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 === Firefox Desktop ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
+* Dev tools landed the source maps library, which means we're on the way to being able to hack on minified code.
+* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641025 Incremental GC] made the cutoff for Aurora 16, which should be [https://blog.mozilla.org/dmandelin/2012/07/20/incremental-gc-now-in-firefox-aurora/ a very nice performance improvement]. (thx billm!)
+* Taras on the [https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2012/07/23/snappy-july-19-telemetry-experiments/ the kind of things we're learning from telemetry] (and why our startup got better when we removed an optimization)
+* Mary Meeker's 2-month old D10 talk about the [http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meekers-latest-incredibly-insightful-presentation-about-the-state-of-the-web-2012-5#-1 state of the web] is still worth reading, or even re-reading.
 === Firefox Mobile ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
+* Flash support on honeycomb!
+* Native text selection handles!
+* Testing ARMv6 builds on Aurora as we speak!
+** Go retweet [https://twitter.com/blassey/status/228159468939120641 Brad]
+* Clicking on things has gotten better in nightly with {{bug|770659}}, {{bug|773427}} and {{bug|773431}}
 === Thunderbird ===
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 === Firefox OS ===
 ''Speaker Location:''
+* Kicking off milestone 5. Platform team focusing on finalizing WebAPIs, and improving performance. Gaia team applying the final visual designs, implementing Web Activities for app-to-app interactions. Check out [http://people.mozilla.com/~dietrich/Gaia_Presentation_20120727.pdf these slides] from Josh Carpenter of the visual design work that's currently being implemented.
+* Lots of work to get the dogfooding program ready - platform and build fixes, software update, tester feedback loops, device availability, etc.
+* Watch Christian Heilmann and John Hammink [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/keynote-on-firefox-os-at-campus-party-recife/ rock the stage] in Recife, with their keynote covering the history of Firefox OS and a high-level overview of some of the APIs.
 == Speakers ==
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 !  More Details
 |-
-| Your Title Here
+| Director of Creative
-| Your Name Here
+| John Slater
-| What are you going to talk about?
+| One Mozilla style guide
-| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
+| first draft: http://mozilla.seanmartell.com/guide/index.php?directory=.
-| Link to where audience can find out more information
+| more background: http://www.intothefuzz.com/for-your-review-one-mozilla-style-guide-v1/
 |-
 |}
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-|-
-| ''Brendan Colloran''
-| ''Gilbert FitzGerald''
-| ''Mountain View''
-| ''Senior Data Analyst''
-|-
-| ''Sriharsha Chintalapani''
-| ''Daniel Einspanjer''
-| ''Mountain View''
-| ''Metrics Software Engineer''
 |-
 | ''Salvador Espinoza''
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 | ''Mountain View''
 | ''Desktop Support''
+|-
+| ''John Shih''
+| ''Tony Chung''
+| ''Mountain View''
+| ''Firefox OS''
+|-
 |-
 |}
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 === Automation & Tools ===
+* Created {{bug|778688}} for making TBPL handle more types of failure (to reduce need for manual starring / the need to open full logs) and started collating issues under it.
+* Began work on SUTAgent for B2G so that we can automate pandas as we normally do for other dev boards in our TBPL automation, first step fix up the old SUT Agent tests - {{bug|778366}}
+* Got reftests failing consistently on B2G (this is awesome and will help us to get things fixed) - see {{bug|773482}}
+* The Browser Automation Spec [http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver-test test repo] has been created and [https://github.com/AutomatedTester/W3-BrowserAutomation-tests mirrored] on github if people want to follow
+* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2012-07-30 More notes here]
 === Security ===
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 ==== PR ====
+[http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/firefox-os-mozilla-brendan-eich-87610 Firefox OS Is Fast, Open And Commercial – Brendan Eich] <br>
+[http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391002/The-Feature-Phone-Rises--Again-?pageNumber=0 The Feature phone rises (again?)] <br>
+[http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2012/07/25/why-open-source-principles-are-a-recipe-for-innovation/ Why Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation] <br>
+[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229525/Silent_update_speeds_Firefox_14_uptake Silent update speeds Firefox 14 uptake] <br>
+[http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2012/07/30/mozilla-and-soundcloud-in-berlin-startup-hub/ Mozilla And SoundCloud In Berlin Startup Hub] <br>
+[http://gigaom.com/europe/mozilla-looks-for-startup-cross-pollination-with-new-berlin-office/ Mozilla looks for startup 'cross-pollination' with new Berlin office] <br>
+[http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/26/firefox-browser-add-ons-top-3b/ Mozilla Firefox Add-ons hit 3 billion downloads] <br>
+[http://www.webpronews.com/firefox-users-have-downloaded-3-billion-add-ons-since-2004-2012-07 Firefox Users Have Downloaded 3 Billion Add-Ons Since 2004] <br>
 ==== Events ====
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 === WebFWD ===
+WebFWD is actively recruiting / accepting applications for our next class (starts October 1). Apply on our website: http://webfwd.org
+Graduation of our current class is September 19th > in SF and live streamed on Air Mozilla: RSVP at http://webfwdgraduation.eventbrite.com/
 == Foundation Updates ==
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]