Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

25-February-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-02-24

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

Thanks to Jeff Potts for all the code he’s been contributing to our community directory, Mozillians.org!

Thanks to Ouesten (Marco Aurélio), Diego Victor, and Anderson for their awesome initiatives on Support Forums and Contributor Forums on SUMO pt-BR.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 26 February

Thursday, 27 February

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • In case you missed it: Report-outs on launching our Gigabit Communities as well as diving into Webmaker Work Week in Toronto on our blog.

Open Badges

Speaker Location: Washington, DC

February 12-13 Summit to Reconnect Learning Announcement Summary:

  • Over seven organizations have pledged their commitment to working with Open Badges within their communities: Pearson, ETS, edX, Workforce.io, The Council for Aid to Education, The Afterschool Alliance, and Hive Learning Networks.
  • A new Badge Alliance has formed, which is a network of organizations and individuals working together to build and support an open badging ecosystem. Erin Knight will lead the Alliance, transitioning out of Mozilla over the coming months.
    • Over 15 organizations have signed up to be founding members of the new Alliance, including Pearson, Blackboard, HASTAC, Digital Promise, Digital Youth Network and much more. You can read more about the Badge Alliance on Erin’s blog [1]:
  • Nine cities are working together towards summer of learning initiatives modeled from last year’s Chicago Summer of Learning, and many will launch pilots this summer using a shared tech platform, as well as shared content and pathways, called the Cities of Learning Tech Package.

Full details of the Summit are available here [2].

Open News

Speaker Location: Chicago

  • Last week, OpenNews launched SourceJobs, a listing of journalism code jobs on the Source website. Additional details can be found in this announcement.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Join the open Software Carpentry lab meeting this week.

IT

Speaker Location:
mjeffries, San Francisco

•WebOps (Brandon Burton and Chris Turra) helped run the Mozilla booth at the SoCaL Linux Expo, demoing Keon and ZTE Open phones and having a great time promoting FirefoxOS at one of the biggest open source conferences in North America

•MWC 2014 is shaping up to be a big milestone for Mozilla, and IT played a key role in making it happen. Here’s a quick update from Albert Villarde from Barcelona:

– First off, hats off to Joel Braddock and Clarissa Sorenson from EUS.  Joel was key to arranging all the logistics and keeping track of all the tasks, dates, and delivery!  Clarissa is on the ground at MWC and has been nothing short of spectacular!  She’s been mostly dedicated to installing FxOS builds and helping the QA team.  

– Second, we’ve partnered with American AV (folks that did the 2013 Summit) to provide onsite support.  This year, we’ve had to cover 2 large venues (MWC and the press event) plus a dozen other offsite gatherings.  We could not have done this without their support.  

– For the press event last night, we worked with the hotel to provide 200Mb capacity for our wifi. Last I heard between 300-400 press showed up.

– At the MWC “Stand” (aka Booth), we’ve prepared 2 transit feeds from the onsite provider (Fira).  Our primary feed is a 100Mb “production” network fit to serve about 800 concurrent connections, of which half are assumed to be phones!  

– In the last couple days, we overcame some logistics hurdles, hardware shortages, vendor network snafus and a power outage lasting 9 hours. Again, we could not have done this without contract help, experience with trade-shows, and quick thinking.

– On Stand, in addition to the transit connection, we prepped reference devices, laptops, mac minis (to run displays), tablets, an over-abundance of adapters of every variation, cables, cell power packs, ELMOS (projectors, not red toys), airports, socket server, roku, printer, switches, wifi controller, APs, 1000′ of ethernet cables, and of course a “control center” to come down to this –> MWC readiness!

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: ATX (miketaylr)

  • wired.com widgets working now
  • instructables.com “get the app” modal actually closes now.
  • Firefox OS mobile site wins: cbs.com (935908), kjendis.no (975924), ndtv.com (974790), www.1and1.fr (964604), allocine.fr (964166), hvg.hu (878234), lancenet.com.br (827576), climatempo.com.br (827631), bumeran.com.ve (828445), arukereso.hu (878222)

Send us your mobile site compat bugs!.

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
Megan Cole Marketing Lead Summit to Reconnect Learning // Badges My house in Washington, DC No N/A http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/77179382403/srl14-a-week-of-reflection-collaboration
Erik Rose Project Lead, DXR Easier, better, prettier searching of Mozilla source trees My glacier-carved lair in North Carolina Yes N/A http://dxr.mozilla.org/ https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2014/02/07/dxr-gets-a-huge-ui-refresh/

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
Kearwood Gilbert Jet Villegas Vancouver Vancouver Platform Engineer
Dethe Elza Wil Clouser Portland Vancouver Marketplace
Jennifer Chaulk Sheila Mooney Mountain View Canada – remote Engineering Program Manager
Richard Pappalardo Edwin Wong San Francisco Mountain View Services QA Engineer
Mike Lien Brian Huang Taipei Taipei Firefox OS QA Engineer

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2014-02-24&oldid=938353“

11-February-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-02-10

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • A BIG THANKS to Aaron Mandel for shooting great video b-roll of the Toronto office for the upcoming press activities around MWC.
  • Thanks to Chris Peterson for donating some time to help the People Team learn more about trains, channels, and testing.
  • Thank you to the incredible team of Mozilla Hispano contributors who answer all Firefox OS support questions in Spanish: AndresMorelos, willyaranda, Nukeador, Gioyik, lestherbj, magiksen, and Feiticeiro.
  • Many thanks to the superheroes who localize Firefox OS support documentation: inma_610, Pedro García Rodríguez, deimidis, Guillermo López Leal, Angela Velo, RickieES, Nukeador, Maria Solà, and Ximena Lasserre. You are the amazing smiling face of Mozilla Support to the Spanish-speaking users of Firefox OS!
  • Huge thanks so all-stars Ricardo Panaggio and Andre Garzia who have been tirelessly helping introduce Appmaker to Brazil. They continue to localize the application, slide decks, talks and are on the ground teaching constantly.
  • An incredibly and ridiculously big shout out and thank you to Justin Potts for his energy and excitement helping the Mozillians team launch the new curated groups feature on Mozillians.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 10 February

This Monday we having another session of making metal tags at lunch in
the SF Commons and MV office at 12:30PST.

The Crafty group wants to recognize contributors with handmade items.
We need you to tell us who you would like to recognize! Also, we would
love you to make crafts with us (no special skills required).

We will be creating handmade gifts. You give us the name, address and
even a very short message, we will send a gift. It would make it more
special if you came and made it yourself, but geographical and time
restrictions are understood and we are happy to be your hammer
swinging stand in. We can probably only do this for the first 20
responders. If there are more, maybe we can do it again!

For contributors you would like recognized we need:
— Name
— Physical mailing address of some sort (nearest Mozilla office the frequent?)
— Some kind of short approx 15 character or less message or we can just
write a generic “Thank you”. But the cool thing is that these can be
customized so think personal.
— IRC handle? It fits nicely on a tag usually.

Please send this information to 831sabina.brown at gmail.com

Tuesday, 11 February

Wednesday, 12 February

Next Week

On-site Data Jedi training using Tableau in San Francisco Feb 18-19th from 10a-3pm for MoCo and MoFo staff. RSVP here: http://sftableauonsite.splashthat.com/ pass=freeweb

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Australis and FFA-Sync on Aurora!

Firefox OS

Webmaker

The mighty Webmaker Workweek scrum board — analog edition

Non-verbal

NEW:Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund

Speaker Location: Lindsey Frost Cleary (Chattanooga)

Gigabit Community Fund launches!

  • Supporting learning on tomorrow’s networks. Our kick-off event in Chattanooga drew more than 200 educators, civic leaders, and community members.
  • The fund’s goal: Help local organizations take advantage of high-speed, gigabit networks to build applications for education and workforce development. Establish Gigabit Hive Learning Communities in Chattanooga and Kansas City.
  • Official launch in Kansas City is this Thursday
  • The Fund application window opens later this month. Stay up to date at our new website or via Twitter: @mozillagigabit

Open Badges

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Four big announcements coming at this week’s Summit to Reconnect Learning:

  • Big Players to issue Open Badges: 5 large new organizations committing to Mozilla’s Open Badges infrastructure — details coming Thursday.
  • Cities of Learning 2014: 10 cities committing to implement the “Cities of Learning” digital badging model. Based on success of last year’s Chicago Summer of Learning.
  • Cities of Learning Tech Package: Powered by Mozilla, Digital Youth Network and partners. Will include a shared technology infrastructure built off of BadgeKit to support each city’s badge system.
  • Badge Alliance: a new alliance to support the Open Badges ecosystem. More details next week.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: Non-verbal

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:Gabes

Firefox Student Ambassadors

Speaker Location: Written Update

Congratulations to our January winners:

  • App of the Month: Abin Abraham’s My Diary app
  • Campus Affiliates Contest: AMU Firefox Club

Want weekly updates on what is going on in the program? Check out our blog for more information.

IT

Ben Sullins | Remote:
Looking for your name on the Mozilla Monument? Checkout our name finder here: http://mzl.la/1bjFHGZ

mjeffries, San Francisco

ServiceNow updates:

  • Focus group forming
  • Changes coming to improve the user experience, and we want your feedback!
  • Join our team: snug@mozilla.com (ServiceNow User Group
  • Invite coming soon on Yammer

Peekaboo:

  • Digital Lobby sign-in is live in MTV & SFO!
  • Peekaboo showcases Mozilla tech (Firefox, Persona) to give guests and visitors a Firefoxy welcome
  • Peekaboo can be delivered on any platform that supports Mozilla Desktop
  • Presently in MTV and SFO – Coming soon to other Moz Spaces

Thanks to the team: Peter Bengtsson, Jason Crowe, Mark Jeffries, Joel Babcock, Laura Thomson, and Lisa Gray.

Patch Yer Flash!

