WeeklyUpdates/2016-08-08

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• Presenters only: Vidyo room "Brownbags". Do not use this room if you're not planning to speak.

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  • If you plan on presenting, please join the Vidyo BrownBags 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting and announce to the A/V Technicians that you will be speaking so that they can confirm your Audio and Video.

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla

• Thanks to NilkasG and h4ever for all their efforts helping developers in the add-ons forums!

• Thanks to Brian Birtles for his first Hacks post: Animating like you just don’t care with Element.animate, also, props to Belén Albeza, Soledad Penadés, & Sam Wood for the accompanying web animations demos.
• Thanks to longtime contributor Andrzej Mazur, for his latest Hacks post: js13kGames: Code golf for game devs.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 08 August

• Weekly Bug Triage Day

Tuesday, 09 August

Connected Devices Meetup

• SFO Commons 6:00 - 9:00pm
• We have three great speakers
  • Luke Ma, the VP of Business Development at Nut Technology
  • James Pace will be speak about Apache Mynewt, a community-driven, permissively licensed open source initiative for constrained, embedded devices and applications
  • Mozilla's Project Haiku team will share some of the things we've learned in the past 6 months working with a young audience and ambient communication.
• We will be recording these talks and distributing them throughout the company as well

Wednesday, 10 August

• Weekly Bug Verification Day

• Homebrew Website Club Meetup (every other Wednesday — fortnightly)
  Be a part of the open web with your own website.
  • Brighton ENGLAND,
    Los Angeles,
    Portland (OR),
    San Francisco (at GoDaddy SF this week!),
    and Bellingham, WA
  • 17:30-18:30 Quiet Writing Hour, finish that blog post, wiki edit, etc.!
  • 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup, demos, & hack night

    Create or update your personal web site!
    Share what you've gotten working, ask the experts questions.

    Join a community with like-minded interests.
    Bring friends that want a personal site!

    Any questions? See the wiki page for details
    or join IRC: http://indieweb.org/irc/today?beta#bottom

• Greenhouse Brown Bag: Hiring Manager Training

We are transitioning away from Jobvite, Learn how to make our new Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) work for you.

• • Wed, August 10, 3:00pm – 4:30pm Pacific time. THIS WILL BE RECORDED
    • Managers Currently Hiring-- Attendance Strongly Encouraged
    • All other managers of people -- Attendance Optional
  • Join Rachel Berenbaum's Vidyo Room remotely or from:
    • MTV2 - 203 Sanctuary - Vidyo - Seats 20
    • SFO1 - 152 Floor 1 Commons - - Seats 100

For more information, email recruiting@mozilla.com

Saturday, 13 August

• js13kGames2016 , online HTML5 games challenge, kicks off for a month again starting August 13th- 2016 (online at http://2016.js13kgames.com)
  • Our TechSpeaker, Andrzej Mazur, is leading the event from Poland

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 "widescreen" format, please indicate in the "Sharing" column below.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Sharing	Media	More Details
Who Are You?	What Do You Do?	What are you going to talk about?	Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)	Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, 4:3 or 16:9)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Rachel McGuigan	SUMO and Open Mic Stuff	Social SUMO Day Results and New Ways to Get involved	Mountain View Commons	No	[1]	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_Open_Mic
Bradley Cohen	Developer Marketing Team	Developer Perception Survey results are in, we want to share and more	PDX	Yes - 16:9	[will share google doc from laptop - working w/ jdirx]	https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/EN/Developer+Perceptions+Survey+Results
Potch	View Source Berlin	Early Bird Ticket [2] sales end this Friday.	MTV	No	Online [3]	https://ti.to/mdn/view-source-berlin-2016

Welcome!

Let'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.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Volunteer location	Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be contributing from?	What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Dennis Schubert	Mike Taylor	Toronto Office	Stuttgart, Germany (Remote)	Web Compat junk
Erica Wright	Blake Winton	Toronto Office	Vancouver Office	UX Experiments and Firefox Feud

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

Fireside Chat

A chance to hear from leadership at Mozilla, and have a short Q&A about a specific topic.

This Week

Mary Ellen Muckerman, VP, Brand Strategy & Services

Topics

“Mozilla’s brand strategy - making us more understandable and relevant”.

Tune in for an update on how the brand team is approaching the evolution of the Firefox and Mozilla brands to grow our influence with key audiences.

Submit your questions in advance on the Moderator Page Or directly in the meeting on IRC at #airmozilla

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard