{"id":1786,"date":"2014-05-05T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2014-05-05T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T03:00:03","slug":"mozilla-project-2014-05-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/1786","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Project: 2014-05-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\">\n<h1 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"All-hands_Status_Meeting_Agenda\">All-hands Status Meeting Agenda<\/h1>\n<p>Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Friends_of_Mozilla\">Friends of Mozilla<a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/File:Tree.gif\" title=\"Friends of Mozilla\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Again, big thanks to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/kohei.yoshino\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kohei Yoshino<\/a> to all his amazing pull requests, triaging, and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kyoshino\" rel=\"nofollow\">contributions<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webdev\/Web_Production\" title=\"Webdev\/Web Production\">Web Productions<\/a> and specifically the Australis launch on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">mozilla.org<\/a>! Without Kohei, it would have been difficult to deliver all of the changes and new content for last Tuesday&#8217;s Fx 29 launch. &lt;8\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Big thanks to the outgoing Featured Add-ons Board&#8211;Michael Balazs, Si Howard, Rejah Rehim, Swarnava Sengupta,\tMuhammad Mehmood Ali, and Jithin Joji Anchanattu! They were responsible for selecting all the featured add-ons on AMO for the past six months. Deadline to apply for the next board is tomorrow! More info: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2014\/04\/30\/apply-featured-board\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2014\/04\/30\/apply-featured-board\/<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Many thanks to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/sjw\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jonas Witmer<\/a> for helping out with over <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/page.cgi?id=user_activity.html&amp;action=run&amp;who=sjw%40gmx.ch&amp;from=2014-01-18&amp;to=2014-01-20&amp;sort=when\" rel=\"nofollow\">100 Web Compatibility bugs<\/a> in the Tech Evangelism component!\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Upcoming_Events\">Upcoming Events<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Monday.2C_05_May\">Monday, 05 May<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/conf.writethedocs.org\/na\/2014\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Write the Docs North America<\/a><\/b> in Portland, Oregon, US\n<ul>\n<li> Mozilla is an Editor level sponsor\n<li> Mozillians Christie Koehler, Eric Shepherd, Luke Crouch, Janet Swisher, Will Bamberg, and Kris Maglione are participating\n<li> &#8220;Write the Docs is a series of conferences and local meetups focused on documentation systems, tech writing theory, and information delivery.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Writing and maintaining documentation involves the talents of a multidisciplinary community of technical writers, designers, typesetters, developers, support teams, marketers, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Our conferences create a time and a place for the global community of documentarians to share information, discuss ideas, and work together to improve the art and science of documentation. &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Tuesday.2C_06_May\">Tuesday, 06 May<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> WebDev Monthly Extravaganza (10:30am PT, open to all), webdev Vidyo\n<ul>\n<li> Do you do web development? So do we! Come hang out with us and talk about web development at Mozilla!\n<li> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webdev\/Meetings\/2014\/May_6\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Webdev\/Meetings\/2014\/May_6<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Wednesday.2C_07_May\">Wednesday, 07 May<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewebcamp.com\/events\/2014-05-07-homebrew-website-club\" rel=\"nofollow\">Homebrew Website Club Meetup<\/a><\/b>, 18:30-19:30 at Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/SF\" title=\"SF\">SF<\/a>. Description:<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?<\/p>\n<p>If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Any questions? See <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewebcamp.com\/events\/2014-05-07-homebrew-website-club\" rel=\"nofollow\">the wiki page<\/a> or <a class=\"external free\" href=\"irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/indiewebcamp\" rel=\"nofollow\">irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net\/indiewebcamp<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Friday.2C_09_May\">Friday, 09 May<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/scotlandjs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">ScotlandJS<\/a><\/b> in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK\n<ul>\n<li> Mozillian Angelina Fabbro is speaking.\n<li> &#8220;JavaScript keeps growing and growing. It is the language most repos on GitHub are written in!&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<li> <b><a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxthessaloniki.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">TEDx Thessaloniki<\/a><\/b> in Thessaloniki, Greece\n<ul>\n<li> Mozillian Christian Heilmann speaking on how apps are not an evolution but a step backwards\n<\/ul>\n<li> Institute for Women\u2019s Leadership, which runs educational and exchange programs for women all over the world including the TechWomen program that Mozilla gets &#8216;mentees&#8217; from, are holding an event at the Mozilla SF office called &#8220;Beyond Balance&#8221; with speaker Barbara Fittipaldi aimed at increasing women&#8217;s leadership and empowerment.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Next_Week\">Next Week<\/h3>\n<p>Webmaker: We\u2019re helping people to teach the web starting May 12 with a free online training course. Here\u2019s how you can join to help mentor, learn, or just observe: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/free_training_may12\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/free_training_may12<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Project_Status_Updates_.28voice_updates.29\">Project Status Updates (voice updates)<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Desktop\">Firefox Desktop<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Johnathan Nightingale and John Jensen will talk about the Firefox 29 &#8220;Australis&#8221; Launch.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Firefox_Mobile\">Firefox Mobile<\/h3>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.joshdover.com\/post\/84518525183\/launching-android-intents-from-firefox-webapps\" rel=\"nofollow\">Web Activities<\/a> landed in Nightly\n<li> Starting to experiment with First-run and Contextual hint systems to address some feedback issues\n<ul>\n<li> People can  get lost and not know what to do next\n<li> People have a hard time &#8220;discovering&#8221; some of Firefox&#8217;s features\n<li> Working on small &#8220;helper&#8221; UI (like <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/thebnich.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/floatinghintedittext-android-floating-label-implementation\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>) to make using Firefox for Android easier\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/file\/d\/0BwqqgfwYmRg4dkt5TlE2OEFTZ0U\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Search widget<\/a> experiments continue\n<li> Firefox Hub Add-on Hackathon is happening this week. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.margaretleibovic.com\/post\/84336344338\/firefox-hub-add-on-hackathon\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Webmaker\"><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Webmaker<\/a> <\/h3>\n<p><i>Silent Update:<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> We\u2019re helping people to teach the web starting May 12 with a free online training course. Here\u2019s how you can join to help mentor, learn, or just observe: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/free_training_may12\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/free_training_may12<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Grow_Mozilla\">Grow Mozilla<\/h3>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: San Francisco<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One of Mozilla\u2019s goals this year is to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/2014#Enable_Communities_that_have_Impact\" rel=\"nofollow\">increase the size of the community by 10 times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What will these 20,000 active contributors be doing?  That is something that the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/davidwboswell.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/27\/community-building-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Community Building team<\/a> has been spending the last few months looking into.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve come up with a list of areas that have both high growth potential and align with our strategic goals.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coding<\/li>\n<li>Documentation<\/li>\n<li>Engagement<\/li>\n<li>Localization<\/li>\n<li>Location Services<\/li>\n<li>Privacy\/Policy<\/li>\n<li>QA<\/li>\n<li>Support<\/li>\n<li>User Research<\/li>\n<li>Web Compatibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see all of the teams we\u2019re supporting with their community building efforts, check out this <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Contribute\/Areas#SmartSheet_version\" rel=\"nofollow\">dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there high growth potential opportunities that we&#8217;re missing?  Are you looking for help bringing contributors in to your project?  Send an email to community-building@mozilla.org.\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"IT\">IT<\/h3>\n<p><i>Speaker Location: mjeffries, San Francisco<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Conference Room Survey Update:<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Thanks to everyone who took the time to scan and fill out our conference room survey\n<li> Here are some of the top issues from last week: WiFi Connectivity, improved input methods in some conference rooms (instead of the IR remotes)\n<li> The good news: These line up with what IT feels are the top issues as well!\n<li> We are actively working on these issues and will provide updates as they get resolved\n<li> Don\u2019t be shy: Keep the feedback coming! Scan and go!\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Speakers\">Speakers<\/h2>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  Presenter\n<\/th>\n<th>  Title\n<\/th>\n<th>  Topic\n<\/th>\n<th>  Location\n<\/th>\n<th>  Share?\n<\/th>\n<th>  Media\n<\/th>\n<th>  More Details<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Who Are You?\n<\/td>\n<td> What Do You Do?\n<\/td>\n<td> What are you going to talk about?