  • Don’t be like this guy:
  • Reminder that if you have not done so, get your FlashPlayer patched!

System Patch Management:

  • If we come a’calling, it’s because your system is at high risk
  • Take it seriously
  • Mozilla’s getting better, and we are on it- but we need your help

Non-NFS hg (mercurial) Node entered production today!
Why is this good?

  • solves repository corruption issues related to NFS faking file consistency
  • enables faster response times
  • saves us significant fractions of a million dollars this year in software licenses/hardware
  • allows us to multi-home mercurial in AWS/CDN

Please ping fubar or bkero in #it with any concerns

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: ATX (miketaylr)

Report mobile site compat bugs.

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
Pete Scanlon Engagement MWC 2014 Update San Francisco – Commons Yes Today’s slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eB1sQBWAeVyDU57DSHOTVxbibDzpcVfU17caYUmTBkI/edit?usp=sharing

Brownbag slides: https://air.mozilla.org/mwc-brownbag/

Rick Fant, David Ascher Update about Labs San Francisco + Vidyo No
William Reynolds Product manager, Community Engagement Curated groups on mozillians.org and better timezones San Francisco No Screenshots: Curated groups, Better timezones Blog posts: Curated groups, Better timezones
Alex Fowler Global Privacy & Policy Leader Stopwatching.us & The Day We Fight Back San Francisco No See https://thedaywefightback.org/

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
Med Ali Batita , Wael Meji , Hamza Latrach , Ramzi Meguelbi Marwa BATITA? ISET Gbaes

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Kamil Jozwiak Marc Schifer SF Toronto Desktop QA Test Engineer
Brady Pannabecker Derek Moore SF SF IT Mozilla Operations Center
Sophana Aik Tim Fairfield MV MV End User Services – Service Desk
Laura Napoli Erica Jostedt SF DC (remote) PR for Latin America
Dave Steer Alex Fowler SF SF Director, Advocacy, Mozilla Foundation
Charles Chen Spinger Wang SF Taipei Business Development
Wayne Chen Thomas Tsai SF Taipei Firefox OS

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2014-02-10&oldid=923283“

4-February-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-02-03

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • jhultmann, developer of the add-on Multifox, which was chosen as February’s Pick-of-the-Month by our Community Board!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 04 February

Mozilla Monument unveiling – Share why you’re a Mozillian on your social channels with the #iamamozillian and watch the stream at iamamozillian.postano.com. If you’re local, join us for lunch in San Francisco (SF Commons @ 12:00pm PST). If not, the lunch-time presentations will be streamed via Air Mozilla.

Wednesday, 05 February

WebFWD hosts the Startup Policy Lab at Moz SF + AirMoz

The Startup Policy Lab addresses issues such as immigration, health care, etc. from the perspective of smaller organizations (e.g. ones without the same resources as say Apple, Microsoft or Google). Wednesday’s event will focus on how the Affordable Care Act impacts entrepreneurs. Details at [1] and streaming on AirMoz at [2]).

Next Week

Members of the Open Badges team are gearing up for the Summit to Reconnect Learning next week, February 12-13, in Redwood City, California. During the conference, a series of large organizations will announce their commitment to working with Open Badges – edX, ETS, Workforce.io, and more. We will share more details after the conference.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: (mfinkle)

  • Working on fixing the “Thanks for using Fennec” banner in Nightly. It appears way too often.
  • FxAccount work hit the Friday deadline. Look for that to get enabled on Nightly soon.
  • Home page customization work week was a great success. That feature and some real-world integrations will ship in Fx30.

Firefox OS

  • Get rocketbar patches landed in master is resolved. This is a significant part of the Haida Firefox OS UX update that’s under way now. Rocket Bar is the system-wide search and addressing feature.
  • There was a regression or two in the keyboard, last week that’s percolating through the testing audience. (Anyone got a status on this? Is it fully resolved?)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Non-verbal

  • Watch this video to get up-to-speed with Webmaker Community team priorities.
  • Join the new, weekly TEACH THE WEB community call on Thursdays at 10am EST/3pm UTC (we merged the Web Literacy call and Mentor Community calls)
  • Mozilla devs represented at HTML500, Vancouver’s “biggest ever tech ed event” — 500+ non-coders learned HTML5 and CSS3 in one day, mentored by 50 tech orgs from Hootsuite to Microsoft.. to *us*.

