WeeklyUpdates/2009-07-27
Friends of the Tree 
Development Updates
Firefox
Firefox Front End Work
Team News
Gecko
Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x
TB 3
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
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
Security
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
Support
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
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
no updates this week.
Add-ons
Webdev
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.
- Bi-monthly update on Mozilla Foundation activities posted on Mark's blog:
- 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)