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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}}}} ===
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=== 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:'' Toronto
''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 ===
''Speaker Location: Mountain View''


Thanks to everyone that ran the MozStumbler in Portland, which is now one of more densely covered cities!
This week we launched the WebRTC Competency Center initiative, and our first partner Telenor held a successful event in Oslo, Norway.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/8rmhih85ekwjg5p/Screenshot%202014-12-12%2023.21.00.png
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/


=== CTO Update ===
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/
''Speaker Location:''


=== 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: mzl.la/bangladesh
* Bangladesh Field Report
* Webmaker for Android & FFOS: mzl.la/android & https://github.com/mozillafordevelopment/webmaker-app
**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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| mozilla.org/advocacy
| mozilla.org/advocacy
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|-
| Andrew Sliwinski
| William Reynolds
| Director of Learning Products
| Product Manager, Community Tools
| Field research & Webmaker for Android / FFOS
| Tis the perfect time to vouch on Mozillians.org
| Portland (Remote)
| San Francisco
| yes
| No
| -
| [[Mozillians/Vouching#FAQ|FAQ about Vouching]]
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| Doug Turner
| Mr.
| WeProtect
| Mountain View
| No
| -
| -
| webmaker.org
|  
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| 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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