Open Badges

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Mozilla Badge System Update: The Mozilla Badge System foundational system is defined and being socialized in a variety of channels, Grow Mozilla, Recognition, Open Badges, MoFo Design. More to come next week regarding the system as well a select number of example badges aligning with Mozilla pillars: building products; empowering communities; shaping environments; and teaching & learning.
  • Discovery Project Update: Our Gates Foundation funded Discovery project is well underway. We’ve recently been working with the Mozilla Recruitment team (kudos to them!) and other organizations to identify career pathways and explore how badging can be used to connect individuals to real jobs and to help employers find the talent they are looking for. This project is set to launch in June 2014.
  • Check out this blog post from Chloe Varelidi introducing the Discovery work.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: Non-verbal

Firefox Student Ambassadors

Speaker Location:Written Update

  • We’ve now reached over 10,000 Firefox Student Ambassadors! Celebrate with us by joining in on the conversation on our Facebook page.
  • Last week we launched our program’s landing page (big thanks to Chris More’s team for making this happen). Take some time and check it out here

Summer of Code

Speaker Location:Written Update

Can you think of a 3-month coding project you would love to guide a student through? Now is the right time to propose project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2014.
If you are interested in mentoring a student next summer, add your idea to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode14:Brainstorming

Firefox Marketplace

Speaker Location: written update

LINE social messaging application available now at https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/line !!

Thanks to everyone in Business Development, Partner Engineering, Firefox OS, and QA who made this happen!

IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • DB Engineering – helped fix up slow queries – reach them by filing a bug Server Operations : Database

— More info here! https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2014/02/03/the-power-of-indexes/

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: MTV (miketaylr)

The people involved.

Dogfood tastes good. Report bugs.

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
Peter Bengtsson Pre-recorded Events in Air Mozilla Get your video cameras out! Mountain View Office Yes slides [3]
barry munsterteiger creative instigator Mozilla Monument San Fransisco No https://air.mozilla.org/monument/ in the email I sent on Friday
Amy Tsay Community Manager Add-on pick-of-the-month for February Mountain View Yes N/A https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multifox
Mike Hoye Engineering Community Manager Dashcon, And Victory. Toronto No N/A The DashCon page at WikiMo

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
Adam Stevenson Lawrence Mandel MV Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Web Compatibility
Nicole Fong Karen Ward MV MV Partner Integration
Ruben Olaes Tim Fairfield MV MV End User Services – Service Desk

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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)

Engagement

Events

==== Social Support ====

  • 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
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2014-02-03&oldid=914781“

28-January-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-01-27

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • The AMO community nominates MaDonna, a theme contributor who has designed over 10,000 themes–an amazing feat! Her most popular one, “Sunset Over Water”, has 137,659 users. See all her fabulous designs here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/user/MaDonna/
  • Props to the Mozilla Hispano Localization team for working over the weekend to help localize the 1st Spanish-language issue of “Firefox Apps & Hacks” – our monthly developer-facing newsletter. Thank you Hanna, Alma, Pablo B, & Daniel! (localizacion@mozilla-hispano.org)

Upcoming Events

Monday, 27 January

Are you #crafty? Mozilla Crafty, a collection of Mozillians who make all manner of crafty items in the name of Mozilla, would like to invite you to join us and make stuff after our regular project meeting.

This week, we’re metal stamping! Tag a keychain or other metal item with your initials, favorite bug number, or whathaveyou on it, along the lines of this: https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/01/03/1531/. All tools and materials provided. Also, feel free to bring your lunch.

It’s 12:15-1:15pm PST today in

  • San Francisco: Community Building Room
  • Mountain View: Warp Core

with a simulcast vidyo in the CBT room (we wish we could send all our remoties stamping supplies, but bear with us as we try this out for the first time)

Want to join us as we take over the world? Check us out at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Crafty or on IRC at #crafty

Tuesday, 28 January

  • 07:00 PST : Security Champions
    • see curtisk in #security if you want details otherwise on vidyo 624
  • Tuesday, the 28th of January, at 12pm Pacific, the Strategy and Insights team will present the FirefoxOS 2014 Strategy on Air Mozilla, live from Ten Forward. We will go through what our priorities for the year are for achieving volume and differentiation. You will learn the current plan of record and the direction we are taking to further investigate and focus our actions. See you there (also recorded on AirMozilla).
  • International Privacy Day
  • Tuesday, January 28th, 21:00 UTC (1:00pm PST): ‘User Data & You: What should privacy mean for programmers?’ presented by Firefox Engineer, Allison Naaktgeboren in SFO Commons & Air Mozilla. See Air Mozilla for more info: https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-training-starting-the-conversation/

Wednesday, 29 January

Join the Mobile World Congress 2014 Core team for a presentation on what we are doing at the show this year. Learn more about our event activities, see the Mozilla stand designs and learn how you can get involved.

  • January 29, 2014
  • 10.00 (PST)/18:00 (UTC)
  • Live from SF First Floor Commons/10FWD
  • Broadcasted and Recorded on AirMozilla

Thursday, 30 January

  • Flicks Retrospective Brownbag, Thursday, January 30, 2014 11 AM PST Live in SFO Commons, Streaming in MTV Ten Forward, Toronto Commons and Air Mozilla. We will also be in #airmozilla on IRC.
  • “The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value” Guest speaker: Co-author and privacy expert, Michelle Dennedy, Thursday, January 30, 2014, 23:00 UTC (3:00pm PST) SFO Commons, MTV 10 Fwd, Air Mozilla. See Air Mozilla for more info: https://air.mozilla.org/the-privacy-engineers-manifesto/

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • m-c is still 29, remember?
  • And what a 29:
    • Australis?!
    • Sync?!
    • Onboarding?!
    • wow. so feature. very design. wow.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: (mfinkle) SF

  • Meetup for Home page integration
  • Meetup for FxAccounts
  • Continued push on pageload, startup and memory usage improvements
  • Native APKs for webapps landed

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Adam Rogers

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

  • Maker Party success. 500 youth attended the Destination: Chicago Maker Party led by Hive Chicago last week. Photos here
  • Mozilla Gigabit Community Funds. Launching next week in Chattanooga (Feb. 6) and Kansas City (Feb. 13). Goal: support local communities building education and workforce development opportunities on high-speed gigabit networks. Register and drop by in Chattanooga or Kansas City.

Open Badges

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • BadgeKit Progress: Launched a clickable BadgeKit prototype with some working code last week. Now testing with participants from Chicago & New York Hive. On target for beta launch in March 2014.
  • Upcoming Conferences:

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Opening registration for a number of bootcamps this week. Care to help? Get in touch!
    • Triple header at new Moore/Sloan data science centers – U Washington, NYU, UC Berkeley (March 17-18)
    • Women in Science and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (April 14-15)
    • PyCon’14 in Montreal (our largest yet with over 200 expected) (April 14-15)

OpenNews

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Fellows: Held orientation for the six 2014 OpenNews fellows last week in San Francisco
    • Worked with members of the ProPublica apps team to build a news app from scratch.
    • App and accompanying process write-ups on ProPublica and Source go live next week.
  • Source + SRCCON: Prepping for the NICAR 2014 conference at the end of February by:
    • Developing new features on Source
    • Laying the groundwork for our first SRCCON, which we will be announcing at the conference.

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location: WilliamR in San Francisco

  • Events
    • South Asia Meetup – Just finished, the Mozilla South Asia Meetup is the annual assembly of the regional community leadership to discuss the past operations & future roadmap. This event also serves as a great platform for inter-community collaborations between the South Asian Mozilla communities.
    • FOSDEM 2014 – FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a free event offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. Mozilla has a Reps-led presence every year and a developer room to hold talks on Mozilla related topics.
  • Program updates – what’s coming soon
    • Improving how we measure our activities with a new reporting system on the Reps Portal
    • Streamlining our budget request progress with automated votes on the Reps Portal
  • Read the Reps discussion forum for more updates

Firefox Student Ambassadors

Written Update: non-verbal

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: Mountain View (Larissa Shapiro)

Community Builder Panel now live in Air Mozilla!
Thanks to Richard Milewski, we now have an Air Mozilla recording of the community building experts panel that was part of the Community Builders meetup in December. In this panel our guests from the American Red Cross, the Northern California Girl Scouts, AIESEC (a global youth led development non profit) and Zen Desk speak to our group about their strategies for volunteer community building. https://air.mozilla.org/community-building-panel/

IT

San Francisco (Mark Jeffries for Shyam Mani):

Etherpad tips

Some people have periodically mentioned issues of an etherpad failing to load after much use. In order to avoid these problems, Mozilla IT recommends following these guidelines…

To explain a little further:
– etherpad works best when you’re doing short term team planning.
– It is not efficient for long term tasks, or pad name re-use.

Why, Obi-Wan, is this not so?
– Etherpad stores EVERY update in the database (even single character changes if there’s a small pause between them)
– therefore gets clogged/slowed down after ~24 hours of use in a pad (may be faster or slower depending upon how much info is input into the pad).

A few general guidelines of how to make etherpad work better and more reliably for you:

– Don’t reuse pads just to have the same pad name.
(This is the biggest reason why pads crash. People delete the contents of a pad and re-use it to keep the same pad name. This is a bad idea. What’s really happening is the old pad is still there, you’re just writing over top of it, and making the pad that much larger in the database)

– If you’ve been working on a pad for more than 3-4 days of work (e.g. 4 Mondays in a row, or 4 days in a row, all the same), start a new pad.

– If you have a large copy/paste section, don’t put it in the pad, pastebin it and put the pastebin link in the pad.

– If you’ve put a lot of text into a pad ( would equate to 5-10+ pages worth of a word document), start a new pad.

– If you plan on doing any of the above, use google docs instead.

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)

  • mobify.js fix for Firefox for Android affecting wired.com, thedailybanter.com (and more sites),
  • Yahoo.com now recognises FxOS as a mobile browser.
  • Pinterest search now works on FxOS
  • redbus.in,weather.gr both send FxOS to the mobile sites now, thanks to community members Abdul and Thanos.
  • All OLX sites now send FxOS to mobile site (fixed by Santiago, a Mozillian inside the company)

And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!

