WeeklyUpdates/2014-10-06

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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

• Ascend Project participants have started work on their first bugs. Thank you to Adam Okoye (aokoye) and Barbara Miller (galgeek) who have already landed code and whose efforts have contributed to Mozmill and input.mozilla.org. Also thank you to Tina Hinojosa for contributing a new feature to Developer tools - bug 992386 an --imgur upload flag. Check out her great blog post about fixing her first bug.
• Thanks to rctgamer3 for helping the Add-ons Team filing blocklist bugs and providing all the required information to deal with them quickly.
• Thanks to Helen Lee, Emma Irwin, Michaela Brown, Robert Sayles and Regnard Raquedan for organizing and running the Vancouver Hive Pop-Up in Vancouver, BC.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Mozilla London hosted the Open Rights Group Digital Rights Hackday on Saturday the 4th: http://www.meetup.com/ORG-London/events/202557812/

Some pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimkillock/sets/72157647949285499/

Mozillians Guillaume Marty and Francisco Jordano contributed hacks too.

One of the hacks is the integration of www.blocked.org.uk, a website that reports web pages being blocked by UK ISPs, into the system browser in FirefoxOS, slightly modifying the UI to notice the user that web page is being blocked by some ISPs. Also giving extra information on who is blocking that. https://github.com/arcturus/gaia/tree/org-hackday

Monday, 06 October

The 8th edition of DevPulse is live: take a minute to read about the impact of Firefox Apps in education, learn about new cross-platform debugging tools and discover ways to do some early dev tool testing, among many developer-related things.

Tuesday, 07 October

• Webdev Extravaganza: 10:00 AM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo (Open to the public)
  • Stream on Air Mozilla
  • Monthly get-together for anyone in Mozilla interested in web development. Updates on shipped projects, libraries we're working on, and more!

Mozilla London hosts this month's Ladies Who Code meetup with a talk from Marielle Volz on writing insecure web apps with examples from Django, RoR, PHP, Node.js, and Wordpress. Sign up here.

Wednesday, 08 October

Intern Presentations

• 1:00PM Carla Espana, MV
• 1:30PM Marco Castelluccio , SF

Internet & Mobile World 2014

• Oct 8-9
• Bucharest, Romania
• Mozillian Christian Heilmann speaking

Next Week

• Watch the first Ascend Project participant (in Portland) do their final presentations on AirMozilla next Thurs Oct 16th & Friday Oct 17th. More details in next week's agenda or ping lsblakk for info.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto (Johnath, to start with...)

• Release schedule update!
• Firefox 10th anniversary campaign update: MTV (Eric)
• Growth team Update: MTV (Chris More)
  • Potch: Slides and info in the speakers section below.

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Asa Dotzler in MTV

• We've got 6 new contributors to Firefox OS over the last 14 days.
  • Volunteer contributor Maliha Momtaz Islam from Bangladesh, fixed her first bug 1072458 - Certain characters cannot be input using Bangla keyboard
  • Jonathan Hao in Taipei fixed his first OS bug 1024276 - Replace multiple character literals by numeric literals
  • Mathieu Rhéaume, a volunteer from Quebec fixed three instances of "replace the existing ad-hoc functions with a shared function to load JSON files", bugs 1062807, 1062829, and 1069808
  • New to Mozilla volunteer Scriptofer fixed Bug 996332 - Switch back to alphabets after @ is typed. A big thanks also to Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] who mentored Scriptofer on this Good First Bug.
  • Fernando Agüero, a volunteer from Spain, fixed his first Firefox OS Bug 1072834 - [Settings] Remove simple tiling from the developer panel
  • Mozillian Delphine Lebédel landed her first Firefox OS fix for Bug 1074446 - gaia-l10n builds for Portuguese locale (pt-PT).
  • Oscar Patiño González had is first OS fix landed at Bug 1073486 - Temporal patch to disable change resolution in OMX hardware encoder was not being applied

• Oct 13 is Firefox OS 2.1 Feature Complete. (That's one week, folks.) This release is filled to overflowing with some great work across the whole OS. You can read more about the key feature work in Firefox OS 2.1 at the B2G Roadmap.

