WeeklyUpdates/2010-02-22

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Upcoming Events

This Week

• Mozilla Corporation platform team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View

Thursday, 25 February

• Labs Night at Wikimedia Foundation HQ in San Fransisco
  • 6pm - 9pm
  • Guest speaker Michael Fertik, CEO of Reputation Defender
  • See this post for more information.

Friday, 26 February

• Open-Source-Meetup in Munich/Germany
  • Special Guests : Chris Hofmann and Kev Needham
    • RSVP to this Event via email to tomcat

• Also visit us next week from March 2 - 6 at the CeBIT in Hannover/Germany! The Mozilla Booth will in be Hall 2 - F34!

Next Week

• Mozilla Corporation Firefox team employees gathering for a work week in Mountain View
  • purpose is to finish up our goals for this quarter
  • also plan on doing some Jetpack hacking, general tools hacking, and meeting with other groups
  • are looking into how we can use Air Mozilla to make it as open and interactive as possible

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
Overview of js-ctypes	Dan Witte	A new way to call native code from JavaScript.	http://people.mozilla.com/~dwitte/ctypes-talk-20100222/ctypes.html	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jsctypes/api
Choice Campaign Update	Jane Finette	EU Browser Screen & Mozilla's Open Letter	tbd	http://opentochoice.org

Status Updates By Team

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Developer Tools

• Bespin Embedded 0.6.1 released with a new syntax highlighting engine

Add-ons

• Read about the upcoming plans for requiring Private Browsing compliance in Firefox extensions here. Also, we need volunteers to create a tool for checking the compatibility of extensions with Private Browsing mode; more info here, and tool spec here.