WeeklyUpdates/2010-06-14

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Friends of the Tree

Tomcat writes in, "I nominate the Linuxtag Team (Barbara, Axel, Kai, Kadir and William) for FoT. Was a great experience to work with them on the Linuxtag fair and we had a lot of contacts with the Community."

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 14 June

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Friday, 18 June

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.

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Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Universal Subtitles Demo	Nicholas Reville and Seth Bindernagel	Product demo of the Universal Subtitles web app	(We'll load it from a browser to maintain the suspense until the presentation.)	[http://blog.universalsubtitles.org/ Find out more by reading the blog)
The Problem with Plugins	Ryan Doherty	Brief overview of the plugins experience from a user's perspective
Crowdsource Crowdsourcing Project	Pascal Finette	New Labs project to create the next generation open innovation/crowdsourcing platform for Mozilla (Labs) / Concept Series & Design Challenges	Landing Page	Landing Page
Using the new TryServer	John O'Duinn			http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/06/13/please-be-gentle-with-the-shiny-new-tryserver/
Firefox 3.6.4	Christian Legnitto	Quick status update

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

We're racing towards a Firefox 4, beta 1 code freeze this week, so if you've ever thought about running nightly builds to try things out early, now would be a great time to start.

Help us find bugs before they bite our beta audience!

Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x

• Firefox 3.6.4
  • Will not ship tomorrow
  • Build #7 built on Friday (with fix for bug 562198), will go to beta audience today
  • Tentative plan is to ship Firefox 3.6.4 (build #7) to everyone on Thursday, depending on beta feedback
  • Still investigating crash-stats "irregularities"

• Firefox 3.5.10
  • Tied to 3.6.4 again
  • No known issues

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 3.1RC2 released; please give it a try and file any bugs you find!
• Release expected in the next few weeks, assuming that no respins are necessary.

IT

Upcoming

• We will be moving our Amsterdam POP. Details to follow.
  • Tentative date, June 21.

Release Engineering

• downtime this Thursday evening (IT maintenance window) to perform disk maintenance on Tinderbox. Tinderbox, and hence TBPL, will be down for several hours. (bug 571300)

QA

Mozilla QA Highlights

• Desktop Firefox
  • Signed off on 3.7 alpha 5
  • 3.6.4 new build 7, will be testing this today.
  • Working on testplan for FF 4.0
  • Waverly outsource vendor is now doing smoke and BFT test on nightlies
• Web QA
  • Certify and shipped AMO 5.11.1 (the Firefox Cup parts)
  • Problems pushing SUMO, hopefully resolved today
• QA Services
  • Community
    • Tomcat attended linuxTag
      • Lot's of comments regarding performance of Firefox and the need for this to be the focus of FF 4.0
      • Good community member recruiting event
    • Successful 2nd Addons manager testday

Automation & Tools

We're very heads down last week and this, but there are a couple of things to mention:

• Getting closer on E10S mochitest, hopefully landing this week
• Reftest is working on Android, should have patches this week
• More details here.

Evangelism

PR

• Mozilla evangelist: Apple HTML5 demos harm the open Web

• Mozilla tracking a week in the life of a Firefox browser

• Latest Firefox 4 Pre-Alpha Showcases New Design
• Mozilla Gives A First Taste of Firefox 4
• Firefox readies WebM support
• Firefox 4 to bring WebM support

• Firefox Friday Five: on security, the World Cup and WebM
• Mozilla Kicks Off the Firefox Cup with 32 Country Personas

Events

• Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party on 7/28.  Look for more information shortly.
  
• FISL 2010 July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We are looking into having a Mozilla room, talks and other activities.  Follow progress on thewiki page. 
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  no Mozilla talks schedules.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities - we will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab.  More details soon!
• Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
• London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London.

Creative Team

User Participation

• Firefox Cup is live!
• Help get the word out:
  • Please tag everything with #fxcup
    • Here are all the relevant bit.lys/URLs you might need & blog references:
      • Firefox Cup Blog Post: http://mzl.la/b6wnkS
      • Firefox Cup campaign page: http://www.firefoxcup.com
      • Firefox Cup logo: http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3
      • Gallery of the 32 team Personas: bit.ly/boxwIP
  • Retweet @firefox: http://twitter.com/firefox / http://twitter.com/firefox/status/15833505879
  • Facebook:
    • Please "like" and "comment" on our Facebook update: http://www.facebook.com/Firefox
    • Change your profile pic to a Firefox logo: http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3 or http://mzl.la/9pa92Q
  • Stay tuned as we announce our round winners:
    • June 16th: Round 1 country winner announced.
    • June 23rd: Round 2 country winner announced.
    • June 30th: Round 3 country winner announced.
    • July 7th: Round 4 country winner announced.
    • July 14th: Overall country winner announced.

Support

• Awesome new drawings of how the new KB editor will work.
• KB article for Removing the Search Helper Extension and Bing Bar
• Kadir represented SUMO at the LinuxTag event in Berlin last week.
  • Read the blog post: SUMO in Berlin

Labs

• Launched Crowdsource Crowdsourcing project

Webdev

• Launched Socorro 1.7: replace NFS with Hbase