• A reminder that we've transitioned the Flame to KitKat-based Gonk which means that if you have not, you will need to flash a new base image and then do a shallow Gecko/Gaia flash to continue receiving nightly updates. You can find instructions at the MDN Flame page.

• Another reminder: we have a Firefox OS on Air Mozilla channel. Thank you Kevin Grandon!

• Last week, Firefox OS, via the ZTE Open C, arrived in Australia. Folks in Australia can get the carrier unlocked Open C from JB Hifi Stores

• Some Firefox OS landing highlights from the last couple of weeks include:
  • Bug 1069017 - flash.sh should have a target for flashing gecko + gaia. This makes shallow flashing easier for those who build.
  • Bug 864327 - Support of FM RDS in WebAPI. This will allow for utilizing metadata for things like station name.
  • Bug 1063046 - Graphics UI shows black artifact on 50% of the time. Flame KK builds were showing black rectangles on scrollable content. That's fixed now.
  • Bug 1043813 - Volume level is very low at max setting. The volume level for calls was broken on the Flame. It's fixed now.
  • Bug 889737 - Unify both sendMMI() and dial() functions.
  • Bug 997564 - launch engineering mode app
  • Bug 1039501 - Allow for WiFi prioritized for downloading FOTA updates. Allows a vendor to set a preference for WiFi FOTA over cellular data FOTA updates.

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location: Sean in NYC

• Tiles
  • Tiles team spent last week sketching out roadmap for next year. Will be sharing to the broader audience when it is ready
  • Most Tiles fixes have been uplifted into Beta in preparation for release
  • Localized versions of Tiles for "de", "es-ES", "fr", "ja-JP", "pl", "pt-BR" and “ru” will be available in the next release. More localizations will follow in future releases.

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location: Mitchell in Mountain View

Handing off to Michelle Thorne (remote)

*giving an update on the Firefox OS + Webmaker Community Contribution Challenge

IT/Operations

Speaker Location: MTV (guillermo)

Vidyo has released Vidyo Desktop v3.3.0 (27) is LIVE on the portal. You will be prompted to update if you have not already.
New Features: Join a conference with camera, mic and/or speakers muted Join a conference with your full screen shared and camera, mic, speakers muted Easier access to your rooms public link via client UI Many bug fixes for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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
Dave Steer	Director, Advocacy	Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship call for applicants	San Francisco	No	N/A	https://www.mozilla.org/advocacy
Chris More	Lead Firefox Growth team and Engagement's Web Productions Team	Update from Firefox Growth Team	Mountain View	No (open slides in MV)	Google Doc Presentation	Growth Team Wiki

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?

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?
Morgan Phillips	Chris AtLee	Toronto	Tennessee-Remote	Release Engineering
Robb Carroll	Albert Villarde	Mountain View	Mountain View	Audio/Visual Systems
Jeremy Poulin	Jason Duell	WA Remote	NH Remote	Platform Engineering
Josh Cheng	Howie Chang	Taipei office	Taipei officee	Firefox OS_ Engineering Project Manager
Sean Lee	Evelyn Hung	Taipei office	Taipei office	Firefox OS_Software Engineer
Ben Hsu	Szu-Yu Chen	Taipei office	Taipei office	Firefox OS_Software Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Elizabeth Sarobhasa	Christopher Lawrence	NY Remote	Vancouver Office	Educational Curriculum Design Intern
Caleb Cochran	Christopher Lawrence	NY Remote	NY Remote	Interactive Activities Design Intern

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

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

Firefox

• Renewal campaign daily stand-ups are now available on Air Mozilla https://air.mozilla.org/firefox-renewal-daily-stand-up/ (because of confidential partner discussions that happen in these meetings, they are open to staff and members of the NDA group on mozillians.org). IRC #decade, wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Decade#Firefox_Desktop

Automation & Tools

bugzilla.mozilla.org

Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:

• bug 1035972 add preference to include all X-Headers in email bodies to allow gmail to filter on them
• bug 1023405 Shortcut for marking bugs as read

All changes.

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard