WeeklyUpdates/2008-07-07

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• 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

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Development Updates

Marketing/PR

PR

• Second round of Download Day coverage
• The Better Browser: Firefox 3 article in print and online in Time Magazine
• Paul Kim interviewed about integrated marketing for ZDNet blog
• Asa interviewed for InformationWeek article
• Positive news cycle around Window's security metrics blog post
• Study says Firefox users are most likely to be using up-to-date browser
• Kansas City Star reports on Firefox 3 add-ons

Events

Download Day

Spread Firefox Affiliates Program

L10n

• Builds we are working on launching (as betas) for 3.0.x: Assamese, Bengali, Estonian, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Thai
  • Shout out to all the localizers behind these builds who are working towards launch (in same order): Amitakhya, Runa, Sander, Eduardo, Suso, Rajesh, Christjian, Shankar, Stephen, Raivis, Joyce, Sandeep & Prithi, Basanta, Isriya

Foundation Updates

• Foundation future
  • Frank did two posts related to the ongoing conversation about future Mozilla and Mozilla Foundation strategy.

• Grants and related expenditures
  • Peter Jaros completed work on his Camino scriptability project (a 2007 grant); for more information see bugs 390072 (preliminary support), 385989 (windows and tabs), and 390846 (bookmarks).
  • Frank received and is reviewing two new accessibility-related grant applications.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank started the first public comment period for EV-related requests from GlobalSign.

• Conferences
  • Zak continued preparing for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON.

• Website
  • David continued work on updating www.mozilla.org site.

• Other
  • Gerv continued work on projects from last week, including tracking Google Summer of Code work for Mozilla-related projects, updating the public suffix list, working toward the proposed Bugzilla reorganization, review of a new proposal for site security policies, a proposal for replacing the Despot system, and various other things. David continued work on brochure project.

• Upcoming activities
  • David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). Frank will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

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

Internship update

We have the following interns for today's internship presentations:

• Clare (Firefox)
• Hasham (QA)
• Juliana (Marketing)
• Dan S. (Web Dev)
• Brian (Web Dev)
• Maria (Labs)
• Eric (Platform)