Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

12-May-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-05-12

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to community member Nicolas [:qll] for contributing a security section to the WebDev Bootcamp!
  • Thanks to community members Errietta Kostala, Georgiana, Afshin Mehrabani, François Marier, Neil Bleasdale (twice!) and Bernd Loeber for replacing inline scripts and styles with safer alternatives in Firefox’s codebase!
  • Thank you to everyone who participated in the first-ever Marketplace Day last Thursday. A few dozen volunteers and staff got together online and collaborated, filing bugs, running tests, translating strings, updating documentation, and working on visual design. We look forward to connecting again at the next Marketplace Day in June (date TBD).
  • Congratulations to Andreas Wagner [:TheOne], who became the 5th most prolific add-on reviewer of all time (and 2nd among volunteers), with over 4,000 add-on reviews since he began contributing in 2009. Because he is made of Awesome, he also has a few hundred app reviews under his belt, and recently collected a Firefox security bounty to boot.
  • Thanks to community members Andre Garzia, Elisa Xitlali, Daniel Anez Scott, and Inma Barrios for their fantastic localization work on Apps Blog Mother’s Day posts in Spanish and Portuguese.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 15 May

  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 16 May

Next Week

Wednesday, May 21st – Mozillians Town Hall (2014 Goals) – Add Services to our Product Lines / Account Services

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

One of Mozilla’s goals this year is to increase the size of the community by 10 times.

Help us reach that goal (and look good while doing it) by using one of your two new MozLove t-shirts to bring in a new contributor.

Not sure how to do that? Check out this simple 3 step guide to connect new people to Mozilla:

  • Tell them about our mission
  • Tell them we need their help
  • Tell them where to find opportunities

To get more help with connecting people to projects at Mozilla, come to the Grow Mozilla discussion this Thursday at 10 pacific or join the discussion on the community-building@mozilla.org mailing list.

Firefox Marketplace

Please mark your calendars for an Apps and Marketplace Town Hall at 10am PDT, Thursday, May 29th. We’ll show some cool demoes, talk about the awesome stuff we’re doing, and show how Mozillians can help.

IT

Speaker Location: mjeffries, San Francisco

A/V issues update

IT/Operations is working to reduce AV issues overall. We are prioritizing these issues based on user needs and requirements, because ultimately Video Conferencing should be like making a phone call. It just works. So please take this opportunity to let us know what is important to you when it comes to Vidyo and how it could be better. We are excited to get your feedback

Please note we are looking for feedback on the VidyoDesktop Client specifically (vs. using Vidyo in a conference room, where it’s not run from your laptop).

https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1DtAMfbgnz7E-IMMMQYRzKBOAeFysgIGF9XRjOrv2ie4/viewform?usp=send_form

Data Center Move Update

As you know, IT is moving from scl1 to scl3 for
cost savings (over $900K saved so far, and growing!).
The “end user visible” part of the process will be starting early on
Monday May 19, and continue for approx. 5-6 weeks. We’ll be announcing
the details during various engineering meetings next week.

The long term benefits include:
 – continued cost reduction
 – faster response time for technical issues

The short term impact includes:
  – only impacts engineering
  – build farm capacity will be degraded at times (especially M-Tu)
  – no tree closures are anticipated.
  – releng will be extra busy during the moves.

We’ll push a more detailed note to the dev-platform list,so you can direct any followup questions there. Check it out:
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)

  • Bing maps works now in Firefox for Android :applause-emoji:
  • techmundo.com.br (top 100 in Brazil) now recognizes Firefox OS as a mobile device (+ua-override removed)
  • nzherald.co.nz also sending Firefox OS users to mobile sites.
  • Up-and-coming furniture startup ikea.com also recognizes Firefox OS as a mobile device.
  • Check out the Firefox Site Compatibility project started by Kohei Yoshino if you are interested in tracking, documenting, or otherwise learning about backward compatibility and regressions in Firefox.

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
Laura Thomson Release Engineering Data center move SCL1->SCL3 Remote No n/a http://www.laurathomson.com/2014/05/data-center-consolidation-or-how-to-save-900k-a-year/
Kristin Baird Working on MozCamp MozCamp India San Francisco No No https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamps_2014 (WIP)
Mardi Douglass Town Halls 2014 Goals Town Halls Schedule Seattle (remote) No No https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014_Goals_Town_Hall_Schedule#Top_Line_2014_Goals_Schedule
Michael Verdi Help Firefox users Inviting you all to take a couple of minutes to help Firefox users San Antonio (remote) No – talk is pre-recorded Yes – Video Playing from SFO https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/help-firefox-29-users-sumo
https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2014/05/09/whats-up-with-sumo-may-9-3/
Michael’s Video: https://air.mozilla.org/help-answer-firefox-questions/
Chris Riley Sr. Policy Engineer Net Neutrality, Week 2 San Francisco No No https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2014/05/05/protecting-net-neutrality-and-the-open-internet/
Christie Koehler Mozilla Wiki Mission and Scope Requesting feedback on our proposed mission and scope for the Mozilla Wiki. Portland No No blog post with details, proposed mission and scope
Kensie Connor Reps Community IT Toronto (remote) No No communityit on IRC, mission statement, Discourse category

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
John Lu Tim Chien Taipei Office Taipei Office Firefox OS
Kilik Kuo / Kershaw Chang Marco Chen Taipei Office Taipei Office Firefox OS
Gerry Chang Al Tsai Taipei Office Taipei Office Firefox OS
Tamara Hills Faramarz Rashed Mountain View New Jersey Firefox OS
Kit Cambridge Toby Elliott MV SF Cloud Services
David Garvey Derek Moore SF SF DC-Ops
Jeffrey Garver Denelle Dixon-Thayer SF SF Legal – Employment & Product

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Christian Weiss Matthew Claypotch Mountain View Mountain View Apps Engineering
Paul Nispel Jonathan Eads Mountain View San Francisco Automation & Tools
Gabriel Luong Heather Arthur Mountain View San Francisco Developer Tools
Connor Brem Jordan Santell Mountain View San Francisco Developer Tools
Eric Edens Chenxia Liu Mountain View San Francisco Firefox for Android
Shihua Zheng Ben Turner Mountain View San Francisco Platform Engineering – WebAPI
Anhad Jai Singh Hal Wine Mountain View San Francisco Release Engineering
Pranav Maddi Bhavana Bajaj Mountain View Mountain View Release Management
Luqman Aden Brian Anderson Mountain View Mountain View Research
Vincent St-Amour Shu-yu Guo Mountain View San Francisco Research
Corey Richardson Brian Anderson Mountain View Mountain View Research
David Hayden Demerson Zhenshuo Fang Mountain View San Francisco User Experience Design
Aabha Biyani Daniel Veditz Mountain View Mountain View Web Security
Jonathan Bailey Mike Lee Mountain View Mountain View Firefox OS
Valentin Tsatskin Francis Djabri San Francisco San Francisco Firefox OS
Sylvain Cleymans Brad Lassey Mountain View Mountain View Mobile Development

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.


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