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 ''Speaker Location: Mountain View''
+Mihai nominates '''Sonny Piers''' a new contributor to devtools for doing much needed code cleanup of the Web Console.
+Jono nominates '''Blair McBride''' for his work to make addons default to "compatible" -- http://theunfocused.net/2011/11/19/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem/
+Jeff Walden nominates '''RyanVM''' for triaging a bunch of old, mostly ancient-history JS bug reports last week.  Good stuff!
 = Upcoming Events =
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 '''Monday, 21 November'''
+Amit Swab Drive noon-2pm PT - 3rd fl, MV
 '''Tuesday, 22 November'''
+Early Stage Apps Research Presentation - 11-noon PT 10Forward
 '''Wednesday, 23 November'''
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 == Firefox Future (9, 10, 11) ==
-''Speaker Location: ''
+''Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)''
+* Getting closer to add-ons being compatible by default, check out [http://theunfocused.net/2011/11/19/solving-firefoxs-add-on-compatibility-problem/ Blair's blog post]
+* Taras, Dietrich & co are running weekly [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy Project Snappy] meetings to tackle responsiveness issues
+* The style editor developer tool just landed on nightly. {{bug|583041}}
 == Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 - 8.0) ==
+''Speaker Location: MV''
-''Speaker Location: ''
+== Mobile Firefox ==
-== Mobile Firefox ==
+''Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)''
-'''Speaker Location: ''
+* Moving Nightly users over the native UI later this week (thread on dev.planning)
+* Finkle blogged about [http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2011/11/firefox-android-add-ons-in-a-native-world/ add-ons in a Native UI world]
 == Thunderbird ==
-''Speaker Location: ''
+''Speaker Location: '' (no voice update)
+* There were a couple of great talks about Thunderbird at MozCamp Asia.
+** Videos to come later, hopefully.
+** For now, here's [https://wiki.mozilla.org/AsiaCamp2011/Schedule/Product_and_Technology_Track/Building_Thunderbird_Extensions the wiki page] for one of them.
+** And [https://wiki.mozilla.org/EU_MozCamp_2011/Schedule/Product_and_Technology_Track/The_State_Of_Thunderbird the wiki page] for the other.
+* Other than that, it's been a quiet week.
 == Older Branch Work ==
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 ''Speaker Location: ''
-== Drumbeat ==
+== Drumbeat  ==
+''Speaker Location: No voice update this week''
+Great recent press on two of our projects:
-''Speaker Location: ''
+*'''Mozilla Open Badges in '''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/digital-badges-may-highlight-job-seekers-skills.html?_r=1&ref=business '''the New York Times''']
+*[http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/popcorn-on-bbc/ '''Mozilla Popcorn on the BBC''']
 = Speakers =
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 !  More Details
 !  Location
+|-
+| Your Name Here
+| What are you going to talk about?
+| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
+| Link to where audience can find out more information
+| What location will you be transmitting from?
 |-
 | Brandon Sterne
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 | Tristan's place in Paris
 |-
-| Your Name Here
+| Harvey
-| What are you going to talk about?
+| Stop SOPA
-| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
+| Nothing
-| Link to where audience can find out more information
+|
-| What location will you be transmitting from?
+|
 |-
 |}
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 ;Test Execution
+* 8.0.1 Chemspill testing gallore, all weekend/week last week, shipping today.
+* Firefox 9.0b2 released last week.
+* Firefox 9.0b3 due out this week; needs a lot of attention on bug fix verifications.
+* Add-ons Manager Testday last week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/results-of-add-on-manager-testday/
+* DevTools Testday this week: https://quality.mozilla.org/2011/11/devtools-aurora-testday-nov-25th/
 ;WebQA
+*AMO 6.2.7:  http://cl.ly/0i0I3d121f0o293k2p0t
+*SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-11-15
 ;QA Community
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 == Automation & Tools ==
+* Landed talos code for responsiveness testing on mac and windows, should be enabled today on mozilla-central by a buildbot reconfigure
+** Still tracking down a linux crash when we enable responsiveness there.
+* Cross browser mobile startup automation [http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/testperf_dashboard/#/xbrowserstartup is reporting numbers from a few different phones.]
+** Click on the names in the legend to toggle lines on and off
+** This visualization could use some help, if you want to exercise your JS skillz, contact wlach or ctalbert on IRC to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703470 get] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703471 involved.]
+* B2G battery API test using Marionette and QEMU emulators is running, automating this week.
+* Eideticker project has made [http://masalalabs.ca/2011/11/measuring-what-the-user-sees/ great progress]
+* The native implementation of the Bugzilla REST API (implementing as part of Bugzilla itself) is almost ready for beta.
+* More updates [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2011-11-21 here]
 == Security  ==
+* no reviews scheduled this week
 == Engagement  ==
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 == Apps ==
+* Working towards launch of app documentation on MDN
+* Go to market plan being finalized
+* More soon next week.
 == Developer Tools ==
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 | From which office will that introduction be transmitted?
 | What will the new person be working on?
+|-
+| Josh Carpenter
+| Madhava Enros
+| Toronto
+| UX on Pancake!
+|-
+|Samuel Foster
+|Stuart Parmenter
+|UK
+|Pancake!
+|-
+|Edwin Flores (Intern)
+|Robert O'Callahan
+|New Zealand
+|Software Engineer
+|-
+|Lazar Sumar (Intern)
+|Robert O'Callahan
+|New Zealand
+|Software Engineer
 |-
 |}
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 = Roundtable =
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]