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


== Upcoming Events ==
* Fabio Magnoni, Luca Toledo, Clauber Stipkovic & the Mozilla Brazil community for all their help and legwork for Basecamp
* Richard Milewski, for Air Mozilla awesomeness (2x last week in support of the Mozilla Apps Hack day)
* Luke Crouch, Les Orchard, Ali Spivak, Eric Shepherd, David Walsh, John Karahalis and everyone on the MDN team who worked on the MDN Kuma wiki this past weekend
* Everyone who came and hacked for Mozilla Apps Hack Day on Sat. & Spencer Hui, who came and shot video
* [http://blog.mozilla.org/community/2012/07/09/spotlight-on-terry-rather/ Terry Rather] for answering more than two dozen messages sent to webmaster(at)mozilla.org every day


=== This Week ===
<h2> Upcoming Events </h2>
<h3> This Week </h3>
<h3> Monday, <span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}</span> </h3>
<p><b>Brownbag at 3pm: Add-ons Made Easy with Builder &amp; SDK</b>
The event will take place in 10 fwd, and will be broadcast in the SF commons and over Air Mozilla
</p>
<h3> Tuesday, <span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}}</span> </h3>
<h3> Wednesday, <span class="fck_mw_template"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}}</span></span> </h3>
<ul><li><b>Brownbag, Wednesday 1-2pm PT</b>, Ten Forward, Mountain View: </li><li><b>Challenges to Mozilla adoption in China</b>
<ul><li> Exploration of Chinese internet environment
</li><ul><li> Internet Explorer version skew
</li><li> Implications of text input being difficult
</li><li> Proliferation of plugins
</li><li> Web / banking compatibility
</li></ul><li> Mozilla Online initiatives
</li><li> By Gary Kwong; based upon a week of observations/interactions with our Mozillian friends in Beijing
</li><li> All Mozillians are invited to attend.
</li><li> Will likely be on Air Mozilla, and be recorded as well.
</li></ul><li><b>Startup Office Hours:</b> Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am - noon PST. Open to everyone.
</li></ul>
<h3> Thursday, <span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}}</span> </h3>


=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
* Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
** [[Grow/Meeting_07_12_12|Agenda and dial-in information]]


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
<h3> Friday, <span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}}</span> </h3>


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
<h3> Saturday, <span class="fck_mw_template">{{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}}</span> </h3>


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
<div class="h-event vevent">
* <span class="dt-start dtstart">2012-07-14</span> <b><span class="p-summary summary">[http://openwebcamp.org/ Open Web Camp IV]</span> at <span class="p-location location h-adr adr"><span class="p-locality locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="p-region region">California</span>, <span class="p-country-name country-name">USA</span></span></b>.
** <span class="p-attendee attendee h-card">[[User:Tantek|Tantek Çelik]]</span> - speaker on "[http://openwebcamp.org/events/56 HTML5 and microformats 2.0 - the next evolutionary step for web data]" (http://plancast.com/p/bu8p/html5-microformats-20-tantek)
** ...
</div>


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
For more future events, see:
* [[Events]]


=== Next Week ===
<h3> Next Week </h3>


== Product Status Updates (voice updates) ==
== Product Status Updates (voice updates) ==


=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
 
* Pieces of our SocialAPI work have [http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/07/06/bringing-social-to-firefox/ started landing]
* So have pieces of our native support for sign-into-websites.
* Tim Taubert is picking up the biggest snappy bug of all time {{bug|650968}}
* Great work by contributor Saurabh Anand, with help from ehsan and jdm, on per-window private browsing support ({{bug|758660}}, {{bug|722994}}, {{bug|722984}}, many more)


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''  
* 5000 five star reviews in the first 10 days
* 14.0.1 on track with some post-ship fixes
* 15 and 16 already looking like beautiful releases
* We have ARMv6 nightlies building now


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
''Speaker Location:''
An announcement from Mitchell about how we will organize innovation for Thunderbird: https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/ <br/>
Also, a little more detailled interview http://blog.mozilla.org/beyond-the-code/2012/07/09/about-the-future-of-thunderbird/ <br/>
And for further details, this Wiki will track how we progress through the plan: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model <br/>