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
Andrea Wood Online Organizing & Fundraising Lead End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign Results My house in Oakland, CA Yes [1] [2]
Armen Zambrano Senior Release Engineer Announcing Release Engineering’s twitter account Toronto office No twitter profile follow the squirrel at @MozRelEng
Lawrence Mandel Program Manager Horseplay The Movie Toronto office Video shared from Toronto Watch on YouTube (link will be live in ~2 hours) Follow on Twitter
Alex Fowler Privacy and Public Policy Lead Data Privacy Day is tomorrow – January 28th San Francisco No Help us fight for privacy
Potch Podium Pal Project Meeting Feedback Mountain View Yes Feedback Form

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
Sylvestre Ledru Lukas Blakk San Francisco Paris Release Manager, Firefox Desktop & Mobile
Rina Jensen Patrick Finch San Francisco London Office Content Strategist
Eric Rahm Dietrich Ayala Portland Portland office Firefox OS performance
Jared Kerim Andy McKay Portland Toronto office Marketplace payments
Sean Rich Sylvie Veilleux San Francisco San Francisco Office Director of IT Applications and Services
Daniel Gohman Michael Bebenita Mountain View Mountain View Research Engineer
Richard Barnes Sid Stamm Mountain View Washington DC area Security Engineering & Standards
Bob Owen Sid Stamm Mountain View Remote in UK Security Engineering & Platform
Benjamin Bouvier Naveed Ihsanullah Remote near Boston Paris Office JavaScript
David Palomino Karen Ward Mountain View (MTV) MTV today, will work remote from Madrid Operator Launch Integration (Telefonica & AMX)

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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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21-January-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-01-20

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • Ricardo Panaggio nominates Carlos Valim, aka Coragem (Courage in pt-br; he’s the man!), for his amazing Webmaker events in Brazil. You’re making Brazil a better place, creating a new path for a whole new generation of Webmakers here, our Mozilla Friend!
  • Thank you to former full time Release Manager, Christian Legnitto, who demonstrated being forever Mozillian and contributor post-employment in his first patch that means our users will no longer suffer when leaving out the ‘h’ in ‘http’ or other common url scheme errors – see bug 935377 — a much appreciated paper cut fix that will ship in April with Firefox 29  🙂
  • Webmaker community nominates Irfana Tabassum from Warangal, India. “I’m a newbie in Mozilla and heading towards contributing to Webmaker Project. Last week I created a small event with my neighbors.Please read my blog here.”

Upcoming Events

Friday, 24 January

  • MOZILLA TORONTO: Webmaker play-testing event: Come hack, test and play with new Webmaker tools and features. Connect with others building creative ways to teach web literacy and tech.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: readonly

  • Summary of work to improve page load performance:
    • Reduce hitting DB during page load
    • Make system proxy lookup faster
    • Reduce amount of view background drawing
    • Switch to progressbar because spinner is a CPU hog
    • Add some predictive networking hints

Try out Nightly and see if it feels faster

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

Science Lab

Speaker Location: Non-verbal

Open Badges

Speaker Location: Non-verbal

  • Mozilla-Wide Badges: The Open Badges team is working across MoCo and MoFo to create a new Mozilla-Wide Badge System
  • BadgeKit: working towards MVP launch in March 2014
  • new Pathways & Discovery Project with Gates Foundation.
    • The Open Badges team and community contributors met in Brooklyn last week to kick off the Pathways & Discovery project, funded by the Gates Foundation
    • The five-month grant project will spark a national U.S. conversation about (a) employable skills, (b) granular accreditation, and (c) pathways to employment. More details soon!

Firefox Marketplace

Speaker Location: Andy McKay, Vancouver

  1. The Marketplace Engineering meetings are now public every other week. First one is this Friday at 10am. Come and join us to find out what’s going on. Details here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Meeting
  2. IARC Content ratings are now on the site. App developers with apps on the Marketplace have up till April 24th to give their app a content rating, after that apps will be disabled. Do this by visiting the Marketplace Developer Hub and following the prompts.
  3. Worldwide has been renamed to the more standard Rest of World on the Marketplace to help clarify what is meant by that option

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

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?

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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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14-January-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-01-13

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Bob Thulfram for his series of detailed blog posts on game programming for Firefox OS. So far this month he’s covered localStorage, asyncStorage and IndexedDB as well as two game reviews!
  • Thanks to Nishanth Anchala, and the entire team of student organizers at Techfest, IIT Bombay for bringing and supporting Mozilla and Firefox OS to one of Asia’s largest tech conferences.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 14 January

  • 1300 PST: Security Champions
    • Vidyo room 624
    • IRC: #security

– 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 9624

Wednesday, 15 January

  • Homebrew Website Club Meeting, 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla SF and @ESRIPDX. Description:

    Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

    If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever…

    Any questions? See the wiki page or feel free to contact Tantek (Mozilla SF host for the meeting).

Saturday, 18 January

  • CHICAGO. Hive Chicago: gearing up for a big Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding digital badges.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

  • Desktop team is at a work week this week, no update (but more to come, soon!)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Work continues on integrating FxAccounts into Firefox for Android (and Desktop)
  • Pageload throbber is dead, long live the progressbar
  • Look for tab sharing/streaming sometime soon

Firefox OS

  • 1.3 stabilization is still priority #1
  • APC Paper is shipping (movie)!

Webmaker

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Open Badges

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Open Badges Year in Review. Interactive timeline and blog post on what the Open Badges community accomplished in 2013
    • Highlights: launching 1.0 in March. Building a badge system for the city of Chicago. Bill Clinton committed to reaching 2 million people through badges with Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation. Zeroing in on BadgeKit. + more

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)

And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!

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!

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
Erin Knight Open Badges Open Badges Year in Review Internetz (Remote) Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00! For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and
2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Please say hello and help us welcome our new Fellows, who will be in SF for the week for onboarding! Mozilla SF office Meet the Fellows: http://opennews.org/fellowships/2014meet.html n/a n/a
Brian Anderson Research Engineer, Rust Rust 0.9 MV office n/a n/a https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/007753.html
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
Eugen Sawin Bradford Lassey Mountain View Germany Remote Software Engineer – FFOS
Douglas Sherk Faramarz Rashed Mountain View Toronto Office Software Engineer – FFOS
Robert Rayborn Matthew Grimes Mountain View San Francisco User Advocacy
Joni Savage Ibai Garcia Mountain View Seattle Content Manager
Lawrence Lin Brian Huang Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer
Penton Sun Natasha Ma Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office PR Manager
Amy Lee Patryk Adamczyk Toronto Office Toronto Office Visual Designer – FFOS
Daniel Stenberg (:bagder) Jason Duell Seattle Sweden Networking Stack (HTTP, etc).
Aleh Zasypkin Mark Finkle Remote Germany (Berlin Office) Software Engineer – FxMetro

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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)

IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

60 Seconds with IT for 1/13/2014:

• On Saturday we moved the tegra (Android 2.2) infrastructure from MTV to one of our Santa Clara datacenters. Thanks to amazing efforts by the team, we were able to complete the entire takedown/back online cycle in 8 hours – a fraction of the budgeted 48.

• All of the android 2.2 mobile infrastructure is now in an environment with higher availability and faster recovery time.

• This move also marks the last significant chunk of releng infrastructure out of the MTV, which paves the way for us being able to move to the new office without a tree closing interruption to developers.

• We’re now running a locally caching resolver on every system in our data centers, this will reduce the load on our internal dns services and increase the reliability of services that depend on dns.

• migration of volumes (some IT internal, but all of the product delivery volumes) to new, bigger, better, faster, clustered filer, which should allow us to keep running with fewer disruptions in the future.

• SSH access to PaaS apps is now working with the Mozilla datacenter VPN, providing easy and reliable developer shell access to their application instances.

The benefits of all this to you?
– Higher availably
– Faster recovery time
– More reliable services

  • 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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7-January-2014

Mozilla Project: 2014-01-06

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Mozilla participating in CES in Las Vegas, NV. Jan 7-10. (http://www.cesweb.org/home)

Description:

  • Hospitality suite in the Venetian Hotel for Press and BD meetings
  • Andreas Gal speaking on: “The Smartphone/Tablet Economy: The Consumer Obsession”
  • Rick Fant speaking on: “The App Community”

Wednesday, 08 January

  • 13:00 PST : SecReview – Autoland
    • Description: Autoland is a system that scans bugzilla for changes made by authorized people, and reflects those changes into hg. It interacts with the releng try system to “try” patches and with hg to “land” them into various trees.

Thursday, 09 January

  • 6pm CET / 12pm EST / 9am PST Mozilla Town Hall (AreWeMeetingYet for your local time) Foundation Board Candidate Discussion
Candidate Bio Link
Speigel Online CEO and early German blogger Katharina Borchert https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/KatharinaBorchert
Brazilian open internet advocate and law professor Ronaldo Lemos https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/RonaldoLemos
    • If you would like to meet Katharina and Ronaldo and provide feedback on their candidacy for the Board, please join us. Mitchell, Katharina and Ronaldo will be taking questions in IRC, and Mitchell will be accepting feedback directly by email.
  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 18:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Happy new year! 2014 is going to kick ass!
  • Metro is trying, despite significant weather adventure, to have a work week this week in Toronto to carry it towards 1.0. If you haven’t checked it out lately, you should, it’s pretty hot.
  • Desktop is meeting up next week to plan out 2014 work
  • Desktop, Android and Services teams working hard to pull together sync with Firefox Accounts before the next merge day. Give them hugs, and help if they ask.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Work continues on improving page load performance
    • Looking at Java and Gecko profiling
    • Some fixes have landed
    • More in the works
  • Work continues 3rd party integration for the Firefox Home page
    • Exploring ways of storing/caching data
    • Exploring different views/lists
  • ANR reporting and fixing
    • Cool dashboard (thanks jchen)
    • Compositor ANR hang has been fixed (thanks bjacob)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: remote (pdol)

  • 1.3 stabilization is priority #1
  • Rocketbar landed on master just before the holidays, can enable in the developer settings
  • Movistar Uruguay *sold out* of their Firefox OS phones, and Firefox OS sales were 30% of their holiday sales (article)
  • VIA Technologies announced support for Firefox OS and FREE APCs for developers who fix known issues (press release)

