Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

2-June-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-06-02

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

  • Big thanks to rctgamer3 for identifying and sending us hundreds of spam accounts on AMO.
  • Thanks to the newest member of the volunteer app review team, Jaipradeesh, who has reviewed nearly 350 apps since joining three weeks ago.
  • Thanks to add-on reviewers Diego and Andreas, who reviewed hundreds of add-ons last week, making a huge dent in the queue.
  • Thanks to SuMo Member Satdav for finding a major security bug in nightly firefox for windows related to Java.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 03 June

Wednesday, 04 June

  • Just a reminder this is open to all contributors and not just SuMo SuMo Mobile Meeting- – On vidyo – https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sumo-mobile 10:30am – 11:00am PT on Air Mozilla or Michelle Luna Vidyo Room.

Thursday, 05 June

  • Firefox OS 2.0 Bug Bash – Try out new 2.0 features!
    • Time: 4pm – 7pm PST
    • IRC: #fxosqa
    • Vidyo: QA
    • Dial In: 1-800-707-2533, pass: 369, room: x9245
  • Mozilla Recruiting is hosting a virtual Skills Lab on “How to make your Referrals successful” and will be around to answer your questions on all things Recruiting. no sign up required, just join vidyo room Mozilla_Recruiting or the irc channel #recruiting
    • Time: 8:30am PDT-10:00am PDT
  • 5PM UTC / 1PM EST / 10 AM PST – Security Open Mic
    • An open meeting to chat anything security related with the Mozilla Security team.
    • Vidyo: SecReview Room // Dial-in Info (phone): – 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 99710

Friday, 06 June

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: Mountain View

One of Mozilla’s goals for this year is to increase the number of active contributors by 10x. That means that many new people will be joining the community and we want to make sure they have a positive experience.

To help new contributors understand more about what they’re getting involved with, we’ve posted draft text of a new volunteer agreement to Governance. I wanted to share the discussion to get feedback and input.

Before reading through it, I’d like to be clear about a couple of points:

  • This is not intended to be a document that people will sign
  • This is not something that applies to existing contributors, just to new people who are joining the community

IT

Speaker Location: mjeffries, Mountain View

VMWare Cluster Migrations – Changing engines at 36K feet without your passengers noticing!

Last month, IT set out to replacing some aging VMWare clusters with shiny new clusters. Being that these new clusters were setup as individual clusters from a clean slate, getting the virtual machines migrated to the new clusters took a bit of strategic engineering. We have published a blog post today outlining the details of our “lifeboat method” of migrating virtual machines from one cluster to another with no downtime or impact. Around 1,000 VMs moved and nobody noticed. Just how we wanted it. Check out this blog post for the technical details of how we did it:

https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2014/06/02/pay-no-attention-to-the-virtualization-behind-the-curtain/

A/V Survey Update

Thanks to all of the submissions to our surveys on Conference Rooms and Vidyo Desktop
We received responses from over 23% of all Mozillians on kudos and points for improvement
Watch this space for upcoming improvements on your A/V experiences!

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
David Boswell Community Building on the People Team @mozilla.org email addresses for volunteers San Francisco No No https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/UsgIRmdv9Kk
Sean Rich Make IT awesome Removing roadblocks to productivity –> Broken Communication Channels San Francisco No No https://etherpad.mozilla.org/1i8Z0jT7Zk
Mardi Douglass Communications Mozillians and World Cup madness Remote No No
Darren Herman Content Services Tiles experiment in Nightly San Francisco if his flight arrives on time (if it doesn’t, Johnath will take this) No No
Lizz Noonan Brand Engagement Coordinator MozCamp 2014 Weekly Update San Francisco No No https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamps_2014
Jim Cook Finance Q1 2014 Product Activity Survey Mountain View No No https://wiki.mozilla.org/Productactivitysurvey

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
Chris Manchester Jonathan Griffin Toronto Remote – NYC Adding structured logging to our test harnesses
Aaron Thornburgh Madhava Enros Toronto SF Firefox User-Experience, focused on Content Services
Tim Spurway Olivier Yiptong (for Ed Lee) Toronto Toronto Firefox Engineering + UP Research, focused on Content Services
MJ Kelly Winston Bowden San Francisco Seattle Digital content strategy for owned media (social media, email engagement, snippets)
Stephanie Hobson Jeff Griffiths Vancouver Vancouver Office MDN Engineering
Matthew Ruttley Darren Herman Mountain View Remote (US) Content Services
Andrew Greenfield Winnie Aoieong San Francisco Office San Francisco Office Finance
Catherine Groswird Bob Moss Mountain View Office Mountain View Office EA for Bob Moss & Johnathan Nightingale
Emily Pierce Lisa Gray Mountain View Office San Francisco Office Converting to FTE but continuing in her role with WPR in awesome office coordination
Rebecca Gorospe Lori Jashinsky Mountain View Office Toronto Office Converting to FTE but continuing in her role with WPR in awesome office coordination

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Vladislav Filippov Zach Carter San Francisco San Francisco Identity/Services Engineering
Gregory A. Norcie Chris Karlof San Francisco San Francisco Identity/Services Engineering
Andrew Greenfield Winnie Aoieong San Francisco San Francisco Finance
Nathan Braswell Jeff Walden Mountain View Mountain View JavaScript Engine
Guptha Rajagopal Sean Stangl Mountain View Mountain View Javascript Engine
Kate Glazko Marcia Knous Mountain View Mountain View Mobile QA
Jeremy Poulin Nick Hurley Mountain View Mountain View Networking
Jonathan Morton Kyle Huey San Francisco San Francisco Platform Engineering
Susanna Bowen Daniel Holbert San Francisco San Francisco Platform Engineering – Layout
Benjamin Brittian Eric Rescorla Mountain View Mountain View Platform Engineering: WebRTC
Ian Connolly Hal Wine San Francisco San Francisco Release Engineering
Carlos Diaz-Padron Jed Parsons San Francisco San Francisco Services Engineering
Dylan Wong Raymond Etornam Agbeame Mountain View Mountain View Web QA
Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran Nick Desaulniers Mountain View Mountain View Emscripten
Basar Koc Tim Terriberry Mountain View Mountain View Research
Catalin Badea John Schoenick Mountain View Mountain View Platform Engineering: DOM
Eli Kariv Jean Collings Mountain View San Francisco Community Engagement
Melissa Martin Jean Collings Mountain View San Francisco User Engagement
Alex Wissmann Marcus Cavanugh Mountain View San Francisco FF OS Engineer
Martin McDonough Randall Barker Mountain View Mountain View Platform Engineering: Mobile
Georgios Kontaxis Monica Chew Mountain View San Francisco Privacy and Security
Lu Wang Alon Zakai Mountain View Mountain View Research
Piyush Waradpande Yvan Boily Mountain View Mountain View Security Assurance
Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte Erik Rose Mountain View Mountain View Adding JS static analysis to DXR
James Hobin Gregor Wagner Mountain View San Francisco
Harsh Pathak Sid Stamm Mountain View Mountain View Security 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)

Automation & Tools

bugzilla.mozilla.org

Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:

  • bug 1014374 CSS files are now served concatenated and minified
  • bug 1003950 Abusive accounts can now be automatically disabled
  • bug 1009216 Clicking on the ‘Whiteboard’ field label now takes you to a wiki page describing common whiteboard tags

All changes.

Policy & Advocacy

  • Personal Democracy Forum — The Policy & Advocacy crew is headed to PDF in New York this week. We are a sponsor of the conference and will be running a session on ‘Re-Imagining Advocacy to Protect the Free and Open Web’. Together with panelists from EFF, Fight for the Future, Engine Advocacy and Facebook, we are hoping to share and hear new ideas to boost the global open web movement.
  • Reset the Net — This week is the anniversary of the first revelations from Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance, in which the world learned that the NSA is exploiting weak links in Internet security to spy on the entire world, twisting the Internet we love into something it was never meant to be. A year ago, Mozilla helped launch StopWatchingUs to apply pressure to leaders for reform. This year, Mozilla will be joining with Fight for the Future and a host of other organizations to launch a new effort called ‘Reset the Net’ to stop mass surveillance by building proven security into the everyday internet. We encourage all Mozillians to visit ResetTheNet to learn about security tools and steps they can take, including take the pledge for better security on June 5th.

  • 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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