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Contents 1 Friends of the Tree 2 Upcoming Events 2.1 This Week 2.2 Monday, 23 January 2.3 Tuesday, 24 January 2.4 Wednesday, 25 January 2.5 Thursday, 26 January 2.6 Friday, 27 January 2.7 Next Week 3 Product Status Updates 3.1 Firefox Desktop 3.2 Firefox Android 3.3 Thunderbird 3.4 Older Branch Work 3.5 Drumbeat 3.6 Identity 4 Speakers 5 Status Updates By Team 5.1 Firefox 5.2 Platform 5.3 Messaging 5.4 Mobile 5.5 IT 5.6 Release Engineering 5.7 QA 5.7.1 Test Execution 5.7.2 WebQA 5.7.3 QA Community 5.7.4 Automation Services 5.8 Automation & Tools 5.9 Security 5.10 Engagement 5.10.1 PR 5.10.2 Events 5.10.3 Creative Team 5.10.4 Community Marketing 5.11 Support 5.12 Metrics 5.13 Evangelism 5.14 Labs 5.15 Apps 5.16 Developer Tools 5.17 Add-ons 5.18 Webdev 5.19 L10n 5.20 People Team 5.21 WebFWD 6 Introducing New Hires 7 Introducing New Interns 8 Foundation Updates 9 Roundtable

Friends of the Tree

• Mohamed Dabbagh for helping out with Apps QA test day and automation

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 January

Tuesday, 24 January

Wednesday, 25 January

• Selenium meetup at Mozilla San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/seleniumsanfrancisco/events/47873402/, 6:30pm

Thursday, 26 January

Thunderbird ESR testing at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26

Friday, 27 January

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• 1 week until migration day
• Firefox ESR plan finalized
• Web devs – check out the style editor (shift-F7) in nightlies

Firefox Android

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

• Native UI is closing in on beta quality, might ride the next train, might not
  • Don’t panic. That’s normal for a big rewrite like this.
  • Finkle blogged about the current state of things
• Sync has landed on nightly for early testing, but expect bugs

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:
Testday This Thursday https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto

• Mozilla & Learning: two exciting upcoming events
  • Wed, Jan 25: Launch of Mozilla’s “Learning, Freedom and the Web” book. 9am – 10am PT. Registration and details here. Chat with the authors and folks featured in the book.
  • Wed, Feb 1: “Teaching the 4th ‘R'”: a fireside chat with author Cathy Davidson on why teaching kids to code is a vital 21st century skill. Registration and details here.

• Also, great coverage of Mozilla’s Open Badges project in the Wall Street Journal
• Crowdsourcing tomorrow’s “State of the Union” address with Universal Subtitles. Part of new partnership between Mozilla, PBS Newshour and CPB: “Open Election 2012”
• Learn more / get involved: join our weekly community calls.

Identity

Speaker Location:

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.

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Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	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
Director Open Innovation Group	Pascal Finette	WebFWD Mailing List & Sticker Galore (!)	<a href=”https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all“>Mailing List</a> & <a href=”http://webfwd.openphoto.me/photos/tags-stickers/list“>Sticker Galore</a>	<a href=”https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all“>Mailing List</a> & <a href=”http://webfwd.openphoto.me/photos/tags-stickers/list“>Sticker Galore</a>
Intern	Santiago Hollmann	Postcard for Manuel Camacho

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • released on 1.18.12
  • Blayne, new contributor will be working on automation
  • rshetty continues to verify releases
  • staging test user account repaired, suite passing again (ZC)
• AMO
  • AMO 6.3.8 is going live today.
  • paypal test is unblocked (Thx Zac)
  • finishing up with focusmanager patch
  • finishing up with tests for apps-preview
• Mozilla.com
  • waiting for 1.2 to ship
• Mozillians
  • 1.3 milestone 1 – 2 weeks out
  • dual authentication is being removed in the backend – MySQL will be the primary, LDAP is going away
• MDN
  • working on 2.1 milestone
  • 2.0 milestone shipped
• Socorro
  • successful release of the 2.4 milestone
• SUMO
  • 1/17 release went out
  • 1/24 release in process

QA Community

Automation Services

• Blog post: Case Conductor pytest plugin proposal
• Blog post: The beginning of a Browser Automation Standard
• Selenium 2.17 release
• David Burns spoke at London Web Performance on Wednesday

Automation & Tools

• Lots of stuff in the works, notes here

Security

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla touts Firefox impact in SOPA blackout
• Mozilla’s SOPA Blackout Reaches 40 Million
• Mozilla reaches 40 million people in anti-SOPA campaign
• Mozilla’s Anti-SOPA Message Reached 40 Million People
• Mozilla’s Anti-Censorship Campaign Reached 40 Million People

• Mozilla’s BrowserID moves forward
• Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords
• Mozilla tackles identity management

• Mozilla is Going to Crowdsource the Translation of the State of the Union

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

• Created framework for new 3-tier structure and learning modules
• Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webfwd-all

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Maire Reavy	Jay Sullivan (MV)	Mountain View	Product Management for Media – WebRTC, Video and other media-related things
Mark LaVine	Erica Jostedt (SF)	San Francisco	Product PR
Camilo Viecco	Sid Stamm (MV)	Mountain View	Privacy Engineering!

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?

Foundation Updates

Roundtable