Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

17-November-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-11-16

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Loïc Cuguen and Cédric Ravalec, co-founders of Phoxygen, for hosting another Firefox OS community meetup in Paris Office; yesterday’s highlights were a description of Gaia’s new architecture by Firefox OS’ Julien Wajsberg, and a presentation around the Battery API’s latest changes. William Quiviger also revealed everything about the excellent newest Firefox OS Community Website. And thanks a lot to Guillaume Canavaggio for staying late to record this for AirMo.
  • The add-ons team would like to thank Larissa Shapiro for helping to wrangle signing and other big projects that impact our developer community the past few quarters. We offer her our best wishes and support as she steps into her new role as program manager for Diversity and Inclusion!
  • Thanks to Lithopsian for helping developers in the add-on forums!
  • Thanks to the outgoing Featured Add-ons Board, who selected all the add-ons featured on AMO in the past six months–Kailas, Balaji, Jithin, Gautam, and Jayakumar. And a big thanks to Michael Balazs, who provided leadership and guidance to the group!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 16 November

Tuesday, 17 November

Wednesday, 18 November

Thursday, 19 November

Next Week

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox and Cloud Services

Speaker Location: Nick Nguyen, MV

  • We have been busy shipping lots of stuff…
    • MSE for YouTube
    • Dev Edition – 1 million downloads, 500K users
    • Windows 10 – first new OS launch we were prepared for
    • 42 Campaign – Private Browsing with Tracking Protection on Desktop and Android
    • iOS Browser global launch last week
  • In the future…
    • More cloudy goodness to tie together the growing Firefox Family
    • Better tracking protection
    • E10S! (Multiprocess Firefox)
    • WebExtensions 1.0
    • AwesomeBar with extra Awesome
    • Sweeping out the dusty corners of Firefox – quality, onboarding
    • Tell us what you’d want updates on in IRC. (mailing list to be created in near future for fx-updates, will post here in wiki)
    • A more detailed roadmap

Firefox OS

Web App Developer Initiative
Speaker Location: Bill Walker, SF

As part of our Q4 goals, the Web App Developer Initiative team have created a Firefox Platform Status app (codenamed platatus). The goals of this project are to (1) provide a Firefox-centric companion to chromestatus.com and dev.modern.ie; and (2) show how Service Worker and W3C app manifest can enrich and improve the web app experience.

November Moment in Time
Speaker Location: Peter Dolanjski, MV
Last week marked some critical milestones for Firefox OS:

MozFest

Non-verbal update: Miss MozFest earlier this month? Check out photos, our post-event blog post, and blog posts from attendees.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
glob Bugzilla & MozReview Bugzilla’s New UI Pre-recorded Video n/a https://youtu.be/2zN0rjM_yYk (1m20s) https://globau.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/bmo-new-look/

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?
Exclumice Amy Tsay Mountain View Russia Add-on Reviews for AMO.
Evgeny Mazovetskiy Amy Tsay Mountain View Germany Add-on Reviews for AMO.
Rob Wu Amy Tsay Mountain View Netherlands Add-on Reviews for AMO.
Fabricio Ganzert Amy Tsay Mountain View Brazil Add-on Reviews for AMO.
Noitidart Amy Tsay Mountain View USA Add-on Reviews for AMO.

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Joseph Yeh Pre-recorded video Pre-recorded video Taipei Front End Developer
Peter Chang Pre-recorded video Pre-recorded video Taipei FirefoxOS
YaChieh Wu Pre-recorded video Pre-recorded video Taipei Front End Developer
Alicia Smith Jeff Bryner SFO Texas Enterprise Information Security
Adam Muntner Jeff Bryner SFO New York Enterprise Information Security–web bug bounty
April King Jeff Bryner SFO Minneapolis Enterprise Information Security–web standards
Shain Feurtado Robb Carroll MTV Mountain View Audio Visual Operations – Events
Tim Stafford Michelle Marovich PDX PDX Recruiter
Mihai Tabara Chris Cooper Toronto Toronto (based in London office) Release Software Engineer

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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

10-November-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-11-09

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Huge thanks to Francisco for taking care of the mozillians at MozFest
  • Big thanks and congratulation to Emma and George for coordinating the first Participation Cohort – present at MozFest
  • Bows and applause for all MoFo/MoCo/Mozillians that helped or attended MozFest!
  • Respect and kudos to the Participation Leaders cohort for participating AND collaborating AND working super-hard at MozFest
  • Massive thank you to everyone who helped with, spoke at and attended View Source 2015 last week in Portland! Check out all our awesome sessions on AirMozilla.
  • Thanks to contributor jotes for his amazing work fixing bugs and adding features to Pontoon!
  • Thanks to Mandy Chan for solving problems and being so helpful and welcoming to the horde of visiting Mozillians
  • Possibly last but hardly not least, huge thanks to Potch, Lonnen, Mike Poessy, Richard Milewski, Tony Recendez, Clarissa Sorenson, Mark Richards and various other folks I’m forgetting for accommodating so many unique meeting support requests for the Fall Campaign over the past +month!
  • Congrats to Tom Schuster, our newest Friend of Add-ons, who has been contributing to the Web Extensions API.
  • Thank you to app reviewer William Dorffer for helping to on-board Trishul Goel to full reviewer. And congrats to Trishul!
  • Congratulations to Nino Vranešič, who has been promoted to Senior App Reviewer and will start helping developers get their privileged apps approved–thanks Nino!

Upcoming Events

Friday, 13 November

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

John Bernard (remote)

Firefox OS November Moment in Time Update

Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin, Germany (remote)

Foxfooding Update

  • Foxfooding Phase 2 has started! We distributed first phones to Foxfooders from our community last week during Mozfest in London.
  • The Foxfooding Participation Hub will go live this week (fingers crossed).

