WeeklyUpdates/2014-12-15

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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

• Huge thanks to Chris Turra, Craig Cook et al for migrating the Hacks blog to a centralized instance of Wordpress (LDAP login FTW!) and for their ongoing responsiveness. For more migration info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/HacksPostMigrationUserDetails. Other Hacks blog questions? Please contact Havi Hoffman.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 15 December

Will Copyright Law Kill Startups and Innovation?

• 6-8pm PST in SF Commons and via Air Mozilla.
• Food and beverages provided.
• Join Startup Policy Lab, Creative Commons, Hackers/ Founders, and Mozilla for a panel on Copyright Law and the challenges to innovation.

Wednesday, 17 December

• Homebrew Website Club Meetup
  • Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco (@MozSF 1st floor)!
  • 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
  • 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night

Be independent with your web browser and your web site.

Create or update your personal site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.

Join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site.

Any questions? See the wiki page for details or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Flash experiments on beta

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Cloud Services

Speaker Location: Toronto

Thanks to everyone that ran the MozStumbler in Portland, which is now one of more densely covered cities!

CTO Update

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: Andrew Sliwinski, PDX Office

• Bangladesh Field Report: mzl.la/bangladesh
• Webmaker for Android & FFOS: mzl.la/android & https://github.com/mozillafordevelopment/webmaker-app

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location:

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
Dave Steer	Director of Advocacy	Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows - final call for applications!	San Francisco	yes	-	mozilla.org/advocacy
Andrew Sliwinski	Director of Learning Products	Field research & Webmaker for Android / FFOS	Portland (Remote)	yes	-	webmaker.org

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
Alessio Placitelli (aka Dexter on IRC)	Read-only introduction: Alessio is a Mozilla volunteer who will now be a paid contributor working on Firefox data collection, analysis, and user support engineering: things like Firefox Health report, telemetry, self-support, and other tools. picture		Italy	Firefox Data Collection, Analysis, and User Support Engineering

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	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?

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

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard