WeeklyUpdates/2014-04-07

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

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

Friends of Mozilla

• Thanks to Andrew Halligan for all his well-written/tested/thought-out contributions to Firefox Marketplace. We especially appreciate his diligence going through Bugzilla, GitHub, and working on priority bugs - great work all around!
• Thanks to Regnard Raquedan, Benjamin Kerensa and Katt Taylor for organizing the North America Reps meetup last weekend at the beautiful Mozilla Space in Portland!
• Thanks to Kohei and Pmac for some unplanned updates to mozilla.org over the weekend.
• Thanks to the various folks patiently answering the posts in .governance

Upcoming Events

This Week

Mozilla is sponsoring Pycon 2014 (https://us.pycon.org/2014/), April 9-17 in Montreal, Canada. Events include:

• Small booth for demos during the conference on April 11-13
• Job Fair on April 13
• Software Carpentry workshops April 14-15 http://pycon.blogspot.ca/2014/02/software-carpentry-at-pycon.html

Tuesday, 08 April

• 1PM PST : Security Champions {for the curious or more details ping curtisk in IRC}
  • CANCELED as FxA is more important
• 1PM PST : Firefox Accounts & Sync Brownbag - overview of FxA covering architecture, security and privacy

Wednesday, 09 April

• Homebrew Website Club Meeting, 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla SF and MozPDX. Description:

  Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

  If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

  Any questions? See the wiki page or irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp.

Thursday, 10 April

• Christian Heilmann is speaking at Codebits in Lisbon, Portugal – FirefoxOS - HTML5 for a truly world-wide-web
• Noon @ SFO - Armen Zambrano is presenting on SFO (hopefully through air.m.o) a quick presentation about Release Engineering's recent improvements in our Amazon continuous integration (tbpl) and how we are saving 60-70% on our monthly bill - Saving on our AWS bill

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

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Firefox Mobile

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Firefox OS

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Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

Received this from one of our community members:

• #WeAreMozilla
• "I'm just recovering from nearly a month of debilitating illness, so I'm not really able to lead much of anything. However, I'm wondering if what's needed now is an opportunity for people to affirm what they love about Mozilla, and what they *do* with and for Mozilla. People have spent the last few weeks trying to figure out how to be individuals. I would love to participate in participatory media-making that gives us a chance to be a community again. Thoughts? The idea would be to ask people to share one thing they have experienced/done/worked on with Mozilla, and then also to list two things from others that they also find inspiring."
• Interested? Got ideas? Get in touch with @OpenMatt and I'll connect you. https://twitter.com/OpenMatt

Non-verbal updates:

• Doug Belshaw and Melissa Romaine are speaking and running workshops on Webmaker on Friday at the Oppi Festival in Helsinki, Finland. They'll be joined by Emily Goligoski on Saturday to talk about Open Badges - and in particular, BadgeKit and Webmaker badges

• Help us test Webmaker Training!
  • Official training kicks off in May, but we'd love feedback on the 'Building' module, which is all about using Webmaker tools to create learning resources and teaching kits.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Testing

Open Badges

Speaker Location: nonverbal update

• Peruse the latest happenings on the Badges team in this blog post.

OpenNews

Speaker Location: MozPDX

Just want to give a quick, in person hello and update on OpenNews.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

• We'll be hearing about rOpenHack, dat and publishing like the web this Thursday on our Science Lab community call. All are welcome. Join us!

• Catch up on the latest Software Carpentry news in Ivan Gonzalez's latest weekly roundup.

Mozilla Reps

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Grow Mozilla

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Identity

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Services

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Firefox Marketplace

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IT

Speaker Location: mjeffries, San Francisco

• Vidyo 3.0 update: Thanks for all the feedback on the new Vidyo client. We have been making changes to the environment based on the feeback you have provided. Please keep the feeback coming - preferrably via Bugzilla and ServiceNow (though you Yammer junkies can keep submitting, too! ;) ).

• The ServiceNow update, with the easier-to-use UI, is now LIVE! Come check it out, and click on this intro video link to learn more about how the redesign can make things easier for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xv_wU-6_VQ

Web Compat

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Lots of wins for the open non-WebKit mobile web recently:

• touch.groupon.com adds non-WebKit-only CSS for all to enjoy.
• wikia.com layout fixes for Firefox OS and Firefox for Android.
• cnet.com now sends rich mobile site to Firefox OS users.
• ehow.com moves away from non-standard CSS button layout.
• m.dictionary.com redesigned to not only serve -webkit- CSS.

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	Media	More Details
Who Are You?	What Do You Do?	What are you going to talk about?	Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)	Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Lars Bergstrom	Researcher	Servo - ACID2 support	Chicago, IL	No, but stream video	YouTube MP4	http://github.com/mozilla/servo

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.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you?	Area of question	Question
What's your name? What do you work on?	Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc.	What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s)	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Volunteer location	Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where is the new person based?	What will the new person be doing?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Ting-Yu Lin	Steven Lee	Taipei office	Taipei office	Firefox OS – Platform Engineering team
Guillaume Marty	Gregor Wagner	San Francisco	London	Software Engineer	-

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Theo Chevalier	Chris Hofmann	Mountain View	Mountain View	Localization Driver

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.

Chris Heilmann: I put together a blog post outlining how to communicate to the outside world without becoming a target for misquotes or attacks. Please have a read. I am also happy to help anyone who wants to say something but feels intimidated or unhappy to do it publicly. This is a time to stand strong and together and not give people wrong quotes. It is not a time to be silent when you are unhappy. Have a read, it has a cute baby bat.