Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

22-July-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-07-22

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • The newly opened Portland office would like to thank Jim, Lori, Karen, Matea, Pauline, Robert, Lisa, Brian, Sam, Joel, Guillermo, Ravi, Jacques, Ed, Jabba and all the other people who spent months getting our new space opened! Office photos. Opening day photos.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 25 July

  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Next Week

  • Firefox OS UX team will have a Brown Bag presentation of their Q2/ Q3 work on Tuesday July 30th at 10am PST. For those in Asia, we will follow up with a separate presentation time of 5pm PST on the same day. Please contact Jaime for any questions jachen@mozilla.com (Jaime will not be able to attend the 7/22 all hands meeting, so please contact for questions)
  • WebFWD’s newest cohort (“WebFWD IV”) will come to the Bay Area for Orientation 7/30 – 8/1 and we’ll have a community mixer in SF on Wed 7/31. Details at http://webfwdivorientation.eventbrite.com/

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Tab thumbnails about to be fixed. RSN. Watch this space. bug 870100
  • Add-on author? How’s australis working out for you? Try the UX Branch

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: no voice update here this week
BUT: stay tuned for a product update from Brett Gaylor later in this call!

Identity

Speaker Location: London(stomlinson)

  • Mozilla IdP is LIVE – When using a mozilla.com or mozillafoundation.org address to sign in to a Persona enabled site, you now sign in with your LDAP credentials.
  • GMail Identity Bridging – Soft Launch TODAY.
  • backgroundColor is LIVE – Increase RP branding of the Persona dialog by allowing RPs to set a background color in the dialog. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/navigator.id.request
  • PiCL – signup and signin mocks were user tested last week!

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

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
Diane Bisgeier, Didem Ersoz & Tanay Delima WebFWD Managers New WebFWD Cohort aka “WebFWD IV” San Francisco & Mountain View No Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Announcement > http://webfwd.tumblr.com/post/55543089956/announcing-webfwd-iv + 7/31 Mixer > http://webfwdivorientation.eventbrite.com/
Brett Gaylor Senior Director / Product Manager, Webmaker.org Webmaker.org summer update My fortress of solitude https://www.webmaker.org Im going to screen cast! If this fails, or you are dialed in, here is a PDF https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7968133/webmakermonday.pdf

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?
Satdav COntributor Accessibility. How do i test the products for accessibility?
satdav? Reed or anyone in IT/Planet team. How do we add a way to rescrict blogs on planet as my main rss is on it, for new contributors, and how do you get involved in planet, also what is planet and how do i add my blog to it ?

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Peter DeHaan Edwin Wong Mountain View Mountain View QA Developer
Darrin Henein Madhava Enros Toronto Toronto Design Engineer
Jean Kwang Collings Winston Bowden Mountain View San Francisco Online Marking Manager
Anthony Appleton Rick Fant Spain Spain Partner Integration
Jacqueline Savory Jinghua Zhang Mountain View Vancouver FxOS UX Designer

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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

PR

KDDI Press Event with Andreas and Japanese media in SF office (July 23)

Jay will be spokesperson in Latin America for FFOS launches

Firefox 23 (08.06) release

Preparations underway for wave 2 on Firefox OS

Firefox @ Wanderlust Squaw Valley was successful, with positive feedback from participants

  • 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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15-July-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-07-15

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • Mihneadb /mih-na-db/ for tracking down the 100’s of xpcshell tests with static ports and other problems, and fixing them up so they can be run in parallel.
  • Scoobidiver for single-handedly keeping support documentation up-to-date. He updated over 100 documents in the last 3 weeks.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 15 July

Announcement of new WebFWD Teams (aka WebFWD IV) at http://blog.webfwd.org, http://twitter.com/MozWebFWD or email (contact us at webfwd@mozilla.com if you want to be added to our email list).

Tuesday, 16 July

Wednesday, 17 July

On Wednesday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. EDT (17:30-18:30 UTC) we’ll be holding a Twitter chat with Mitchell Baker, Executive Chair of Mozilla, about Firefox OS to address these questions and comments, and we’d love for you to join us!

