WeeklyUpdates/2007-10-15

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

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Friends of the Tree

Alex Polvi nominated Andy Edmonds, "for his exceptional advice about implementing an instrumented browser. With his help we have taken the project to a whole new level that will better help Mozilla and the community at large."

Development Updates

Build

bug 394069 migration & enhancement of stage.m.o/ftp.m.o; changing role accounts

Evangelism

• Started pulling together the promotion and message around JavaScript 2, in earnest.
• Firefox 3 documentation continues to move along swimmingly.
• Working with IT on getting a development server built for beginning work on the next wave of improvements to the MDC site.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• Q4 planning/goals
• Bouncer byte-range check patch completed
• Prototype for AMO API should be up this week

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Steve Lee posted a report on the current status of the Jambu project being funded by the Foundation.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank Hecker is taking over CA-related tasks from Gerv Markham, and is now the default assignee on CA-related bugs.
  • Frank filed bug 399214 to start work on updating the Mozilla CA Certificate Policy to address Extended Validation (EV) certificates. (See also the discussion in m.d.t.crypto.)

• Other
  • Zak Greant attended and represented the Foundation at the OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 conferences.
  • David Boswell attended the Legal Summit for Software Freedom.

• Upcoming activities
  • Frank will be in Washington DC Friday evening October 19 to attend a G3Ict event.
  • Frank will be in Toronto on October 25 and 26 to attend the Seneca College Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2007).

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.