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing Media More Details
Hallvord R. M. Steen Web compatibility webcompat.com progress At home No https://webcompat.com https://webcompat.com/issues/1845 https://webcompat.com/issues/1894 https://webcompat.com/issues/1849 https://webcompat.com
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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Maria Oteo Candice Serran Mountain View Spain – remote FirefoxOS EPM – New Architecture

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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

3-November-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-11-02

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thank you to Johann Hofmann for his contributions to the new Web Extensions API!
  • Thanks to Shing Lyu from the Taipei office for his excellent first Hacks post on Building an iOS-style Unread Notifications add-on for Firefox OS and to Eddie Lin, Shiqi “Mash” Gao, and Michael Henretty for their support.
  • Thanks to Adrian Crespo for being a rockstar phone hacker and app/add-on reviewer.
  • Safe travels and big thanks to Mozillians from all over the world who are beginning their travels to be part of Mozfest.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 02 November

Tuesday, 03 November

  • 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET / 4:30pm UTC Rally For The User – Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla. A lot is happening for our Fall Campaign. This is a chance to see how all the various elements fit together and learn why the work we are doing for users is so important.
    • Joining us in MV? We can feed you and even shuttle you from SF – tell us. Did we mention this includes a Barista cart? *** Please bring your Mozilla picture ID to show driver for entry onto the bus.
      • If you don’t already have a photo on your ID, please have the photo taken at reception on Monday and wear it visibly when in the office.
      • Bus will depart SF office Tuesday Nov 3 @ 7:30 AM.
  • We’re collecting stuff about the Fall Campaign on this wiki page.

Wednesday, 04 November

Homebrew Website Club Meetup (every other Wednesday)

Be a part of the open web with your own website.

Thursday, 05 November

Saturday, 07 November

IndieWebCamp MIT brainstorming day!

https://indiewebcamp.com/2015/MIT

IndieWebCamp MIT is a two day BarCamp (“unconference”) on brainstorming and building the independent web.

No cost to attend, just bring your own website (or even just domain name), and optimism about how you too can be a part of the open web.

Register: https://indiewebcamp.com/2015/MIT/Guest_List

Mozillians participating: Tantek Çelik

Sunday, 08 November

IndieWebCamp MIT hack day!

https://indiewebcamp.com/2015/MIT

IndieWebCamp MIT is a two day BarCamp (“unconference”) on brainstorming and building the independent web.

No cost to attend, just bring your own website (or even just domain name), and optimism about how you too can be a part of the open web.

Register: https://indiewebcamp.com/2015/MIT/Guest_List

Mozillians participating: Tantek Çelik

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:
Sandip Kamat, San Diego, CA (remote)

Firefox OS – Add-ons

Speaker Location:
Peter Dolanjski, remote

General Firefox OS Update

  • v2.5 OTA version should be coming soon – watch out for it. File bugs as usual.
    • 590 blockers over the 2.5 release! 41 blockers still remain and we will fix them by the next 6 weeks.
  • Information on v2.6 coming soon. Focus is centered on quality, quicker OTA updates to foxfooders.
  • Don’t have a device to try out Firefox OS?
    • More to come next week, including Nexus 4 and 5 builds from Mozilla!

MozFest

Speaker Location: Dietrich Ayala, London

MozFest is less than a week away — Nov. 6-8 in London. Visit festival.mozilla.org for details.

  • It’s not too early to start Tweeting. Use the hashtag #MozFest early and often.
  • This year, Mozilla has brought on Medium.com as a media partner. On Saturday night, Medium.com will host a series of conversations with Mozillians about topics like leading in the open, the inclusive web, and advocacy.
  • We’re providing every attendee with a cardboard VR viewer based on the V2 Cardboard, with sessions in the Youth Zone for VR storytelling and game development.
  • Firefox & Firefox OS will mostly be on the Global Village floor, in the Garage:
    • Two Firefox OS televisions running demos and available for hacking, and an app-making workshop to learn how to push your app to the TV for testing.
    • Mozilla Japan is exhibiting the MozOpenHard project and the Chirimen device, a Firefox OS developer board with GPIO, I2C and SPI APIs, and also the Fabble project, a hub for sharing recipes for fabrication.
    • Mozilla Taipei will be showing how to program Arduinos directly from the Web using Firefox OS and the WoT.js library.
    • FlyWeb team will run a workshop and exhibit through the festival.
    • Firefox OS team will run a session on building add-ons for Firefox OS 2.5.
  • Mozilla Tech Speakers will run a session called “Scaling by Doing: ‘Tech Speakers’ Starts With You” demonstrating how to start your own Tech Speakers group/speaking practice session on Sunday afternoon in the Participation space

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Armen Engineering productivity CI scheduling tools home yes (4:3) live slides QofC: mozci
George Roter Participation Team Global Gatherings Toronto yes [1]

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Emma Humphries Sheila Mooney Mountain View Mountain View Bugmaster
Ari Jaaksi Dave Slater Mountain View Mountain View SVP, Connected Devices

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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

27-October-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-10-26

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to the new Fall Tech Speaker ‘Pilots’ – André Fiedler, Christos Bacharakis, Elio Qoshi, Francesco Iovine, Gabriel Mičko, Rizky Ariestiyansyah, Santosh Viswanathan, Sumanth Damarla and to all 16 ‘tech speaker’ program pilots who in total organized and/or presented talks at 25+ events in 11 countries from North America to Southeast Asia in Q3 & Q4 to date.
  • Thanks to Gerv who pointed out the mixed-content work-around that lets Linux users (and anyone else not using Flash) watch this meeting at https://air.mozilla.org/theo/ See that page for details.
  • Thank you to Naoki Hirata for his tireless efforts to get nightly FOTA updates working for the Flame reference phone.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 26 October

Tuesday, 27 October

  • Ada Lovelace Festival Oct 27 & 28 in Berlin Germany
    • The Ada Lovelace Festival is the first crossover platform conference dedicated to all women in the IT and technology industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
    • Sole Penadés speaking on day 2 on WebAudio API
    • Dev Rel sponsorship for 15 student tickets
    • Participation Team supporting onsite w Mario Behling
  • Privacy Lab with guest speakers Violet Blue and Erica Johnstone
    • 5-7pm Pacific in SFO Commons and via Air Mozilla

Wednesday, 28 October

Thursday, 29 October

Saturday, 31 October

  • 3-6PM – Firefox OS Add-ons Hackathon in Hyderabad – This event will cover creating your own Firefox OS add-ons, as well as hints, tips, and other information.

