WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-18

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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

• Peter Bengtsson, for adding critical functionality to Air Mozilla on a very short timeline

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 21 November

Unmet User Needs and Opportunities in Two Emerging Markets in SE Asia

12PM PST from the Mozilla Portland Office. Live on AirMozilla and simulcast in 10FWD IN MTV.

Want to understand the primary challenges facing users in Indonesia and Thailand in accessing and using the Internet? Want to hear about and discuss opportunities for Firefox in these countries? Bill Selman, Lead User Researcher from the Strategy and Insights team will present findings from a recent user research project to understand browser usage on desktop and mobile devices in Thailand and Indonesia. [1].

Friday, 22 November

MDN Doc Sprint Join other MDN contributors in #devmo. Help make content changes that are needed before the new site design goes live in a few weeks.

Saturday, 23 November

MDN Doc Sprint Join other MDN contributors in #devmo. Help make content changes that are needed before the new site design goes live in a few weeks.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

• Australis landed in Nightly
  • Posts
    • Future Releases blog post
    • UX blog post
  • Australis landed on mozilla-central! Over 850 changesets of goodness soon coming to a browser near you.
  • We will be respinning today's nightlies shortly, so you can test this with your regular update inside Firefox later today or tomorrow.
  • When filing bugs, please mark them as blocking the 'australis-regression' metabug.
  • If you're an add-on author, have a look at the work-in-progress compatibility MDN page for an idea of what's changing. Note that it's not at all certain that we will ride the 28 train.

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto

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Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

What does Mozillian mean?

• Summary of discussion from sessions at Summit
  • Belief in the Mozilla mission
  • Action to support the mission
  • Interaction with other community members

• Some follow up posts (this has also been discussed on lists and meetings and Yammer and...)
  • What does it mean to be a Mozillian?
  • What Does ‘Mozillian’ Mean?
  • How I Discovered I was already a Mozillian

• Being a Mozillian is a Journey
  • Extend the meaning of ‘Mozillian’ to cover anyone on their journey of believing in our mission, taking action to support it and interacting with other community members—even if they’ve only just started on their path.

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
Michael Verdi	Instigator	New Firefox update experience	Presenting from home	Yes	No	https://blog.mozilla.org/verdi/344/building-a-new-firefox-update-experience/
Robert Richter	Pass the App from Mozfest	Pass the App Appmaker Apps	Vidyo	No	Working App and Twitter timeline	Visit http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/designer to make your own (use Paypal component)

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! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s)	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Volunteer location	Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where is the new person based?	What will the new person be doing?
Wesley (ComputerWhiz)	Potch?	MV ?	Canda?	SuMo Contributor?

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?
Roberto Vitillo	Vladan Djeric	Toronto	London	Firefox - Desktop Performance
Lara Fischer-Zernin	Harvey Anderson	US Remote (NY)	US Remote (NY)	Program Manager
Jean Gong	Chris Lee	Mountain View	Mountain View	Program Manager, Firefox OS
Christopher Lam	Jaime Chen	Mountain View	San Francisco	Interaction Designer, Firefox Mobile OS

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.