{"id":3635,"date":"2015-10-16T18:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2015-10-16T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:35:20","slug":"whats-up-with-sumo-16th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2015\/10\/16\/whats-up-with-sumo-16th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up with SUMO &#8211; 16th October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hello, SUMO Nation!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but we&#8217;re back with more updates for you! We hope you&#8217;re feeling better than some of us (*cough cough*) &#8211; rumour has it that home-made onion syrup is the best cure around, so maybe a bit of old school domestic alchemy will be required&#8230; Never mind the coughing, here are the updates!<\/p>\n<h2><strong class=\"author-name\">Welcome, New Contributors!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"author\"><a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/pl\/user\/jamms\">jamms<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"author\"><a class=\"username\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/user\/grk_salim\">GOLAM ROSUL KHAN<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"author\"><a class=\"username\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/user\/firedpanda\">firedpanda<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"author\"><a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/pl\/user\/treboada\">treboada<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"author\">If you joined us recently, don&#8217;t hesitate &#8211; come over and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/buddies\" target=\"_blank\">say &#8220;hi&#8221; in the forums!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<h2><strong>Contributors of the last two weeks<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"magicdomid64\" class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"list-bullet1\">\n<li>Toad-Hall for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/questions\/1086060\" target=\"_blank\">amazing patience and skills in dealing with a very frustrated user and keeping the situation under control<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/user\/Klofutar\" target=\"_blank\">Peter<\/a> for his awesome 200+ contributions for Slovenian KB translations this year (including 99% of Thunderbird) &#8211; great stuff!<\/li>\n<li>Vnisha Srivastav for being a great SUMO teacher for Ashish!<\/li>\n<li>Rahul Talreja for being a great SUMO mentor for Daksh!<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"magicdomid57\" class=\"\"><span class=\"author-a-tu2642100z68zz69ztukki\">Ashickur, Safwan, Seeam, and Raiyad <\/span><span class=\"author-a-cjz75zgvz73z7ibz82z7hw4dk\">for the <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla-community.org\/t\/mozilla-support-tour-bangladesh-part-1\/4489\" target=\"_blank\">SUMO Bangladesh Tour 2015<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/16iexuiqi_bVLSixiAcoF415cJu4hZOnXr87hd5ybvhU\/edit#gid=0\" target=\"_blank\">getting all these contributors on board in Sylhet<\/a>! Keep rocking all of Bangladesh!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We salute you!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">Don&#8217;t forget that if you are new to SUMO and someone helped you get started in a nice way you can <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/pl\/forums\/buddies\/711364?last=65670\">nominate them for the Buddy of the Month!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><strong>Last SUMO Community meeting<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/public.etherpad-mozilla.org\/p\/sumo-2015-10-12\" target=\"_blank\">You can read the notes here<\/a> and see the video on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCaiposaIhA7HfMqH2NIciyA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Reminder: the next SUMO Community meeting&#8230; <\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;is going to take place on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/public.etherpad-mozilla.org\/p\/sumo-2015-10-19\" target=\"_blank\">Monday, 19th of October. Join us!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>If you want to add a discussion topic to upcoming the live meeting agenda:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Start a thread in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/contributors\" target=\"_blank\">Community Forums<\/a>, 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).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">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).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong class=\"author-g-ivsra51ph44x461i\">Developers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"magicdomid61\" class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"list-bullet3\">\n<li><span class=\"author-g-ivsra51ph44x461i\"><a href=\"https:\/\/public.etherpad-mozilla.org\/p\/sumo-p-2015-10-15\" target=\"_blank\">The notes from the most recent Platform meeting can be found here.<\/a> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edwin.mozilla.io\/t\/sumo\" target=\"_blank\">You can see the current state of the backlog our developers are working on here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The next Platform meeting will take place on the <a href=\"https:\/\/public.etherpad-mozilla.org\/p\/sumo-p-2015-10-29\" target=\"_blank\">29th of October<\/a> (Kadir is AFK next week, so we&#8217;re cancelling the meeting).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Community<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The most important update in the last two weeks: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/contributors\/711581?last=67006\" target=\"_blank\">Etherpad = Etherpad Lite &#8211; read all about it here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/contributors\/711566?last=66936\" target=\"_blank\">Reminder: let us know what you think about contributor information at SUMO<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you think you can benefit from getting <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Community_Hardware\" target=\"_blank\">a second-hand device<\/a> to help you with contributing to SUMO, you know where to find us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong class=\"user-chip\" title=\"adriel0415\" data-reactid=\".0.2.0.1.$adriel0415.1:$user.0\">Support Forum<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"author-g-i3uksdag9a3tuaxt\">Some details from the last SUMO Day: <span class=\"\">91% answer rate across the board, 94% for Firefox. Great effort!<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"author-g-i3uksdag9a3tuaxt\">Save the date: the next SUMO Questions Day is coming up on the 22nd of October!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h2><strong class=\"author-g-ivsra51ph44x461i\">Knowledge Base<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div id=\"magicdomid83\" class=\"\">\n<ul class=\"list-bullet1\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/products\/webmaker\" target=\"_blank\">Webmaker content in the KB is getting updated<\/a> &#8211; watch for more up-to-date stuff!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1lkpRPJp9P1P5MRU-c9dwbDC0w5bMmrMdu-BNMp1xe8w\/edit#gid=3\" target=\"_blank\">Check here for other upcoming article updates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Save the date: the next <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/knowledge-base-articles\/711304\" target=\"_blank\">SUMO KB Day<\/a> is coming up on the 29th of October!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid95\" class=\"\">\n<h2><strong class=\"author-g-ivsra51ph44x461i\">L10n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/community\/top-contributors\/l10n\/new?startdate=2015-10-09&amp;enddate=2015-10-16\" target=\"_blank\">Huge thanks to everyone rocking the KB last week<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/products\/webmaker\" target=\"_blank\">Watch out for new Webmaker content to update<\/a> both on your dashboards and in Verbatim \/ Pontoon!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1obl_744p7auiyUg3cWoRr_jRdMxuXrWrJ9mLoMhs5AE\/edit#gid=0\">Help needed! Let&#8217;s build a database of English departments at universities around the world<\/a> &#8211; this will help us find new SUMO l10ns in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid75\" class=\"\">\n<h2><strong>Firefox<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>for Android<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The documentation for version 42 is wrapping up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>for Desktop<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The 41.0.1 release did fix the Flash\/Farmville crash\/hang issues &#8211; hooray!<\/li>\n<li>This (and other factors) lead to a very, very low crash rate &#8211; double hooray!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/contributors\/711547\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 41 has been around for a while<\/a>, so&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/forums\/contributors\/711573\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s time to start talking Firefox 42<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Windows 64 bit support is coming in version 42, but you&#8217;ll have to dive deeper (into the FTP site) to get it. Mind you, there will be no support for <span class=\"author-a-z68zz78zz80zz84zz90zz84zrz66zv3iuqkvz86z\">Silverlight<\/span><span class=\"author-a-spq2xz66zz69zz73zld8z78ztz86ze3\">, <\/span><span class=\"author-a-z68zz78zz80zz84zz90zz84zrz66zv3iuqkvz86z\">Java<\/span><span class=\"author-a-spq2xz66zz69zz73zld8z78ztz86ze3\">, or other NPAPI plugins<\/span> <span class=\"author-a-spq2xz66zz69zz73zld8z78ztz86ze3\">except for Flash, which is<\/span><span class=\"author-a-z68zz78zz80zz84zz90zz84zrz66zv3iuqkvz86z\"> whitelisted. Apart from that, expect more security, better resource usage and fewer crashes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Norton Toolbar fix is coming late October &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/community.norton.com\/en\/blogs\/product-update-announcements\" target=\"_blank\">more updates here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>for iOS<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The global launch should happen before the end of this year, but we can&#8217;t spoil the surprise for you just yet, sorry!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Firefox OS<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Version 2.5 coming out in November. It will be geared towards our community and developers. We have some placeholders in place for articles, but <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Mozilla\/Firefox_OS\/Releases\/2.5\" target=\"_blank\">in the meantime we&#8217;re pointing curious users to MDN<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">More updates coming next week, and in the meantime &#8211; keep rocking the open web, people! We salute you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, SUMO Nation! It&#8217;s been a while, but we&#8217;re back with more updates for you! We hope you&#8217;re feeling better than some of us (*cough cough*) &#8211; rumour has it &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/2015\/10\/16\/whats-up-with-sumo-16th-october\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,117,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/sumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}