How to participate:

  • Log onto Twitter and follow the conversation with the #FirefoxOSChat hashtag.
  • Submit your own thoughts and/or questions about Firefox OS, also using the #FirefoxOSChat hashtag (and #FirefoxOS if you have room).
  • Chime in and help answer questions if you have the answers.
  • RT (Retweet) comments from Mitchell or other chatters that you find interesting and worthy of sharing.

Next Week

(Not actually next week)
Thursday, Aug 1 – Manager Hacking

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop & Mobile

Speaker Location: akeybl in MV

  • Beta 23: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/23.0beta/releasenotes/
    • Mixed content blocking, and Lion style scrollbars for OS X
    • RSS support in mobile, and you can now change your default search easily
  • Aurora 24: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/24.0a2/auroranotes/
    • Off-Main-Thread-Compositing (OMTC) enabled in OSX for smoother video
    • Pass URLs off through NFC (think bump) and try WebRTC on the phone
  • Nightly
    • Changing the search provider in the search bar changes it globally in Firefox desktop
    • Australis (our front-end redesign) is now weeks away from landing, we’ll need your help once it does!

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

Teaching the Web! with Girls Learning Code

  • Girls Learning Code are in the Mozilla Toronto community space today.
  • 50 girls aged 8 to 14, learning the basics of coding and programming — using tools like Scratch, plus Mozilla Webmaker tools like Thimble and X-Ray Goggles
  • Interested in getting involved in events like these? There’s learning parties, hack jams and teaching sessions like these happening around the world as part of Maker Party
  • Our Maker Party campaign manager, Amira, is here to talk a bit about what happened last week — and what’s coming up this week.

Identity

Speaker Location: SF (Ryan Seys)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich (PDX)

  • Firefox OS 1.0.1
  • Firefox OS 1.1
    • Completed chipset commercialization testing
    • OEM testing is ongoing
  • Firefox OS 1.2
    • Teams split into groups by functional area
    • Requirements mostly done, feature development kicking off

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

60 seconds with IT

Speaker Location: Boston

  • Newsgroup/mail list gatewaying fixed
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org is now active/passive in scl3 and phx1, should we lose scl3, we should be able to have phx1 bugzilla up and running in under 10 mins.
  • We have upgraded our load balancers to have more capacity.
  • This is the bottleneck that caused bugzilla to be slow for a few weeks.
  • DB engineering worked with Services to make sure AMO/marketplace databases are ready for migration (to AWS) , and to upgrade persona databases
  • With the work this weekend – bugzilla failover testing, beginning upgrades to MySQL 5.6 in dev/stage
  • Effective 7/09/13 We now store up to 1 full year’s worth of daily database backups in phx1. (coming soon to SCL3 and phx1 corp)

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
Michael Coates Manager Hacking Manager Hacking Lives On! SF no N/A https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking
Ben Sullins Make pretty charts MozTrap Results Dashboard in Tableau Mi Casa Yes N/A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGgkiBhkRHk
David Slater Product Marketing Firefox OS/Marketplace Poland launch highlights to date Mountain View Yes N/A
Emmanuel Michel Year Up Intern Upcoming “Around the Campfire” Event Mountain View No N/A https://wiki.mozilla.org/Around_the_Campfire
Stacy Martin and Alina Hua Privacy Manifesto Update and FF OS Privacy Policy Update San Francisco Yes http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manifesto/Potential_Changes
Geoffrey MacDougall http://mzl.la/fundraising StopWatching.Us: What’s next? Had to abandon for another call. I will write a blog post and share over Yammer.

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
Potch How do we support Firefox OS users? Here is a short meeting where we talk about how support for Firefox OS works and how Mozillians can participate in Firefox OS user support: https://air.mozilla.org/the-mobile-meeting-sumo/

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Frédéric Harper Mark Coggins San Francisco Canada Remote (QC) Firefox OS
Jacqueline Savory Jaime Chen San Francisco Vancouver Firefox Mobile OS
Chris Mills Ali Spivak San Francisco UK Remote MDN – Firefox OS Documentation
Samuel Penrose Lloyd Hilaiel Remote San Francisco Persona

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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)

Security

Join us in #security on IRC

Intro to security managers at Mozilla:

Many more in the Mozilla Security community

Engagement

PR

Firefox OS launch with Deutsche Telekom in Poland was a success, resulting in over 300 stories worldwide. Overall sentiment of coverage was neutral to positive, and coverage in Poland (launch market) and Germany was positive.

Joing tech letter on NSA appearing Wednesday (7/17)

Mitchell’s Twitter chat this Wednesday (7/17)

KDDI FxOS press event in SF office (7/23)

Comms team at Wanderlust Festival in Tahoe to promote Firefox by hosting a tech tent (7/17 – 7/21)

  • 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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8-July-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-07-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • A round of applause to Kaustav Das Modak, Michał Frontczak, Sambit Roy, Vuyisile Ndlovu, John Kim, and Tomer Cohen as well as the Community Tools team who helped with the newly launched redesign of mozillians.org, our community directory.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 10 July

The SuMo Mobile meeting will be live on air.mzoilla.org (this is only avalible to contributors and mozilla staff who logs in) https://air.mozilla.org/the-mobile-meeting-sumo/ The agenda for the meeting is at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-2013-07-10 we will be in #sumo for the meeting or Michelle Lunas Vidyo room

Thursday, 11 July

Its KB Day Over at Sumo – that means we need as many contributors as possible to help with the kb to update it and add new articles – we will be also looking for locales to help with their locale of sumo to be translated for Firrefox Os

  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

  • Moar Maker Party! Events happening around the world this week. Find one near you. Teach the web. Make things. Help bring in new Mozillians.
  • Not sure how? There’s freshly updated Maker Party documentation and HOW TOs. How to get support, how to get swag, how to build your own light sabre.
  • Lots of Moz Reps using Maker Party to get people interested in the broader Mozilla project. Like Firefox OS.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich (PDX)

  • Firefox OS 1.0.1
  • Firefox OS 1.1
    • Chipset vendor testing is complete
    • OEM testing is ongoing
  • Firefox OS 1.2
    • Teams split into groups by functional area
    • Feature development kicking off

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

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
Trey Franco Year Up Intern Next Around the Campfire Event (Guest Speaker: Debbie Cohen) Mountain View No None https://wiki.mozilla.org/Around_the_Campfire
William Reynolds Product manager for Community Tools A new homepage for mozillians.org San Francisco No Display mozillians.org https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/07/08/a-new-homepage-for-mozillians-org/
John Bernard Marketing Director, Firefox OS Firefox OS launch in Spain Home No https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11555826/Spain%20Launch%20Highlights%20Monday%20Meeting.pdf
Ankit Gadgil Moz Rep and Webmaker Mentor Mashing up Maker Party with Moz Reps and Firefox OS India via vidyo No http://webmaker.org/party
Pictures from Maker Parties globally

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!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Karl Dubost Lawrence Mandel Toronto Remote – Montreal Mobile Web Compatibility
Botond Ballo Bradford Lassey Toronto Toronto Engineering
Eric Faust Naveed Ihsanullah Mountain View Mountain View Engineering
Preeti Raghunath Alexander Keybl Mountain View Mountain View Release Management
John Gruen Crystal Beasley Mountain View Remote – PA Design Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Jacob Haven Yvan Boily MV MV Security Assurance
Marco Castelluccio Myk Melez MV MV Apps Engineering
Mike Hordecki Irakli MV SF FFX Dev Tools

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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

PR

Firefox OS Launch

– Recap Spain: Great store branding, El País interview with good output

– Prep for Wave 2 (fall), press materials localization kick-off now (DE, HU, GR)

Third Party Cookies Brown Bag Recap

– No SF press, but questions from Twitter, ran smoothly

  • 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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4-July-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-07-04

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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!

<meta>

Notes and non-voice status updates that aren’t part of the live meeting go 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
Retrieved from “https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates/2013-07-04&oldid=669716“

1-July-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-07-01

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • Casey Ransom of Mozilla IT for a breakthrough find that led to relieving bugzilla slowness for all.
  • Jeff Walden of the JavaScript team for an epic review marathon. Jeff performed speedy yet vigilant reviews on dozens of cleanup patches in the JavaScript front end.
  • Regnard Raquedan of Mozilla Reps has made excellent contributions to the health of People Team learning resources, Rosetta Stone and Safari Books.
  • Michelle Luna for all of her work she has done with SuMo for getting SuMo ready for the #firefoxos release
  • Thanks to Barry Munsterteiger who helped Mozilla make a big impression at Telefonica today for the Global Press Announcement.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 02 July

Learn how Firefox OS aims to level the mobile playing field, along with market insights and some tips on how to talk about Firefox OS from a consumer angle.

  • Location: Live Remote on Air Mozilla (https://air.mozilla.org)
  • Start time: 02 July 2013 – 15:00 UTC (8:00am PDT)
  • Speakers: David Slater, Margaret Schroeder, Chad Weiner, Grace Jimenez

Wednesday, 03 July

Thursday, 04 July

  • Its SuMo Day this thursday so that only means one thing we need as many people as possible to help on the forums
  • RestoreThe4thSF Protest Prism in San Francisco, meeting in UN Plaza at 11am (http://rtfsf.info/)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: akeybl in MV

  • Firefox 22.0 was released last week with great fanfare – WebRTC and asm.js lead a lot of the headlines
    • But wait, there’s more! We also are killing it on performance, according to Tom’s Hardware
  • Stub (express) installers will be rolled out for Beta and Release later this week

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: akeybl in MV

  • Dynamic toolbar is coming in Firefox 23 – check it out on Beta
  • x86 support will remain on Beta for a bit, as we continue to plan its release

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location: akeybl in MV

  • Firefox 24 (currently on Aurora) will be our next ESR
    • Note that we’re changing the number scheme for all planned releases – 24.1.0, 24.2.0, and a chemspill after 24.2.0 would look like 24.2.1

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ankit Gadgil, India

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

60 seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • Puppet Security Update: 2600 systems in 48hrs
  • Zimbra Upgrade
  • Vidyo Routers
  • Network Operation Center is Live

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
Kate Naszradi, Mardi Douglass, Dino Anderson, Melek Jebnoun Summit Planning Assembly feedback Kate = remote, Mardi/Dino = SF, Melek = remote (Tunisia) Yes, Kate has slides (she’s presenting first) Slideshow Presentation, Link to Melek’s blog post (French), link to Summit updates
Kaitlin Thaney Director, Mozilla Science Lab The new Science Lab, who we are, what we hope to achieve Brooklyn, NY No N/A wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab ; @MozillaScience
Ankit Gadgil Webmaker Super Mentor, Mozilla Rep Webmaker Maker Party updates Pune, India No N/A Pictures from maker Parties; Blog Posts

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?
satdav and a contributor the community calendar project. Can I ask if your project time is wrong or not listed on the page to message satdav on IRC and I will update it (please note Mozillian only meetings what the community can get involved in

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Michael Comella Mark Finkle Remote – PA SF Mobile
Keegan McAllister Azita Rashed MTV SFO Engineering
Christoph Kerschbaumer Sid Stamm MTV Remote – CA Engineering – Security & Privacy
Alexander Surkov David Bolter Toronto Toronto Engineering

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Anthony Verez Joe Stevensen MV MV Operations Security

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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

PR

Some of the press coverage surrounding today’s Firefox OS announcement:

“It’s unclear how much consumers will embrace the unique search function, which takes advantage of the proliferation of web-based mobile sites, but Mozilla’s so-called adaptive app search is powered by Israeli search provider Everything.me which uses the same concept of a dynamic UI on a popular Android launcher it put out earlier this year.”- Forbes, Parmy Olson

“For many of these allies, Firefox OS provides a way to loosen the mobile marketplace control of Apple and Google, which control not only their operating systems but also the app stores used to distribute software. ‘The current dynamics of the mobile ecosystem are problematic for OEMs, for developers, for end users, and for carriers,” Benami said. “Firefox resolves many of these issues.'”- CNET, Stephen Shankland

“In our early tests we noted the ZTE Open’s unremarkable hardware and the laggy nature of the web-based OS, we hope that the platform has matured sufficiently to provide a real alternative to its more established rivals.” – The Verge, Matt Brian

“The launch is probably also a good thing for the developing HTML5 standard. While HTML5 is used to create a lot of apps, big Android and iOS developers tend to go for native technologies in order to gain a performance boost. A successful Firefox OS would encourage more developers to address open web technologies, and thereby improve them over time.” – GigaOm, David Meyer

More Coverage:

Los Angeles Times: First Firefox OS-based smartphone to launch this week in Spain

PCMag: First Firefox OS phone launches July 2 in Spain

Silicon Angle: The First Firefox OS Phone Has Just Arrived, Look Out Android!

Yahoo! News: The People Who Make Your Firefox Web Browser Are Launching Two Phones This Week

Mobile News: World’s first Firefox run device arrives at Telefonica Spain

Events

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  • 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
  • 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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24-June-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-06-24

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Cute Puppy Potch

As evidenced by numerous interviews and statements in the last week the NSA
will not stop watching us simply because we ask nicely on a well designed web
page. However from the number of signers and many other indications, it is the
clear will of the people that they not be watched. Mozillians are the kind of
people who can help make the NSA stop watching. Now we know, and knowing is
half the battle. -Snowfox

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to the 30 people who contributed their first code changes in the Firefox 22 release.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 24 June

Thursday, 27 June

  • 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 28 June

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Release week!
    • And this week we are testing highest of all browsers
  • x86 gonna continue to cook on Beta

Webmaker

Speaker Location: @OpenMatt in Toronto

Identity

Speaker Location: Gene Wood in San Francisco

  • Firefox OS is now using our high availability production Persona installation. We can now scale easily in a matter of hours and are ready for the first Firefox OS wave starting in July.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

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
Paul Jarratt Developer PR Manager New Firefox OS developer video series San Francisco Yes https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/06/firefox-os-for-developers-the-platform-html5-deserves/

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Dumitru Gherman Sysadmin Webmaker class @ Year-Up Mountain View yes http://people.mozilla.org/~dgherman/Webmaker/ https://etherpad.mozilla.org/YearUp
Kaitlin Thaney Director, Mozilla Science Lab Intro to the newly launched Mozilla Science Lab New York No n/a
Greg Jost Brand Programs Manager Firefox Flicks Early Entry Award 2 SF Playing videos from Toronto https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org/en-US/video/winners

Welcome!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Kevin Ngo Wil Clouser Mountain View Remote – Oregon Marketplace
Albert Villarde Sylvie Veilleux Mountain View San Francisco IT Team
Steven MacLeod Gavin Sharp Toronto Remote – Ohio Engineering
David Huseby Mike Lee Mountain View Remote – Washington Engineering
Marina Samuel Mark Finkle San Francisco Toronto Metro

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
James Ellis Ilana Segall MV MV User Research
Derek Ries PeterBe and Lonnen MV MV WebDev
Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur Andrew Halberstadt MV SF Tools and Automation
Stephany Yong Shannon Prior MV SF PR
John Zeller Hal Wine MV SF Release Eng
Tim Disney Dave Herman MV MV Research
Richard Jacob Bailey Fitzgen MV SF FFX Dev Tools
Chris Kitching Margaret Leibovic MV SF FFX Eng
Tom Schuster Kannan Vijayan Toronto Toronto Platform
Adrian Lungu Doug Turner MV MV Platform
Mihai Tabara Chris Atlee Toronto Toronto Release Eng
Gabriela Thumé Lonnen MV São Carlos, Brazil via Gnome Outreach Program for Women – WebTools/Socorro

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

QA

Web QA

Security

Speaking Engagements

  • 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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17-June-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-06-17

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

The SuMo Community for helping with help article day last week

Wojciech Szczęsny for translating the Firefox OS training videos on short notice and Spencer Hui and Gandalf for putting the videos together in Polish.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 18 June

  • Open Source Bridge 2013, Portland OR
  • Web Developer Security 1.0, 12:15 PDT in Mountain View, 10 Forward — punch and pie will be served

Wednesday, 19 June

Thursday, 20 June

  • Open Source Bridge 2013, Portland OR
  • It’s ask a question day on sumo today the day when we need as many contributors as possible to get on and help users on sumo with their questions,

Friday, 21 June

Saturday, 22 June

Sunday, 23 June

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

Identity

Speaker Location: SF (Brian Warner) (slides)

  • the Mozilla IdP goes live today for @mozilla.org addresses, later this week for @mozilla.com
  • sign in to any Persona-enabled website with your LDAP credentials, including aliases
  • Bugzilla, Air Mozilla, Etherpad all use Persona now
  • intranet and Mana will be Persona-enabled soon
  • known problems when 3rd-party-cookies are blocked, also on IE8
  • send bugs to #identity or identity-staff@lists.mozilla.org

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich in Portland

  • MILESTONE: Device certification complete in 3 countries for two different devices. On Schedule, even.
  • Firefox OS 1.1 is past the first major certification phase, focus is entirely on bug fixing from here on out.
  • Gaia futures! The Gaia community is busy discussing all kinds of architectural aspects of the project on the dev-gaia mailing list. Come join us and let your voice be heard.

Grow Mozilla

No voice update

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

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 Director of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Applicatons for 2014 OpenNews Fellowship are now open Vidyo No http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/ http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/
Amy Tsay Community Manager for AMO/Marketplace “Amp Your Firefox” add-ons contest 10 Fwd No https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/amp-your-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/amp-your-firefox/
Jeff Griffiths Product Manager – Developer Tools Malicious Add-ons & Project “Squeaky” Vancouver Yes https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Abch8B65i6laVaWkrxy-fYNM5YfDdCW5f_cMV14Ngic/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.gbc95ba91_111 https://wiki.mozilla.org/AMO/Squeaky
Alex Fowler Privacy & Policy Update on StopWatching.Us San Francisco No
Tanvi Vyas & Raymond Forbes Security Engineer Web Developer Security 1.0 Training Mountain View No https://air.mozilla.org/web-security-training/ stopwatching.us

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Joanne Nguyen Mihca Anderson Mountain View Mountain View Human Resources Business Partner
Hermina Condei Michelle Luna Paris Office Paris Office Firefox OS Support Strategy
Gemma Petrie Cori Schauer Mountain View Remote – (IL) User Research

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Corey Ford David Baron MV SF Platform
Liu Liu Maureen Hanratty MV SF UX
Tiziana Sellitto Liz Henry SF (not in office) Salerno, Italy Bug triage and tools

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

Automation & Tools

  • Completed the switch over to the new ES instance for OrangeFactor(bug 848834 & bug 870559).
  • First tool for auto-detecting regressions using the comprehensive performance data that Talos/Datazilla collects is completed. We’re now working on tuning and trying it out.
  • New Tsvg and Tscroll tests will be rolled out this week. The tests have been fine tuned to measure their objectives more precisely as well as complete their operation in around 5 minutes (as compared to around 25 minutes previously)
  • Tomcat joins our crew of full time sheriffs and will be soon helping keep the tree sound for all of you out in European timezones.
  • More news here

Security

Speaking Engagements

  • 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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10-June-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-06-10

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • Fear56 for doing the agenda and notes of meetings from when I have been away from Mozilla. Satdav
  • All the new volunteer Firefox Marketplace app reviewers – BRAVO!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 11 June

Wednesday, 12 June

The Mobile meeting for sumo has moved to SFO319 its 3pm PST https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-2013-06-12

Thursday, 13 June

Today is knowledge base day, we are looking for people to write brand new knowledgebase articles for the following, Firefox OS, mobile and Firefox for desktop

