What’s Up with SUMO – 22nd September

Hello, SUMO Nation!

How are you doing? Have you seen the First Inaugural Firefox Census already? Have you filled it out? Help us figure out what kind of people use Firefox! You can get to it right after you read through our latest & greatest news below.

Welcome, new contributors!

• Aastha_i_am
• ajsalkp
• InderdeepBajwa
• josh_brano
• anubhamane
• gebruikersnaam

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

SUMO Community meetings

• LATEST ONE: 21st of September- you can read the notes here and see the video at AirMozilla.
  
• NEXT ONE: happening on the 28th of September!
• 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

• We have sent out several nominations for the upcoming December Work Week conference – the Participation team will be reviewing the nominations and contacting some of you in the coming days.
• Reminder: MozFest is a bit more than a month away! Are you going to attend this year?
• 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.

Platform

• PLATFORM REMINDER! The Platform Meetings are BACK! If you missed the previous ones, you can find the notes in this document. (here’s the channel you can subscribe to). We really recommend going for the document and videos if you want to make sure we’re covering everything as we go.
• A few important and key points to make regarding the migration:
  • We are trying to keep as many features from Kitsune as possible. Some processes might change. We do not know yet how they will look.
  • Any and all training documentation that you may be accessing is generic – both for what you can accomplish with the platform and the way roles and users are called within the training. They do not have much to do with the way Mozilla or SUMO operate on a daily basis. We will use these to design our own experience – “translate” them into something more Mozilla, so to speak.
  • All the important information that we have has been shared with you, one way or another.
  • The timelines and schedule might change depending on what happens.
• We started discussions about Ranks and Roles after the migration – join in! More topics will start popping up in the forums up for discussion, but they will all be gathered in the first post of the main migration thread.
• If you are interested in test-driving the new platform now, please contact Madalina.
  • IMPORTANT: the whole place is a work in progress, and a ton of the final content, assets, and configurations (e.g. layout pieces) are missing.
• QUESTIONS? CONCERNS? Please take a look at this migration document and use this migration thread to put questions/comments about it for everyone to share and discuss. As much as possible, please try to keep the migration discussion and questions limited to those two places – we don’t want to chase ten different threads in too many different places.

Social

Support Forum

Knowledge Base & L10n

• We are in the release week. What does that mean? (Reminder: we are following the process/schedule outlined here).
  • No work on next release content for English; minor fixes for existing English content; please avoid setting edited articles to RFL unless it’s critical (consult Joni or another admin).
  • Localizers finish content localization and fix potential last-minute issues with release content – this has priority over other existing content (= non-current-release), that can be localized as usual.
• The content to be localized with high priority can be found on this list.

Firefox

• for Android
  • Version 49 is out! Now you can enjoy the following:
    
    • caching selected pages (e.g. mozilla.org) for offline retrieval
      
    • usual platform and bug fixes

• for Desktop
  • Version 49 is out! Enjoy the following:
    
    • text-to-speech in Reader mode (using your OS voice modules)
    • ending support for older Mac OS versions
    • ending support for older CPUs
    • ending support for Firefox Hello
    • usual platform and bug fixes

• for iOS
  • No news from under the apple tree this time!
    

By the way – it’s the first day of autumn, officially! I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to mushroom hunting, longer nights, and a bit of rain here and there (as long as it stops at some point). What is your take on autumn? Tell us in the comments!

Cheers and see you around – keep rocking the helpful web!