Next Week

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 – 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET / 4:30pm UTC

  • Rally For The User – Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla. A lot is happening for our Fall Campaign. This is a chance to see how all the various elements fit together and learn why the work we are doing for users is so important.
    • Joining us in MV? We can feed you and even shuttle you from SF – tell us.
    • Did we mention this includes a Barista cart? Please register!

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Fall Campaign Updates

Speaker Location: San Francisco + video
A few more pre-Nov 3 Rally updates on the Fall Campaign focusing on Taking (Back) Control of the Web.

Firefox OS

Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin, Germany (remote)

Foxfooding Update

  • From our survey about phase 1 of the Foxfooding program, we learned that we need a channel to communicate with our Foxfooders.
  • The Foxfooding App is up and running. It’s pre-installed on the latest Foxfooding build. You can also check it out here: https://foxfooding.github.io/
  • Going forward, you can expect:
    • News about the Foxfooding program, Firefox OS, and project happenings.
    • Information about updates that we ship over-the-air to your foxfooding devices.
    • Ongoing issues that we’re tackling, where we are in dealing with them, and guidance on how to get around them.
    • Other assorted information, like interviews and press releases.
  • We are also finalizing phase two of the Foxfooding program. Stay tuned for updates to the program and gamification around Foxfooding.

Candice Serran, San Francisco Office

2.5 Release Update

  • RA (Release Available) – Nov 2
  • Newest DONE Features currently on Master:
    • New Homescreen
    • Late Customization
    • Pin the Web
    • Privacy Control Panel
    • NGA: Music App
  • One more week for blocker fixing!!! (http://mzl.la/1O3bCxr)
  • For more info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Releases/2.5
  • With 2.5 ramping down, we are scaling up the 2.6 Release. More to come in the next two weeks!

Mozilla Advocacy

Sara Haghdoosti, San Francisco: The latest on our encryption campaign efforts: www.savecrypto.org

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
tofumatt Web Developer New Add-ons Validator in JS! Home Space No N/A https://github.com/mozilla/addons-validator/
Josh As Projects related to networking, security, and image formats. Let’s Encrypt Home Space No N/A https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/19/lets-encrypt-is-trusted.html
Gervase Markham Public Policy Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) launch Hotel room in Amsterdam via Vidyo No N/A https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
Christopher Arnold Brown-bag next week on upcoming “Dino Tank” proposal submission window Dino Tank SFO Common Space No N/A https://air.mozilla.org/dino-tank-mozlando/
Mike Hoye The annual Free Software And Open Source Symposium. Seneca College @ York No N/A FSOSS.ca

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Shawn Huang Tom Tung (Recording) Taiwan Software Engineer
Louis Chang Jocelyn Liu (Recording) Taiwan Software Engineer
Tina Hsieh Harley Hsu (Recording) Taiwan UX Designer
Bryant Mao Harley Hsu (Recording) Taiwan UX Designer
Farmer Tseng Vincent Liu (Recording) Taiwan Software Engineer
Thomas Nguyen Ethan Tseng (Recording) Taiwan Software Engineer
Ava Espinosa David Bryant Mountain View Mountain View Ava is my new Executive Assistant, and will be supporting me for both Platform Engineering and as interim CTO

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

An RTL committee/task force is created!

Delphine Lebédel and Ahmed Nefzaoui (RTL developer, tech speaker) started an initiative of forming a Right-To-Left committee that Mozilla can rely on in expanding RTL support to all of our products and services. If you think your team’s projects will need RTL support get in touch with us and make sure to subscribe to our dev-rtl mailing list! This task force is initially made of contributors from all the RTL communities (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Urdu), but everyone is welcome to join in!
More in: wiki.mozilla.org/RTL

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

Engagement

19-October-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-10-19

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • A huge THANK YOU to Mexico community members Alejandro Gomez, Mauricio Navarro and Luis Sanchez, who did a great job as instructors / organizers of a Firefox OS application development training in conjunction with the University Corporation for the Development of the Internet (CUDI), which ran from October 2 to 4 at the National Polytechnic Institute, a top public college in Mexico.
  • Thanks to the Mozilla German community and Mozilla Berlin office, for representing at Berlin TVHackDay and for help with promoting the DT Privacy Symposium – happening in Berlin on Oct 23, with some Mozilla Berlin speakers. Thanks André, Mario, and EVERYONE ELSE!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 20 October

  • Building and shipping software at Facebook
    • Tuesday, October 20 – noon PT / 3pm ET / 7pm UTC
    • Mozilla Mountain View + [1]
    • Blurb: Facebook has over 1 billion monthly active web users and pushes new versions of its website twice a day. At the same time, Facebook also has over 1 billion monthly mobile users and pushes new versions of its 6+ mobile apps every 1-2 weeks. Shipping at this speed and scale is driven by a very small Release Engineering team with a large supporting cast. Learn about the cutting-edge tools, distributed systems, processes, and culture Facebook relies on to ship effectively.
    • Speaker: Former Firefox Release Manager Christian Legnitto, who has spent the last four years shipping software at Facebook.
    • Questions: #airmozilla on IRC
  • Mozilla Github security changes for third-party application access
    • tl;dr: 3rd-party applications will lose access to the Mozilla organization in GitHub at 1700 UTC / 1000 PDT unless they are pre-approved. Very old SSH keys may also lose access if they are not verified at https://github.com/settings/ssh .
    • Traditionally 3rd party applications have had full access to all repositories (public and private) for an organization when any member enables them. When combined with aggressive 3rd party applications many of our repositories are divulging information unintentionally. Github recently changed the way they do application permissions and we’re enabling their new system.
    • Questions: If you run into any problems with Github, please join us in #github or email github-owners@m.o and we’ll get you fixed up. Thanks!

Wednesday, 21 October

Homebrew Website Club Meetup (every other Wednesday)

Be a part of the open web with your own website.

Thursday, 22 October

October Brantina: Data As Empathy

Thursday, October 22 – 9am PT / noon ET / 4pm UTC
Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla

To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?

Our October speaker Frances Haugen will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She’ll help us understand how data – done ‘right’ – connects us to millions of users we don’t know personally. And she’ll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.

Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, Frances has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters.

Host: Matt Grimes, User Advocacy

Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.

Hashtag: #brantina

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Fall Campaign Update

The latest in our project call updates on our Fall Campaign in preparation for our Nov 3 Rally For The User.

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Sara Haghdoosti + Jochai Ben-Avie

Germany Campaign
Another significant way Mozilla is working to give users control of their online lives is happening in Germany! This month we launched our first non-English advocacy campaign – a huge milestone that happened because of some great collaboration between MoCo and MoFo. The campaign raised concerns about a data retention bill in Germany and we mobilized thousands of people to take action.

Special thanks to:

MoFo

  • Jon Buckley (developer)
  • Ali Al Dallal (developer)
  • Scott Downe (developer)
  • Jordan Gushwa (design)
  • Sara Haghdoosti (campaigner)
  • Adam Lofting (metrics)
  • Bobby Richter (project manager)

MoCo

  • Jochai Ben-Avie (policy)
  • Jean Collings (snippet)
  • Jessilyn Davis (email maven)
  • Marshall Erwin (legal/data)
  • Barbara Hueppe (PR)
  • Alex Klepel (PR)
  • Chelsea Novak (community engagement)
  • Abigail Phillips (legal)
  • Chris Riley (policy)
  • Urmika Devi Shah (legal)

Community

  • Sebastian Hengst (translation/contributor)
  • l10n

Partners

  • Digitale Gesellschaft
  • Compact
  • NetzPolitik
  • EDRi

Firefox OS

Peter Dolanjski, remote

Foxfooding Update

  • Watch out for regular communication about changes and fixed bugs in the product
  • Changes coming in next OTA update:
    • New Homescreen – better performance, code clean up to support Pin the Web. App Grouping is not present and will be refactored in future.
    • Pin the Web – Save any webpage to your homescreen. Makes use of Web manifest and metadata. Will evolve over coming releases.
  • Please test these areas of the OS and file bugs as usual through Bugzilla Lite (hold down volume up and down buttons) or Bugzilla

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Andy McKay Add-ons Web Extensions Vancouver No Web Extensions, its happening Web Extensions
Mike Hoye Social Engineer New-Hire Onboarding For Engineers Toronto No All the excitement is happening in the Engineering-Onboarding vidyo room. Bugzilla: 12:00-2:30PM EST, 9:00-11:30 PST. Build And Go: 12:30-3:00PM EST, 9:30-12:00 PST. Firefox, Product And Architecture: 2:00-5:00 EST, 11:00-2:00 PST. Communication And Community: 1:00-3:00 PM ET, 10:00-1:00 PM PT

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Christopher Hutten-Czapsky Vladan Djeric Toronto Remote (Waterloo, Canada) Firefox performance
Meera Pisharody Allison Banks Mountain View Mountain View Director, Global People Operations
Jim Small Michelle Marovich Mountain View San Francisco Technical Recruiting
Christopher Grebs Andy McKay Vancouver Germany Remote Making AMO even more awesome
Don Marti Mary Ellen Muckerman SFO MTV/Remote Disrupting Advertising

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

Automation & Tools

Engagement

Youth Mozilla community

Community Site and blog

Wiki

Find the Latest Project news from our Twitter
Updates
With Just a small update this week
we would like to announce 2 internal Mozilla partnerships

1) Sumo with the mission to kick off Army Of Awesome

and

2) Mozilla Clubs network brining clubs to schools and local community’s

were also attending Mozilla Festival 2015 so feel free to contact me there

Contact

Email: stefancosten<at>mozilla.org.uk

IRC: #YoMo

12-October-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-10-12

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

Special Shout-Out to theFirefox Friends Localization Team!

They’ve been ROCKING localizations for the Firefox Friends program this month!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 12 October

Wednesday, 14 October

Friday, 16 October

  • ConnectJS happening October 16 & 17 in Atlanta, Georgia
    • This is a conference focused on Web and JavaScript, with alternating tracks on Rails, PHP, and Design
    • Dev Rel leader Jason Weathersby will be speaking on Performance Tuning With Firefox Developer Tools
  • Game Industry Conference happening Oct 16-18th in Poznan Poland
    • This is the biggest game development conference in this part of Europe with 3 days and 100 talks about everything around gamedev: from design, programming, through production, to business.
    • TechSpeaker Andrzej Mazure will be speaking on games and webVR, and showing cool demos to 3K attendees

Saturday, 17 October

  • PyConFR happening Oct 17-20th in Pau, Aquitaine
    • This is an annual conference for french speaking python developers. It is composed of 2 days of conferences and 2 days of sprints on different Python Open Source projects.
    • Mozillian Rémy Hubscher attending, and Mozilla is supporting with the Bronze sponsoship
  • Accessibility Camp Toronto happening Oct 17th in Toronto Canada
    • This conference focuses on users with different disabilities. Sessions cover digital accessibility topics from the web (technical to tactical), desktop software, mobile apps, eLearning, online gaming, open source innovations, wearables and everything in between.
    • Mozillians Yura Zenevich and David Bolter attending

Next Week

October Brantina: Data As Empathy

Thursday, October 22 – 9am PT / noon ET / 4pm UTC
Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla

To build products people love, you must understand those people. User research and user-centered design help get us there, but once we have a sense of how our audiences think and behave, how can we go beyond the anecdotal to extrapolate to the macro? What ways can we better understand the needs of millions of users who think, act and operate differently than us?

