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== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==


Happy Birthday to williamr from all of the Mozilla Community  
* Happy Birthday to williamr from all of the Mozilla Community
* Many thanks to bgrins, Gijs, jryans, khuey, mccr8, njn, past, roc, smaug, and ttaubert for dropping everything to investigate and fix the leaks that were keeping the tree closed for 2 days last week.


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
=== Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
* 13:00 PST : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-04 SecReview - Simple Push Server]
* 13:00 PST : [https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html?view=month&action=view&invId=39f7eb29-6e7d-4e4d-97b6-550567eab25c%3a250699-250698&pstat=AC&exInvId=39f7eb29-6e7d-4e4d-97b6-550567eab25c%3a250699-379227&useInstance=1&instStartTime=1383598800000&instDuration=3600000 SecReview - Simple Push Server]
** vidyo and dial-in details available via the link
** vidyo and dial-in details available via the link


=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===


* 10:00 PST : [https://appmaker.etherpad.mozilla.org/minutes Appmaker Weekly Meeting
* 10:30 PST : [https://appmaker.etherpad.mozilla.org/minutes Appmaker Weekly Meeting]
** vidyo and dial-in details available via the link
** come help us deliver upon the promise of Appmaker!
** vidyo and dial-in details available via the link -- 10:30 this week only, usually 10:00


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
* 12:00 PST : Brownbag: Firefox OS Field Tests in Colombia: Results and Opportunities
** Learn about a User Experience Research trip to Colombia in August, 2013. We tested our phones on 24 middle-class Colombians for 3 weeks. Find out what happened! Open to Mozilla volunteers and paid staff.


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* 9:00 PST : [[Manager_Hacking| Manager Hacking]]
** After skipping our October session because of the Summit, ManagerHacking is back for November. With 5 sessions under our belt, this seems like a good time to take stock of the program. To that end, we are interested in hearing what YOU want/need from a program like this. As such, the Nov session will be a planning/brainstorming session led by Dia on future topics and session structure (discussions, presentations, etc). This is your chance to influence the direction of this program!


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
* 12:00pm to 1:30pm: Community Building workshop in Portland Mozilla Space hosted by [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bkerensa/ Benjamin Kerensa]


=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* FF25 looks solid
* Learn to love the '''feature''' keyword in bugzilla
* seer! {{bug|881804}}


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: (remote) mfinkle''
* Tracking feedback on Fx25 release
* Landed more cleanup and performance improvements to Fx26 and Fx27
* Started planning work for Fx28. See [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/30-Oct-2013 team notes] and the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap#Project_funnel roadmap] for more details.


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
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=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:'' no verbal update this week
* [https://blog.webmaker.org/mozfest-2013 Mozilla Festival debrief]
* [https://blog.webmaker.org/mozfest_demo_party What we made together at MozFest]


=== Mozilla Reps ===
=== Mozilla Reps ===
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:' Sandip Kamat (Vidyo)'
 
* [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/31/telefonica-launches-firefox-os-smartphones-in-mexico-peru-and-uruguay/ Mozilla Blog (10/31/13): After Brazil, Firefox OS now in Mexico, Peru, Uruguay]. With that, FxOS devices are now available in parts of 3 continents (Europe, South America and North America). Thank you, all!
* Version 1.2 (koi+ bugs): Focus on driving [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=cf_blocking_b2g&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&v1=koi%2B&list_id=8375175 1.2 blocker count] to 0. Code Complete 12/16/13. Only blocker bug-fixes accepted hereon!
* Version 1.3: We are in Sprint 4. Please pre-test for no performance regressions as you check-in code.
Sprint 4 = 10/28 - 11/08;
Sprint 5 = 11/11 - 11/22;
Sprint 6 = 11/25 - 12/06;
* Future Versions: FxOS Product long term Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap


=== Grow Mozilla ===
=== Grow Mozilla ===
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | [[Image:Cbt video regnard.png|thumb|[http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/uxr How To Work With 3 Types of Mozilla Volunteers]]]
| style="vertical-align:top;" | [[Image:Cbt video regnard.png|thumb|[http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/uxr How To Work With 3 Types of Mozilla Volunteers]]]
|}
|}
== 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT ==
''Speaker Location : San Francisco''
* Welcome Knowles, Opsec
* SRE team had an epic triage and their bug queue dropped by 40%
* Dumitru Gherman presented a session (with Emma Irwin) on Webmaker last week at MozFest
* Mike Poessy @ SFO servicedesk reduced imaging time for windows machines from a couple of hours to 20 mins
* Jake Watkins worked on https://github.com/dividehex/metric-collective, Mark and Q worked on improving Windows imaging for release engineering and Dustin helped setup Puppet for the Auto tools team.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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|-
| Who Are You?  
| Who Are You?  
Mathew Caldwell
| What Do You Do?  
| What Do You Do?  
Recruiting Cheerleader
| What are you going to talk about?  
| What are you going to talk about?  
Our new Careers site
| Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)  
| Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)  
Mountain View
| Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)  
| Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)  
Yes - My browser to show the new career site
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen
| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
|-
|-
|Mathew Caldwell
|Recruiting Cheerleader
|Our new Careers site
|Mountain View
|Yes - My browser to show the new career site
|
|
|-
|Sylvie Veilleux
|VP IT
|Response to question - do we have a plan to migrate away from the proprietary Vidyo client + flash to something based on WebRTC for our meetings? If so, do we have a timeline for this?
|San Francisco (+ Jb remotely, if needed)
|
|
|
|-
|Mike Hoye
|Engineering Community Manager
|DashCon 2014: The Mozilla Dashboarding Convention
|Toronto
|Happening in the Vancouver MozSpace, January 14th, open to all.
|
|A longer post on the way dev-planning shortly.
|}
|}


