Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

20-May-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-05-20

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 20+ Firefox OS App Developers who came, built & demo’ed their work at the Bogota Apps Workshop, despite a severe shortage of Geeksphones (awesome photos here): http://cogswells.tumblr.com/

Upcoming Events

Monday, 20 May

  • WebRTC meetup at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA at 6:30pm – 8:30pm
    • Learn how to build your very first WebRTC web application!
    • Feel free to bring a laptop to follow along with the WebRTC application we will build in the presentation

Saturday, 25 May

Next Week

  • MDN sprint: Friday May 31 and Saturday June 1 in the San Francisco and Paris offices. Bay Area and Paris staff: please join us any time on Friday (or Saturday) to work on code examples or developer docs for your Mozilla product or area of the Mozilla project. More details in the wiki or contact Janet Swisher (jswisher@ or jms in IRC). Volunteers and remote participants are also welcome! See you in #devmo.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

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
Anika and Dia Members of the People team People team IRC channel irc://irc.mozilla.org#peoplepeople
Kate Firefox OS Camp Cartagena IRC: #fxoscamp wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOSLaunchCamp/LatAm2013

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Peiying Mo Chris Hofmann Mountain View Mountain View Senior Localization Program Manager
Francesco Lodolo Chris Hofmann Mountain View Brescia, Italy Localization Engineer
Liza Fox Shezmeen Prasad Mountain View Brighton, UK Brand Events Team
Simone Sapin Jet Villegas Taipei UK Software Engineer Platform
Ryan Feeley Bryan Clark Mountain View Toronto UX Designer
Marc Feeley Azita Rashed Mountain View Mountain View Research Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Ben Brittain Tim Terriberry MV MV Platform
Brandon S. Kase Bill Walker MV MV Labs
Eric Atkinson Dave Herman MV MV Research
Evan Shapiro Dylan Oliver MV MV FFX OS
Ivan Alagenchev Tanvi Vyas MV MV Security Eng
Michael Vitousek Luke Wagner MV MV Research
Shu Hao Wu Mike Cooper MV MV Web Dev
Tim Kuehn Dave Herman MV MV Research
Varunkumar Manohar Anurag Phadke MV MV Metrics
Jack Montgomery Zhenshuo Fang SF SF UX Design
Ryan Seys Ben Adida MV SF Identity
Shane Tully Brad Lassey/Chris Peterson SF SF Platform
Timothy Gaweco Laura Forrest SF SF Product Marketing, Desktop
Vlad Filippov Ben Adida/Chris Karlof SF SF Identity

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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)

QA

WebQA


  • 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

13-May-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-05-13

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

  • Thanks to all of the new contributors who helped with Firefox 21 and thanks to Josh and Seif for creating the report on activities for the release.
  • Anthony Hughes would like to thank (hopefully I don’t forget anyone) Simona Badau, Bhavana Bajaj, Juan Becerra, Carsten Book, Ioana Budnar, Raymond Etornam, Mike Hommey, Cornel Ionce, Michael Kaply, Alexandra Lucinet, Manuela Muntean, Phil Ringnalda, Gavin Sharp, Paul Silaghi, Hong Tang, Nick Thomas, Mihaela Velimiroviciu, Justin Wood, and Hector Zhao for working hard over the weekend to ensure we ship a top-quality Firefox 21 to all of our users on Tuesday.

Upcoming Events

This Week

  • JavaScript team work week in Santa Cruz – AGENDA

Monday, 13 May

Tuesday, 14 May

  • 13:00 Security Champions
    • “MTV-2J JK”; “SFO-7B The Warfield”; “TOR-5N Spadina”
    • Vidyo: 2J
    • Dial-in Info (phone):
      • In office or soft phone: extension 92
      • US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
      • Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
      • Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
      • Conference num 95227
      • IRC Backchannel: #security

Wednesday, 15 May

Thursday, 16 May

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 17 May

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop/Mobile

Speaker Location: Vancouver (johnath)

  • Release week!
    • Thanks for the last minute push, everyone

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Toronto

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: No Audio. Yo.

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: mrz in SF

  • Mozilla IT made some changes last week.

