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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]] ==
* Thank you to Amitshree on SUMO for helping to add Share Article Templates with short links to over 30 articles. - Andrew (feer56)
* Thank you to Karen Scarfone for doing editorial reviews on over 300 MDN pages, including 150+ of the Web API docs, which are a high priority for Firefox OS.
Thanks to all of the contributors at SuMo for making sure the KBS are updated and have the correct information for firefox OS


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
*Global Kids will run a hands-on [https://webmaker.org/events/15 Game Design Summer Camp] as part of the [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty]. The camp will introduce middle school and high school students to the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more. Youth will play and design in analog and online environments. The camp runs 7/29-8/1.
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> New York, USA: Global Kids [https://webmaker.org/events/15 Game Design Summer Camp] for middle school and high school students, covering the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more.  


*At the [https://webmaker.org/events/84 Toy and Game Inventors Camp], toy and game experts will share the secrets of what makes a great toy or game, and will guide campers through the invention process - all the way from brainstorming to creating a prototype for this [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty] event!
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
*It's intern presentation season! Starting at 1pm in 10 Forward, the SF Commons, and TOR Commons. Come see Jason Shun, Jack Montgomery and Subhadeep Paul present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Warangal, India: The [https://webmaker.org/events/214 Maker Party with KIDS] event helps children learn about the history of Fort Warangal and make a [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty] Popcorn video on it.
*It's intern presentation season! Starting at 1pm in 10 Forward, the SF Commons, and TOR Commons. Come see Jason Shun, Alex Wafula, Jack Montgomery and Subhadeep Paul present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!
 
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> New York, USA: two-day digital arts [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty] program for high school students at the [https://webmaker.org/events/12 DreamYard] Art Center. Learn basic computer skills, photo and audio editing, and how to use social networks.
 
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> New York, USA: three-day [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/designprep Fashion Design] workshop for high school students to visit fashion designer Alpana Bawa and design their own fashion piece.


*Global Kids will run a hands-on [https://webmaker.org/events/15 Game Design Summer Camp] as part of the [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty]. The camp will introduce middle school and high school students to the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more. Youth will play and design in analog and online environments. The camp runs 7/29-8/1.
*FxOS UX Team is presenting some work from the Future Themes track. The times are 10am PST and 5pm PST in the Gaia UX vidyo room (1.5 hours in duration). Please contact Jaime with questions.


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
*Global Kids will run a hands-on [https://webmaker.org/events/15 Game Design Summer Camp] as part of the [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty]. The camp will introduce middle school and high school students to the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more. Youth will play and design in analog and online environments. The camp runs 7/29-8/1.
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Noord-Scharwoude, The Netherlands: Playing with Thimble and Popcorn, [https://webmaker.org/events/216 Webmaker at OHM2013] participants will explore concepts of interest-based learning through tinkering with Mozilla Webmaker tools.
 
*Meet the newest [http://webfwd.org/portfolio WebFWD IV] cohort at our Orientation Mixer at Mozilla San Francisco from 5pm - 7pm. RSVP at http://webfwdivorientation.eventbrite.com/ -- and if you cannot join but want to be involved in WebFWD as a mentor / in some way, please let us know > webfwd@mozilla.com
 
We have our weekly meeting for SuMo mobile and B2G(FirefoxOs) - please note in 2 weeks time we are going to be doing our live meeting on air mozilla https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-2013-07-31
 
 


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* Manager Hacking - Thursday 9am Pacific - [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking#Up_Next More Info]
** Topic: Evaluating Success & Growth Needs
** Open to all
** (MTV) 10 Forward, (SF) 7-Forward, (TOR) TOR-Commons , Remote - Vidyo
*Intern presentations starting at 1pm PDT in 10 Forward and the SF Commons. Come see Brandon Kase, David Zbarsky, Tim Kuehn, and Mohammed Almeshekah present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!
*Intern presentations starting at 1pm PDT in 10 Forward and the SF Commons. Come see Brandon Kase, David Zbarsky, Tim Kuehn, and Mohammed Almeshekah present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!


