WeeklyUpdates/2010-02-01

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Friends of the Tree

• Drew Ruderman and David Naylor for helping out with Support for the 3.6!

Upcoming Events

Put upcoming events here, with dates if possible. Are there any brown bags scheduled for this week? Software releases scheduled for this month?

Previously on "Mozilla"...

Monday, Feb 1

Tuesday, Feb 2

Wednesday, Feb 3

Thursday, Feb 4

User:Dherman design lunch on modules for JavaScript -- 12:30 in Ten Forward (MV)

Friday, Feb 5

• FOSDEM, Feb. 5 - 7, Brussels. Mozilla will be hosting a devroom, booth and community activities this year. Details

Coming up on "Mozilla"...

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Support for 3.6	Cheng Wang		[1]	[2]
3.6 marketing	Marketing team
Report on International Privacy Week and FTC Roundtable	Julie Martin

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

• Firefox 3.6 is continuing to see great pick up, close to 10% of our users already upgraded, and no showstopper issues emerging.

• Check out our list of active front end projects, matched up against our team goals list. If you're looking to get involved with high priority Firefox front end projects, that's a great place to see what's top-of-mind!

• Johnathan blogged about our submission for the EU browser choice screen.

IT

Last Week - Even busier!.

• Phoenix! Status
  • Core infrastructure racked and wired
  • Starting to configure this week
• Re-implemented SiteSpect behind Zeus

This Week

• 2 additional ISC hosted download mirrors
• 50 1u RelEng builders

Upcoming

• Production services in Phoenix
  • download.mozilla.org
  • aus2.mozilla.org

Release Engineering

• Fennec 1.0 release
• shelving WinCE builds for now
• Lorentz project branch open for business
• Places branch parity (test/perf jobs) with mozilla-central
  • similar electrolysis work in progress

Marketing/PR

PR

• Firefox Mobile version 1.0 now available for the Nokia N900
• Firefox Mobile Now Available
• Maemo Gets Firefox First
• Firefox Web Browser Now Available for Nokia N900
• Firefox for Maemo Debuts
• Firefox for Maemo Officially Launches
• Mozilla releases first mobile Firefox browser
• Mozilla Releases Final Firefox Build for Maemo 5
• Firefox for Maemo First Look
• Firefox for Mobile Makes Its Debut
• Firefox for Mobile Makes Maemo Its First Home
• Weave 1.0 Released, Firefox Officially Gets Syncing
• Weave Goes 1.0: Firefox Gets an Official Bookmark Syncing Tool
• Weave Now Syncs Firefox Preferences, Auto-Logins
• Mozilla Weave 1.0 now generally available - sync away!
• Mozilla’s Weave Sync Tool Hits Version 1.0, Aims for Firefox Users
• Mozilla Weave hits 1.0, keeps all your Firefox installs in sync!

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

• We've gone mobile: Help participate in a twitter meme by telling people where you'd like to use Firefox. Sample tweet: I want to use Firefox when I'm cycling. How about you? #fxmobile
  • Other ways to spread the word here.
• Personas Campaign/What's your style?: The campaign is still running. Please, please add your pictures directly to the Flickr group.
• Community Marketing Call:
  • Notes from the last call.
  • Next call is Feb. 3rd -- Please, please send agenda items and collateral to Mary today. We're going to distribute a slide deck pre-call to help people follow along/share info.
    • Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#
    • Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. If you're outside the US, use Skype to call in with our toll-free number.
    • You can also watch the meeting live in Open Video at air mozilla
    • For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on IRC (irc.mozilla.org).
• FOSDEM:
  • Kerim, FuzzyFox and Gorjan will be giving a lighting talk on "I tested it"

Support

• 3.6 was awesome (see above presentation)
• If you're using an N900 or other Mobile-capable device, please help on our community forums

Evangelism

• New hacks article: ClassList in Firefox 3.6
• Alix has been working on a new demo with Paul that should be quite good.
• Next newsletter underway.

Developer Tools

• No updates this week

Introducing New Hires

• Sara Yap started last week as a new member of the Mozilla Foundation.