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== Friends of Mozilla [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of Mozilla]] ==
== Friends of Mozilla [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of Mozilla]] ==
* Interns Anhad Singh and Ian Connolly, for working to open up Release Engineering. Ian and Anhad have been creating useful [[ReleaseEngineering/Contribute|wiki content for contributors]], getting Release Engineering on [http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/] and [http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy] and putting useful whiteboard tags in bugs. Also, new Release Engineering contributors Sergio Butero and Harsimran Singh, who made their first contributions as a result of Anhad and Ian's efforts!
* Luis Antonio Sánchez Romero from Mexico has been helping us test Payments in Mexico by acquiring local SIMs and running tests for us. Payments team thanks him for all his efforts!


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
* The latest edition of [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse DevPulse] is [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Developer_Engagement/DevPulse/August2014 up] - have a read and see how you can get involved with Mozillians supporting developers worldwide!
* Join us at [http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=1850147,5375480,2643743,1277333&h=5375480&date=2014-8-11&sln=14-14.5 2pm Pacific] for the bi-weekly [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings Marketplace community meeting]. This week, we'll talk about the new proposed format for Marketplace contributions, and a new community curation program for the feed feature.
* Please add your contribution opportunities to the about:Mozilla newsletter! [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lsbmxbjhnTIH6XS-dhscKprsStm9d6eDWji2zHeJh_8/viewform New and improved form!]


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
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* Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/mozillians-town-hall-2014-goals-getting-firefox-on-a-growth-trajectory/
* Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/mozillians-town-hall-2014-goals-getting-firefox-on-a-growth-trajectory/
* Questions: https://moderator.paas.allizom.org/e/town-hall-2014-goals-firefox-13-aug
* Questions: https://moderator.paas.allizom.org/e/town-hall-2014-goals-firefox-13-aug
'''MDN Community Meeting'''
* Time: 10:00 PT (17:00 UTC)
* IRC: #mdn
* Agenda: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Community_meetings/2014-08-13
'''Intern Presentations'''
* 1:00- Susanna Bowen, "Improving Support for CSS Ruby" SF
* 1:30- Jonathan Morton, "WebGL in Web Workers" SF
* 2:00- Julian Hector, "IPC, supervisor and FirefoxOS" SF
* 2:30- James Hobin, "A Cake Filled With Rainbows, Smiles, and JavaScript" SF
'''js13kGames 2014 Competition'''
* JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game developers that takes place online Aug 13 through Sept 13
* Run by Mozillian Andrzej "Captain Rogers" Mazur, Mozillian Jason Weathersby is a competition judge
* [http://js13kgames.com/ Competition homepage]
'''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-08-13-homebrew-website-club Homebrew Website Club Meetup]'''
* Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and [[SF|@MozSF]]!
* 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
* 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb discussions and hack night
<blockquote><p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?</p><p>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...</p></blockquote> Any questions? See '''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-08-13-homebrew-website-club the wiki page for details]''' or irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp.


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
'''Intern Presentations'''
* 1:00- Guptha Rajagopal, "SpiderMonkey - More Strings, More Class" MV
* 1:30- Jeremy Poulin, "Predictor: Because Witches Are Scary" MV
* 2:00- Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran, "Games, games and more games" MV
* 2:30- Basar Koc, "Ringing Artifacts in Data Compression" MV


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
* [[Webdev/Beer_And_Tell/August2014|Webdev Beer and Tell]] - 2PM Pacific in the Webdev vidyo room
** Web developers across the project show off their side projects. Open to the public! (Airmo link will be on the wiki page)


=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
* [http://opennews.org/fellowships/apply.html Application to apply] to become a 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellow closes at MIDNIGHT eastern!


=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===


=== Next Week ===
=== Next Week ===
* Mozillians Town Hall - Disrupting the Advertising Industry
** More information coming soon


== Project Status Updates (voice updates) ==
== Project Status Updates (voice updates) ==


=== Firefox ===
=== Firefox ===
''Speaker Location:''
* Johnathan Nightingale - Toronto


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
 
* Li Gong from London (Vidyo)


=== Cloud Services ===
=== Cloud Services ===
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=== Content Services ===
=== Content Services ===
''Speaker Location:''
 
 
* Darren Herman / Sean Bohan - NYC Office
* Tiles - We are NOT doing a Brown Bag this week, but we have scheduled a Town Hall discussion next Monday Aug 18
* Subscribe2Web - updating the wiki this week and scheduling a Brown Bag session for the week of August 25
* UP - The User Personalization team is working on introducing personalization to Firefox users, starting with data transparency. We are planning on surfacing this through the Personal Interest Dashboard (working name). This will be initially released as an add-on with the objective of providing the user the ability to 1) analyze their categorized interests based on their history and 2) discover new content that's related to their interests


=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Brett Gaylor, remote''
* We're just about half way through with Maker Party and we have over 1200 events in 261 cities, with an estimated 62,000 attendees!
* We passed a significant milestone - 5000 contributors to Mozilla Foundation activities!
 
(Nonverbal)
* We're extending our free Net Neutrality training into this week. Sign up here: [http://ow.ly/A7h3B ow.ly/A7h3B]
* Please submit session proposals to MozFest!
** And help us spread the word! Sample tweet: Less than 2 weeks to the #Mozfest session proposal submission deadline! Get yours in now. [http://mzl.la/Propose mzl.la/Propose]
 
=== Knight-Mozilla OpenNews ===
''Speaker Location: Dan Sinker, remote''
* The application to apply to become a 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellow closes THIS Saturday at midnight!
** application form: http://opennews.org/fellowships/apply.html
* Fellowships offer creative coders an opportunity to be embedded in newsrooms around the world, working in the open and solving complex problems.
** [http://dansinker.com/post/93888022860/opennews-2015partners our host newsrooms make their pitch]
* The Knight-Mozilla Fellowship is also about community-building and, well, fellowship.
** [http://dansinker.com/post/93906688160/opennews-so-what-is-the-fellowship-experience-like our current fellows talk about their experiences]
* You (yes you!) know great people that should apply. Send them our way!
** example tweets, program description for copy/pasting, and more: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-fellowships-share


=== Mozilla Communities ===
=== Mozilla Communities ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
=== Marketplace ===
* Non verbal.
* We are trying out a new development environment for the Marketplace using Docker. If you'd like to try it out [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mkt-docker-dev-env-instructions instructions are here].
* We are also looking for app developers who'd like to try out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/InAppPayments new hosted in-app payment system] and give us feedback.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|-
|-
| Anthony Duignan-Cabrera  
| Tyler Downer
| Project Manager, User Advocacy Team
| Firefox Updates Hotfix
| Home Office Vidyo
| No
| (https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/15ehWmUsyzzMWcOnuvwr0N5KXKBw36HEXCLWgNlhLD54/edit?usp=sharing)
| https://blog.mozilla.org/useradvocacy/2014/07/30/helping-our-users-experience-the-modern-web/
|-
| Mary Ellen Muckerman
| Brand (Engagement)
| Two new initiatives (Voices + Mozilla identity)
| San Francisco
| No
| No
|
|-
| Anthony Duignan-Cabrera
| Editor in Chief, Mozilla Voices  
| Editor in Chief, Mozilla Voices  
| Voice
| Mozilla Voices
| NYC Office
| NYC Office
| No
| No
| No
| No
|
| https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_Voices
|-
| Sean Martell
| Art Director
| Mozilla identity
| Toronto home office
| No
| No
| https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/2014/08/11/building-a-new-brand-identity-system-for-mozilla/
|-
|-
| Karen Ward
| Senior Project Manager, Operator Launch Team
| FxOS Launch Roadmap (Operators and Retail/Open Market devices)
| Home Office Vidyo
| No
| https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/Firefox+OS+Wave+Launch+Cross+Functional+View
| https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/PM/Firefox+OS+Wave+Launch+Cross+Functional+View
|-
| Jorge Villalobos
| Add-ons Developer Relations Lead
| Add-on Compatibility
| Home Office Vidyo
| No
| [https://slidebean.com/p/5jiyNzH68e/How-we-manage-Add-on-Compatibility Slides]
| [https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/ Add-ons Blog]
|-
|-
| Brett Gaylor
| VP, Webmaker
| Webmaker - the party is getting out of control
| Victoria BC
| Yes
| https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7968133/Webmaker%20-%20aug%2011%20maker%20party%20update.pdf
| https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7968133/Webmaker%20-%20aug%2011%20maker%20party%20update.pdf
|-
| Dino Anderson, Payam Keshtbod, Tre Kirkman
| People Team
| Diversity and Inclusion Strategy workshops
| San Francisco
| Yes
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_Strategy D&I Strategy]
| [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Diversity_and_Inclusion_Strategy#Initiatives D&I Initiatives]
|-
|}
|}


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| Mihai Tabără
| Rail Aliiev
| Mountain View
| San Francisco
| Release Engineering
|-
| Tomasz Kołodziejski
| Drew Willcoxon
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
| FFX Engineering
|-
|-
|}
|}
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==== bugzilla.mozilla.org ====
==== bugzilla.mozilla.org ====
Notable changes to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ bugzilla.mozilla.org] during the last week:
Notable changes to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ bugzilla.mozilla.org] during the last week:
* {{bug|938272}} The "User Story" field is now visible on all products
* {{bug|1047131}} The "User Story" field is now visible on all products
[[BMO/Recent_Changes|All changes]].
[[BMO/Recent_Changes|All changes]].


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