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| Andreas Tolfsen
| Jonathan Griffin
| Toronto
| London
| Marionette and B2G Automation
|-
|-
| Sevaan Franks
| Sevaan Franks
| Madhava Enros
| Ian Barlow
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Interaction Designer - Firefox
| Firefox UX \o/
|-
|-
| Melinda Salazar
| Melinda Salazar
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| Remote
| Remote
| UX Designer
| UX Designer
|-
| Vance Chen
| Thomas Ho
| SFO (recorded)
| Taipei
| Firefox OS - Technical Account Manager
|-
|-
| Wilson Page
| Hema Koka
| Mountain View
| London
| Firefox OS - Frontend Software Engineer
|-
|-
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==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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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 Friends of the Tree

  • Happy Birthday to williamr from all of the Mozilla Community
  • Many thanks to bgrins, Gijs, jryans, khuey, mccr8, njn, past, roc, smaug, and ttaubert for dropping everything to investigate and fix the leaks that were keeping the tree closed for 2 days last week.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 04 November

Tuesday, 05 November

  • 10:30 PST : Appmaker Weekly Meeting
    • come help us deliver upon the promise of Appmaker!
    • vidyo and dial-in details available via the link -- 10:30 this week only, usually 10:00

Wednesday, 06 November

  • 12:00 PST : Brownbag: Firefox OS Field Tests in Colombia: Results and Opportunities
    • Learn about a User Experience Research trip to Colombia in August, 2013. We tested our phones on 24 middle-class Colombians for 3 weeks. Find out what happened! Open to Mozilla volunteers and paid staff.

Thursday, 07 November

  • 9:00 PST : Manager Hacking
    • After skipping our October session because of the Summit, ManagerHacking is back for November. With 5 sessions under our belt, this seems like a good time to take stock of the program. To that end, we are interested in hearing what YOU want/need from a program like this. As such, the Nov session will be a planning/brainstorming session led by Dia on future topics and session structure (discussions, presentations, etc). This is your chance to influence the direction of this program!

Friday, 08 November

  • 12:00pm to 1:30pm: Community Building workshop in Portland Mozilla Space hosted by Benjamin Kerensa

Saturday, 09 November

Sunday, 10 November

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • FF25 looks solid
  • Learn to love the feature keyword in bugzilla
  • seer! bug 881804

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: (remote) mfinkle

  • Tracking feedback on Fx25 release
  • Landed more cleanup and performance improvements to Fx26 and Fx27
  • Started planning work for Fx28. See team notes and the roadmap for more details.

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: no verbal update this week

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:' Sandip Kamat (Vidyo)'

Sprint 4 = 10/28 - 11/08; Sprint 5 = 11/11 - 11/22; Sprint 6 = 11/25 - 12/06;

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Getting to a Million Mozillians

Here are some tips and suggestions for people who are interested in learning more about bringing new contributors in to your project.

Tips for Mozilla community mentoring, from the pros
Remix of CBT: Video
How To Run A Mozilla Community Event
How To Work With 3 Types of Mozilla Volunteers

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location : San Francisco

  • Welcome Knowles, Opsec
  • SRE team had an epic triage and their bug queue dropped by 40%
  • Dumitru Gherman presented a session (with Emma Irwin) on Webmaker last week at MozFest
  • Mike Poessy @ SFO servicedesk reduced imaging time for windows machines from a couple of hours to 20 mins
  • Jake Watkins worked on https://github.com/dividehex/metric-collective, Mark and Q worked on improving Windows imaging for release engineering and Dustin helped setup Puppet for the Auto tools team.

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
Mathew Caldwell Recruiting Cheerleader Our new Careers site Mountain View Yes - My browser to show the new career site
Sylvie Veilleux VP IT Response to question - do we have a plan to migrate away from the proprietary Vidyo client + flash to something based on WebRTC for our meetings? If so, do we have a timeline for this? San Francisco (+ Jb remotely, if needed)
Mike Hoye Engineering Community Manager DashCon 2014: The Mozilla Dashboarding Convention Toronto Happening in the Vancouver MozSpace, January 14th, open to all. A longer post on the way dev-planning shortly.

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 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?

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?
Andreas Tolfsen Jonathan Griffin Toronto London Marionette and B2G Automation
Sevaan Franks Ian Barlow Toronto Toronto Firefox UX \o/
Melinda Salazar Tony Santos Remote Remote UX Designer
Vance Chen Thomas Ho SFO (recorded) Taipei Firefox OS - Technical Account Manager
Wilson Page Hema Koka Mountain View London Firefox OS - Frontend Software Engineer

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?

<meta>

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

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

Firefox

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

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