WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-12
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Video for today’s meeting
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Friends of the Tree
Speaker Location: Mountain View
jdm nominates philor, Ms2ger and edmorley for their firefighting efforts when Firefox refused to continue building on Windows for a while.
blizzard nominates Pat McManus for his work on WebSockets, which is now an RFC! – http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455
Upcoming Events
Speaker Location: Mountain View
This Week
Monday, 12 December
Tuesday, 13 December
- Brown bag with Google’s Innovation Director, Alberto Savoia, 12pm PST Ten Forward, Mountain View
- Title: The Pretotyping Manifesto – Make sure you are building the right ‘it’ before you build ‘it’ right.
Wednesday, 14 December
- Intern Presentations – 12pm PST Ten Forward
Thursday, 15 December
- WebFWD Summit in MV (Agenda: http://people.mozilla.com/~pfinette/summit.html)
- Noon PST Ten Forward (MV): Brownbag – The WebFWD teams present their respective solutions/products
- 5pm PST Ten Forward (MV): Mixer – Information & RSVP here: http://webfwd-mixer.eventbrite.com/
- Digital Media and Learning Competition Stage 2 Webinar 1:00pm EST / 10:00am PST (http://dmlcompetition.net) Register here: http://t.co/wibpGEnx
- Intern Presentations – 2pm PST Ten Forward
Friday, 16 December
- WebFWD Summit (Agenda: http://people.mozilla.com/~pfinette/summit.html)
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)
Speaker Location: Toronto
- Migration week next week!
- UAC disabling service very close to landing (OMG SILENT UPDATE)
Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 – 8.0)
Speaker Location:
Mobile Firefox
Speaker Location: Toronto
- Mobile is now once again building off of mozilla-central
- It is also killing it. Get get some.
Thunderbird
Speaker Location: No voice update this week
- Using or wanting to use Thunderbird Beta? Need Lightning? Check out the developer channel on the AMO page.
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Drumbeat
Speaker Location: No voice update this week.
Lightning presentation on Open Badges to follow.
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.
| Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carla Casilli
carla@mozillafoundation.org |
Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure | http://openbadges.org/
mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/badge-lab |
Digital Media & Learning Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning (dmlcompetition.net) —
Stage 2: Badge System Models & Design slides to review at your leisure |
Los Angeles (calling in) |
| Ragavan Srinivasan | Mozilla’s Apps Project | No slides | previous emails to all@mozilla.com | Mt. View |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Desktop Firefox
- Mobile Firefox
- Open Web Apps
- WebQA
- AMO 6.2.7: http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
- SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-12-06 – released 12/8
- Mozilla.com 4.9
- QA Community
- QA Automation Services
- Selenium 2.15 has been released
- David Burns wrote up how he got involved with Mozilla
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla Chairwoman Sheds Light on Firefox Priorities
- Interview with Mozilla Foundation’s Mitchell Baker
- Facing Trouble, Mozilla Argues Importance of Firefox
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
- Aiming for a release 12/13 for Apps Documentation to be live on MDN and the launch of the Apps Developer Preview.
- Announcement will be on the Hacks blog
- There will be 3,000 developers allowed into the Developer Preview on a first come first serve basis.
- Note: All Mozillians will have access to the Developer Preview via a separate url that will be shared directly after the preview is live
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| New person’s name here | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |