WeeklyUpdates/2010-10-11

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Friends of the Tree

Contributors who made the MDN documentation sprint this weekend a great success:

• Florian Scholz (Elchi3)
• Jean-Yves Perrier (teoli)
• Sebastian Perez Vasseur
• David Bruant

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 11 October

Tuesday, 12 October

Wednesday, 13 October

• Brownbag: Web Developers & the Open Web Survey Results
  • 1:00 pm PST in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla
  • Jay Patel & Joan Green will present the findings from our most recent MDN developer survey

Thursday, 14 October

Friday, 15 October

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Mobile Firefox

• Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Android and Maemo shipped
• Beta 2 code freeze is October 19 (next Tuesday)
• Firefox Home 1.0.3 is now in the app store

Drumbeat

• No update from Drumbeat this week -- Canadians are eating turkey and giving thanks.
• Next week: doubly awesome update on School of Webcraft Toolshed at the Drumbeat Festival

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Castro Downtime Part Deux: Electric Boogaloo	Ravi Pina	Upcoming downtime for Castro office (Wkend of 10/16)
Army of Awesome	William Reynolds	Help other Firefox users on Twitter & point them in the right direction	Slides (runs best in Fx 4 beta)	Army of Awesome page

Status Updates By Team

IT

• Spun off versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org & services.addons.mozilla.org from the original Zeus cluster to a dedicated AMO Zeus cluster
• Wrapping up Mac Mini move to Santa Clara data center

QA

QA Org Highlights

• WebQA
  • shipped Firefox mobile pages
• Browser Technologies
  • Shipped Fennec2.0/Firefox Mobile 4.0 Beta
• Desktop Firefox
  • Fx 4 Beta 7: Code freeze delay. Holding pattern for test execution.

Engagement

PR

• Citing relevance, Mozilla to include Bing in Firefox 4 search box
• Firefox 4 getting Bing search option
• Firefox reshuffles default search engines, but Google and Yahoo! still top the list

• Mozilla releases Firefox 4 beta for Maemo and Android
• Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile Is Here
• Firefox for Android now available as Beta
• Firefox 4 for Android Greeted With Cheers and Jeers
• Android tablets, smartphones: Mozilla Firefox's best shot at mobile relevance

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing