All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla
Rika Pi, new QA contributor, has been finding new bugs and confirming incoming bugs on Firefox Desktop, Android, and Metro. Thanks!
Thanks to Jennie Rose Halperin for her awesome help managing the localization process for the new contributor research project!
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, 11 March
- The Add-ons for Australis contest starts today! Create add-ons that take full advantage of the new design by April 15 to win Firefox OS phones and Mozilla gear. A panel of judges will pick one winner and two runners-up from each prize category. Get all the details here: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/australis-overview/. Help us spread the word by using the #addonsforaustralis hashtag.
Wednesday, 12 March
- 18:30-19:30 Homebrew Website Club meetup @MozSF First Floor.
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Australis workweek killed 60+ bugs en route to beta
- Sync workweek this week in SF
- Dev tools workweek did okay, too.
- Privacy for programmers training wants your feedback
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Progress on third party integration into the home screen (aka “hub”) – test out the demo addons
Webmaker
Speaker Location: nonverbal
- We hosted a Science Fair at the DML conference last week in Boston. Here’s how it went.
- Webmaker.org has a bunch of cool new features.
- For Open Education Week, Doug Belshaw is moderating an online discussion on our Google+ Webmaker Community this week.
Open Badges
Speaker Location: nonverbal
Last week, we launched Mozilla BadgeKit, the new set of open, foundational tools to make the badging process easy. BadgeKit:
- Supports key stages in the badging experience including creating, designing, assessing and issuing.
- Includes remixable templates and milestone badges allowing for easy customization.
- Provides modular and open options (standards) for the community of badge makers to use and build upon within their existing sites or systems.
Availability of BadgeKit:
- Open now in private beta for select partner organizations that meet specific technical requirements.
- Apply for access to the private beta hosted version.
- Grab the code for each tool within Github.
Mozilla Science Lab
Speaker Location: nonverbal
- Our Director Kay Thaney is in Nairobi right now for a workshop that kicks off tomorrow focusing on discoverability and openness of African scholarship.
- Read her blog post on thinking open and thinking globally in science.
- Follow the hashtag #scholarAfrica to learn more.
[Policy & Advocacy]
Speaker Location: nonverbal
- This week marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. To celebrate the birth of the Web, Mozilla is participating in the Web at 25 and Web We Want campaigns launching later this week.
- Find the campaign at webat25.org later this week.
- Stay tuned to see how you can contribute to an interactive quilt that will enable people to fill in a message with the type of Web that people want.
[Open News]
Speaker location: nonverbal
- We’ve launched Source Guides, a batch of topical collections of advice and tutorials on data journalism and source in the newsroom. More collections to come!
Firefox Student Ambassadors
Speaker Location: Written update
Interested in learning more about the Firefox Student Ambassador Program? Join us tomorrow for ‘Office Hours’ over IRC to get some info and ask your questions!
- Tuesday, March 11th
- 7:30am Pacific/ 5:30pm CEST/ 9:00pm IST/ 3:30pm UTC
- IRC: #firefoxstudents
Identity
Speaker Location: Vidyo
Last Friday, we announced that Persona is transitioning to community ownership. You can read more on the Identity blog at http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership
The most important points:
- Mozilla is still supporting Persona. We’re just not funding new feature development.
- Many of the original paid contributors are still working on Persona in their free time, alongside long-time community contributors.
- Persona is Open Source! Join us in #identity and #persona and help us fix authentication on the web! 🙂
As for why the change is happening: Read the blog post! In short, we didn’t see as much adoption as we were hoping for by this point, nor did we see a clear path to adoption by other browsers / major email providers. Instead of piling on features, we’ve decided to keep Persona focused on what we know it does well: simple, email-based authentication.
Questions? Please feel free to get in touch with me: https://mozillians.org/u/callahad/
Speakers
| 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 |
| Mihca Anderson | HR Business Partner | Removing roadblocks to productivity | Mountain View | No | N/A | https://blog.mozilla.org/people/2014/03/06/removing_roadblocks/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/People:removing_roadblocks_to_productivity |
| Mike Hoye | Community Manager | Code Firefox | Mozilla Toronto | No | None | http://CodeFirefox.com and http://www.amara.org/en/search/#/?q=codefirefox |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Barnell | Albert Villarde | Mountain View | San Francisco | Network Engineering |
| Lilian Castro | Denelle Dixon – Thayer | Mountain View | San Francisco | Executive Assistant |
| David Durst | Wil Clouser | Mountain View | Remote – VA | Web Engineering |
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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)
Release Engineering
- We deployed a new version of the mesa libraries to the Amazon’s test instances
- See announcement and let us know of any issues
Engagement
Events
- GDC 2014
- The Platform, Marketplace, and Developer Relations teams are proud to support Mozilla’s presence at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco next week, where the Mozilla Games Initiative will be showcasing some great demos of our current capabilities and presenting our plans for the future of gaming at Mozilla.
- Martin Best, Vladimir Vukicevic, Alon Zakai, Luke Wagner, Angelina Fabbro, and Bill Maggs will be speaking, and there will be several important and exciting announcements
- There will be a quick presentation at next Monday’s MoCo meeting about our presence at GDC.
- GDC Website
- Contact Robyn Chau (robyn@mozilla.com) with questions.
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