Our October speaker Frances Haugen will share from her product management and software engineering experiences with products used by millions of Google and Yelp customers. She’ll help us understand how data – done ‘right’ – connects us to millions of users we don’t know personally. And she’ll outline what doing data right means for product development, and how product owners can build things their users love.

Speaker: As both a Senior Product Manager, Software Engineer and Data Scientist for companies including Yelp and Google, Frances has worked at the intersection of data, design and humans throughout her career. An Electrical and Computer Engineering undergrad, Frances says she sees the world as comprised of hi and low cast filters.

Host: Matt Grimes, User Advocacy

Questions: Submit questions for Frances during the event on IRC #AirMozilla.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

CMO Update

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, Mozilla San Francisco

Jascha will give an overview of our November Moment in Time campaign and invite us to Rally For The User in Mountain View + Air Mozilla on Nov 3 (calendar invite to come).

Firefox OS

Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin, Germany (remote)

Participation/Foxfooding Update

  • Firefox OS Participation Hub will go live in the first week of November.
  • We will kick-off Phase 2 of foxfooding program shortly after!
  • Meanwhile, wee took the feedback about the Foxfooding program and created ideas about how to improve the current program as well as what to do better once we will scale to larger community –> We are planning a series of small experiments which will test how to best serve the needs of contributors to Firefox OS. Stay tuned.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Ben Niolet Email Marketing Manager Project FUEL SFO no Project FUEL (16:9) Project FUEL Overview
Potch That Guy from the Podium View Source Conference Mountain View no viewsourceconf.org Tickets are on sale NOW! Register for View Source- Mozilla’s first Web Development conference. Help spread the word.

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Jonathan Claudius Jeff Bryner San Francisco office Remote [Portland Maine] Pen Tester
Alan Jeffrey Dave Herman Remote Remote Research Engineer
Nushin Haghighi Melissa O’Connor San Francisco office San Francisco office Project Manager
Tara Minaee Jill Alvarez San Francisco office San Francisco office University Recruiter

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Firefox OS

Wilfred Mathanaraj : Please feel free to check and provide feedback of the long term planning @ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uz1astfKV_12x53MibBzh8Kfol3iL1xv6JEcAGGNGFQ/edit#slide=id.gbd1e68e52_2_32

Engagement

Youth Mozilla community

Community Site and blog

Wiki

About
Youth Mozilla is a new community to encourage mentorship and youth participation within Mozilla via a strategic program, working with school’s/colleges and local community’s

Contact

Email: stefancosten<at>mozilla.org.uk

IRC: #YoMo

5-October-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-10-05

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Francisco Picolini for his endless patience with questions from many, many Mozillians about visas, Participation leaders processes’, and making arrangements for Global Gatherings
  • Alba, Daniel, Manuel, Javier and the rest of the awesome Mozilla Hispano localization team who are translating the Apps & Hacks developer newsletter to Spanish. ¡Gracias!: https://hacks.mozilla.org/newsletter
  • Rachel McGuigan, Rina Jensen, Krupa Raj, Marcia Knous, Lizz Noonan, Larissa Shapiro, Ilana Segall, Lindsay Saunders and Anar Simpson, for taking time to mentor our TechWomen Emerging Leaders this month. Look for the Emerging Leaders from five nations in the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa around the SF and MTV offices during October!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 06 October

Wednesday, 07 October

  • Firefox OS meetup: a monthly meetup to gather parisian Firefox OS enthusiasts. This month Dietrich Ayala, Wilson Page and Guillaume Marty are speaking.
  • Networking Workshop in the SF office for the TechWomen program – 98 technical women from the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia are in the bay area for month long professional mentorships (6 at Mozilla) and many of them will be in our commons to practice professional networking skills, mingle, and eat appetizers, all Mozillians are welcome to meet them! 6:30 pm, SF commons.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox and Cloud Services

Speaker Location: mfinkle – remote

Firefox for Android

  • Click-to-view images landed in Nightly
  • Search history suggestions land on Nightly & a glimpse of some UI Telemetry in a blog post
  • A/B Testing a new onboarding flow lands on Nightly, could be enabled on Fx43

Firefox OS

Peter Dolanjski, Ontario, Canada (remote)

Participation/Foxfooding Update

  • Participation pathways:
    • Foxfooding (objective: Increase product quality, innovation ideas)
    • Porting (objective: Increase Firefox OS availability)
    • B2GDroid (objective: Increase number of foxfooders)
    • Gaia development (objective: Increase product quality, reduce parity gap, innovation ideas)
  • Paris meetup last week very productive –> updated and consolidated overall strategy and plan for Q4
  • Reviewing results of feedback for foxfooding program and working on ways to scale to larger community audience. Stay tuned.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Jeff Bryner Director of Infosec Michal` Purzynski appointed to Bro IDS Leadership team. Moz PDX office no n/a n/a
Potch That Guy from the Podium View Source Conference Mountain View no viewsourceconf.org Tickets are on sale NOW! Register now for View Source- Mozilla’s first Web Development conference. Spread the word – Mozilla Portland Office, we need you to help get local volunteers! Help spread the word. Direct volunteer form: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1j8FtvYQlhHo5U-kUYRob3j8DdvMuBbjQRED36b6sPDE/viewform, Link via website: https://viewsourceconf.org/contact-us/

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?
Lara, Mutriba, Esraa, Alaa, Ayah, Kumba, Techwomen Emerging Leaders! Techwomen Mentors Mountain View and San Francisco Mountain View/SF this month and then Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan and beyond Building community in Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Isabel Rios Escobar Pallavi Yaramada Mountain View Spain Sr. Mobile QA Engineer
Heather Crince Sean Rich Mountain View San Francisco Senior Product Manager
Franziskus Kiefer Christoph Kerschbaumer Mountain View Berlin Office Security Engineer
Juan Gómez Mosquera Gregor Wagner Berlin Office Berlin Office Senior Platform Engineer

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Engagement

Events

MOZFEST 2015!!!!

In your inbox right now is an invitation to come to Mozilla Festival 2015, taking place from the 6th- 8th of November at Ravensbourne College. Joins us in London as we bring together networks and community leaders working towards universal web literacy to share practices, tools and experiences. Details of how to get involved or register for tickets can be found in the email or on the wiki page

28-September-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-09-28

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to FxOS RTL developer, Arabic Mozilla contributor & #MozTechSpeaker Ahmed Nefzaoui for his first Hacks blog post: Building RTL-Aware Web Apps & Websites: Part 1
  • Thanks to #MozTechSpeaker Rabimba Karanjai for speaking at JSFoo in Bangalore last week, about ” A self learning word prediction module for handling multilingual input” (for FxOS), and then hosting a dev community meetup in Hyderabad
  • Thanks to #MozTech Speakers Andrzej Mazur, Flaki, Andre Fiedler, also Dietrich Ayala and many Berlin Mozillians for their work at JSConf EU, Reject.js, Berlin TV HackDay
  • Thanks to #MozTechSpeaker and MDN contributor Francesco Iovine, who gave his first conference talk at Over the Air (mobile conf) in the UK this past weekend!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 28 September

Tuesday, 29 September

Wednesday, 30 September

Thursday, 01 October

  • Paris Web starts Oct 1-3 in Paris, France
    • Paris Web 10th Edition! is a 3-day, not-for-profit event with conferences & workshops about webdesign, accessibility and best-practices in web development.
    • Mozillian Mathieu Pillard + Julien Wajsberg + Dietrich Ayala attending and demoing games, VR, dev tools, webIDE to 800+ attendees
  • Firefox for iOS demo event in the Toronto Commons. Starting at 6 p.m., come by and meet the Firefox for iOS team, see how the product works and enjoy some tasty treats.

Friday, 02 October

  • inGenius 2015, Bangalore, India.
    • inGenius is one of Bangalore’s prominent college-level hackathon. The aim is to foster and bring up the developer community in colleges as well as provide them a platform to showcase their maker skills. It’s an event where people from all India take part to create and build products of value.
    • Reps: Kaustav das Modak, Saikiran Chandha, Santosh Viswanatham.
    • More information in the Reps Event Page

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

John Bernard (remote)

Dominik Strohmeier, Berlin, Germany (remote)

Foxfooding Update

  • The Firefox OS Metrics works with Firefox OS product teams to prioritize work and to improve product features, e.g.
    • help Firefox OS Product teams to understand, for example, the importance of different features in different countries
    • help Firefox Marketplace teams to identify popular apps per locale
    • Find our more about our framework and the roadmap here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Metrics
  • Help us to learn more about usage of Firefox OS by switching on “Submit data” on your Firefox OS devices under your Settings > Improve Firefox OS (this requires Firefox OS v2.1 or higher)
    • Interested: reach out to Ravi Dandu, rdandu@mozilla.com, or Dominik Strohmeier, dominik@mozilla.com

Joe Cheng, Mountain View

Smart TV

  • TV Marketplace workshop will be happening this week 9/29-9/30 in Mountain View
  • Fennec to TV use cases
    • Send video to TV
    • Send URL to TV
    • Presentation API for 2nd screen use cases
    • Remote Control integration with TV and the fennec to TV experience
  • Firefox Account integration with TV Browser
    • Bookmark/Password/History for Datasync
    • Pocket integration with TV Browser
  • TV development board getting all the pieces together for internal team use
  • TV simulator to be available in WebIDE by next week
  • DEMO: Remote Control prototyping completed. Demo video: http://bit.ly/1Fa2ST1
  • DEMO: TV Simulator is still on going. Demo video: http://bit.ly/1Fa2V1b
  • Refer to TV 2.5 Wiki for latest status: https://wiki.mozilla.org/TV_2.5

Mozilla Learning Networks

Robert Bryan Friedman, Chicago (remote): The Foundation has just released its latest research report, an exploration of how youth in Chicago use and understand the mobile Web. mzl.la/chicago

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Potch Tech Evangelist Dev Rel View Source Conference Mountain View no viewsourceconf.org View Source Conference is happening Nov 2-4 in Portland, OR. Spread the word – Early bird tickets are still on sale. Tweet @viewsourceconf, #viewsource. We are also looking for regional volunteers! Direct volunteer form: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1j8FtvYQlhHo5U-kUYRob3j8DdvMuBbjQRED36b6sPDE/viewform, Link via website: https://viewsourceconf.org/contact-us/
Benjamin Smedberg Engineering Manager, Mozilla Firefox Retirement of Steven Michaud Vidyo No https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1xnLGDjzx-uCpOJfSgU2Muf-fzUjlNUMw6czHf_lge2k/edit?usp=sharing
Larissa Shapiro Engineering Program Manager, Mozilla Firefox Outreachy Program Applications Now Open! Vidyo No https://wiki.mozilla.org/Outreachy/2016/December_to_March https://wiki.mozilla.org/Outreachy/2016/December_to_March
Mike Hoye Engineering Community Manager Onramp Toronto No http://areweeveryoneyet.org/onramp How easy can we make it to get started?

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?
Mariot Tsitoara Amy Tsay MV Madagascar App reviews for Marketplace

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Mark Liang Harley Hsu (Recording) Taiwan UX Design
Astley Chen Thinker Lee (Recording) Taiwan Software Engineering
Iris Hsiao Gary Cheng (Recording) Taiwan Senior QA Engineer
Tina Pan Emily Hu (Recording) Taiwan Accountant
Christine Lin Emily Hu (Recording) Taiwan Accountant
Julie McCracken Candice Serran Mountain View Remote (San Diego) Senior Program Manager, FirefoxOS
Punam Dahiya Hema Koka Mountain View Mountain View Sr. Front End Software Engineer
Belén Albeza González Soledad Penadés Comadrán London office Barcelona Technical Evangelist
Michael Nolan Andy McKay Vancouver Remote Web Engineer, Add-ons
Philipp Kewisch Amy Tsay Mountain View Germany Admin add-on reviewer, part time

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

Engagement

21-September-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-09-21

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Big thanks to Mozilla Tech Speaker program pilots, Season 2: André, Christos, Elio, Francesco, Gabriel, Rizky, Santosh & Sumanth, special shout-out to Rizky who joins our Tuesday am PDT call after midnight on Wed.
  • Shout-out to Mozillian Alex Saladrigas, a Venezuelan from Barcelona for his talk about Firefox OS and some interesting use cases at Full Stack Fest earlier in the month.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 21 September

  • UNITE Boston is happening from Sept 21-23 in Boston Mass.
    • One of Unity Technologies major conferences in Boston attracting 1600+ game developers
    • Mozillians Luke Wagner and Andre Vrignaud speaking on WebGL, and Sandra Persing, Barry Munsterteiger and Naveed Ihsanullah attening
  • Privacy Lab combines with TA3M at EFF (815 Eddy Street, San Francisco). 6pm tonight. For a joint discussion about psuedonymity and online anonymity, featuring Liz Henry.

Tuesday, 22 September

  • Smart Web Conference (for designers and developers) happening on Sept 22nd in Bucharest Romania
    • Soledad Penadas speaking on Web Audio

Wednesday, 23 September

  • Rocky Mountain Ruby on Sept 23-25th in Boulder, CO
    • Rocky Mountain Ruby is a single track software conference focused on the Ruby programming language
    • Justin Crawford and Steve Klabnik attending

Thursday, 24 September

  • Reject JS on Sept 24th in Berlin Germany
    • It’s a one-day, single track conference (with Lightning Talks), born out of BerlinJS meetups and the “rejected speakers of JSConf EU”, to have grown a conference on its own right.
    • Mozillia Tech Speakers Flaki Speaking, Tech Speaker Andrzej Mazure + Andre Fielder attending, and Mozillians Guillaume Marty + Dietrich Ayala attending

How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts can devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt will provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.

Our monthly Speaker Series aka Brantinas are for the public so please invite your colleagues to attend live or via the stream. Views represented by our speakers do not necessarily reflect the views of Mozilla.

Friday, 25 September

  • JSConf Eu happening Sept 25 and 27th in Berlin, Germany
    • Two track conference with 50 talks, each is 30 mins. CSSconf EU takes place in the same venue during the “gap day”.
    • Mozillian Panos speaking, and Mozillians Michael Henretty, Flaki, Andrzej Mazure and others with Participation team as well running Add Ons Hack, Games + web VR demo at our sponsored lounge.
  • Over The Air on Sept 25t + 26th in London UK
    • Over the Air is an annual grassroots mobile developer event that is ever expanding the definition of ‘mobile’ into new areas (such as mobile web, IoT and wearables).
    • Mozillians Alex Lakatos (speaking), and Francisco Jordano, Soledad Penades attending

Saturday, 26 September

  • Open Help Conference happening Sept 26-30th in Cincinnati OH
    • Open Help focuses on documentation and support in open source projects.
    • Mozillian Janet Swisher attending

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

Peter Dolanjski, Ontario, Canada (remote)

Foxfooding Update

  • Building a program and participation hub to help us find the people we need to bring Firefox OS to the next level
  • Barrier: availability of devices to run Firefox OS on
    • Porting program for Android devices
      • Hit list: Nexus 6, Samsung Galaxy S5/6, LG G3/4, Moto G
      • Interested in helping: reach out to Brian King, bking@mozilla.com

Candice Serran, San Francisco Office

2.5 Release Update

  • Landed features in testing
    • B2gdroid
    • View Source
    • Bugzilla Lite
    • New default homescreen
  • Upcoming landings
    • Add-ons
    • Private Browsing
    • Pin the Web
  • Upcoming milestones:
    • 9/30 Checkpoint
      • Go/No-go for features which haven’t landed
      • Solidifying quality and blocker fixing
    • 11/2 – RA (Release Available)
  • Please refer to 2.5 Release wiki for more info on additional features and status: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/Releases/2.5

Mozilla Hive

Lindsey Frost, Chattanooga, TN: Mozilla has received $3.2M from the National Science Foundation to continue our gigabit work. Read our blog, and coverage in ZDNet.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Guillermo Huerta AV Ops VidyoDesktop 3.5 Mountain View no

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?
Lorenzo Guizzaro Amy Tsay MV London App reviewing

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Kevin Fann Tim Murray San Francisco Portland Engagement
Matthew Howell Jim Blandy Portland Portland Firefox Measurement and Quality
Sam Giles Wilson Page London London FirefoxOS (inc. B2GDroid)
Victoria Gerchinhoren Fairhurst Patryk Adamczyk Toronto Toronto Firefox OS Design

