WeeklyUpdates/2013-09-09

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of the Tree

Mardi, Kate and all of the Summit team for all of the work you have done for the Summit this year thanks for all of the hard work from all of the Mozillians

A big thanks to Chad Weiner for stepping in to help lead the Product Marketing team

Masatoshi Kimura for removing 1/3 of the enablePrivilege calls in our mochitest suite with an epic 275k patch

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 10 September

• MAKER PARTY: West Bengal, India: MakerQuiz@Dgp is an opportunity to review the performance of our participants of Hack Jam @ BCREC. There will be a test on HTML5 and CSS, followed by a quiz on Mozilla and Webmaker to help participants understand where they are strong and where they could use improvement.

• MAKER PARTY: Hama Governorate, Syria: Celebrating course on "ballet" for children is a training course on IT skills for youth and children provided by the Syrian Computer Society, through the Syrian Telecentre project.

• MAKER PARTY: East Java, Indonesia: Maker Party 2013 @ Surabaya - Hive Indonesia is Hive Pop-Up concept that will have workshops from local mentors & communities. About 150 students from high schools will invite by local government to join this event.

Wednesday, 11 September

The monthly air Mozilla sumo mobile meeting will be live https://air.mozilla.org/the-mobile-meeting-sumo-11sep2013/ you can join in the meeting by going to https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-2013-09-11/ please add your questions and notes to the agenda

• MAKER PARTY: Berlin, Germany: Hive Berlin is an opportunity for participants to get to know each other, learn about three exciting projects, present their own projects/learning opportunities, and then exchange/discuss ideas for collaborations and work.

• MAKER PARTY: East Java, Indonesia: STIKOM Firefox Club Webmaker Event is Maker party on how to make a profile from the web using mozilla technology.

Thursday, 12 September

• MAKER PARTY: East Java, Indonesia: UTM Fx Club Party is Maker party on how to make a profile from the web using mozilla technology.

• MAKER PARTY: British Columbia, Canada: A New Hero Emerges (Hack Jam) provides participants a chance to use webmaker tools and talk about open web. No tech knowledge required.

Saturday, 14 September

• MAKER PARTY: Central Region, Uganda, Mauritius: The eight-day Rural Youth TechNet 4 Students (ROUTES) is all about spreading digital literacy and celebrating the amazing things we can make and do thanks to the web by Mozilla. CPAUG will be hosting a Rural Youth TechNet 4 Students (ROUTES) at Masuliita Secondary Sch. in Wakiso District in to empower the youth on how to use social media in Education.

• MAKER PARTY: Athens, Greece: Athens Plaython Maker Party is an opportunity for experienced coders or newbies to get started with remixing the open web. From coding their first line of HTML to building apps that change the world, Maker Party is a chance to connect with a global community of creators.

• MAKER PARTY: Lagunes, Côte d'Ivoire: Mozilla Maker Party II is the follow up to the first Maker Event in Ivory Coast and is an Workshop to learn Web Making with Mozilla Webmaker tools.

• MAKER PARTY: Delhi, India: the first and last party ! is an informal and small event trying to gather like minded people from all over the city, at its heart, just for an hour in the weekend evening. Anyone who loves the web and looking for networking, be ready to have some fun with the web with a sip of coffee at the cafe !!

• MAKER PARTY: Rivière du Rempart, Mauritius: Marky party Mauritius continues the month after month Maker Party. The September event will be an introduction presentation to Mozilla and its products together with Webmaker party at the seat of the Global Rainbow Foundation Mauritius. This event was specially requested by the President of the NGO who was very keen to learn about the amazing things that can be done with the Webmaker tools

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: None

• Most of Firefox engineering is in Oslo for workweek hosted by Telenor.

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

• February 7, 2012: The creation of the Mozilla Antarctica community site brings Mozilla to all seven continents

• July 6, 2012: The Thunderbird email program transitions to a community supported model of releases

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	Media	More Details
Who Are You?	What Do You Do?	What are you going to talk about?	Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)	Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Kate Naszradi, Larissa Shapiro, Mike Hoye	Summit Comms	Summit updates, fairs, sessions, engagement and stepping up to the mic.	Mozilla San Francisco/ Mountain View/ Toronto	No.	None	Website: Summit.mozilla.org, Session wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013/Sessions, Site Host wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013/Experiences/Site_Hosts, Summit Fairs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013/Experiences#ShowCases

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you?	Area of question	Question
What's your name? What do you work on?	Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc.	What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Automation & Tools

We are now running XPCShell tests in parallel on our test slaves. Read all about it here.