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+Every Monday @ 11:00am Pacific Time (19:00 UTC)
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 Western Oregon University students for diving in to the project and working on bugs across the project during the last term.
+Portland State University students for their Capstone project on [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/network-activity-and-battery-drain-in-mobile-web-apps/ Network Activity and Battery Drain in Mobile Web Apps] and for sharing their findings on the Hacks blog. Thanks to Tim Huynh, Casey English, Nathan Kerr, Scott Anecito, Brianna Buckner, Ryan Niebur, Sean Mahan, Bin Gao and their Mozilla mentor, Dietrich Ayala.
 == Upcoming Events ==
 === This Week ===
+* Check out a [http://dragonair.student.iastate.edu/mozilla/sourcecodeknowledge/project/gecko-dev/ website/tool developed for academic dissertation work to help Mozilla developers better understand the codebase and communication structure].  Help out by participating in a short 15 minute interview on IRC.  Contact Patrick to setup an interview time (IRC: '''carlsonp''', email: '''carlsonp@iastate.edu'''). Cheers!
 === Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
 *[https://quality.mozilla.org/event/bug-triage-day-57/ Weekly Bug Triage Day]
+*[http://empirejs.org/ EmpireJSCONF 2015] Held in NYC April 26/27th
+**Two day conference for the Javascript community.
+**Soledad Penadés speaking on: Web components and experimental mobile UI audio+p2p wifi+whatnot (next level js)
 === Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
+* [https://air.mozilla.org/the-well-tempered-api-2/ The Well Tempered API] 1pm PDT - brownbag in MTV Commons and Air Mozilla. Discover the links between API abstractions and centuries old music. (Probably the only coding talk you'll ever see with live music examples on the electric bassoon.)
 === Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
 *[https://quality.mozilla.org/event/bug-verification-day-62/ Weekly Bug Verification Day]
-[https://air.mozilla.org/sumo-mobile-april-2015/ SuMo Mobile and b2g meeting] 9am pt in #sumo or the SuMo vidyo room
+*[https://air.mozilla.org/sumo-mobile-april-2015/ SuMo Mobile and b2g meeting] 9am pt in #sumo or the SuMo vidyo room or 5pm UK time
+*[http://srccon.org/ Tickets for Knight-Mozilla OpenNews' journalism-tech conference SRCCON go on sale at 2pm Eastern!]
+* Experience the rollercoaster of software development by watching a real engineer hack on Firefox! [https://air.mozilla.org/the-joy-of-coding-mconley-livehacks-on-firefox-episode-12/ The Joy of Coding: Episode 12 streams LIVE] at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Air Mozilla. Perfect for your morning, afternoon, or late afternoon tea. [http://mikeconley.ca/blog/category/technology/livecoding/ Previous episodes with summaries available here], and [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmaFLMwlbk8wKMvfEEzp9Hfdlid8VYpL5 mirrored to YouTube here].
 === Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
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 === Next Week ===
-There will be a contributors meeting on Tuesday moderator live for it please ask questions
+- There will be a contributors meeting on Tuesday moderator live for it please ask questions
 https://moderator.mozilla.org/e/may-contributor-meeting
+- Interns start arriving in the San Francisco and Toronto offices!
 == Project Status Updates (voice updates) ==
 === Firefox and Cloud Services ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location: Dave Camp/Mountain View''
+* Take a look at the Aha for Pocket integration: https://mozilla.aha.io/published/809d6d2e5fd193e0a8e833560fdb4fe0?page=1
+[[File:Msucan-portrait.jpg|thumbnail|Mihai]]
+* Mihai Șucan
+** Mihai's blog post: http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog/touched
+** [http://www.sohanaresearchfund.org/ The Sohana Research Fund]
+** [http://www.debra.org.uk/ Debra UK] and [http://www.debra-international.org/ international].
+** [http://ebresearch.org/ The EB research partnership].
 === Firefox OS ===
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 === Content Services ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location: Kevin Ghim | NYC''
+* Suggested Tiles
+** Content Services will be landing Suggested Tiles in Fx39
+* Links and Stuff
+** Ed Lee's technical blog post: http://ed.agadak.net/2015/04/whys-and-hows-of-suggested-tiles
+** dev.planning threads:
+***  [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/0J2j64Uq9AI Improving trust and transparency for Suggested Tiles]
+*** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/MAl04q0tXzE Ideas for policies to protect Suggested Tiles users' data]
+*** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/N8w5dphjBf8 Suggesting tiles by region with finer granularity than country]
+*** [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.planning/S5m7Rjuz-Xc Potential privacy issues of not showing suggestions in certain contexts]
+** Bugs filed for to Improve technical guarantees for Suggested Tiles launch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158230
+** More blogs, wikis, product page updates and brownbags to come before Suggested Tiles launch
 === Webmaker ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Andrew Sliwinski (Portland)''
+http://mzl.la/changelog
+*Webmaker for Android
+**Team pushing towards alpha release
+**Developing content and localization for our launch markets
+***US
+***UK
+***Canada
+***Brazil
+***Indonesia
+***Bangladesh
+***Kenya
+**https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-app/tree/v1
+*Chicago Field Research
+**User testing
+**Ethnographic study
 === Mozilla Communities ===
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 | Link to where audience can find out more information
 |-
+| Dan Sinker
+| OpenNews
+| OpenNews Updates: SRCCON & the Coral Project
+| Chicago, IL
+| no
+| no slides
+| [http://coralproject.net Coral Project] and [http://opennews.org/ OpenNews]
+|-
+| [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/andym/ Andy McKay]
+| Canada Bill C-51
+| Bill C-51
+| Vancouver
+| no
+| no
+| Visit [https://stopc51.ca/ Stop C-51] to contact your MP and see  [https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2015/03/25/information-sharing-debates-continuing-in-problematic-directions/ Mozilla position]
+|-
+| Toby Elliott
+|
+| Geolocation service
+| Mountain View
+| no
+| no
+|
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 | ''What will the new person be working on?''
 |-
-<!-- Insert new rows here -->
+| Ben Niolet
+| Michaela Smiley
+| Alexandria, VA
+| Durham, NC
+| Community Marketing (Email Marketing Manager)
+|-
+| Liz Hull
+| Michaela Smiley
+| Alexandria, VA
+| Norfolk, VA
+| Community Marketing (Social Media Manager)
+|-
+| Chelsea Novak
+| Mary Colvig
+| San Francisco
+| Toronto (home office today)
+| Community Marketing
+|-
+| Andrew Losowsky
+| Dan Sinker
+| Chicago, IL
+| New York City
+| Coral Project, project lead
+|-
+| Andre Natal
+| Dylan Oliver
+| Mountain View
+| Brazil Remote
+| Firefox OS Developer
 |-
 |}
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 * {{bug|579089}} The default Hardware and Operating-System fields now default to "Unspecified/Unspecified" instead of the reporter's platform
 ** This can be overwritten per-product, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.mozilla.org&component=Administration file a bug] if you own a product and want this changed
+* {{bug|1151830}} GitHub Auth is now enabled, allowing non-powerful accounts to sign in using their github credentials.
 [[BMO/Recent_Changes|All changes]].