WeeklyUpdates/2012-06-25

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• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 8600
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 8600
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

• The Contributor Engagement team nominates Josh Matthews for his awesome work on whatcanidoformozilla.org and for his past contributors to the Electrolysis project and Firefox.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 25 June

Privacy Friends Meeting - 1pm PST - SF Boardroom (dial-in) and Michael Bolton.

Tuesday, 26 June

• Open Source Bridge conference (@OSBridge) in Portland Tuesday - Friday (2012-06-26...2012-06-29). Mozilla Speakers:
  • Shane Caraveo on Getting a Handle on Privacy and Security
  • Tantek Çelik on Web Actions: A New Building Block For The Web and Rise of the Indie Web
  • Jeff Griffiths on "Sorry for Browser Hacking"
  • Eitan Isaacson on Accessibility In Mobile Platforms : Bridging Divides
  • Ben Kero on The art of open source DJing
  • Wraithan (Chris McDonald) on ZenIRCBot and the Art of Pub/Sub
  • Schalk Neethling on Continous Integration for the UI
  • Laura Thomson on Firefox Crash Reporting: Using Big Data In Your Open Source Project and How Not to Release Software
  • note: Friday is OSBridge unconference/BarCamp day and is open to all - Register for a Community Pass.

Wednesday, 27 June

Entrepreneurship & startup questions? Ping Pascal Finette or Diane Bisgeier on IRC > #webfwd room at 11am PST (6pm UTC).

Thursday, 28 June

• Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Agenda and dial-in information
• Marketplace Test Day - Test Mozilla Marketplace!
• Neo4j Meetup - Mozilla San Francisco, 6:30pm: http://www.meetup.com/graphdb/events/39686272/

Friday, 29 June

• Desktop and Android Web Apps Test Day - Test Desktop Web Apps, Android Web Apps, and Apps in the Cloud for Desktop!

• IndieWebCamp (a Mozilla Summer Code Party event!) in Portland, Saturday - Sunday (2012-06-30...2012-07-01)
  • spots still available: sign-up on the Guest list, or remote participate via IRC Freenode #indiewebcamp.

Next Week

• Event reminder: Mozilla Interns Apps Hack Day - Sat, July 7, NOT JUST FOR INTERNS - all Mozillians welcome! Based in Mountain View, http://mozappshackday.eventbrite.com/ (Sign up is so that we get an accurate headcount for lunch and snacks. Remoties interested in hacking, pls contact havi at mozilla.com )

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: Johnathan Nightingale & Dave Slater - MTV

• What's new, inside and out
• reddit!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Mark Surman in Toronto

• Summer Code Party kicked off this weekend!
• Check out all the awesome on the Webmaker Tumblr
• Summary blog posts from @OpenMatt and Michelle Thorne
• Find an event near you. Or start your own.

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Principal Evangelist	Christian Heilmann	Evangelism Reps program and training tomorow	Just email shezmeen prasad or me (cheilmann)	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism_Reps_Training_Program

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Emmanuele Bassi	Jet Villegas	London, UK	Software Engineer Platform
Angela Plohman	Marilyn Wigglesworth	Toronto, ON	Grant Manager
Ali Almossawi	Gilbert FitzGerald	Mountain View, CA	Metrics Engineer
Matt Basta	Wil Clouser	Portland, OR	Web Developer
Mary Biondi	Harvey Anderson	Mountain View, CA	Executive Assistant
Paul Jarratt	Erica Jostedt	Mountain View, CA	Developer PR Manager
Michael Manning	Leslie Nakajima	Mountain View, CA	Sr. Manager, Corporate Communications
Kim Murphy-Fong	Brendan Eich	Mountain View, CA	Executive Assistant

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Christoph Kerschbaumer	Philipp von Weitershausen	MV	Platform
Michael Comella	Brian Nicholson	MV	Mobile

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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)

QA

Test Execution

• Firefox 13.0.1 and Firefox 14.0b8 tested and released last week
• Firefox 13.0.2 testing on hold while we wait for Aurora/Beta feedback
• Firefox 14.0b9 currently being tested, planning to release Monday
• Firefox 15 Aurora and Firefox 16 Nightly are being tested and tracked

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Production briefly went down last Monday - automation flagged the failure and notified us
  • Release today - mbrandt covering for rshetty while he is on
• AMO
• Marketplace
• Mozilla.org
  • No update
• Mozillians
  • 2012-06-20 release being targeted for 2012-06-21.
  • delays due to a mixture of dev ability and unstable dev/staging envs
• MDN
  • 2012-06-19 released
• Socorro
  • Milestone 13 - successful release Wednesday
  • Last week's release was delayed due to unstable dev/staging envs

QA Community

• Desktop and Mobile Web Apps testday this Friday, June 29th -- please come help us test!

Automation & Tools

• Released pytest-mozwebqa 1.0 - a plugin used primarily by Web QA for Selenium test automation.
• Got reftests running on B2G, a little more work before we have a patch up
• Got Beagleboards (ARMv6 dev boards) running android, starting to understand what it will take before getting those into an automatable state
• Provided support for QA on the recent Flash crashes
• Fixed the last of the bugs with HTML mail that will be deployed with Bugzilla 4.2 in early Q3
• More notes here

Engagement

PR

• First look at the curved tabs in Firefox's new Australis design

• Mozilla hands normal folks the keys to making their own websites, right from the browser

• Mozilla's Collusion Privacy Protection Add-On is Gaining Fans

• Mozilla promises 'something big' for Android announcement

Evangelism

Evangelism training in San Francisco tomorrow - only 2 spots or so left.

Webdev

• the webdev/webtools team will be rolling out a browserid-enabled version of etherpad on Wednesday, June 27th. See bug 766213 for more details, and please let us know if there's any reason we should not proceed.
  • thanks to ozten for contributing the code for this!