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 Program Manager, WebFWD Help us recruit the next cohort for WebFWD – deadline is June 5! http://webfwd.org Mozilla San Francisco No screen share – just showing off the schwag you can get if you refer a team to our next class. Here’s the messenger bag 🙂 > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
Dethe Elza Lead Developer, Collusion Sneak peek at Collusion 1.0 Pre-recorded demo video Yes, playing video from Toronto Popcorn demo video version learn more about Collusion
Dia Bondi (IRC thejudge) Head of Knowledge Cultivation Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too! + Badges San Francisco No https://air.mozilla.org/channels/culture_and_context/
https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/
https://air.mozilla.org/channels/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Travis Choma Bill Walker Mountain View San Francisco Software Architect, Apps
Peiying Mo Chris Hofmann Mountain View Mountain View Senior Localization Program Manager
Sole Penades Frederic Wenzel Mountain View London, UK Senior Web Developer, Developer Ecosystem
Candice Serran Sheila Mooney Mountain View San Francisco FirefoxOS

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
David Zbarsky Fabrice MV MV FFX OS
Mohammed Almeshekah Camilo Viecco MV MV Security Engineering
Subhadeep Paul David Zeber SF SF Metrics

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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)

QA

Test Execution

  • Driving hard to qualify Firefox 21 release candidates ahead of this week’s release [testplan]

WebQA

Automation & Tools


  • 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

6-May-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-05-06

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

  • Gloria Meneses in Bogotá, CO, for her work & leadership in Mozilla Reps & her support of the FxOS launch in Colombia
  • Sammy Tuman, our awesome Mountain View Shipping Wizard.

Upcoming Events

This Week

  • Security Assurance team meet up in San Francisco office this week. Please stop by and say hello. “Open house” & demos on Thursday 2pm (SF 7th floor) w/ cupcakes & cookies!

Thursday, 09 May

  • 2pm – San Francisco – 7th Floor: Meet the security assurance team, watch demos of tools & techniques, FAQ and discussion. Cookies & cupcakes will be provided. Open to all.
  • 5:30pm – San Francisco – 7th Floor: we’re hosting a patent reform party at Mozilla SF with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. More Info

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Release is now four and a half stars!
  • I thought I told you that we won’t stop
    • Lucas and Ian each wrote about the UX hackathon last week, it’s chock full o’ delicious.
    • New tab counter, tab tray transition, tab increment animation
    • URL display in location bar
    • Dominant-colour backgrounding for favicons
    • Still setting records on stability

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Vancouver

Sunday is Mother’s Day! Why not send Mom a hand-crafted web page to show her how much you care? Mozilla makes a tool that makes it easy to tell mom you love her — Webmaker! We’re working on a prototype this week that will help people make a page for Mom — and learn a little HTML and CSS along the way. We’ll share a sneak peek in today’s lightning presentation from Jacob Caggiano.

  1. Sign up for Maker Party 2013. Or invite your Mom! 🙂 June 15 – Sep 15. Get together at thousands of big and small webmaking events around the world.
  2. Join our new “Teach the Web” open online course. Boot camp for Maker Party. Growing a small army to teach the web: programmer mentors, techie grandmas, teachers, novelists, girl scout hackers and you. Meet them and check out highlights here.
  3. 8 other fun ways to get involved with Webmaker this week.

Firefox OS

  • 1.0.1: In certification testing with OEMs, trying to fix bugs turned up by that process as quickly as possible.
  • 1.1.0: Entering first phase of chipset vendor testing next week, so focus there is getting any regressions and new features cleaned up before it begins.
    • MMS Workweek in Portland ongoing this week.
  • Geeksphones seem to be flying off the virtual shelves as fast as they can restock them.

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: mrz in SF (on the couch)

  • Mozilla IT, a Rubik’s Cube & a classroom (and a video).

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 Program Manager, WebFWD How you can get a WebFWD tshirt and hopefully MESSENGER BAG Mozilla San Francisco No screen share – just showing off the schwag you can get if you refer a team to our next class. Here’s the messenger bag 🙂 > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
Jacob Caggiano Lead Makesmith, Webmaker.org Our simple template for making your Mom proud on Mother’s Day My Aunt’s apartment, New York, NY Yes, screenshare indeed. https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrxw/edit
Mike Morgan Director, Web Development Manager Hacking Session 2 in SF Mountain View No https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking
Dia Bondi (IRC thejudge) Head of Knowledge Cultivation Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too! + Badges San Francisco No https://air.mozilla.org/channels/culture_and_context/ https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Meadhbh Hamrick Sid Stamm Mountain View Mountain View Security Engineer
Jannis Leidel Laura Thomson Mountain View Germany Web Developer
Justin O’Kelly Mike Manning Mountain View San Francisco Managing press relations and media strategy
Jason Weathersby Mark Coggins San Francisco Inman, SC Firefox OS Technical Evangelist
Marcos Cáceres Andrew Overholt San Francisco Lisbon, Portugal Platform API Designer/Engineer
Shyam Mani mrz San Francisco Mountain View IT Developer Services

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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)

QA

WebQA

  • Engagement
    • New ReMo release with some new features like events display, and auto-filtering on user’s interests + bug fixes
    • New Flicks release with Early Award winner posted, plus winners, partners and awards pages added.
  • Firefox OS
    • keep up-to-date with all the latest in a nice, digestible format, here:
    • have Unagi commercial-RIL builds in our CI, with runs against them
    • apart from an annoying “ding”-on-notification issues (each restart), they look good
    • now we can troubleshoot the modem issue
    • Inaris requested from ServiceNow
    • have an engineering build on 1.0.1 for them
    • will soon set up a download job and run against them
    • 3 new tests (Marketplace, Settings)
    • Some good coverage re-enabled as devs repaired regressions
    • Full-steam ahead on Payments testing although no significant coverage in place yet
    • Dave Hunt made good gain in reliability by configuring device state before the testrun
    • mbrandt 1.1 manual testing and testcase creation
  • Marketplace
    • Work continues on automating the app installation and payments flow using Marionette
  • Mozillians
    • Several issues with the dev cluster – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864422
    • Near continuous deployment – small bug fixes, multiple releases over the last week
    • Team is actively scoping the UI refresh work that will be accomplished this quarter. UI Mockups forthcoming in the next few weeks.
  • Mozilla.com
  • MDN
  • Socorro

Automation & Tools


  • 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

29-April-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-04-29

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

  • Waldo nominates Christian Holler (decoder) for the amazing JavaScript testcases he finds.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 30 April

Thursday, 02 May

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • We’re in the yandex store!
  • Continuing to set records for stability on FF20 (release) and FF21 (beta) – keep it up!
  • Still debugging dynamic/auto-hiding nav bar (e.g. bug 858969), please report bugs vigourously!
  • Release is creeping towards 4.5 (visual) stars in the play store – do you have 2000 friends who can help?

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley in Toronto

  • Last week we told you about Maker Party 2013, Mozilla’s big summer learning code where people will get together around the world to make and learn with the web
  • This week: we’re going to tell you about what’s happening specifically in the UK, through their “Make Things Do Stuff” campaign
  • Get involved: you can learn more and sign up here: http://makethingsdostuff.co.uk/

Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: No Audio

  • 1.0.1
    • Next week we enter the second round of certification testing for Spain/Venezuela/Columbia, so trying to close as many TEF+ bugs as possible this week.
  • 1.1
    • MMS workweek in Portland, for 2 weeks

Grow Mozilla

No voice update this week

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: Corey Shields via Vidyo (no screen share)

  • hg push server had an issue last week, failover to a redundant push node happened with little impact
    • Details: the way hg is setup there is a single server for changes over ssh (pushes) and a whole pool of servers for consumption through http. This single server has a passive replica that we’ve never had to rely on before last week. Failover to the backup node worked fine as did failing back to the primary node when it was fixed.
  • Mozilla is now contributing to pool.ntp.org
    • We make use of GPS based time servers in our primary data centers to ensure that our infrastructure is as close to being in sync as possible. These servers are now contributing back to the greater Internet community
  • Questions? –> #it and #desktop

Speakers

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
Lizz Noonan Campaign Coordinator – Firefox Firefox Flicks update – Early Entry winners San Francisco Play videos please http://firefoxflicks.tumblr.com/post/47706055901/baficiearly http://www.firefoxflicks.org
Paula Le Dieu UK Hive Make Things Do Stuff campaign London UK via Vidyo Yes — PDF slides
Emajee’ Summers Around the Campfire Mozilla/Yearup Around the Campfire Event San Francisco, CA No Wikipage in progress
Didem Ersoz WebFWD – Mozilla’s Global Accelerator Help recruit teams for WebFWD IV Mountain View, CA No https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p47xtwp068j577e/1sFb2LZFXK webfwd.org/apply

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Benjamin Kelly Lucas Adamski Mountain View Reston, VA Software Engineer, Firefox OS
Julien Vehent Joe Stevensen Mountain View Philadelphia, PA Operations Security Engineer
Robert Lord Paxton Cooper (will introduce him next week) Carmel Mountain View Director of Product Management, Services

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Max Li David Bolter Toronto Toronto Android/FFOS accessibility (braille, magnification, TBD)

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

Services

  • Services is launching Heka, a new high-volume logging and monitoring infrastructure. It’s being deployed in Sync and Marketplace, and available to anyone who needs it. Docs at http://heka-docs.readthedocs.org

QA

Web QA

  • Engagement
    • New ReMo release with some new features like events display, and auto-filtering on user’s interests + bug fixes
    • New Flicks release with Early Award winner posted, plus winners, partners and awards pages added.
  • Firefox OS
  • Marketplace / AMO
    • Work continues on automating app installation and payments testing, using Marionette
  • Mozillians
    • Several issues with the dev cluster – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864422
    • Near continuous deployment – small bug fixes, multiple releases over the last week
    • Team is actively scoping the UI refresh work that will be accomplished this quarter. UI Mockups forthcoming in the next few weeks.
  • MDN
  • Socorro

Automation & Tools

  • Tracked down the issues with the intermittent “Android 2400 second timeout” bug (bug 663657), deploying a fix to the automation this week.
  • Moving webGL into its own mochitest suite for android both to possibly fix issues (seems to be memory related) and to give better visibility into its intermittent failures
  • New email alerts are soon to be available from Datazilla – this is getting ready to switch to this for performance reporting. If you want to be included in the email from it, ping jeads (#ateam) — (eventually these will replace the current emails to dev.treemanagment)
  • Comparitive pageload tests for Android using Eideticker has landed, and the point grey camera solution for b2g has been proven. Next up: adding the b2g point grey results to the dashboard.
  • More news 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

22-April-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-04-22

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

  • Pierre-Louis Augier aka pl6025 for answering the huge amount of emails that arrived on the contribute-fr mailing list , nicely explaining to people what to do if they needed help or wanted to help.
  • Konstantina Papadea, Alexandros Mioglou and Thalia Papoutsaki (the team leader) for not only volunteering to help localize Facebook posts in Greek, but by also taking the initiative to start their new community Twitter account, @Firefox_GR (give them a follow!)
  • Team Aviary.PL for adding localizing Facebook posts in Polish to their Firefox to-do list.
  • Our long-time awesome social media volunteers from Mozilla Hispano, Mozilla PT, Mozilla DE, Mozilla ID. Thanks to all our super teams, we are now posting in 7 languages! Woot! for our social superstars!
  • Jake Watkins (dividehex) and Kim Moir (kmoir) For re-wiring all the panda boards so that they are less flaky!
  • Francisco Picolini (franc), Guillermo López (willyaranda), Rubén Martín (nukeador) & Mozilla Hispano for their support and participation at Saturday’s Firefox OS App Workshop in Madrid.
  • SUMO contributors satdav, feer56, zombie, espressive, tjovanovic, iNerd, ariestiyansyah, yalam96, pychen, hermina_condei, willyaranda, adampeebleswrites, Tonnes, Swarnava, and Scoobidiver for their awesome work on the Firefox OS User Guide
  • Last week’s B2G workweek was awesome. Literally. To make that happen, a bunch of invisible prep-work happened.
    • Nightly builds
      • now generate device builds for: Arm (panda boards), Otoro, Unagi, Unagi-ENG, Inari, Hamachi, Leo
      • for each of those devices, we generate “nightly” builds twice a day. Once for 8am PDT morning. Once for 8am Madrid CET morning.
      • … on each of mozilla-central, mozilla-b2g18, mozilla-b2g18_v1_0_1
    • Stood up an extra 250 slaves. More importantly, created 22 masters in AWS so we now have 70 masters and can quickly burst to create more slaves if needed.
    • Reimaged 80 in-house build & test machines to optimize for Firefox OS development based on recent usage trend.
    • Opened up an alternate to mozilla-inbound; birch allowed b2g-workweek developers a less crowded branch to land on.

All those change made a big difference. Last week, 1490 checkins were landed, and all systems held above 90% for the week!

Please give thanks to RelEng/ATeam/IT. specifically the following:

  • catlee, rail, hwine, armenzg (RelEng)
  • ctalbert, jmaher, jgriffin, edmorley, ryanvm (ATeam)
  • dmoore, arr, fox2mike, vin, jakem, solarce, sheeri, klibby (IT)

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 23 April

Wednesday, 24 April

Thursday, 25 April

Friday, 26 April

Saturday, 27 April

Sunday, 28 April

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: akeybl, MV

  • We’re halfway through the current cycle – only ~3wk left to put a bow on FF21 (make sure to test FHR!)
  • Also check out WebRTC demos on Aurora 22 – the targeted first release for WebRTC (currently converging)
  • The reunification of Desktop/B2G Gecko versions is being discussed (B2G workweek)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: akeybl, MV

  • Firefox for Android is now on the Yandex.Store!
  • WebRTC ready for testing. Read about flipping the pref.
  • Front-end team is running a UI Hackathon this week. More details and current bug list.
  • Nightly treats: Domain auto-completion in the awesomebar, Caching search terms in the awesomebar and changing the default search provider.

Thunderbird

The project needs more people to use Thunderbird Beta – it can be obtained from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/

Webmaker

No verbal update here — Lightning Presentation to follow

President Obama helps kick off our new summer campaign

Hacking at the White House: introducing Maker Party 2013

We’re extremely excited to be participating in today’s White House Science Fair — and even more excited to have President Obama help us kick off our new summer-long Maker Party: thousands of community-led events around the world to celebrate the amazing things we can make and learn thanks to the Web.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich (remote)

  • Successful workweek in Madrid last week!
    • Dashboard
    • 9 companies participated, nearly 200 people attended.
  • Next up for 1.0.1 release is certification: IOT, GCF, PTCRB, USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, CE, FCC.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

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

Internet Public Policy

Speaker Location: Gerv (remote)

  • The Internet Public Policy module now has a Bugzilla product for tracking issues
  • File any suggestions for public policy issues Mozilla should be taking up (in any country) via our shiny new form

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in MV

  • Ever wonder what Mozilla IT is or what we do?
    • We keep the lights on.
    • We’re like your landlord – when the roof blows off, the ceiling leaks or the outside needs repainting, we do it. But we have no control over the furniture. Sometimes we see tenants on their way in or out or we’re called in when they’re having a loud party but other than that, we stay out of your way.
    • In other words, “we make sure the house is in good shape but we can always give tips about the indoors.”
    • If you want to have a loud party, let us know! We love parties!
  • File under “What you don’t see might be more important than what you do see”
    • Last week Mozilla suffered a huge multi-day outage with our fiber provider between Northern California and Arizona. It took down both fiber connections.
    • Everything failed over to the backup VPN.
    • I bet no one even knew this!

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
David Ascher Introducing Mozilla Hatchery “Hatchery Program for Innovation at Mozilla” Vancouver Didem Ersoz & Jinghua Zhang in Mountain View; Aaron Druck & Diane Bisgeier in San Francisco; Simon Wex in British Columbia & Paula LeDieu in London; https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2013/04/announcing-mozilla-hatchery/ https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/hatchery/
John Slater Director of Creative “Plug for upcoming Firefox OS brown bag (and t-shirt giveaway)” San Francisco no screen share Stay tuned for more details coming via email.
Michelle Thorne Webmaker Mentor Team Maker Party 2013 Mozilla office, Berlin Yes Slides Maker Party 2013 announced today at the White House. Mozilla is hosting a global campaign to celebrate things we can make and learn on the web. Sign up for updates and to get involved.
Dino Anderson Organizational Development “Rosetta Stone Relaunch May 1 and 2” San Francisco no screen share Rosetta Stone wiki Look for Rosetta Stone Relaunch reminder in e-mail.
Laura Thomson Webtools Engineering Manager YearUp Walk For Opportunity Remote (Maryland, US) No Walk For Opportunity website

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Daniel Coates Ben Adida Mountain View San Francisco Software Engineer, Identity
Michael Henretty Lucas Adamski Mountain View Mountain View Software Engineer
Matea Lisica Lori Jashinsky Mountain View Mountain View Workplace Resources Space Planner
Sakina Groth Chad Weiner Mountain View Charlotte, NC Product Marketing Manager, Apps Marketplace

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Benjamin Bouvier Luke Wagner Mountain View Mountain View Platform Engineering
Deian Stefan Dave Herman Mountain View San Francisco Research Engineering

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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)

QA

WebQA

Was a light week from the Engagement/Web Production projects’ side, due to their work week

Automation & Tools

  • B2G measurements using Eideticker are starting to arrive
  • Moving Autophone into AWS for future proofing our Fennec startup results dashboard (as well as making those numbers far more stable)
  • Working toward reducing orange factor for mobile platforms by aiding with the testing of the re-wired panda chassis and investigating robocop failures
  • Ran Infrastructure load focus group meeting — more information coming soon w.r.t. what our measurements will show and what we predict various proposed solutions’ impact to be.
  • For more information, please see our page

