Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla
April Morone for adding her app to the marketplace store
Daniele Scasciafratte for stepping up and helping on the Contributor Social Media team – hes stepped up as the newest admin for the Mozilla Contributors group
Western Oregon University students for diving in to the project and working on bugs across the project during the last term.
Portland State University students for their Capstone project on Network Activity and Battery Drain in Mobile Web Apps and for sharing their findings on the Hacks blog. Thanks to Tim Huynh, Casey English, Nathan Kerr, Scott Anecito, Brianna Buckner, Ryan Niebur, Sean Mahan, Bin Gao and their Mozilla mentor, Dietrich Ayala.
Upcoming Events
This Week
- Check out a website/tool developed for academic dissertation work to help Mozilla developers better understand the codebase and communication structure. Help out by participating in a short 15 minute interview on IRC. Contact Patrick to setup an interview time (IRC: carlsonp, email: carlsonp@iastate.edu). Cheers!
Monday, 27 April
- Weekly Bug Triage Day
- EmpireJSCONF 2015 Held in NYC April 26/27th
- Two day conference for the Javascript community.
- Soledad Penadés speaking on: Web components and experimental mobile UI audio+p2p wifi+whatnot (next level js)
Tuesday, 28 April
- The Well Tempered API 1pm PDT – brownbag in MTV Commons and Air Mozilla. Discover the links between API abstractions and centuries old music. (Probably the only coding talk you’ll ever see with live music examples on the electric bassoon.)
Wednesday, 29 April
- SuMo Mobile and b2g meeting 9am pt in #sumo or the SuMo vidyo room or 5pm UK time
- Experience the rollercoaster of software development by watching a real engineer hack on Firefox! The Joy of Coding: Episode 12 streams LIVE at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Air Mozilla. Perfect for your morning, afternoon, or late afternoon tea. Previous episodes with summaries available here, and mirrored to YouTube here.
Next Week
– There will be a contributors meeting on Tuesday moderator live for it please ask questions
https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-contributor-meeting
– Interns start arriving in the San Francisco and Toronto offices!
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox and Cloud Services
Speaker Location: Dave Camp/Mountain View
- Take a look at the Aha for Pocket integration: https://mozilla.aha.io/published/809d6d2e5fd193e0a8e833560fdb4fe0?page=1
- Mihai Șucan
- Mihai’s blog post: http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog/touched
- The Sohana Research Fund
- Debra UK and international.
- The EB research partnership.
Content Services
Speaker Location: Kevin Ghim | NYC
- Suggested Tiles
- Content Services will be landing Suggested Tiles in Fx39
- Links and Stuff
- Ed Lee’s technical blog post: http://ed.agadak.net/2015/04/whys-and-hows-of-suggested-tiles
- dev.planning threads:
- Bugs filed for to Improve technical guarantees for Suggested Tiles launch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158230
- More blogs, wikis, product page updates and brownbags to come before Suggested Tiles launch
Webmaker
Andrew Sliwinski (Portland)
- Webmaker for Android
- Team pushing towards alpha release
- Developing content and localization for our launch markets
- US
- UK
- Canada
- Brazil
- Indonesia
- Bangladesh
- Kenya
- https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-app/tree/v1
- Chicago Field Research
- User testing
- Ethnographic study
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 |
| Dan Sinker | OpenNews | OpenNews Updates: SRCCON & the Coral Project | Chicago, IL | no | no slides | Coral Project and OpenNews |
| Andy McKay | Canada Bill C-51 | Bill C-51 | Vancouver | no | no | Visit Stop C-51 to contact your MP and see Mozilla position |
| Toby Elliott | Geolocation service | Mountain View | no | no |
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? |
| David Weir (contributor) | B2G devices. | As being a long time contributor for Mozilla is their any flame devices going I can test and let users in the UK know how great b2g is? |
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 | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new volunteer? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be contributing from? | What will the new person be working on? |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Niolet | Michaela Smiley | Alexandria, VA | Durham, NC | Community Marketing (Email Marketing Manager) |
| Liz Hull | Michaela Smiley | Alexandria, VA | Norfolk, VA | Community Marketing (Social Media Manager) |
| Chelsea Novak | Mary Colvig | San Francisco | Toronto (home office today) | Community Marketing |
| Andrew Losowsky | Dan Sinker | Chicago, IL | New York City | Coral Project, project lead |
| Andre Natal | Dylan Oliver | Mountain View | Brazil Remote | Firefox OS Developer |
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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 579089 The default Hardware and Operating-System fields now default to “Unspecified/Unspecified” instead of the reporter’s platform
- This can be overwritten per-product, file a bug if you own a product and want this changed
- bug 1151830 GitHub Auth is now enabled, allowing non-powerful accounts to sign in using their github credentials.
Engagement
- Dial-in: conference# 8600
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 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/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
- CA/Ontario/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