WeeklyUpdates/2011-12-19
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Video for today’s meeting
Friends of the Tree
Speaker Location: Mountain View
Joe Drew and jdm nominate Mihai Sucan for his incredibly supportive review comments for new contributors, like in bug 704295.
Jean-Yves Perrier (in behalf of the MDN writers team) nominates Florian Scholz for creating and maintaining the Doc Tracker Tools.
Upcoming Events
Speaker Location: Mountain View
This Week
Monday, 19 December
- Brownbag: Why Capture-the-Flag Hacking Contests are fun.
- 2pm Pacific – 10 Forward
- Frederik Braun will present the concept of capture-the-flag style hacking competitions, describe the existing game types, and emphasize each type’s special strategies.
- 2pm Pacific – 10 Forward
Tuesday, 20 December
- Brownbag: Designing for Trust – User Interfaces and Privacy
- 2pm Pacific – 10 Forward
- Ilana Westerman will be speaking about her firm’s experience with user testing privacy workflows and user expectations in mobile phones and mobile UIs.
- 2pm Pacific – 10 Forward
Wednesday, 21 December
- Wednesday is SUMO Day! Help Firefox users and those who upgraded to Firefox 9 on the contributor-powered Firefox support forum.
Thursday, 22 December
Friday, 23 December
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox
Speaker Location: Toronto
- FF9 release tomorrow for desktop and mobile (including the sexy new tablet UI)!
- Migration day is tomorrow
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Drumbeat
- No voice update this week
- Check out our new weekly round-up of news and press
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Your Name Here | What are you going to talk about? | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information | What location will you be transmitting from? |
Aakash Desai | Mozillians.org Dashboard Demo | Metrics Dashboard (Click on “Mozillians.org”) | Mountain View | |
John Slater | mozilla.org Redesign / One Mozilla | One Mozilla Blog | SF | |
Cheng Wang | SUMO Day is Wednesday! | [1] | SUMO Blog | MV |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Test Execution
- WebQA
- QA Community
- Automation Services
- Released Selenium IDE 1.5.0
- Released FlynnID for registering Selenium nodes to Selenium Grid
- Blog post: Hooking Android up the the (Selenium) Grid
Automation & Tools
- Restarted cross browser startup test. Getting data, but now finding bugs in the dashboard. You can see some data here
- BMO/Pulse integration is being reviewed
- BMO/Orange Factor (war on orange) integration in security review
- Landing patches to get reftests turned on for native fennec
- Robocop (native fennec UI automation) is landing this week
- More updates here
Security
Date / Time | Item |
---|---|
Wed Dec 21 / 13:00 PST | AVAILABLE |
Thu Dec 22 / 10:00 PST | ThunderBird Big Files |
Fri Dec 23 / 10:00 PST | HOLIDAY |
General Meeting Details * IRC Channel: #security * Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview * Dial-in Info: ** In office or soft phone: extension 92 ** 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 624
Engagement
PR
- Zooey Deschanel, Jonah Hill, Other Celebs Compete In Mozilla Firefox Charity Challenge
- Mozilla teams up with celebs like Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen for social good
- Mozilla Firefox Challenge Pits 12 Celebs in Battle of the Most Charitable
Events
Creative Team
Community Marketing
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Apps
- As of 12/16 2580 total registrants to the Developer Preview
- Smooth launch of both the Developer Preview and Apps Developer Community on MDN
Note: Can all Mozillians please register asap for the Developer Preview.
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? |
Tasha Simpson | Jane Finette | Mt View | Tasha is joining the User Engagement team for 4 weeks working on various consumer content projects. |