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


== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
== Friends of Mozilla ==
 
* Thanks to [https://twitter.com/thulfram Bob Thulfram] for his series of detailed blog posts on game programming for Firefox OS. So far this month he's covered [http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2014/01/local-storage-game-programming.html localStorage], [http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2014/01/asynchronous-storage-game-programming.html asyncStorage] and [http://firefoxosgaming.blogspot.com/2014/01/indexeddb-game-programming.html IndexedDB] as well as two game reviews!
* Thanks to Nishanth Anchala, and the entire team of student organizers at Techfest, IIT Bombay for bringing and supporting Mozilla and Firefox OS to one of Asia's largest tech conferences.


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
* [http://arewemeetingyet.com/Los%20Angeles/2014-01-14/13:00/Security%20Champions 1300 PST]: Security Champions
** Vidyo room 624
** IRC: #security
- US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
- Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
- Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
- Conference num 9624


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
* '''[[Events#hwc-2014-015|Homebrew Website Club Meeting]]''', 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla [[SF]] and [https://twitter.com/esripdx @ESRIPDX]. Description: <blockquote><p>Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?</p><p>If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...</p></blockquote> Any questions? See [[Events#hwc-2014-015|the wiki page]] or feel free to contact [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] (Mozilla SF host for the meeting).


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
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=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
=== Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
* <b>CHICAGO</b>. Hive Chicago: gearing up for a big [http://explorechi.org/destination-chicago.html Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th]. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding digital badges.


=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
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=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)''
* Work continues on integrating FxAccounts into Firefox for Android (and Desktop)
* Pageload throbber is dead, long live the progressbar
* Look for tab sharing/streaming sometime soon


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
* Announced at CES [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/01/06/mozilla-and-partners-to-bring-firefox-os-to-new-platforms-and-devices/ Panasonic: Next Generation Smart TVs powered by Firefox OS] and more.
* Announced the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/01/mozilla-launches-contribution-program-to-help-deliver-firefox-os-to-tablets/ Firefox OS Tablet Contributor Program]  More details to follow soon.  Asa Dotzler asa@mozilla.com is the primary contact.
* Great progress on the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925925 Firefox OS Visual Refresh] and DSDS over the last weeks.
* Discussions continue on changes to the development schedule among B2G Drivers on list and in weekly meeting. No decision final yet.
* I'm publishing weekly updates on the significant changes in Firefox OS at my blog [http://asadotzler.com/2014/01/10/whats-happening-with-firefox-os/ asadotzler.com] - will add m.d.b2g and m.d.gaia to that distribution this week.
* 1.3 stabilization is still priority #1
* APC Paper is shipping ([https://vine.co/v/h33WluPz7BQ movie])!


=== Older Branch Work ===
=== Older Branch Work ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location:''  


=== Webmaker ===
=== [https://webmaker.org/ Webmaker] ===
'''Science Lab (@MozillaScience):'''
 
''Speaker Location:'' non-verbal
''Speaker Location:'' non-verbal
<ul>
<ul>
<li>New paper by Greg Wilson and a number of Software Carpentry instructors on best practices in scientific computing in PLOS Biology: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/01/best-practices-has-been-published.html
<li>'''Join our new community calls'''. Want to help teach the web? Join Webmaker Mentor Community Calls -- now every two weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC/10am EST/7am PST. [https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/mentors-thursday3  Next call is Jan. 23rd]
<li>Latest project exploring "code as a research object" with Github and figshare: http://mozillascience.org/code-as-a-research-object-a-new-project/
<li>'''Innovative new ways to teach the web'''. Check out this new [http://hivenyc.org/portfolio Hive NYC project portfolio] and [http://hivenyc.org/2014/01/07/hive-watching/ blog post]
<li>Awesome hack by MoCo colleague Victor Ng to help researchers better access open scholarly content: http://mozillascience.org/accessing-content-on-the-web-extending-the-open-access-button/
<li>'''Hive Chicago''': gearing up for a big [http://explorechi.org/destination-chicago.html Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th]. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding badges.
</ul>
</ul>


'''Webmaker Community Team (@MozTeach):'''
===[http://openbadges.org/ Open Badges]===
''Speaker Location:'' non-verbal
* '''Open Badges Year in Review'''. [http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00! Interactive timeline] and [http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review blog post] on what the Open Badges community accomplished in 2013
** Highlights: launching 1.0 in March. Building a badge system for the city of Chicago.  Bill Clinton committed to reaching 2 million people through badges with Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation. Zeroing in on BadgeKit. + more


