillian friends in Beijing
- All Mozillians are invited to attend.
- Will likely be on Air Mozilla, and be recorded as well.
- Startup Office Hours: Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am – noon PST. Open to everyone.
Thursday, 12 July
- Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
Friday, 13 July
Saturday, 14 July
- 2012-07-14 Open Web Camp IV at San Jose, California, USA.
For more future events, see:
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Pieces of our SocialAPI work have started landing
- So have pieces of our native support for sign-into-websites.
- Tim Taubert is picking up the biggest snappy bug of all time bug 650968
- Great work by contributor Saurabh Anand, with help from ehsan and jdm, on per-window private browsing support (bug 758660, bug 722994, bug 722984, many more)
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- 5000 five star reviews in the first 10 days
- 14.0.1 on track with some post-ship fixes
- 15 and 16 already looking like beautiful releases
- We have ARMv6 nightlies building now
Thunderbird
An announcement from Mitchell about how we will organize innovation for Thunderbird: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/
Also, a little more detailled interview http://blog.mozilla.org/beyond-the-code/2012/07/09/about-the-future-of-thunderbird/
And for further details, this Wiki will track how we progress through the plan: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Dietrich, pdx-01 on Vidyo
- Fruitful workweek in Barcelona
- Successful live demo for Telefonica investors conference
- Feature-complete deadline on 7/20
- Detailed weekly status at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-status
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Title Here | 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 |
| Snappy, or using the webcam in web content | Paul Adenot, Chris Lee & Stefan Crane | We implemented a instagram-like using only web technologies during saturday’s hackday. | (Need a special Firefox build, will be in 10fwd) | https://github.com/padenot/snappy |
| Minimalist | Sawyer Hollenshead (ux/design), Kevin Ngo (webdev) | Pretty webapp to build lists to save thoughts, uses local storage and app cache. | http://minimalist.ngokevin.com | http://ngokevin.com/blog/minimalist |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Michael Cooper | James Socol | Mountain View, CA | Web Developer |
| Caitlin Galimidi | Bill Walker | Mountain View, CA | Program Manager, App |
| Andrea Marchesini | Johnny Stenback | Mountain View, CA | Software Engineer, WebAPI |
| Josh Matthews | Johnny Stenback | Mountain View, CA | Software Engineer, DOM/Servo |
| Erik Vold | David Townsend | Mountain View, CA | Software Engineer, Jetpack |
| Melissa O’Connor | mrz | Mountain View, CA | Project Manager, IT |
| Erika Owens | Dan Sinker | Philadelphia,PA Remote | Open News Community Manager |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonas Jensen | Ehsan Akhgari | Toronto | Platform |
Roundtable
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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
Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)
- Affiliates
- 7/3 push to fix a xss vulnerability in the admin area – bug 770333 and bug 770210
- Mozillians
- 7/3 push to deacactivate api – bug 770613 and bug 770494
- MDN
- MDN Kuma work continues – https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/
- Socorro
- SUMO
- Continuous deployment, no updates
- MozTrap
QA Community
Automation & Tools
- Browser Automation W3C spec, based on WebDriver, is due to attain full public working draft status tomorrow
- Security review for datazilla is complete!
- Test your Bugzilla-powered apps with the 4.2 staging server
- More notes and status here
Security
Engagement
PR
- The Firefox Phone: A New Competitor to Apple, Microsoft and Google
- Mozilla developer shows off Firefox OS lock screen
- Firefox OS heading to Sprint, won’t arrive before 2013
- 75% of Google and Apple apps will work on Firefox OS
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
- Demos of MozApps from the Mozilla Apps Hack Day winners: MinimaList (Sawyer Hollenshead & Kevin Ngo) and Snappy (Paul Adenot, Stephen Crane & Chris Lee)
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
People Team
WebFWD
Startup Office Hours! Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am – noon PST – open to everyone.