=== Older Branch Work ===
=== Older Branch Work ===
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=== Services ===
=== Services ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location: Dietrich, pdx-01 on Vidyo''
* Fruitful workweek in Barcelona
* Successful live demo for Telefonica investors conference
* Feature-complete deadline on 7/20
* Detailed weekly status at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-status


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|-
|-
|Snappy, or using the webcam in web content
|Paul Adenot, Chris Lee & Stefan Crane
|We implemented a instagram-like using only web technologies during saturday's hackday.
|(Need a special Firefox build, will be in 10fwd)
|https://github.com/padenot/snappy
|-
|Minimalist
|Sawyer Hollenshead (ux/design), Kevin Ngo (webdev)
|Pretty webapp to build lists to save thoughts, uses local storage and app cache.
|http://minimalist.ngokevin.com
|http://ngokevin.com/blog/minimalist
|}
|}


== Introducing New Hires ==
== Introducing New Hires ==
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| Michael Cooper
| James Socol
| Mountain View, CA
| Web Developer
|-
| Caitlin Galimidi
| Bill Walker
| Mountain View, CA
| Program Manager, App
|-
| Andrea Marchesini
| Johnny Stenback
| Mountain View, CA
| Software Engineer, WebAPI
|-
| Josh Matthews
| Johnny Stenback
| Mountain View, CA
| Software Engineer, DOM/Servo
|-
| Erik Vold
| David Townsend
| Mountain View, CA
| Software Engineer, Jetpack
|-
| Melissa O'Connor
| mrz
| Mountain View, CA
| Project Manager, IT
|-
| Erika Owens
| Dan Sinker
| Philadelphia,PA Remote
| Open News Community Manager
|-
|-
|}
|}
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==== WebQA ====
==== WebQA ====
= Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)  =
*Affiliates
** 7/3 push to fix a xss vulnerability in the admin area - {{bug|770333}} and {{bug|770210}}
*Mozillians
** 7/3 push to deacactivate api - {{bug|770613}} and {{bug|770494}}
*MDN
** MDN Kuma work continues - https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/
*Socorro
** 7/3 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770619 milestone 14.1 pushed]
** 7/6 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=15;product=Socorro;list_id=3653390 milestone 15 pushed]
*SUMO
** Continuous deployment, no updates
*MozTrap


==== QA Community ====
==== QA Community ====


=== Automation & Tools ===
=== Automation & Tools ===
* Browser Automation W3C spec, based on WebDriver, is due to attain full public working draft status tomorrow
* Security review for datazilla is complete!
* '''Test your Bugzilla-powered apps with the 4.2 staging server'''
** Staging server: http://globau.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/mozilla-bugzilla-4-2-upgrade-testing
** Web UI: https://bugzilla.allizom.org
** BZ API: https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/allizom
* More notes and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-07-09 status here]


=== Security ===
=== Security ===
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==== PR ====
==== PR ====
*[http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/july-4th-declaration-internet-freedom/story?id=16707082#.T_sP5hg1ZfN  For July 4th, a Declaration of Internet Freedom]
*[http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/07/02/the-firefox-phone-a-new-competitor-to-apple-microsoft-and-google/  The Firefox Phone: A New Competitor to Apple, Microsoft and Google]
*[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2189501/mozilla-developer-firefox-lockscreen  Mozilla developer shows off Firefox OS lock screen]
*[http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-firefox-os-sprint-20120702,0,6439904.story  Firefox OS heading to Sprint, won't arrive before 2013]
*[http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/75-of-google-and-apple-apps-will-work-on-firefox-os-1088175  75% of Google and Apple apps will work on Firefox OS]
*[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406757,00.asp  Mozilla Pushes for Release of Syrian Developer]


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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=== Apps ===
=== Apps ===
* Demos of MozApps from the Mozilla Apps Hack Day winners: MinimaList (Sawyer Hollenshead & Kevin Ngo) and  Snappy (Paul Adenot, Stephen Crane & Chris Lee)


=== Developer Tools ===
=== Developer Tools ===
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=== WebFWD ===
=== WebFWD ===
Startup Office Hours! Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am - noon PST - open to everyone.


== Foundation Updates ==
== Foundation Updates ==
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
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