===[http://mozillascience.org/ Mozilla Science Lab]===
''Speaker Location:'' non-verbal
''Speaker Location:'' non-verbal
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Open Webmaker Mentor Community calls–for anyone who wants to help #teachtheweb–are now every two weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC/10am EST/7am PST. Next call is Jan. 23rd. https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/mentors-thursday3
<li>[http://mozillascience.org/accessing-content-on-the-web-extending-the-open-access-button/ Check out this great hack] by MoCo colleague Victor Ng to help researchers better access open scholarly content
<li>Hive NYC Learning Network launched a new project portfolio at http://hivenyc.org/portfolio featuring innovative practices, ideas and tools resulting from collaborations among network members. Read more at http://hivenyc.org/2014/01/07/hive-watching/
<li>[http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/01/best-practices-has-been-published.html Best Practices for Scientific Computing]. 24 specific things scientists can do to get more done in less time with less pain, by Greg Wilson and the Software Carpentry community.
<li>Hive Chicago Learning Network is gearing up for Destination: Chicago Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th to help kick off the Chicago City of Learning initiative, promoting anytime, anywhere learning and enabling youth to earn digital badges that recognize new skills. http://explorechi.org/destination-chicago.html
<li>Fuzzy Fox will be giving a talk at FOSDEM in Brussels Feb. 1-2 about designing for participation and web literacy. http://FOSDEM.org/2014
</ul>
 
'''Open Badges Year in Review (@OpenBadges):'''
 
''Speaker Location:'' for your non-verbal perusing pleasure for now (Erin speaking later in the call)
<ul>
<li>Check out this timeline that shows all of the great work from the Open Badges team and contributor community: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00!
<li>Highlights include launching 1.0 in March, building a badge system for the entire city of Chicago, having Bill Clinton talk about the need for the badges work while announcing a commitment (with Mozilla, MacArthur and more) to better 2M lives through badges in the next 2 years and zeroing in on BadgeKit!
<li>Read more here: http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review
</ul>
</ul>
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=== Web Compatibility ===
=== Web Compatibility ===
''Speaker Location: Austin (vidyo)''
''Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)''
* Vimeo launched a [http://vimeo.com/blog/post:606 new (h264) HTML5 player] which works nicely on Firefox Mobile and FxOS.
* Vimeo launched a [http://vimeo.com/blog/post:606 new (h264) HTML5 player] which works nicely on Firefox Mobile and FxOS.
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780379 M3U8/HLS streaming support recently landed in Firefox Mobile]. Still work to do for FxOS and <video @src> support.
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780379 M3U8/HLS streaming support recently landed in Firefox Mobile]. Still work to do for FxOS and <video @src> support.
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| 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
|-
| Diane (Bisgeier) Tate & Didem Ersoz
| WebFWDees
| What's next for WebFWD, Mozilla & startups and how you can participate :)
| Moz SF + MV
| More at http://blog.webfwd.org
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|-
|-
| Erin Knight
| Erin Knight
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| Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00!
| Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00!
| For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and  
| For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and  
|-
| 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows
| Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
| Please say hello and help us welcome our new Fellows, who will be in SF for the week for onboarding!
| Mozilla SF office
| Meet the Fellows: http://opennews.org/fellowships/2014meet.html
| n/a
| n/a
|-
|-
|-
|-
| Michelle Marovich
| Brian Anderson
| Recruiting
| Research Engineer, Rust
| Interview Skills Lab-- Upcoming!  Want to brush up on your skills? We are here to help you learn! 
| Rust 0.9
| Moz SF + MV Tuesday Jan 28th in SF and MV Commons 1:30-3:00 PM (PST)and Remote on IRC in # Recruiting/Vidyo TBD Jan 8:30-10am PST.
| MV office
| no
| n/a
| n/a
| n/a
| n/a
|-}
| https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/007753.html
|-
}


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =
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| User Advocacy
| User Advocacy
|-
|-
| Joniclare Savage
| Joni Savage
| Ibai Urruchua
| Ibai Garcia
| US Remote (WA)
| Mountain View
| US Remote (WA)
| Seattle
| Content Manager
| Content Manager
|-
|-
| Lawrence Lin
| Lawrence Lin
| Brian Huang
| Brian Huang
| Mountain View
| Video playing from Toronto
| Taiwan Taipei office
| Taiwan Taipei office
| Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer
| Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer
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| Penton Sun
| Penton Sun
| Natasha Ma
| Natasha Ma
| Mountain View
| Video playing from Toronto
| Taiwan Taipei office
| Taiwan Taipei office
| PR Manager
| PR Manager
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| Visual Designer - FFOS
| Visual Designer - FFOS
|-
|-
| Daniel Stenberg (:bagder)
| Jason Duell
| Seattle
| Sweden
| Networking Stack (HTTP, etc).
|-
| Aleh Zasypkin
| Mark Finkle
| Remote
| Germany (Berlin Office)
| Software Engineer - FxMetro
|-
|}


