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== Friends of Mozilla [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of Mozilla]] ==
== Friends of Mozilla [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of Mozilla]] ==
* Thanks to [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/freaktechnik/ Martin] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/gion-andri/ Gion-Andri] for helping out at a [https://reps.mozilla.org/e/million-mask-march-zurich/ community event] in Zurich.
* Thanks to [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/freaktechnik/ Martin] and [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/gion-andri/ Gion-Andri] for helping out at a [https://reps.mozilla.org/e/million-mask-march-zurich/ community event] in Zurich.
* Thanks to Richard Milewski for launching Air Mozilla access on the Roku platform so people can watch Mozilla events on their home TV screens.  (And for open sourcing your bowties to the Mozilla community!)


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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**Speaker Rick Fant
**Speaker Rick Fant
**MEF Global Forum is a must-attend international gathering for senior executives who are looking to grow their mobile business and meet potential partners from around the globe. The two-day program also features the Meffy’s, an Awards Gala Dinner, and various networking activities which offers an exciting new perspective and deal-making platform for mobile success.
**MEF Global Forum is a must-attend international gathering for senior executives who are looking to grow their mobile business and meet potential partners from around the globe. The two-day program also features the Meffy’s, an Awards Gala Dinner, and various networking activities which offers an exciting new perspective and deal-making platform for mobile success.
*[http://www.eventbrite.com/e/matchstick-stream-and-tell-event-tickets-13365734271/ Matchstick Stream & Tell Event] Nov 18th 2014 in SF Mozilla Offices, Common Area
**Mozillian Potch speaking
**Developer meetup event to showcase how Matchstick partnered with Mozilla to create the first streaming stick built and certified for Firefox OS
*[http://2014.jsconf.asia/ JSCONF Asia and CSS CONF Asia] Nov 19th-21st 2014 in Singapore
**Mozillian Arky attending
**CSSConf is an event that wants to bring designers in touch with web implementation and front-end devs closer to the design thinking. It's a one-track 1day international conference and part of the CSSConf world-wide events series. JSConf is for web developers of all flavors, to educate, inspire and entertain about the technologies and methodologies that make for a greater web experience
*[http://2014-south.nethui.org.nz/ NetHui South 2014] Nov 21st-22nd 2014 in Christchurch, New Zealand
**Mozillian Blair McBride attending/speaking
**NetHui South 2014 is a 2 day event that serves as a platform to bring together those involved with or interested in Internet issues from all round New Zealand, with a focus on Canterbury and the South Island
*[http://www.codame.com/post/portfolio/virtual-reality-at-mozilla/ CODAME ART & TECH Virtual Reality Event] Nov 21st 2014 in SF, Mozilla Commons Area
**Mozillian Josh Carpenter speaking
**Join hackers and artists at Mozilla San Francisco, as CODAME presents an evening of virtual reality experimentation and education. Be inspired, meet other VR pioneers and see how easy it is to start building your own VR worlds on the open web


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=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
* '''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-11-19-homebrew-website-club Homebrew Website Club Meetup]'''
** Chicago and San Francisco (@[[MozSF]] 1st floor)!
** 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
** 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night
<blockquote><p><strong>Be <em>independent</em> with your web browser <em>and your web site</em>.</strong></p><p>Create or update your personal site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.</p><p>Join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site.</p></blockquote> Any questions? See '''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2014-11-19-homebrew-website-club the wiki page for details]''' or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom
* Please submit contribution opportunities to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.comm.newsletter
*[http://2014.jsconf.asia/ JSCONF Asia and CSS CONF Asia] Nov 19th-21st 2014 in Singapore
**Mozillian Arky attending
**CSSConf is an event that wants to bring designers in touch with web implementation and front-end devs closer to the design thinking. It's a one-track 1day international conference and part of the CSSConf world-wide events series. JSConf is for web developers of all flavors, to educate, inspire and entertain about the technologies and methodologies that make for a greater web experience


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=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
*[http://2014-south.nethui.org.nz/ NetHui South 2014] Nov 21st-22nd 2014 in Christchurch, New Zealand
**Mozillian Blair McBride attending/speaking
**NetHui South 2014 is a 2 day event that serves as a platform to bring together those involved with or interested in Internet issues from all round New Zealand, with a focus on Canterbury and the South Island
*[http://www.codame.com/post/portfolio/virtual-reality-at-mozilla/ CODAME ART & TECH Virtual Reality Event] Nov 21st 2014 in SF, Mozilla Commons Area
**Mozillian Josh Carpenter speaking
**Join hackers and artists at Mozilla San Francisco, as CODAME presents an evening of virtual reality experimentation and education. Be inspired, meet other VR pioneers and see how easy it is to start building your own VR worlds on the open web
*[https://reps.mozilla.org/e/codemotion-2014/ Codemotion Madrid] Nov 21st-22nd 2014. Madrid, Spain.
**Mozilla Hispano will be there with a Booth and 2 talks related to Firefox OS.
**One of the biggest techie events in Spain, with more than 2.000 attendees. More info on the [http://2014.codemotion.es/en/ website].


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=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
*[https://reps.mozilla.org/e/adacamp-bangalore/ Adacamp Bangalore] 22nd and 23rd November 2014. Bangalore, India.
**AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture: open source software, Wikipedia and other wiki-related projects.


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=== Firefox ===
=== Firefox ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Johnath (Toronto), then Chris More (Mountain View)''
* FF10 Update
* FF34 schedule
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LC8PVDjp5A1_OQUYTqXjV9Hq1FOjQZaIzum9CvOsQ1A/edit?usp=sharing Firefox Growth Team Update] (load slides)
 
=== Firefox for Android ===
''Speaker Location: Finkle (remote)''
* New [https://twitter.com/Antlam7/status/533702579591852032 tablet UI] is enabled by default on Nightly


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
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=== Mozilla Communities ===
=== Mozilla Communities ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
=== Web Compat ===
''Speaker Location: vidyo (miketaylr)''
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile/2014-11-11#Web_Compatibility_Progress Recent mobile compatibility progress] including Tier 1 fixes for yahoo.com, hotmail, mail.live.com for B2G users (and lots more). \o/
*Shipped simplified [https://webcompat.com/issues https://webcompat.com/issues] page. Look for incremental improvements over the coming weeks.
*Major a11y improvements for webcompat.com [https://github.com/webcompat/webcompat.com/pull/363 close to merging], big thanks to @andrewmcgivery for the patches.
*Contrast improvements also deployed thanks to @calexity and @magsout.
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebCompat_Summit_%282015%29 WebCompat Summit preliminary agenda] now available for the cool interested kids.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
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| Christopher Arnold
| Business Development
| Firefox - As seen on TV
| San Francisco
| No
| https://air.mozilla.org/matchstick-developer-meetup/ or on Roku at bit.ly/1ohNXgT 
| https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/matchstick-brings-firefox-os-to-your-hdtv-be-the-first-to-get-a-developer-stick/
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| Armen Zambrano
| Armen Zambrano
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| A-team's mission
| A-team's mission
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Yes
| Please show http://slides.com/armenzg/mozilla_ateam_mission--2/live Live slides
| [http://slides.com/armenzg/mozilla_ateam_mission--2/live Live slides]
| [http://slides.com/armenzg/mozilla_ateam_mission--2/live Live slides]
| [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/d2JvWEXruh0 dev.platform survey] [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools#Our_Mission A-team mission]
| [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/d2JvWEXruh0 dev.platform survey] [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools#Our_Mission A-team mission]
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| ''Aaron Meihm''
| ''Aaron Meihm''
| ''Joseph Stevensen''
| ''Joe Stevensen''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Remote; Canada''
| ''Remote; Canada''
|  
| OpSec
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| ''Rosalinda Acojido''
| ''Lynda Acojido''
| ''Anika Briner''
| ''Anika Briner''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
 
| People
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=== Firefox ===
=== Firefox ===
Two Device launches Last Week - We've now added Russia (Megafon) and Philippines (Cherry Mobile) to the list of countries where FxOS devices are available. Go Team! (See http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/where-is-firefox-os/ ).


=== Platform ===
=== Platform ===


=== Cloud Services ===
=== Cloud Services ===
=== Content Services ===
*Content Services General
**About to post our work week schedule and welcome all to attend
*Tiles
**Technical posts coming to Advancing Content
**Post Tiles announcement, we're monitoring the state of the debate online and will follow up with more communications in the coming weeks


=== Messaging ===
=== Messaging ===
*Thunderbird is preparing for our 10th year anniversary on Dec 7, with a total budget of $200.
*Thunderbird, as the dominant open-source desktop messaging client, has been approached by Fastmail to implement their JMAP protocol for messaging (a JSON-based replacement for IMAP and ActiveSync), which also has preliminary support from Google and Apple.


=== Mobile ===
=== Mobile ===
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==== Events ====
==== Events ====
*[https://fosdem.org/2015/ FOSDEM 2015]. January 31st to February 2nd. Bruselles, Belgium.
**Gently reminder: Deadline to submit your proposals: December 1st.
**We will announce the accepted talks on December 15th.
**More info on [https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/fosdem-call-for-papers/993 Discourse topic] (how to submit the talk, suggested topics, etc).
***Feel free to reach franc at mozilla dot com for any inquiry.


==== Social Support ====
==== Social Support ====
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