WeeklyUpdates/2010-03-15

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Friends of the Tree

• Open to Choice Campaign
  • Irina Sandu, Mary Colvig and William Quiviger for spearheading the charge together with the Mozilla community in Europe
  • Barbara Hueppe for leading communications, and driving Open to Choice forward in media
  • Patrick Finch, not only driving the Browser Choice screen preparations and readiness, but also his for his tireless work on Open to Choice
  • Sean Martell who created the web design for the opentochoice.org website.
  • Members of the Mozilla Marketing community who have already done so much to share and spread browser choice in Europe
  • Our design community: Rhonda Spencer, Monique Johnson and Steven Garrity and the Silver Orange team
  • Members of the Mozilla marketing team for their drive and overall support.
  • Thank you to the QA Team, especially Stephen Donner for his patience, and rigor
  • The Web Development, Metrics and IT teams for making all those behind the scenes things run smooth
  • Big thanks to the Legal team for diligence on the written word regarding the Browser Choice screen
  • Many friends and partners of Mozilla are also making this campaign possible
  • Huge call out to all the l10n teams who worked tirelessly, burning much midnight oil to get the campaign site live in 15 locales. With special thanks also to Stas Malolepszy (Stas, I have no idea how you do it), Pascal Chevrel and Seth Bindernagel. Members of the l10n community who localized and prepared content:
    • Alina Mierlus
    • Guillermo López (:willyaranda)
    • Tobbi
    • Rubén Martín [:Nukeador]
    • Michael 'Coce' Köhler
    • Bogomil Shopov
    • Marek Stępień
    • Leszek Zyczkowski
    • George Fiotakis
    • Iacopo Benesperi
    • Tobias Markus
    • Besnik Bleta
    • Wim Benes
    • Vlado Valastiak
    • Kerim Kalamujic
    • Michael 'Coce' Köhler
    • Giacomo Magnini
    • Iacopo Benesperi
    • Pavel Cvrcek

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 15 March

Tuesday, 16 March

Wednesday, 17 March

Thursday, 18 March

Friday, 19 March

Next Week

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Status Updates By Team

IT

Personas bandwidth during MU

Last Week

• Oncall alert failures over the weekend
  • SMS modem stopped working
  • Took awhile before anyone noticed and reverted to email-based alerting
  • Not nearly as good or timely as SMS
• grapsh.mozilla.org bug 551532
  • some sort of issues with the VM based graphs.mozilla.org
  • moved to physical hardware to resolve issues

Fx 3.6 MU & Personas

• Had scalability issues on Personas database
• Had scalability issues on front-end web servers
• Why?
  • Saw a 7x increase in bandwidth to the Personas gallery.

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  A HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you for everyone that came to our party on Saturday night and everyone involved in panels.  Pictures and blog posts to follow soon!.  Of course ou can still check out our wiki page for information on all of our events and sessions.
  
• ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  
• Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.  Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
• JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
• e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  More information to come soon.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Marketing

• The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) has a new logo! Check out John Slater's post for a quick peek. Jay Patel will be blogging more about the logo and the MDN website project soon.
• Q42009 Developer Survey results are in (blog post coming soon)
• Q12010 Developer Survey is live. Please help spread the word to our developer communities.

Developer Tools

• Bespin 0.7, a developer preview, is planned to launch this week. Stay tuned to the bespin-core mailing list for the announcement.