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15-April-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-04-15

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

  • Kensie Connor for organizing Open Web Open Mic last week in Toronto

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 18 April

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Intern presentations at 1-2:30pm PDT in 10FWD, SF Commons and TOR Commons. Come see Yiming Yang, Mack Duan and Luqman Aden present what they’ve been working on all winter!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

  • New SocialAPI providers on Beta!
  • So much dev tools hotness in the last few weeks
    • Network panel
    • Side docking toolbox
    • Font inspector
    • Browser console
    • Ponies.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: MV (johnath)

  • FF20 for Android is the stable-est stable that ever stabled.
  • Web Audio now enabled on nightlies, bumps Fennec html5test score to 431
  • WebRTC has merged to m-c too, but is still pref’d off for the moment.
  • No seriously, have you read Sriram’s stuff on overdraw and view reduction on Android?

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Matt in Toronto
Video presentation

Introducing a new open online course for Webmaker mentors: Teach the Web

  • The course runs May 2 – June 30. Drop in anytime. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) format.
  • Learn how to teach digital literacy, coding and webmaking.
  • Connect with other mentors, Moz Reps, educators and techies around the world.
  • Get training and support for Maker Party 2013 — our big upcoming summer learning campaign.

How to get involved:

  1. Sign up for the MOOC or learn more at webmaker.org/teach
  2. Get help and ask questions any time using the “#teachtheweb” hashtag
  3. Get started teaching right now. At webmaker.org/teach
  4. Help run the course. Looking for “Super Mentors” to help with moderation, blog posts and more.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

As part of our 15th anniversary, we’d like everyone to help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Every week until the Summit, we’ll be blogging a different milestone in our history and we’d like you to attach stories, photos of t-shirts, photos of other stuff, and videos in the comments of those posts.

One thing we could do with the stories Mozillians share is update the History of the Mozilla Project. Imagine the possibilities of combining our stories with the cutting-edge technology behind the Horsehead Saga Timelime.

Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone: The Mozilla project begins

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF

  • A glance at two things we’re doing for 2013 Q2
    • We’re building a NOC.
      • Working with Taos on building a 24×7 Network Operations Center to support web properties & services such as Marketplace, Persona and product downloads.
    • We’re doing data center construction
      • Building second phase at Vantage/SCL3 to support a consolidation project (collapsing two data centers into SCL3) & building sufficient room for more Release Engineering test hardware.
      • Check out the graph on the right!
  • We didn’t sit still last week

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

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Mark Cornmesser Amy Rich Mountain View Mountain View Windows System Engineer
Alex Gibson Michael Kelly Toronto UK Sr. Front End Web Developer
Hema Koka Mike Lee Mountain View Mountain View Engineering Manager, Firefox OS
Dean Wilson Mark Mayo Mountain View UK Operations Engineer

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

QA

Web QA

Automation & Tools

  • Many panda failures (intermittent reboots) have been diagnosed as a wiring issue in the chassis. Wiring is being replaced this week. Many thanks to jmaher, dividehex, and kmoir for some amazing debugging on this one
  • Fixed some issues with errant bugmail in bugzilla
  • Working with developers on an experimental microbenchmark performance suite – more to come as code starts to land.
  • We noticed that our mentored bugs/good first bugs had gotten kind of stale and it was hard for contributors to really understand what is needed and what is required in those bugs. We’re going to freshen those up this week, and we encourage other teams at Mozilla to do the same.
  • Lots more underway here

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8-April-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-04-08

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

  • Tiziana and Aleksej for participating and filing bugs for the mozilla.org Test Day on Friday 5th April, 2013

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 09 April

  • Security Champs: 13:00 PST » MTV-2J JK; SFO-7B The Warfield; TOR-5N Spadina (using the JK vidyo)

Wednesday, 10 April

  • Open Web Open Mic @ Mozilla Toronto 5:30-9:00pm. Sign up!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • We shipped!
    • And our uptake numbers are awesome
    • But a surprising number of people have profile paths with UNC characters, so we’re going to spin a point release bug 857672
  • Australis approacheth

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • We shipped!
  • The new content fonts are here, the new content fonts are here! (On Beta)

Webmaker

Speaker Location: @OpenMatt in Toronto
This week: lightning presentation from OpenNews. Showing off new demo: Tabula
“Liberate data trapped inside PDFs”

  1. Try out Tabula now. Or read more about it, grab the source code or become a contributor.
  2. Check out the new Open News Learning site. Programmatic solutions to journalistic problem sets. New case studies each week:
  3. Learn more about Mozilla Open News.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: no audio

  • 1.0.1
    • Highest priority is closing blocker bugs raised by the remaining certification passes by downstream partners. This set of bugs will rise and fall with each successive phase of testing. Rolling, rolling, rolling…
  • 1.1
    • Nearly feature-complete, waiting only for a few more Mail features and then MMS (a massive beast of a spec) support landing in the next couple of weeks.
  • Kumar McMillan’s Hacks.m.o post on Navigator.pay() got a ton of internet attention over the weekend, even making it onto BoingBoing.net.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

There was a Community Builders meetup in Toronto a couple of weeks ago where employees and volunteers from across the project worked on plans to address the highest priority community building needs. This group created a lot of things that will help all teams and local communities bring in new contributors.

If you’re interested in bringing in new contributors to your project, now is the perfect time since the opportunity has never been greater. When we encouraged people to get involved with Mozilla as part of promotions for Mozilla’s 15th anniversary, we had over 1,600 potential volunteers contact us in a single day.

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF

  • 2013 Q1 Review, in -3- bullet points
  • We didn’t sit still last week

Speakers

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
OpenNews demo: Tabula Dan Sinker, Manuel Aristarán (OpenNews Fellow @ La Nación), Mike Tigas (OpenNews Fellow @ ProPublica), Jeremy B. Merrill (ProPublica) Tabula – PDF tabular data extractor Screen share demo from Mike http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing-tabula/ https://github.com/jazzido/tabula
Head of Knowledge Cultivation Dia Bondi Capture Mozilla- state of the thing The Ask:

  • Host a video sprint and tell us: what worked? what was a blocker in the process? what would make video capture easier for you? Please drop your feedback into #capturemozilla
  • already have some knowledge share on video? put it here
  • want to host a video sprint or make a video and need some help? contact me at dia@mozilla.com or on IRC #thejudge

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Gijs Kruibosch Justin Dolske Mountain View Netherlands Software Engineer

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Automation & Tools

Engagement

PR


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1-April-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-04-01

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

Lisa Gray and Shannon Clayton for an outstanding job of managing the move of two existing offices in Paris into the splendiferous new Mozilla Space on Boulevard Montmartre. (…and they did it without even being able to speak French).

Upcoming Events

Monday, 01 April

Tuesday, 02 April

Thursday, 04 April

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

  • Release week! Tho’ your hands in the air
    • \o\
    • /o/
    • \o\
    • /o/
  • FF20 means per-window private browsing, new download manager, developer toolbox. Tell a friend!

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

  • Release week! Everybody dance!
    •  :D-<
    •  :D|-<
    •  :D/-<
  • FF20 means private browsing tabs, homescreen customization, and broader ARMv6 reach. Tell a friend!

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Brett Gaylor will present a short Lightening Talk later on this call

  • This week’s Webmaker update:

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF

  • First of two firewall upgrades wrapped up on Saturday
    • was intrusive but gets us to a version that won’t require disruptions for future OS upgrades
  • Sponsored first open source monitoring conference ~ http://monitorama.com/
    • Laura Thompson & monitoring at (rolf) scale using crash-stats.mozilla.com as an example of the challenges of monitoring a complex distributed system at high scale, and how developers, IT/Operations, and QA can successfully work together to constantly improve things in a devops fashion.

Speakers

Title Name Topic Media More Details
Mozilla Founder and Chief of People Mitchell Baker and Debbie Cohen Mozilla Summit 2013 No media / slides https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013 https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/03/31/mozilla-summit/

https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/03/28/mozilla-summit-2013-the-word-is-out/

Sr. Director, Mozilla Webmaker Brett Gaylor Webmaker.org evolution for 2013 summer campaign https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/webmaker_evolutionv4.pdf
Product manager, community tools William Reynolds You can now have a public Mozillians profile Blog post with details Edit your profile and mark the fields you want as public.
Manager Hacking Mike Morgan, aka morgamic Building a manager community at Mozilla, why it’s important. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking
NetPolicy Alex Fowler Invite participation in Mozilla’s Internet policy activities. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Netpolicy

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Gijsbert Kruibosch Justin Dolske Mountain View Netherlands Software Engineer
Daniel Minor Clint Talbert Mountain View Canada Software Tools Developer, Mobile Platform
Christiane Ruetten Yvan Boily Mountain View Berlin Mobile Application Malware Specialist
Marc Schifer Bob Moss Mountain View Mountain View Senior Browser QA Manager

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

QA

WebQA

  • Helped ship Input rewrite to production: https://input.mozilla.org
  • Just helped ship about:healthreport (Firefox Health Report)

Automation & Tools

Engagement

PR

Webdev

  • Shipped a brand new rewritten-from-the-ground-up version of Input (https://input.mozilla.org/) on March 27th. We had a full three minutes where all feedback on Input was happy.

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26-March-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-03-25

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

�system64� for doing first code to MDN

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 28 March

its SuMo day our by weekly evnet for you to help on sumo support.mozilla.org for people

Next Week

the weekly Mobile meeting will be live on air.mozilla 3pm wednesday you can join us in #sumo irc or in the board room in sf and Michelle Luna vidyo room

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: Gavin (toronto)

Firefox Mobile

  • No update this week

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Toronto (Matt Thompson)

The Webmaker video update will be played from Toronto

Grow Mozilla

No voice update this week

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: MV

  • Socorro upgrades
  • HCI OS upgrades

Introducing New Interns

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Gareth Aye Lucas Adamski Mountain View San Francisco Software Engineer
Gareth Cull Christopher More Mountain View Toronto,ON Web Analytics and Optimization Engineer
Nicholas Grammater Winnie Aoieong Mountain View San Francisco Finance Analyst
Kendall Libby Matthew Zeier Mountain View Arlington, MA IT, Developer Services
Jack Moffitt Azita Rashed Mountain View Albuqueque, NM Senior Research Engineer
Michael Lee Lucas Adamski Mountain View Mountain View Engineering Manager
Michaela Thayer Winston Bowden San Francisco Remote, Washington D.C. Social Media

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Engagement

PR

Evangelism

Firefox OS App Workshops:
hands-on technical workshops for skilled web app developers
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/03/firefox-os-app-workshops/

    • Madrid, April 20
    • Bogota, May 18
    • Warsaw, June 1

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19-March-2013

Mozilla Project: 2013-03-18

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

Upcoming Events

Monday, 18 March

Privacy Friends Meeting, 2pm PST, Bay Bridge, Get to da Choppa, Dial in to “Privacy Room”

Thursday, 21 March

  • Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific — a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla

Friday, 22 March

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: mountain view (johnath)

  • Expanding click-to-play coverage for outdated versions of Flash bug 850734
  • Stub installer experiment running as we speak
  • Metro available in nightlies
  • Australis tabs in the UX branch

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: mountain view (johnath)

  • OMG autohiding location bar on scroll bug 716403
  • Weekend nightlies were a bit rough, today is better, tomorrow will be better-er.
  • Fennec nightly fans should follow the new @FennecNightly twitter feed

Webmaker

Speaker Location:
Note: No Speaker this week – Toronto will play the video.

Speakers

Title Presenter Topic Media More Details
Mozilla Game On Winners Chloe Varelidi (calling in from NY) + Winners live in SFO Mozilla Game On Competition + Winners! http://glitchnap.com/zumbie https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/12/gameon_winners/ ; https://gameon.mozilla.org/en-US/
Gear Store Jennifer Balaco (Mountain View) https://wiki.mozilla.org/GearStore
Mozilla IT Rick Bryce (San Francisco) Database Upgrades for SUMO and Addons

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Tim Wong Mathew Caldwell Mountain View Mountain View Sourcer
Garrett Robinson Sid Stamm Mountain View Mountain View Software Engineer, Privacy
Stephany Wilkes Jinghua Zhang Mountain View Mountain View UX Firefox OS Project Manger
Robyn Chau Shezmeen Prasad San Francisco San Francisco Developer Events Manager

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

QA

Web QA

Engagement

PR

Web Productions

  • Just as a reminder, Mozilla’s Webtrends metrics and reporting will stop working in a few days. Our contract end date is March 21st and access to reports will no longer be available. If you still have the Webtrends tag on your website now, it will not negative affect the website after the 21st, but it is still wasted bandwidth.
  • We are nearly complete converting everyone over from Webtrends to Google Analytics. If you still need GA on your web property, please follow the instructions on the Intranet.
  • If you have any Google Analytics or Webtrends needs or issues, please file a bug.

Foundation Updates


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