Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

14-January-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-01-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Bob Thulfram for his series of detailed blog posts on game programming for Firefox OS. So far this month he’s covered localStorage, asyncStorage and IndexedDB as well as two game reviews!
  • Thanks to Nishanth Anchala, and the entire team of student organizers at Techfest, IIT Bombay for bringing and supporting Mozilla and Firefox OS to one of Asia’s largest tech conferences.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 14 January

  • 1300 PST: Security Champions
    • Vidyo room 624
    • IRC: #security

– US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
– Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
– Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
– Conference num 9624

Wednesday, 15 January

  • Homebrew Website Club Meeting, 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla SF and @ESRIPDX. Description:

    Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

    If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever…

    Any questions? See the wiki page or feel free to contact Tantek (Mozilla SF host for the meeting).

Saturday, 18 January

  • CHICAGO. Hive Chicago: gearing up for a big Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding digital badges.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

  • Desktop team is at a work week this week, no update (but more to come, soon!)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Work continues on integrating FxAccounts into Firefox for Android (and Desktop)
  • Pageload throbber is dead, long live the progressbar
  • Look for tab sharing/streaming sometime soon

Firefox OS

  • 1.3 stabilization is still priority #1
  • APC Paper is shipping (movie)!

Webmaker

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Open Badges

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Open Badges Year in Review. Interactive timeline and blog post on what the Open Badges community accomplished in 2013
    • Highlights: launching 1.0 in March. Building a badge system for the city of Chicago. Bill Clinton committed to reaching 2 million people through badges with Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation. Zeroing in on BadgeKit. + more

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal


Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)

And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!

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!

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
Erin Knight Open Badges Open Badges Year in Review Internetz (Remote) Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00! For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and
2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Please say hello and help us welcome our new Fellows, who will be in SF for the week for onboarding! Mozilla SF office Meet the Fellows: http://opennews.org/fellowships/2014meet.html n/a n/a
Brian Anderson Research Engineer, Rust Rust 0.9 MV office n/a n/a https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/007753.html
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
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
Eugen Sawin Bradford Lassey Mountain View Germany Remote Software Engineer – FFOS
Douglas Sherk Faramarz Rashed Mountain View Toronto Office Software Engineer – FFOS
Robert Rayborn Matthew Grimes Mountain View San Francisco User Advocacy
Joni Savage Ibai Garcia Mountain View Seattle Content Manager
Lawrence Lin Brian Huang Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer
Penton Sun Natasha Ma Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office PR Manager
Amy Lee Patryk Adamczyk Toronto Office Toronto Office Visual Designer – FFOS
Daniel Stenberg (:bagder) Jason Duell Seattle Sweden Networking Stack (HTTP, etc).
Aleh Zasypkin Mark Finkle Remote Germany (Berlin Office) Software Engineer – FxMetro

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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)

IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

60 Seconds with IT for 1/13/2014:

• On Saturday we moved the tegra (Android 2.2) infrastructure from MTV to one of our Santa Clara datacenters. Thanks to amazing efforts by the team, we were able to complete the entire takedown/back online cycle in 8 hours – a fraction of the budgeted 48.

• All of the android 2.2 mobile infrastructure is now in an environment with higher availability and faster recovery time.

• This move also marks the last significant chunk of releng infrastructure out of the MTV, which paves the way for us being able to move to the new office without a tree closing interruption to developers.

• We’re now running a locally caching resolver on every system in our data centers, this will reduce the load on our internal dns services and increase the reliability of services that depend on dns.

• migration of volumes (some IT internal, but all of the product delivery volumes) to new, bigger, better, faster, clustered filer, which should allow us to keep running with fewer disruptions in the future.

• SSH access to PaaS apps is now working with the Mozilla datacenter VPN, providing easy and reliable developer shell access to their application instances.

The benefits of all this to you?
– Higher availably
– Faster recovery time
– More reliable services


  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600

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