WeeklyUpdates/2009-11-09

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Firefox 3.6 (Namoroka)

Firefox Future

Team News

Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Firefox 3.5.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x

• Firefox 3.5.5

• Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing

Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

PR

• Tons of great press around 5 years:
  • CNET logos through the ages
  • Mashable says happy birthday
  • CrunchGear says happy birthday
  • Tristan interviewed for sky news, then article got picked up by fox news
  • Ars Technica on 5 years of web liberation
  • CNET on 5 years, new challenges
  • The Register says happy birthday

CNET also pulled together this nifty gallery with Firefox images over time: http://news.cnet.com/2300-1001_3-10001838-1.html?tag=mncol;txt

• • Great piece from WIRED as well
  • Internetnews.com
• Asa talks to The Reg about Chrome Frame

Five Years of Firefox

General

Events

• Music Hack Day November 21-22, 200; Boston, MA.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• Add-on-Con December 2009, Mountain View, CA.  We are sponsoring this event and will have 3 sessions:  Taking Flights with JetPack (Aza), Mobile Firefox Add-on Development (Mark Finkle), Future of Add-on Ecosystem (Justin, Nick, add-on developer community member).
  
• Foundations of Open Media Software January 13 - 15, 2010; Wellington, New Zealand.  Perfect venue to promote open video.  We are currently looking into sponsoring this.
• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2010 January 20-22, 2010; Madrid Spain.  We are sponsoring this event.
  
• SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  Working on putting together a Firefox party.  Please continue to check our wiki page for information.
  
• Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2010) June 10, 2010; Toronto, Canada.  We are sponsoring this event.
  

Community

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Firefox 3.6