WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-27

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Development Updates

Firefox

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.0.12
• Firefox 3.0.13

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

• Community: We had a very successful joint OpenOffice/Mozilla Project open source meeting-up in Munich last Friday.

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

PR

Mozilla Service Week

Events

• Maker Faire Africa August 14 - 16, 2009, Accra, Ghana - We are sponsoring this event and will have a presence at MFA. Our mission is to help bring together the local L10n community. Check out the wiki for early details.
• Shaastra 2009 September 30 - October 3, 2009 at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai - Will be sponsoring and our Campus Rep SathishKumar Kandasamy will be representing Mozilla at the festival.

General

Metrics

• The 9th edition of Funnelcake ships tonight at midnight
  • Installer Feedback form will be included
• Published some data around Fx3.5 adoption
  • Which region is #1?
• Implemented the first-ever pop-up on one of Mozilla’s top web pages (SUMO homepage), allowing users to leave us feedback about their experience on the site
  • What was by far the #1 comment left by users?
• Published Reporter (Help -> Report Broken Web Site) analysis for the first time
  • Thanks to Eric Hergenrader
  • More than 1,000 users leave us feedback every day
  • More analysis to follow

L10n

Firefox 3.5

Web

Tools

Foundation Updates

• Foundation team participated in Mozilla presence at OSCON, including:
  • Friday morning 'I heart the open web' keynote by Mark. Video here.
  • FLOSSFoundations meeting on two days before OSCON.
  • Open video talk by Mark and Arun.
• Agreed to participate in Open Source for America, launched at OSCON.
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/mozilla-joins-open-source-for-america/
• Bi-monthly update on Mozilla Foundation activities posted on Mark's blog:
  • http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/whats-up-w-mozfdn-july-update/
• Silverorange is helping on www.mozilla.org relaunch and we're planning to go live in August. More specific timeline to come soon.
• Dave Humphrey (of Seneca College and Mozilla Education) and Chris Tyler (also from Seneca) held a great workshop (sponsored by Red Hat) teaching professors how to teach open source software and practices, with examples drawn from Mozilla and Fedora.

Roundtable

Intern Show & Tell

This week we have the following interns presenting:

• RJ Walsh (WebDev)
• Jeremy Hiatt (L10N)
• Shannon Prior (Marketing)
• Eric Hergenrader (Metrics)
• Felipe Gomes (Firefox)