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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* Some [http://blog.johnath.com/2012/05/08/awesome-a-compendium/ highlights from the Firefox work week]:
** [https://github.com/campd/scratchpad-gist/ Scratchpad backending to github gists]
** [https://github.com/Gozala/scratch-kit/ Jetpacks in scratchpad]
** [http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/task-specific-icons-for-windows-7-jumplists/ Task-specific icons] in Windows 7 jumplists
** Finalized [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/panel-based-download-manager interactions and designs for the new downloads manager]
** [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/signIntoBrowserServices Sync meet-up and discussion] to evaluate how to move forward with a smaller core, by moving data handling to components and allowing the Sync team to concentrate on the real Sync functionality
** Session Store meet-up and discussion on how to move forward with Speedy Session Restore as well as SS2 (rewriting SS).
** Initial [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/NativeUI/UserExperience/ReaderMode explorations of a Fennec reading mode] (post-1.0)
** Implemented [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747784 Windows 8 appbar]
** [https://twitter.com/#%21/jorendorff/status/199888130965381120 Roll your own one-off, bespoke debuggers in the scratchpad].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9tdV6WH2s&list=UUbd7RPnAunIVDjGtpuod0Qw&index=1&feature=plcp Responsive Design tool for web developers]
** Honza made Firebug's HTTP Monitor [http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/planet-mozilla/http-monitor/ a standalone component, and it can now remote-monitor fennec, too]
** Gavin gave a [http://www.gavinsharp.com/blog/2012/05/03/code-review-lightning-talk/ great talk about code review]
** Tim Abraldes demoed the [https://blog.mozilla.org/tabraldes/2012/05/04/mozilla-appswebapprt-lightning-talk-at-firefox-work-week/ Web App runtime]
** Margaret walked us through [http://blog.margaretleibovic.com/post/22055279828/fennec-native-ui Hacking Fennec]
** Brian Bondy updated the status of our [http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/137/ Windows 8] work
** Felipe [http://felipe.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/using-aboutcc/ found and fixed memory leaks with about:cc]
** Dietrich walked through the [http://people.mozilla.com/%7Edietrich/fxbc state of the browser components team]
** David Dahl went meta, and talked about [https://twitter.com/#%21/deezthugs/status/197350580568596480 giving Firefox talks in our community]


* Also, check out the MSU student project on [http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/project-video.webmvp8.webm in-content preferences for Firefox]
=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* Going to beta this week!
* Why are you even looking for another bullet point, here?
* '''Going. To. Beta. This. Week!'''


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===

Revision as of 16:03, 14 May 2012

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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

  • Everyone who worked to get a live WebM stream up during this weekend's WebFWD Hack Day - https://twitter.com/airmozilla/status/201446072730656768
  • All of IT/Operations for their hard work & effort over the last three months moving data centers. They worked odd hours, often over evenings and weekends to minimize disruption. Out of the hundreds of websites and services moved, few needed downtime!

Upcoming Events

This Week

  • This week, mobile and Apps QA needs help in mobile web compatibility testing - find problems in top sites that do UA sniffing or use webkit prefixes in firefox mobile!
    • See here for how to get started

Monday, 14 May

Tuesday, 15 May

Wednesday, 16 May

Thursday, 17 May

Brownbag Title Presenter Time
How is UX different than UI? Brandon Schauer 12:00pm PST

Friday, 18 May

Next Week

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

  • Going to beta this week!
  • Why are you even looking for another bullet point, here?
  • Going. To. Beta. This. Week!

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Drumbeat

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

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
WebFWD Team Presentations Cheerleader: Pascal Finette We have the WebFWD teams in town - and today they will do a 30 sec elevator pitch presenting their projects TBD https://webfwd.org/portfolio/
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

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Who is the new hire? Who will be introducing that person? From which office will that introduction be transmitted? What will the new person be working on?
Simon Bennetts Yvan Boily MV Security Automation
Rehan Dalal James Socol Toronto SUMO Engineering
Vladimir Vukicevic JP Rosevear Toronto Platform Engineering

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location Will be working on
Who is the new intern? Who will be introducing that person? From which office will that introduction be transmitted? What will the new person be working on?
Benjamin Peterson Dave Mandelin Mountain View Platform Team
Thaddée Tyl Matthew Noorenberghe Mountain View Platform Team
Lindsey Kuper-you may recognize Lindsey from such films as "I Missed The Nerd Cave" and "Back From the Future-The Prequel" Dave Herman Mountain View Research Team
Eric Holk- you may recognize Eric from such films as "I know Where You Were Last Summer" and "You'd Actually Do That Again?" Dave Herman Mountain View Research Team
Devdatta Akhawe Sid Stamm Mountain View Research/Privacy
David Zbarsky Mountain View Platform Team
Xiao Meng Wei (Eric) Kevin Brosnan Mountain View QA Team
Zach Carter Ben Adida Mountain View Labs Team
Andrew Hurle Mountain View Firefox Team

Roundtable

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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

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

  • MDN migrated out of SJC1 to SCL3, virtually zero downtime
  • many smaller/older services migrated out of SJC1, mostly to PHX1

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation Services

Automation & Tools

Security

  • please note we are changing from whiteboard tags to keywords for security markings

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Apps

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

WebFWD

Foundation Updates

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