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* 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.
* 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.
* Congratulations to Rigin Oommen, Marketplace contributor of the month for November! Rigin is an engineering student, author of 10 apps on Firefox Marketplace, a member of the Community App Curation Board, and also contributes to Webmaker, Location Services, Localization, SUMO, and MDN. https://blog.mozilla.org/apps/2014/12/08/november-contributor-of-the-month-rigin-oommen/


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==


=== This Week ===
=== This Week ===
(Update for Portuguese / Brazilian Mozillians) [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1eatL0xwsCfOqZ70DP1gVVrkkgazWOBbXgx6WvEk5MTI/edit#slide=id.p clique aqui] se você quiser saber mais sobre como o Firefox está trazendo carga de Gabriel Medina para o Campeonato de Surf para público português on-line esta semana. obrigado (translation via Google Translate)


=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
'''[http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Policy-Lab/events/218746198/  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.


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
* Join us for the last Marketplace community meeting of 2014 at 10am Pacific! https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
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=== Firefox ===
=== Firefox ===
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* Flash experiments on beta
* Experiments
** Flash
** Tiles
** Heartbeat
* Growth
** Downloads
** Yahoo


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Asa Dotzler in MTV''
* It's been three weeks since I updated y'all on the latest happenings in Firefox OS.
* 203 people made 451 changes to Firefox OS. 9 people made first-time contributions to Firefox OS, including:
**Gary Chen fixed {{Bugzilla|1096236}} Remove "alternateLayoutOverwrite" in Arabic layout definition
**Terrence Cole fixed {{Bugzilla|1101921}} GGC nursery size is too large on B2G
**Ralph Giles fixed {{Bugzilla|1105858}} Bump libvpx to work-around arm toolchain bugs
**[https://github.com/brianweet Brian Weeteling] fixed {{Bugzilla|960259}} [Keyboard] German esset character "ß" is inconsistent and included in non-German keyboards.
**[https://github.com/arai-a  Tooru Fujisawa] fixed {{Bugzilla|1100812}} flash.sh - run adb root before flashing gecko
**No-Jun Park fixed {{Bugzilla|1093874}} Create a new test case for loading a mix of valid/invalid image files into Gallery App and {{Bugzilla|1100390}} Create a new test case for the deletion of video from Preview
**Jay Wang fixed {{Bugzilla|1105452}} [gonk-l] Need to use new Audio system APIs for audio offload playback
**[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?login=cykesiopka.bmo%40gmail.com Cykesiopka] fixed {{Bugzilla|978426}} test_sts_preloadlist_perwindowpb.js | application crashed [@ mozilla::storage::Connection::~Connection] on B2G ICS Emulator Debug only and {{Bugzilla|1109245}} Modify test_keysize_ev.js to run on B2G
**[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?login=oleksiy.avramchenko%40sonymobile.com Oleksiy Avramchenko] fixed {{Bugzilla|1108965}} Call Set constructor with "new".
*Other notable fixes include:
**{{Bugzilla|1055897}} - [settings] add settings dialog support
**{{Bugzilla|1097421}} - [email] Upgrade email.js omnibus bug
**{{Bugzilla|1102208}} - It takes long time to turn on FM Radio in Flame
**{{Bugzilla|1102967}} - Need some way to mark an email as unread while viewing it
**{{Bugzilla|1069157}} - [PDF Viewer] Update pdf.js in Gaia
**{{Bugzilla|1042673}} - Automatic brightness needs some hysteresis
**{{Bugzilla|1100192}} - [Keyboard][Handwriting] Add words prediction feature
**{{Bugzilla|1105850}} - (App-Grouping) Add visual cue for app placement.
*Interesting Firefox OS discussions:
** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/gjSuB_DiVQc Firefox OS Polish Team]
** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.gaia/RRPhob9WqSQ A fight for customization]


=== Cloud Services ===
=== Cloud Services ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Garvan Keeley, Toronto''
 
* Thank you from Location Services to Portland stumblers
* Map of new covered areas: http://bit.ly/1xlEo44
* If you'd like to participate, you can install the [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.mozstumbler Mozilla Stumbler] Android app from Google's Android Play Store.


=== CTO Update ===
=== CTO Update ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: Mountain View''
 
This week we launched the WebRTC Competency Center initiative, and our first partner Telenor held a successful event in Oslo, Norway.
 
The announcement was done on our blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/12/09/mozilla-and-telenor-announce-webrtc-competency-center-to-advance-webrtc-and-help-standardization/
 
Andreas also posted a supporting piece on his personal blog: http://andreasgal.com/2014/12/09/it-takes-many-to-build-the-web-we-want/


=== Content Services ===
=== Content Services ===
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=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location:'' Andrew Sliwinski, PDX Office
''Speaker Location:'' Andrew Sliwinski, PDX (Remote)
* Bangladesh Field Report
**http://mzl.la/bangladesh [PDF]
* Webmaker for Android & FFOS:
**Firefox: http://mzl.la/ffos
**Android: http://mzl.la/android
**Source: https://github.com/mozillafordevelopment/webmaker-app


=== Mozilla Communities ===
=== Mozilla Communities ===
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| Dave Steer
| Dave Steer
| Director of Advocacy
| Director of Advocacy
| Open Web Fellows - final call for applications!
| Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows - final call for applications!
| San Francisco
| yes
| -
| mozilla.org/advocacy
|-
| William Reynolds
| Product Manager, Community Tools
| Tis the perfect time to vouch on Mozillians.org
| San Francisco
| San Francisco
| No
| No
| -
| -
| mozilla.org/advocacy
| [[Mozillians/Vouching#FAQ|FAQ about Vouching]]
|-
| Doug Turner
| Mr.
| WeProtect
| Mountain View
| No
| -
|
|-
|-
| Liz Compton
| Legal Affairs Manager
| Legal Team 2014 Report
| Mountain View
| no
| https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1iXZ118jKLAdKh9wXyQzIz_aPGfXVZYgSyYLMmTRxGuQ/edit#slide=id.p
| https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/LGL/Legal+Resources+Home
|}
|}


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!  Will be working on
!  Will be working on
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|-
| ''Who is the new hire?''
| ''Alessio Placitelli'' (aka Dexter on IRC)
| ''Who will be introducing that person?''
| 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. [http://www.a2p.it/files/imgs/APlacitelli.jpg picture]
| ''Where is the introducer?''
|
| ''Where will the new person be working from?''
| ''Italy''
| ''What will the new person be working on?''
| ''Firefox Data Collection, Analysis, and User Support Engineering''
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