What’s up with SUMO – 17th July – The Mozilla Support Blog

Hello, SUMO Nation (and Planet Mozilla, woohoo!) It is time again to give you a fresh slew of updates and reminders (I know you love reminders) from the world of SUMO!

New SUMO warriors, assemble & support!

If you joined us recently, don’t hesitate – come over and say “hi” in the forums!

Contributors of the week

Philipp – for rounding up bugs/common issues on the forums
Michael – for being an all-star host in the forums and helping with the Templates
Vanja – for localizing all Serbian Templates and his on-going awesomeness in the l10n corner of SUMO

Gentlemen, we salute you!

Monday SUMO Community meeting

You can read the notes here and watch the video on our YouTube channel.

Reminder: the next SUMO Community meeting…

…is going to take place on Monday, 20th of July. Join us!
If you want to add a discussion topic to upcoming the live meeting agenda:
- Start a thread in the Community Forums, so that everyone in the community can see what will be discussed and voice their opinion here before Monday (this will make it easier to have an efficient meeting).
- Please do so as soon as you can before the meeting, so that people have time to read, think, and reply (and also add it to the agenda).

Help needed – thank you!

Help us make things happen after the #mozwww Whistler meetup – go to this thread and read more about the sessions linked from there – and provide feedback!
Let us know what you think should be the theme for the upcoming SUMO KB Day (next week)
Send Firefox 39 and Firefox 40 bugs to Mark.
Let’s work together on the script for the tutorial videos for SUMO l10n! Use the “comments” feature to leave your feedback and ideas in the document.
Help us figure out what swag we’ll bring for those who will join us in Orlando! Email or ping Roland on IRC.

Developers

The notes from the most recent Platform meeting can be found here.
The video is on our YouTube channel as well.
The next Platform meeting will take place on the 23rd of July.
Sprint 12 is in full swing: http://edwin-dev.herokuapp.com/t/sumo
Among other things, our Devs are working on:
- implementing missing features for CodeMirror
- setting up A/B experiments for boost values
- making sure that the “No one has helped translate this article yet…” notification appears only on articles that are marked as “Ready For Localization”

Community

For the Eid al-Fitr festival some of our contributors might be silent for next 2 weeks.
The Mozilla Weekend took place last weekend in Berlin.
Mozfest East Africa is here!
Maker Party 2015 is here! The fourth annual celebration of making and learning on the Web has started and runs until Friday, July 31. Join the rest of the world!
Two very interesting talks from #mozwww have dropped on Air Mozilla – watch them here!

Support Forum

New advanced search will be hopefully coming this quarter!
The One and Done SUMO Contributor Support Training is live. Start here!

Knowledge Base

A few light experiments are going on for new article request forms and an easier-to-use article submission form via Google Docs.
There could be more Windows 10 articles coming up – Joni is working this out with the UX team.

L10n

We are patiently awaiting Pontoon to roll out to mozilla.org, and then… We’re looking forward to setting it up for SUMO!
Templates have been quite a mess recently, but Kadir & Mike will be putting a good fix in place within the next few days. In the meantime, if you’re unsure how to localize Template articles, please read this page.

Firefox

Adobe Flash became a hot topic recently for all the wrong reasons. If you want to get the most up-to-date information about our community actions around this, visit this thread.
Win64 in Firefox 40

Firefox OS

Recent launches for 2.0 devices happened in South Africa, Mauritius, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Tunisia and Botswana. Hooray for Africa!

Firefox for Android

The documentation for v40 started this week with the password manager.

Thunderbird

Reminder: as of July 1st, Thunderbird is 100% Community powered and owned! You can still +needinfo Roland in Bugzilla or email him if you need his help as a consultant. He will also hang around in #tb-support-crew.

There you go – we hope you enjoyed this round of updates and will join us for the Monday meeting. In the meantime, stay cool!