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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]]  =

= Upcoming Events  =

'''This Week''' 

'''Monday, 8 March''' 

'''Tuesday, 9 March''' 
* code freeze scheduled for Firefox 3.6.2 / 3.5.9 / 3.0.19 March 9th at 11:59pm PT
** if you have approved bugs, please land ASAP, especially if they're blockers!
** the appropriate triage lists are on the Tinderboxes
** see detailed schedule on [[Releases|the releases page]]

'''Wednesday, 10 March''' 
* Mozilla is [http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/calendar/12689351/ hosting a user group meeting of HBase] (a Hadoop project).  We are using HBase for our new Socorro back-end infrastructure.  There will be a *lot* of people in the office after 6 PM.  If you are interested in Hadoop and/or HBase, you should hang out!

'''Thursday, 11 March'''

* Design Lunch - Looking for a topic!  If you have one, please add it to [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/DesignLunch the Design Lunch page].  Thanks.

'''Friday, 12 March''' 

*[http://sxsw.com/interactive SXSW&nbsp;Interactive 2010]&nbsp; March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.&nbsp; We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.&nbsp; Sign-ups for our party are [http://bit.ly/mozsxswparty here].&nbsp; There will also be a Add-ons golf event on Friday, March 12th which you can sign up for [http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=335878995899 here].&nbsp; Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Event:SXSW_Interactive_2010 wiki page for information] on all of our events and sessions. <br>

'''Next Week'''

= Speakers =

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker.  It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

{| class="fullwidth-table"
|-
!  Title
!  Presenter
!  Topic
!  Media
!  More Details
|-
| Jetpack SDK 0.1 Release 
| Daniel Buchner
| The graduation of Jetpack to a production-level platform
| Slide on laptop
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack Mozilla Jetpack]
|-
| Rock Your Firefox
| Julie Choi & Justin Scott
| Learn about our new add-ons site launching this week
| [http://people.mozilla.com/~fligtar/rockyourfirefox/ryf-design.png Website Preview]
|[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Rockyourfirefox Rock Your Firefox]
|-
| FF3.0.x EOL
| joduinn
| turning off FF3.0.x machines after the FF3.0.19 release ships
| 
|
|-
| MPL
| Mitchell Baker, Harvey Anderson, Luis Villa
| Updates about the MPL.
| Slide on laptop
|
|-
|}

= Status Updates By Team  =

== Firefox  ==

* Had a great work-week - worked on the new theme, performance, and did a bunch of planning for 2010.
* Check out our [[Firefox/Projects|active projects]]
** out of process plugins (destined for a 3.6.x update)
** new theme work (destined for next major Firefox release)
** tab matches in awesomebar (destined for next major Firefox release)
* Learn more at the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/#Meetings weekly development meeting].

== Gecko ==

== Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x ==
* Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.6.2 checkins continue.
** Current schedule is:
** Tree opens:
** Code freeze: March 9, 11:59pm
** QA starts: March 10
** Builds start: March  15
** QA with builds start: March 16 - 17
** Beta period starts: March  17 - 18
** Final release: March 30

== Old Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x  ==
* Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (final release) going to beta today.
* Firefox 3.0.19 checkins continue.

== Thunderbird  ==

== SeaMonkey  ==

== Mobile  ==

== IT ==
'''Last Couple Weeks'''
* In Phoenix
** www.mozilla.com 
** www.mozilla.org
* 50 1u RelEng builders
* 100 more Mac Minis

== Release Engineering  ==
* Releases this week:
** TB2.0.0.24 going to beta
** "go to build" for FF3.0.19, FF3.5.9, FF3.6.2

* FF3.0.19 is the *last* release on the FF3.0.x line. Will be powering off systems soon after the FF3.0.19 release.

== QA ==
<u><b><font size="+1">Planned this week</font></b></u>

;All
* work on Q2 goals definition

;Test Execution
* Continue test planning for 3.next

;Web QA
* Continue testing on AMO 5.8
* Certify SUMO 1.5.2


<u><b><font size="+1">Accomplished last week</font></b></u>

;Test Execution
* Most of the team attended the [https://intranet.mozilla.org/QaEvents:QA_Work_Week_Mar_1,_2010 QA Work Week]

;Web QA

* Shipped OpenToChoice.org!
* Shipped GetPersonas.com [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED;classification=Other;query_format=advanced;bug_status=VERIFIED;component=getpersonas.com;target_milestone=2.5;product=Websites 2.5]
* Shipped [http://opentochoice.org Choice Campaign]

;QA Community
* Tomcat attended CeBit and gave a conference talk on getting involved in Mozilla.
* Marco wrote an article on the iPhone web reading capabilities and learned quite a lot about what an eventually accessible Fennec on any platform should provide. If all goes well, this will be in the March 26, 2010 issue of the Webstandards-Magazin print issue.

== Tools Dev ==
* Working hard on windows mobile.  Landing a ton of test refactoring patches this week.
* Putting finishing touches on Crash Reproduction System UI
* Valgrind UI starting this week.
* Hardware Accelerated Reftest extension is working on windows, porting to mac and linux this week.
* More [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/TDAI/MeetingNotes/2010-03-08 info here]

== Security  ==

== Marketing/PR  ==

'''PR''' 

'''Events''' 

*[http://sxsw.com/interactive SXSW&nbsp;Interactive 2010]&nbsp; March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.&nbsp; We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.&nbsp; Sign-ups for our party are [http://bit.ly/mozsxswparty here].&nbsp; Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Event:SXSW_Interactive_2010 wiki page for information] on all of our events and sessions. <br> 
*[http://roflcon.org/ ROFLCon II] April 30 - May&nbsp; 1, 2010; Boston, MA.&nbsp; We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.<br> 
*Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.&nbsp; Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team. 
*[http://jsconf.us/2010/ JSConf.US] April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.&nbsp; We are sponsoring this event.&nbsp; We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge. 
*[http://www.e27.sg/ e27 echelon 2010] June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.&nbsp; Gen will be participating in this event.
*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level. &nbsp;More information to come soon.<br>
*Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.

'''Creative Team''' 
* The "rethinking the web universe" plan continues to move along. [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebsitePlan Here's the latest breakdown].
* New Creative Collective design challenge: [http://creative.mozilla.org/challenges/5 create the official Mozilla 2010 t-shirt].
* Introducing the [http://www.intothefuzz.com/2010/03/03/mdn-logo-update/ new Mozilla Developer Network logo].
* Still working with WebDev on plugins projects:
**Plugins Check: working on being cross functional with the latest releases of Chrome, Opera, Safari and *potentially* IE8 by the end of the month. 
**We need help testing [http://plugins.mozilla.org plugins.mozilla.org]. Please file bugs and assign them to Les Orchard. 
**Planning a brown bag for the next week/two weeks to talk about Plugins Check and how we can better collaborate with other teams working with Plugins ( ie OOPP).

'''Community Marketing'''
* Open to Choice:
** A huge thank you is needed for the l10n team!  We're [http://opentochoice.org/en/ live] in 12 languages!
** Here's how to help:
*** Banners: Place an [http://opentochoice.org/2010/03/buttons/ affiliate button] on your website or blog.
*** Twitter:  [http://twitter.com/opentochoice Follow us on Twitter], add a [http://twibbon.com/join/Open-to-Choice Twibbon] to your profile or RT @opentochoice news.
*** Blog:  Share your perspective on Browser Choice (see FuzzyFox's [http://blog.brinkhurstdesign.co.uk/2010/03/choice-matters-so-does-your-browser/ blog post]).
*** Set up a social media campaign in your region.  Mozilla Hispano have set up a great one on [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30176726@N04/4417682816/ Tuenti].
*** Share the new [http://www.facebook.com/Firefox?v=app_4949752878 Facebook tab].
* Community Marketing Call:  Please see [http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/5817 notes] from last week's call.  Next call is March 17th at 10 a.m. PST/18:00 UTC.
* Community Spotlight/Best Practices:  Please help us collect case studies on all the great stuff you've done from events to marketing campaigns to design work.  Please submit it [http://bit.ly/mozspotlight here].

== Support  ==

== Metrics  ==

== Evangelism  ==

== Labs  ==

* Jetpack
** Jetpack SDK 0.1 being released this week! (today?)

== Developer Tools ==

* Bespin Embedded 0.6.2 was released fixing a number of bugs and provided a few minor improvements.

== Add-ons  ==

== Webdev  ==

== L10n  ==

= Introducing New Hires =
* [http://blog.ianbicking.org/ Ian Bicking] joined Webdev full-time last week and is on-site.  He's awesome and if you see him around please say hi!

= Foundation Updates  =

= Roundtable =

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