WeeklyUpdates/2008-02-04

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 2008)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.12 / TB 2.0.0.12

As always, our schedule is on the wiki: Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.12 & Releases/Thunderbird_2.0.0.12

IT

• Buildbot, Talos and Tinderbox tier one support comes through IT, please file tickets at here

Marketing/PR

PR Window profiled in Computerworld Q&A

Support

Events

• Techkriti: Awesome presentation on Add-ons by Myk Melez this a.m. to 80 students at IIT Kanpur. Thanks to mfinkle and chofmann for helping to field questions on IRC.
• FOSDEM: Our schedule is complete.

Website

• Work is proceeding on the Mozilla.com redesign. We'll be hosting a brown bag (with a call-in #) next week to review & discuss.

Metrics

• At 41% of 95% extension compatibility goal
• AMO Review queue
  • 27 pending addon reviews
  • 41 addons pending updates
  • 67 nominated addons

Evangelism

• For The Record - Asa - Produced first cut for FAQ items around Firefox 3 - to be ready for Beta 3. (Coordinating with Marketing and PR to develop easily reused responses.) Working with deb to create a FTR blog. Investigating connecting a category of FTR output to Firefox Support system.

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities.
  • Frank worked on more grants yet to be announced (or, in some cases, approved).

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank worked on the applications from GlobalSign, Digicert, SECOM Trust, and S-TRUST.

• Public communications
  • David worked on improvements to www.mozilla.org, including updating the Projects page with two new Featured Mozilla-Based Applications, submitting a patch to replace the Products section with Projects (bug 325485), and coordinating with fantasai about the About page content (bug 231131 and bug 414439).

• Conferences and events
  • Zak worked on preparations for several upcoming events in which the Mozilla Foundation might participate, including OSCON.

• Upcoming activities
  • Frank will be attending (at least part of) the CSUN conference March 10-15 in Los Angeles CA, the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.
  • Zak will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo February 8-10, the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14, and other events later in 2008.

For more information see the status reports from David and Frank. (Note that Frank's status reports are moving to his new blog; this is the last week for publishing status reports at the old URL.)