All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
- Happy Birthday to williamr from all of the Mozilla Community
- Many thanks to bgrins, Gijs, jryans, khuey, mccr8, njn, past, roc, smaug, and ttaubert for dropping everything to investigate and fix the leaks that were keeping the tree closed for 2 days last week.
Upcoming Events
Monday, 04 November
- 13:00 PST : SecReview – Simple Push Server
- vidyo and dial-in details available via the link
Tuesday, 05 November
- 10:30 PST : Appmaker Weekly Meeting
- come help us deliver upon the promise of Appmaker!
- vidyo and dial-in details available via the link — 10:30 this week only, usually 10:00
Wednesday, 06 November
- 12:00 PST : Brownbag: Firefox OS Field Tests in Colombia: Results and Opportunities
- Learn about a User Experience Research trip to Colombia in August, 2013. We tested our phones on 24 middle-class Colombians for 3 weeks. Find out what happened! Open to Mozilla volunteers and paid staff.
Thursday, 07 November
- 9:00 PST : Manager Hacking
- After skipping our October session because of the Summit, ManagerHacking is back for November. With 5 sessions under our belt, this seems like a good time to take stock of the program. To that end, we are interested in hearing what YOU want/need from a program like this. As such, the Nov session will be a planning/brainstorming session led by Dia on future topics and session structure (discussions, presentations, etc). This is your chance to influence the direction of this program!
Friday, 08 November
- 12:00pm to 1:30pm: Community Building workshop in Portland Mozilla Space hosted by Benjamin Kerensa
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- FF25 looks solid
- Learn to love the feature keyword in bugzilla
- seer! bug 881804
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: (remote) mfinkle
- Tracking feedback on Fx25 release
- Landed more cleanup and performance improvements to Fx26 and Fx27
- Started planning work for Fx28. See team notes and the roadmap for more details.
Webmaker
Speaker Location: no verbal update this week
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:’ Sandip Kamat (Vidyo)’
- Mozilla Blog (10/31/13): After Brazil, Firefox OS now in Mexico, Peru, Uruguay. With that, FxOS devices are now available in parts of 3 continents (Europe, South America and North America). Thank you, all!
- Version 1.2 (koi+ bugs): Focus on driving 1.2 blocker count to 0. Code Complete 12/16/13. Only blocker bug-fixes accepted hereon!
- Version 1.3: We are in Sprint 4. Please pre-test for no performance regressions as you check-in code.
Sprint 4 = 10/28 – 11/08;
Sprint 5 = 11/11 – 11/22;
Sprint 6 = 11/25 – 12/06;
- Future Versions: FxOS Product long term Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Getting to a Million Mozillians
Here are some tips and suggestions for people who are interested in learning more about bringing new contributors in to your project.
- Who: You have connected with some volunteers and you’re interested in learning about how to build on what’s working so more people can join.
- Read Margaret’s great blog post about increasing participation on the Firefox for Android team that has 5 helpful tips in it
- Check out the recently awarded Mozilla badges to get an idea of how some teams are recognizing contributors.
- Watch a couple of these videos that have been created by community builders for people interested in community building.
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location : San Francisco
- Welcome Knowles, Opsec
- SRE team had an epic triage and their bug queue dropped by 40%
- Dumitru Gherman presented a session (with Emma Irwin) on Webmaker last week at MozFest
- Mike Poessy @ SFO servicedesk reduced imaging time for windows machines from a couple of hours to 20 mins
- Jake Watkins worked on https://github.com/dividehex/metric-collective, Mark and Q worked on improving Windows imaging for release engineering and Dustin helped setup Puppet for the Auto tools team.
Speakers
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 |
Mathew Caldwell | Recruiting Cheerleader | Our new Careers site | Mountain View | Yes – My browser to show the new career site | ||
Sylvie Veilleux | VP IT | Response to question – do we have a plan to migrate away from the proprietary Vidyo client + flash to something based on WebRTC for our meetings? If so, do we have a timeline for this? | San Francisco (+ Jb remotely, if needed) | |||
Mike Hoye | Engineering Community Manager | DashCon 2014: The Mozilla Dashboarding Convention | Toronto | Happening in the Vancouver MozSpace, January 14th, open to all. | A longer post on the way dev-planning shortly. |
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 |
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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 Volunteers
New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
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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 |
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Andreas Tolfsen | Jonathan Griffin | Toronto | London | Marionette and B2G Automation |
Sevaan Franks | Ian Barlow | Toronto | Toronto | Firefox UX \o/ |
Melinda Salazar | Tony Santos | Remote | Remote | UX Designer |
Vance Chen | Thomas Ho | SFO (recorded) | Taipei | Firefox OS – Technical Account Manager |
Wilson Page | Hema Koka | Mountain View | London | Firefox OS – Frontend Software Engineer |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.
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