*Global Kids will run a hands-on [https://webmaker.org/events/15 Game Design Summer Camp] as part of the #makerparty. The camp will introduce middle school and high school students to the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more. Youth will play and design in analog and online environments. The camp runs 7/29-8/1.
* <b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Tîrgu Mure, Romania: [https://webmaker.org/events/5 Webmaker Party at IP Workshop 2013] with presentations about the web, html5, FirefoxOS, Mozilla Marketplace and how people can bring their contribution to Mozilla.


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Maidstone, United Kingdom: For the International Scouts Jamboree, three thousand scouts from around the world will report on their week at camp and create a Popcorn video!
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> [https://webmaker.org/events/285 CERN Summer Webfest 2013] CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland: a grassroots initiative by summer students to spark new ideas on web-based education about CERN, the LHC and particle physics.


=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Jaipur, India: Jaipur National University will hold their [https://webmaker.org/events/175 Firefox Elections] to help hold [https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23makerparty #makerparty] events.
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Rankin, Pennsylvania, USA: Build a piece of salvaged public art at the Carrie Furnaces in Rankin to display alongside the famous [https://webmaker.org/events/134 Carrie Deer].


=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Boston, Mass., USA: [https://webmaker.org/events/328 #MakerParty at the MIT Media Lab]. Show up, hang out at an activity station (or three), and make stuff!
*<b>[https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q69208agr1xiqa2/kRDKpkSiVb#f:RTF_Flyer2.jpg 19(8/4) Day to Protest NSA Surveillance (Restore the Fourth)]</b>San Francisco Embarcadero Plaza 12 Noon - Speakers: Daniel Ellsberg, Mark Klien, Norman Solomon, (TBD) EFF


=== Next Week ===
=== Next Week ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:'' Remote
* Background Thumbnails ({{bug|870100}}) - Landed in Nightly. You shouldn't see "blank" thumbnails on the New Tab page anymore. Riding the train to Aurora next week. Please file bugs.


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location:'' Remote
* About:Home hackathon wrapped up on Friday. Lots of fixes and features landed on the Fig branch. Planning to merge to Nightly early in Fx26 cycle.
* New 'selected text' actions landing in Nightly: Quick search and Find in Page.
* Guest Mode (Share your Device) work is coming together with a goal of making it for Fx25.


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
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=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: @OpenMatt in Toronto''
* <b>[https://webmaker.org/events Maker Party]</b>: events happening this week in the Netherlands, New York, India, Romania, MIT Media Lab, at an international Boy Scouts Jamboree in the UK, and hacking physics at CERN in Switzerland.
* <b>[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/91/WebLitStd-RFC-competency-grid.png Web Literacy Standard (beta)]</b>: What are the skills people need to be "web literate?" Introducing our new "[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/91/WebLitStd-RFC-competency-grid.png Web Literacy Standard]."
** A beta version of the skills and competencies needed to read, write and participate on the Web.
*** Release blog post: https://blog.webmaker.org/web-literacy-standard
*** Landing page: http://mzl.la/weblitstd
*** Give feedback: http://mzl.la/web_lit_feedback
*** WebLitStd blog: http://weblitstd.tumblr.com
[[File:WebLitStd-RFC-competency-grid.png|400px]]


=== Identity ===
=== Identity ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: SF ( Vlad Filippov )''
 
* Big News: Gmail identity bridge is live!
** Demo: http://screencast.com/t/dLFljV2P (40 sec)
** Now whenever you log into a site that uses Persona with a gmail email address, you can authenticate directly with Google. No new passwords!
** Formal announcement this week, share / retweet if you can. Follow [https://twitter.com/mozillapersona @MozillaPersona]
 
* Mozilla IdP update:
** For those having trouble signing into Mozilla properties with your LDAP credentials: If you have third-party cookies disabled, then white-list `login.mozilla.org` in the `Exceptions` menu. If you still need assistance, please visit #identity on IRC.


=== Services ===
=== Services ===
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: no audio''
 
* Planet Firefox OS will be available soon for aggregating blog posts by the Firefox OS community. Send Dietrich the URL for the feed of your Firefox OS tagged posts if you'd like to be syndicated on that planet.


=== Grow Mozilla ===
=== Grow Mozilla ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
 
Help us [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/04/15/help-us-build-a-history-of-mozilla-told-by-mozillians/ build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians].  Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:
 
* January 28, 2010: [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/07/29/milestone-first-release-of-firefox-for-a-mobile-device/ First release of Firefox for a mobile device launched for the Nokia N900]
 
[[File:2010_pocketfox.jpg|250px]]
 
BTW, lots of great [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/07/22/milestone-landslide-at-the-mozilla-summit-in-whistler/ comments to read about the landslide at the 2008 Summit].
 
== 60 Seconds with IT ==
* DB Engg team worked with the Services folks to migrate addons databases to their new home
* Mozilla's external DNS is now (mostly) served by Akamai. This gives us 100% uptime and a faster, anycast based geo-located service which means a faster, better service for our end users.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| San Francisco
| San Francisco
| Yes
| Yes
| Will be attached shortly
| [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10iymWhZIHsHzOrZHl7Qgm-L4GPn-Cktjt0nWJN4xeWM/edit?usp=sharing Presentation Slides]
| Summit Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013, IRC: #summit2013
| Summit Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013, IRC: #summit2013
|-
| Doug Belshaw, Badges & Skills Lead, Mozilla
| Web Literacy Standard
| Request For Comments release
| My house, UK
| Just need landing page on-screen
| http://mzl.la/weblitstd
| https://blog.webmaker.org/web-literacy-standard
|-
|-
|}
|}
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= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =


Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday - we'll do our best to get you an answer.


Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
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| FirefoxOS dogfooding
| FirefoxOS dogfooding
| What is the FxOS dogfooding process? Is there an outline for which builds to test, feedback channels beyond obvious bugs, ...?
| What is the FxOS dogfooding process? Is there an outline for which builds to test, feedback channels beyond obvious bugs, ...?
 
|-
| David (Satdav), Contributor
| For Potch regarding all hands meeting
| Can we move the meetings to suit the France office a bit better, as would be good to get them on the call?
|-
| David (Satdav), Contributor
| For potch regarding all hands meeting
| Can we remove the thunderbird section to the non speak as it seems we never get any updates from them?
|-
|-
|}
|}
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|-
|Jordan Lund
|Jordan Lund
|Chris Cooper
|John O'Duinn
|San Francisco
|Vancouver
|Vancouver
|Vancouver
|Release Engineering
|Engineering
|-
|-
|Brian Grinstead
|Brian Grinstead
|Joe Walker
|Nick Fitzgerald
|San Francisco
|Remote - MO
|Remote - MO
|Remote - MO
|Developer Tools
|Engineering
|-
|-
|Eric Pang
|Eric Pang
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=== Security ===
=== Security ===
* Mozilla @ BlackHat - Milk and Cookies Event Wednesday Evening - ping mcoates@mozilla.com for info


=== Engagement ===
=== Engagement ===


==== PR ====
==== PR ====
'''Some recent press coverage surrounding Mozilla:'''
[http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/25/mozilla-wants-to-help-you-see-a-more-personalized-web-without-giving-up-your-privacy/ Mozilla Wants To Help You See A More Personalized Web Without Giving Up Your Privacy, TechCrunch]
[http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/78566.html/ How Firefox OS Could Sneak Into the Smartphone Chicken Coop, LinuxInsider]
[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57595480-93/mozilla-proposes-web-tech-for-sharing-personal-interests/ Mozilla proposes Web tech for sharing personal interests, CNET]
[http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/25/mozilla-experiments-with-content-personalization/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget Mozilla experiments with content personalization based on your interests, CNET]
[http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/25/want-to-get-the-firefox-os-phone-you-can-sign-up-for-presale-now/ Want to get the Firefox OS phone? You can sign up for presale now, Venture Beat]
[http://gigaom.com/2013/07/25/firefox-os-developers-get-mid-range-opportunity-as-geeksphone-details-peak/ Firefox OS developers get mid-range opportunity as Geeksphone details Peak+, Gigaom]


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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