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

Engagement

14-September-2015

Mozilla Project: 2015-09-14

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm
  • Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
  • http://air.mozilla.org/ to watch and listen
  • join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
  • Presenters only: Vidyo room “Brownbags”. Do not use this room if you’re not planning to speak.
    • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.
  • Dial-in: conference# 8600
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

  • Thanks to Michael Kohler and André Fiedler for coordinating our participation at the upcoming TV Hack Day Berlin!
  • Thanks to Anubhav.worklinux for fixing bug 1004036, making the little things in Firefox OS not just functional, but beautiful.
  • Thanks to Durwasa Chakraborty for fixing bug 1166202, making the Firefox OS RTL support more complete.
  • Thanks to everyone (Staff & Volunteers!) who wrote a post for Mozilla Hacks blog in August and early Sept, special shout out to first time Hacks authors: Philipp Hancke (US), Michael Layzell (Canada), Chun-Min Chang, Shiqi “Mash” Gao (Taiwan), Jan Jongboom (Netherlands), Sebastian Zartner (Germany), Gloria Dwomoh (Greece)
  • Thanks to every Mozillian who wrote a letter of recommendation for another Mozillian as part of the Participation Leaders Global Gatherings initiative. \o/
  • Thanks to Cristian Silaghi and Baadur Jobava of Romanian l10n community for all their hard-work on weekends and evenings, to ensure the launch of FFOS phone in Romania is a success!
  • Thanks to Noitidart for his frequent and helpful contributions to the Add-ons Forum and add-on IRC channels.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 14 September

Wednesday, 16 September

  • JSFOO from 16th to 20th in Bangalore India
    • JSFOO is back again with its fifth edition. This year is about the future of JavaScript, bringing 700+ people together to talk about creating the future of the web.
    • We have Tech Speaker Rabimba presenting.
  • Web Unleashed from 16th to 17th in Toronto Canada
    • 2 days, 4 tracks, Front end developer focused content expecting 800 attendees
    • Mozillian Potch speaking on Web Workers Beyond The Wall and facilitating “Gluttony of Tools” fireside chat.

Thursday, 17 September

  • Rest Fest happening 17th-19th in Greenville, South Carolina
    • REST Fest is a collaborative RESTful Web Services conference now in its 6th year, focusing on building a collaborative space.
    • Mozillian Jason Weathersby attending

Friday, 18 September

  • Webdev Beer and Tell at 2PM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo room (and streaming on AirMo)
    • Open to the public!
    • Monthly get-together where webdevs across the community show off their side projects.

Next Week

Thursday September 24, 2015, 9am PT / noon ET / 4pm UTC – Mozilla Mountain View + Air Mozilla

Monthly Brantina: “Should I Put it On Yammer?

How do you respond when people at Mozilla ask you this? Do you sigh, roll your eyes, let out a small resigned laugh? Most of us know that many seemingly-benign posts can devolve into a debate nobody expected, necessarily wanted or knows what to do with. Our September Brantina speaker, Deanna Zandt will provide a deeper understanding of how our brains work when we’re engaged in online discussions which can help us communicate better, make better decisions, be more productive, and ultimately engage with more people driving richer, more dynamic outcomes.

Our monthly Speaker Series aka Brantinas are for the public so please invite your colleagues to attend live or via the stream. Views represented by our speakers do not necessarily reflect the views of Mozilla.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: MTV

Bill Walker will speak about a new initiative focused on the mobile web apps that users discover organically, use offline, and reengage with. We think same combination of service workers, web push, and the w3c app manifest that fuels the New Gaia Architecture and Progressive Apps will be tremendously valuable to web developers everywhere.

As an example of what’s possible, here’s a demo of Fred Wenzel’s FireKey.org working offline in multiple browsers using serviceworkers. FireKey.org provides passwords for two-factor authentication at sites like github.com.

CTO Update

Michael Bebenita San Francisco: The state of royalty-free video, Alliance for Open Media and the IETF NETVC Working Group
([1].)

Mozilla Advocacy

Melissa Romaine, San Francisco: Application deadline for 2016 Open Web Fellows host organizations has been extended to Oct. 9. (Link to application form.)

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It’s like a lightning talk, but don’t feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 “widescreen” format, please indicate in the “Sharing” column below.

Presenter Title Topic Location Sharing 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, 4:3 or 16:9) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Kyle Lahnakoski Statistics and Visualization ActiveData Toronto yes 4:3 PowerPoint PDF

Wiki

Ali Spivak MDN View Source Conference Mozilla SF no Slides View Source Conference Website

Wiki

Michelle Marovich Recruiting Textio Launch / Debiasing the Hiring Process Mountain View no Textio Website Details on how to use Textio
Jonathan Griffin Engineering Productivity Engineering Productivity Survey remote no http://goo.gl/forms/RKgyjGLPVR
Guillermo Huerta AV Ops VidyoDesktop 3.5 Mountain View no

Welcome!

Let’s say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be contributing from? What will the new person be working on?
Steven Harris Amy Tsay Mountain View USA AMO add-on reviews

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Jakob Olesen Jim Blandy Portland Office Portland Office JavaScript JIT/ARM to begin
Helen Holmes Jeff Griffiths Vancouver Office Remote Devtools UX

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

Engineering Productivity

Engagement

Events

  • Knowbility – our View Source Conference Web Accesibility Sponsor is inviting Mozillians to participate in their challenge: We believe in everyday heroes who solve real world challenges like accessible technology for all. If you are a web developer anywhere in the world, up for a truly global challenge, looking to make a real difference, register for ‪#‎OpenAIR2015: The web accessibility challenge. Hacking will continue onsite at the View Source Conference Nov 3+4th in PDX!

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