Next Week

  • It’s ask a question day in sumo

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop & Mobile

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

  • Press Tour Recap

Webmaker


Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

  • Maker Party 2013 kicks off on Saturday, June 15!
  • Get together at events all summer long. Make something. Teach others about digital literacy, webmaking and how to code.
  • Lots happening with great partners like the Chicago Summer of Learning. They’re using Mozilla’s Open Badges software to reward learning that happens outside of school.
  • Stay tuned for a demo from Open Badges‘ Sunny Lee.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

60 seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: San Francisco

  • Relops Windows testing machine upgrades
  • hg.mozilla.org upgrade to 2.5.4
  • Datacenter Network upgrades
  • Wireless switchover in some offices

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
Alfredo Coh Year Up Intern Next Around the Campfire Event Mountain View No None https://intranet.mozilla.org/Interns_YearUp
Sunny Lee Open Badges, Product Lead Chicago Summer of Learning remotely (Vidyo from Portland) Yes – screensharing None http://chicagosummeroflearning.org/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Terra Jones Ronald Piovesan Mountain View Mountain View Business Development
Angelina Fabbro Jeff Griffiths Vancouver Vancouver Evangelism
Patrick Hundal Mark Crandon San Francisco San Francisco Business Development

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Eric Reed Dave Herman/Brian Anderson MV MV Research
Jonathan Wilde Mark Finkle/Frank Yan MV SF FFX Eng/Mobile UI
Shilpan Bhagat Mark Finkle/Wes Johnston MV SF Mobile
Stefan Mirea Mike Connor/Greg Szorc MV SF FFX Services Eng
Alexander Wafula David Boswell MV SF People People
Eric Zounes Jake Maul/Dumitru Gherman MV MV Web Ops

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  • 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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3-June-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-06-03

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

  • Jérémie Patonnier and David Bruant for hosting meetups during the MDN sprint this past weekend, along with everybody who contributed to MDN during the sprint. (See this ether pad for details)
  • Mozillian Bartosz Piec and crew from the Mozilla Poland community for their help with the Warsaw Firefox OS App Day this past Saturday

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 04 June

WebFWD Community Mixer

5pm – 7pm, Mozilla San Francisco 7th Floor

This is a time to meet our teams the day before they pitch to the world in Mountain View. Come have a beverage, snack and get to know them before they start sweating ;).

RSVP at http://webfwdiiimixer.eventbrite.com

User Experience Research Talk

12PM PST, 10FWD: MTV

Simulcast on Air Mozilla

Topic: Firefox Desktop User Types in North America

Presenter: Bill Selman

Have you ever wondered who is using Firefox on the desktop and how they are using it? Do you want to know which facets of our user base are enthusiastic about new features vs. users who are reluctant to see any changes at all? Are you interested to learn which category of Firefox user type you fit into and how representative you are of a larger Firefox population?

The User Experience Research team has collected a great deal of data to answer these questions and is eager to share it with you. Bill Selman, Senior UX Researcher, will present findings from a three part qualitative and quantitative study of Firefox users in North America. He will present how those users fit into six specific categories of user types based on their behaviors, motivations, beliefs, and attitudes.

Wednesday, 05 June

WebFWD Graduation
Test Run: Noon – 1pm PST, Mozilla Mountain View 10 Forward + Air Mozilla

Open Demos: 6pm – 8pm PST, Mozilla Mountain View 10 Forward + Air Mozilla

This is THE day: our teams will pitch to you – investors, professionals, developers, entrepreneurs all committed to making the web better! Feel free to invite others with similar interests.

RSVP for the evening event at http://webfwdiii.eventbrite.com

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: no verbal update this week

  • Maker Party 2013 kicks off June 15! Thousands of people getting together at events around the world to make and share stuff on the web
  • This post gives an update on plans, next steps, and what partners are bringing to the party:
  • A partner effort launched in the UK yesterday. Mitchell Baker and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, helped launch the UK “Make Things, Do Stuff” campaign. Learn more here
  • Webmaker booth at Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire!

