WeeklyUpdates/2010-07-19

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Friends of the Tree

• Karen Prescott, for finding the Summit Posters
• Armen nominates wx24 for helping him with all the Windows 64-bit SDK/compiler setup and on-going support. Overdue mention Makoto Kato for the initial setup with Windows 64-bit as well,
• Vinicius Medina, for being an absolute rockstar the last few weeks and helping to coordinate all flight travel and hotel arrangements for community sponsorships to FISL in Brasil.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 19 July

Tuesday, 20 July

Wednesday, 21 July

• Brownbag: Jan Bosch, VP Engineering at Intuit on "Towards Compositional Software Engineering" at Noon (PT) in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla

Thursday, 22 July

Friday, 23 July

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

Release Engineering

Releases:

• major update for 3.5.10 -> 3.6.6 published

Other:

• reftests now running with direct2d enabled
• now reporting regressions in trace-malloc, codesighs, refcnt leaks same as we do for other talos tests
• if you use TryServer, please read this post to mozilla.dev.planning: Changing what TryServer jobs are run by default
• automated cleanup policy for stage is now in place. See details here: ReleaseEngineering:StageCleanupPolicy

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Engagement

PR

• Firefox Home hands-on: Firefox on your iPhone... sorta
• Apple Lets Firefox Ride Along on Safari
• Firefox Home Enters the App Store, Connects Your PC's Browser to Your iPhone's
• Firefox Home For iPhone Approved, Lets You Sync Bookmarks, Open Tabs And More
• Firefox Home Is Now in the App Store
• Apple approves Firefox sync app
• Firefox Home hits the iPhone: Looks handy

• Mozilla raises its bug bounty
• Mozilla ups bounty for reporting vulnerabilities to $3,000
• Mozilla Ups Security Bounty from $500 to $3,000

• Mozilla to revamp add-on code review process

• Can Mozilla Deliver an Open App Store?

Events

• Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party on 7/28.  Check out the information here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010
  
• FISL 2010 July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We will have a Mozilla room, talks and other activities.  Follow all of the activities that are going on through the wiki page. 
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  No Mozilla talks scheduled.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk)  - sign up for the meetup here.
  
• Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Labs

• People's Choice voting for the Contacts Design Challenge is open - vote now!

L10n

• Firefox 4 beta 2 will be a localized beta, with the release team incorporating the "l10n-merge" tool for the first time
  • Localizations with untranslated strings on Mozilla Central will have the original English strings appear in the user interface
  • All localizers have been invited and encouraged to participate
  • We will continue to use this path until we declare a formal product string freeze later in the release cycle
• Along with product l10n, Pascal has been driving all web l10n for the beta release
• The Jetpack 1l0n API work is ahead of schedule with Gandalf running an instance of the implementation that is being created by the team from Indifex
• Axel started a thread on Dev.Planning proposing a shift in the way we release new locales. Comments and feedback are welcomed and encouraged.
• Stas continues to work on releasing the To-Do app that he demoed during the science fair in Whistler