WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-01

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Friends of the Tree

It's a bit overdue, but a bunch of Mozillians truly deserve a warm thank you for their help with WSOH: (the list is quite long): IT (Tim, mrz, Derek, Guillermo), Havi, Pascal, Julie C, Todd, Potch, CHeilmann, Anant, Philipp, Bret, Kimber, Jill A., Didem, Felipe, Spencer, Margaret, Frank, Gilbert, Saptarshi, Chris Jung, Rainer and Spencer!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 1 August

Tuesday, 2 August

Brown Bag, 12:00PM Pacific Time

Jim Cook / Facilities / IT Team - SF Office Move Brown Bag

Everything you need to know and every question answered about your upcoming move to our new and awesome SF Office!

Wednesday, 3 August

Thursday, 4 August

Brown Bag, 12:00PM Pacific Time

Jay Sullivan - Mozilla Products and Strategy (Intern Series)

Interns, this week's speaker Jay Sullivan will help to describe Mozilla products and what the horizon looks like from here

Friday, 5 August

Brown Bag, 3:00PM Pacific Time

World Series of Hack - Show & Tell of the top 3 winning projects (Julie Deroche)

The top 3 winning teams of WOSH will be at Mozilla to do a live demo and answer questions about their projects.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (6, 7, 8)

Beta

• Planning to create the last beta build / "RC" for this cycle on this Wednesday, 2011-08-03
• If no issues are found we will ship the last beta build / "RC" as final on 2011-08-16
  • If you find any issues that would require a respin or prevent us from releasing please email release drivers

Aurora

• The AMO automated compatibility bump was done late last week

Nightly

• Reminder: The next mozilla-central → mozilla-aurora source migration date is 2011-08-16, ~2 weeks away

Firefox Current (3.6, 4.0, 5.0)

• The code freeze for Firefox 3.6.20 is TODAY
  • If you have a bug in this list you have outstanding work
  • Please get your fixes in by 11:59 am PDT
• Firefox 3.6.20 is scheduled to release on 2011-08-16

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 6.0 Beta 2 will be released tomorrow.
  • The Aero Glass theme has been changed to try and make it easier to read.
  • Bug 658534 (can't collapse+expand folders) has been fixed.

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
Firefox Brand Toolkit	John Slater	Quick overview of what this is and why we're doing it + we need input	http://www.intothefuzz.com/2011/08/01/firefox-brand-toolkit-first-draft/
Announcing Upcoming Metrics Brown Bags	Gilbert FitzGerald	Two upcoming brown bags from the Metrics Team: Analytics (8/3/11) and Data Engineering
WSOH	Julie Deroche	Quick update + video of the event	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQ3byMEuI8

Status Updates By Team

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Fx6 Beta 4: To be signed off this morning before ~9am.
  • Preparing for a crowd-sourced web compatibility testrun on top sites functionality (to be done by uTest).

WebQA

• SUMO: http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-26
• AMO [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=918506&resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=6.1.7&product=addons.mozilla.org 6.1.
• Firefox mobile 6 beta 4 testing in progress. Targeting sign off this week
• Setup a QA sync server within the group. have a machine to point against
• First week of support against BrowserID beta environment

Automation Services

• great workweek in Cambridge UK notes

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla building mobile Operating System to rival Google's Chrome OS
• Mozilla's Head Is in the Cloud With New Mobile OS Idea
• Mozilla planning a Chrome OS-like operating system for phones and tablets
• Mozilla's Boot to Gecko: A mobile OS that could succeed
• Boot to Gecko: Mozilla's open-source, mobile answer to Chrome OS
• Mozilla's Boot to Gecko: A Windows Phone OS competitor or something else?

• Mozilla's next Firefox moment?

• Do Not Track' challenges tech industry

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Jeff Griffiths, Tech Evangelist – Jetpack

Introducing a New Intern

Michael Kurze, Metrics (welcome back!)