== Introducing New Interns ==
== Introducing New Interns ==
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=== IT ===
=== IT ===
''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
60 Seconds with IT for 1/13/2014:
• On Saturday we moved the tegra (Android 2.2) infrastructure from MTV to one of our Santa Clara datacenters. Thanks to amazing efforts by the team, we were able to complete the entire takedown/back online cycle in 8 hours - a fraction of the budgeted 48.
• All of the android 2.2 mobile infrastructure is now in an environment with higher availability and faster recovery time.
• This move also marks the last significant chunk of releng infrastructure out of the MTV, which paves the way for us being able to move to the new office without a tree closing interruption to developers.
• We're now running a locally caching resolver on every system in our data centers, this will reduce the load on our internal dns services and increase the reliability of services that depend on dns.
• migration of volumes (some IT internal, but all of the product delivery volumes) to new, bigger, better, faster, clustered filer, which should allow us to keep running with fewer disruptions in the future.
• SSH access to PaaS apps is now working with the Mozilla datacenter VPN, providing easy and reliable developer shell access to their application instances.
The benefits of all this to you?
- Higher availably
- Faster recovery time
- More reliable services


=== Release Engineering ===
=== Release Engineering ===
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==== Social Support ====
==== Social Support ====
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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 Mozilla

  • Thanks to Bob Thulfram for his series of detailed blog posts on game programming for Firefox OS. So far this month he's covered localStorage, asyncStorage and IndexedDB as well as two game reviews!
  • Thanks to Nishanth Anchala, and the entire team of student organizers at Techfest, IIT Bombay for bringing and supporting Mozilla and Firefox OS to one of Asia's largest tech conferences.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 13 January

Tuesday, 14 January

  • 1300 PST: Security Champions
    • Vidyo room 624
    • IRC: #security

- US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 - Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 - Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 - Conference num 9624

Wednesday, 15 January

  • Homebrew Website Club Meeting, 18:30-19:30 simultaneously at Mozilla SF and @ESRIPDX. Description:

    Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

    If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with likeminded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project, whatever...

    Any questions? See the wiki page or feel free to contact Tantek (Mozilla SF host for the meeting).

Thursday, 16 January

Friday, 17 January

Saturday, 18 January

Sunday, 19 January

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

  • Desktop team is at a work week this week, no update (but more to come, soon!)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)

  • Work continues on integrating FxAccounts into Firefox for Android (and Desktop)
  • Pageload throbber is dead, long live the progressbar
  • Look for tab sharing/streaming sometime soon

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

  • 1.3 stabilization is still priority #1
  • APC Paper is shipping (movie)!

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Open Badges

Speaker Location: non-verbal

  • Open Badges Year in Review. Interactive timeline and blog post on what the Open Badges community accomplished in 2013
    • Highlights: launching 1.0 in March. Building a badge system for the city of Chicago. Bill Clinton committed to reaching 2 million people through badges with Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation. Zeroing in on BadgeKit. + more

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: non-verbal

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox Marketplace

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)

And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!

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.

}

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!

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
Erin Knight Open Badges Open Badges Year in Review Internetz (Remote) Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00! For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and
2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Please say hello and help us welcome our new Fellows, who will be in SF for the week for onboarding! Mozilla SF office Meet the Fellows: http://opennews.org/fellowships/2014meet.html n/a n/a
Brian Anderson Research Engineer, Rust Rust 0.9 MV office n/a n/a https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-January/007753.html
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?

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?
Eugen Sawin Bradford Lassey Mountain View Germany Remote Software Engineer - FFOS
Douglas Sherk Faramarz Rashed Mountain View Toronto Office Software Engineer - FFOS
Robert Rayborn Matthew Grimes Mountain View San Francisco User Advocacy
Joni Savage Ibai Garcia Mountain View Seattle Content Manager
Lawrence Lin Brian Huang Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer
Penton Sun Natasha Ma Video playing from Toronto Taiwan Taipei office PR Manager
Amy Lee Patryk Adamczyk Toronto Office Toronto Office Visual Designer - FFOS
Daniel Stenberg (:bagder) Jason Duell Seattle Sweden Networking Stack (HTTP, etc).
Aleh Zasypkin Mark Finkle Remote Germany (Berlin Office) Software Engineer - FxMetro

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

Speaker Location: San Francisco

60 Seconds with IT for 1/13/2014:

• On Saturday we moved the tegra (Android 2.2) infrastructure from MTV to one of our Santa Clara datacenters. Thanks to amazing efforts by the team, we were able to complete the entire takedown/back online cycle in 8 hours - a fraction of the budgeted 48.

• All of the android 2.2 mobile infrastructure is now in an environment with higher availability and faster recovery time.

• This move also marks the last significant chunk of releng infrastructure out of the MTV, which paves the way for us being able to move to the new office without a tree closing interruption to developers.

• We're now running a locally caching resolver on every system in our data centers, this will reduce the load on our internal dns services and increase the reliability of services that depend on dns.

• migration of volumes (some IT internal, but all of the product delivery volumes) to new, bigger, better, faster, clustered filer, which should allow us to keep running with fewer disruptions in the future.

• SSH access to PaaS apps is now working with the Mozilla datacenter VPN, providing easy and reliable developer shell access to their application instances.

The benefits of all this to you? - Higher availably - Faster recovery time - More reliable services

Release Engineering

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Test Execution

WebQA

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Security

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