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich

  • 1.0.1: Final stages. Nearly zero code change. The future looks bright.
  • 1.1.0: Can now send cat pictures over antiquated protocols. Driving hard to fix remaining blockers, heading quickly into certification phase.
  • Tablets, tvs and billboards. Oh my.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

Speakers

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
William Reynolds Community Tools Yammer forum for Firefox OS launch activities Mozilla San Francisco No Firefox OS launch activities Yammer
Didem Ersoz Program Manager, WebFWD Program June 5: Graduation + Deadline to apply for next class Mozilla San Francisco No WebFWD Application
Kate Naszradi and John Bernard Community Engagement and Product Marketing Firefox OS Launch Camp: Re-Cap Mozilla San Francisco Yes Firefox OS Camp Wiki Page
Mitchell Baker Executive Chair Chris Beard Home office in Barcelona Not sharing screen No links
Mike Morgan (morgamic) Director, Web Development Manager Hacking Session 3 Mountain View Not sharing screen Manager Hacking Wiki

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Mathieu Pillard Wil Clouser PDX Paris Marketplace
Dominik Strohmeier Cori Schauer MTV Berlin FFOS

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Aaron Todd Brian Anderson MV MV Research
Ashish Dubey CVAN MV MV Web Dev
Eston Schweickart Dave Herman MV MV Research
Ganesh Ghosh James Lal MV MV FFX OS
Leon Zhang Potch MV MV Web Dev
John Wong Dan Veditz and Gary Kwong MV MV Web Security
Shawn Nguyen Jake Watkins MV MV Release Eng Ops
Stella Zubeck Bill and Mary MV MV User Research
Samvedana Gohil Anthony Hughes and Juan Becerra MV MV Desktop QA
Swaroopa Vantipalli John Hammink MV MV Mobile QA
Vaidik Kapoor Stephen Donner MV MV Web QA
Amanda Ko Cameron Dawson MV SF Automation and Tools
Joseph Kelly Christina Choi MV SF Metrics
Michael Sullivan Dave Herman MV SF Research
Nikhil Kumar Saptarshi Guha MV SF Metrics
Hannah Quay-del la Vallee Ben Adida MV SF Identity
Jez Ng Alon Zakai MV SF Research
Tanay Delima Diane Bisgeier SF SF WebFWD
Ben Blum Dave Herman MV MV Research
Dhaval Giani Vladan Djeric TOR TOR Platform
Guillaume Abadie Benoit Jacob TOR TOR Platform
Jason Yeo Armen Zambrano Gasparnian TOR TOR Release Eng

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

QA

WebQA

Automation & Tools

Webdev

DXR

Massive improvements to http://dxr.mozilla.org/, the Firefox (et al) source code search engine:

  • Indexing and search
    • Much faster (indexed vs. not) performance on many types of queries
    • Add ability to find callers of constructors
    • Differentiate between a const and a non-const function of the same name.
    • Add finding of callers and callees.
    • Add recognition of typedefs.
    • Link macro references.
    • Link class declarations to class definitions.
    • Sort folder listings.
    • Improve regex that delimits JS symbols.
    • Better usability on mobile and WebKit
  • Infrastructure
    • Several thousand fewer lines of code
    • Slim down builds to emit only data, not Python code, making development much faster.
    • Replace ad hoc implementation of process pooling with concurrent.futures.
    • Reworked old-school CGI as a Flask WSGI app.
    • Redesign URLs for MXR parity and future extensibility
    • Tests! CI! Vagrant!
  • Bug fixes
    • Ability to actually enter a query without the JS screwing it up
    • No more crashing when doing negated phrase matching
    • Fix URL- and HTML-escaping bloopers, including XSSes.
    • Don’t duplicate lines in results under some types of queries
    • Many others

Get started contributing to DXR. Questions? Talk to Erik Rose.

  • 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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27-May-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-05-27

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

Michał Frontczak (fxa90id) for helping other contributors get up to speed with the code of Mozillians.org, so they can start making great code contributions themselves!

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

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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/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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