What’s Up with SUMO – 3rd June – The Mozilla Support Blog

Hello, SUMO Nation!

Due to a technical glitch (someone didn’t remember how to press the right buttons here, but don’t look at me… I’m innocent! Almost… ;-)) we’re a day late, but we are here and… so are the latest & greatest news from the world of SUMO!

Welcome, new contributors!

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

Contributors of the week

We salute you!

Don’t forget that if you are new to SUMO and someone helped you get started in a nice way you can nominate them for the Buddy of the Month!

Most recent SUMO Community meeting

You can read the notes here and see the video on our YouTube channel and at AirMozilla.

The next SUMO Community meeting…

…is happening on WEDNESDAY the 8th of June – join us!
Reminder: if you want to add a discussion topic to the upcoming 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 Wednesday (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).
- If you can, please attend the meeting in person (or via IRC), so we can follow up on your discussion topic during the meeting with your feedback.

Community

PLATFORM UPDATE TIME! We are currently testing Lithium’s capabilities. You can learn more about Lithium here. Please note that this does not mean we have reached a final decision regarding the future of SUMO’s technical backend. We will be sharing more information with you shortly. If you’re interested in playing with a sandbox environment, let Michał know.
Mozillians in Jakarta can expect a SUMO event coming up sometime soon (thanks to Kelimutu!)
Have you read the first SUMO Release Report?
Ongoing reminder #1: if you think you can benefit from getting a second-hand device to help you with contributing to SUMO, you know where to find us.
Ongoing reminder #2: we are looking for more contributors to our blog. Do you write on the web about open source, communities, SUMO, Mozilla… and more? Do let us know!
Ongoing reminder #3: want to know what’s going on with the Admins? Check this thread in the forum.

Social

Ongoing reminder: We have a training out there for all those interested in Social Support – talk to Madalina or Costenslayer on #AoA (IRC) for more information.

Support Forum

We are getting ready for the version 47 release of Firefox for Desktop and Mobile next week! Are there any common responses, upcoming bugs, or features that you, the beta users have a head start on? We want to know about it!
Remember, if you’re new to the support forum, come over and say hi!

Knowledge Base & L10n

New goals for all localizers in your dashboards!
Reminder: Firefox for Android v47 documents are ready – get localizing!
Reminder: L10n hackathons everywhere! Find your people and get organized!

Firefox

for Android
- Version 46 support discussion thread.
- Reminder: version 47 will stop supporting Gingerbread. High time to update your Android installations. For all those who are already sad, a little teaser of what’s coming up (if you upgrade your Android OS, that is), aside from the usual Firefox mobile goodness:
  - you’ll be able to turn off web fonts,
  - the favicons will be removed from the URL bar to prevent spoofing
- Version 48 articles will be coming after June 18, courtesy of Joni!

for Desktop
- For the main thread on our forums about Firefox 46, click here.
- Version 47 is coming next week! Release highlights include:
  - Synced tabs will be highlighted,
  - No more required Silverlight for Netflix and Flash for YouTube,
  - VP9 & other assorted awesomeness,
  - …but still no mandatory signed plug-in checks, bummer!

for iOS
- Firefox for iOS 4.0 IS HERE!
- Firefox for iOS 5.0 should be with us in approximately 4 weeks! It should be out as early as June 21 (subject to Apple’s approval) and Joni is writing English articles for it already. Release highlights include bidirectional bookmark sync!

That’s it for this week! To round it all off nicely, go ahead and watch Kevin Kelly’s visit to Mozilla, during which he talked about the near future trends in technology. See you next week!