60 Seconds with IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • Tegras are mooovin and groovin.

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

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 Interns

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location
Amy Lee Jaime Chen SFO Toronto
Geoff Piper Jishnu Menon Mountain View Mountain View
Ted Clancy Gregor Wagner Mountain View Toronto
Philip Walmsley Tony Santos Mountain View Vancouver
Clara Carle Lori Jashinsky Mountain View Paris
Wendy Chan Winnie Aoieong Mountain View Mountain View
Niran Amir Pete Scanlon Mountain View San Francisco
Carol Huang, Omega Feng, Ting-Yu Chou Harly Hsu ,Thinker Lee San Francisco Taipei
New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Jonathan Wei David Bolter Toronto Toronto Accessibility – Core support, mobile, TBD
Viktor Stanchev Vladan Djeric Toronto Toronto Extending and improving the Gecko Profiler
Willie Cheong Bhavana Bajaj Mountain View Mountain View Help build Release Readiness Dashboard

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Engagement

Social Support

@Mozilla wants to share your cool blog posts, product updates, and most definitely your community stories and events! Add a note here, write to communications@mozillafoundation.org or tweet @Mozilla

  • 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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31-December-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-12-30

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

(No Live Meeting)

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

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

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?

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2013-12-30&oldid=798575“

24-December-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-12-23

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

(No Live Meeting

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

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

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?

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

  • 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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17-December-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-12-16

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

Philipp for handling an escalation on his own, and Alice for escalating threads on SuMo

All of the community for all of their work in 2013 – Mozilla did a lot!

Upcoming Events

DashCon 2014 is green for launch on January 21st and 22nd. Everyone who has signed up to go should have an email in their inbox right now with the information they need to book their travel, remote participation is welcome and we will be documenting everything we can for posterity.

If you feel like you should have received that email and didn’t, contact Mike Hoye directly. Otherwise, safe travel and happy holidays to everyone.

This Week

This is the final Project Meeting of 2013. Thanks for an amazing year!

Wednesday, 18 December

  • Firefox Student Ambassador Twitter Chat
    • 8am Pacific/4pm UTC
    • Join us to learn more about the Firefox Student Ambassador and Mobilizer Programs.
    • Ask questions or follow the chat with the hash-tag #MozStudentsChat
  • Homebrew Website Club Meeting, 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla SF and MozPDX. Description:

    Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

    If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever…

    Any questions? See the wiki page or feel free to contact Tantek (Mozilla SF host for the meeting).

Thursday, 19 December

Next Week

their will be no more live monday meetings of 2013

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

  • Where are we with metro?

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: (remote) mfinkle

  • Color picker landed, looking to uplift to Fx28
  • ProGuard is active and reducing the APK size by ~500KB
  • Various fixes to the text selection action bar and text selection handles
  • UI Telemetry and hang detection improvements
  • Landed some speculative networking connection code that fires from the AwesomeScreen.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: No audio

  • 12 blockers left on 1.2!
  • 1.3 is in stabilization period.
  • Rocketbar workweek in Paris this week.
  • HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY BREAK!

Webmaker

Non-verbal update

  • 2014 plans. Slide presentation (PDF) on Webmaker’s 2014 thinking and plans.
  • 5 key goals:
    • 1) Double down on web literacy. More than just “how to code” — all the skills necessary to understand the web and contribute to it
    • 2) Webmaker profile pages. Iterate on Webmaker profile as a personal curation tool. Easy ways to share what you’re making and teaching.
    • 3) Extend the MakeAPI. Allow 3rd party tools and arbitrary URLS to be added to Webmaker.org
    • 4) Appmaker. Add this new tool to our kit. Make it easy for anyone to create Firefox OS apps. Embrace mobile.
    • 5) Engagement Ladder. Be intentional about what we want our users to become.

For more on new Webmaker profile pages — and to help with testing, QA and feedback — check out this post.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Community Builders from across the project, both staff and volunteers, got together last week to plan for 2014. Watch the brown bag to learn about resources that we’ll be putting in place to help you increase participation on your team.

120 Seconds with IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • Introducing the Mozilla Operations Center!
  • DNSSEC re-enabled on mozilla.org
  • Meeting iPads now have the right time™
  • Wireless should be better in SF, Portland, Paris and Taipei
  • DB Engg team went all crazy with MySQL and all 100+ DBs now run 5.6

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
Rebeccah Mullen Manager @Mozilla Twitter Sharing your 2013 Highlights on twitter My house No n/a Bottom of this *very* page!

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?

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Social Support

Help @Mozilla share your best highlights from 2013.

We’re looking for links to blog posts, pictures and photosets, and quotes from the last year to share with the Mozillian Community on social media. Add your links, your @handle (if you’d like to share that along with the tweet), and some details here on the pad, or you can write an email to communications@mozillafoundation.org

Add your links here:

  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 8600
    • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
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