\n<\/td>\n<td> Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)\n<\/td>\n<td> Will you be sharing your screen? (yes\/no, other info)\n<\/td>\n<td> Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen\n<\/td>\n<td> Link to where audience can find out more information<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/diane1\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Diane Tate<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td> Developer Relations\n<\/td>\n<td> Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey &#8212; open thru end of Thurs May 8\n<\/td>\n<td> San Francisco\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td> Take the survey at <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmob.me\/DE3Q14Mozilla\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.vmob.me\/DE3Q14Mozilla<\/a>. And distribute this in newsletters, blogs, twitter posts, etc &#8211; more fodder for those is at <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/data.visionmobile.com\/survey-campaigns\/DE3Q14Mozilla\/promo-material\/882785a6026f1b2e48a00fd15d1befe8\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/data.visionmobile.com\/survey-campaigns\/DE3Q14Mozilla\/promo-material\/882785a6026f1b2e48a00fd15d1befe8<\/a><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/mchris\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Riley<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td> Sr. Policy Engineer\n<\/td>\n<td> Net Neutrality\n<\/td>\n<td> San Francisco\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<td> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/daherman\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darren Herman<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td> Content Services\n<\/td>\n<td> Directory Tiles update\n<\/td>\n<td> New York (remote)\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<td> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Content_services\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Content_services<\/a><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/fowler\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alex Fowler<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td> Privacy and public policy\n<\/td>\n<td> Yahoo! and DNT\n<\/td>\n<td> San Francisco\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<td> <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/yahoopolicy.tumblr.com\/post\/84363620568\/yahoos-default-a-personalized-experience\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/yahoopolicy.tumblr.com\/post\/84363620568\/yahoos-default-a-personalized-experience<\/a><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Mary Ellen Muckerman\n<\/td>\n<td> Engagement \/ Brand\n<\/td>\n<td> MozCamp update\n<\/td>\n<td> San Francisco\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/mrbkap\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blake Kaplan (mrbkap)<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td> Platform engineer\n<\/td>\n<td> Electrolysis update\n<\/td>\n<td> New York (remote)\n<\/td>\n<td> No\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<\/table>\n<h1 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Roundtable\">Roundtable<\/h1>\n<p>Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we&#8217;ll do our best to get you an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!\n<\/p>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th> Who are you?\n<\/th>\n<th> Area of question\n<\/th>\n<th> Question<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <i>What&#8217;s your name? What do you work on?<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc.<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>What would you like to know?<\/i><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h1 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Welcome.21\">Welcome!<\/h1>\n<p>Let&#8217;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.\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Introducing_New_Volunteers\">Introducing New Volunteers<\/h2>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  New Volunteer(s)\n<\/th>\n<th>  Introduced by\n<\/th>\n<th>  Speaker location\n<\/th>\n<th>  New Volunteer location\n<\/th>\n<th>  Will be working on<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> <i>Who is the new volunteer(s)?<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>Who will be introducing that person?<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>Where is the introducer?<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>Where is the new person based?<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<td> <i>What will the new person be doing?<\/i><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Introducing_New_Hires\">Introducing New Hires<\/h2>\n<table class=\"fullwidth-table\">\n<tr>\n<th>  New Hire\n<\/th>\n<th>  Introduced by\n<\/th>\n<th>  Speaker location\n<\/th>\n<th>  New Hire location\n<\/th>\n<th>  Will be working on<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> Cameron Zwarich\n<\/td>\n<td> Azita Rashed\n<\/td>\n<td> Mountain View\n<\/td>\n<td> Mountain View\n<\/td>\n<td> Research Engineering &#8211; Servo<br \/>\n<\/table>\n<h1 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\".3Cmeta.3E\">&lt;meta&gt;<\/h1>\n<p>Notes and non-voice status updates that aren&#8217;t part of the live meeting go here.\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Teleconferencing\" title=\"Teleconferencing\">Dial-in<\/a>: conference# 8600\n<ul>\n<li> US\/California\/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> US\/California\/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> US\/Oregon\/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> CA\/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> CA\/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> UK\/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> FR\/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 8600\n<li> US\/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 8600\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates\/2014-05-05&amp;oldid=973246\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=WeeklyUpdates\/2014-05-05&amp;oldid=973246<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-hands Status Meeting Agenda Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting. Friends of Mozilla Again, big thanks to Kohei Yoshino to all his amazing pull requests, triaging, and contributions to Web Productions and specifically the Australis launch on mozilla.org! 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