WeeklyUpdates/2010-03-08

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 8 March

Tuesday, 9 March

Wednesday, 10 March

Thursday, 11 March

Friday, 12 March

  • SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  Sign-ups for our party are here.  There will also be a Add-ons golf event on Friday, March 12th which you can sign up for here.  Check out the wiki page for information on all of our events and sessions.

Next Week

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
Jetpack SDK 0.1 Release Daniel Buchner The graduation of Jetpack to a production-level platform Slide on laptop Mozilla Jetpack
Rock Your Firefox Julie Choi & Justin Scott Learn about our new add-ons site launching this week Website Preview Rock Your Firefox
MPL Mitchell Baker, Harvey Anderson, Luis Villa Updates about the MPL. Slide on laptop

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Gecko

Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x

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

Thunderbird

SeaMonkey

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

Planned this week

All
  • work on Q2 goals definition
Test Execution
  • Continue test planning for 3.next
Web QA
  • Continue testing on AMO 5.8
  • Certify SUMO 1.5.2
QA Community
  • Tab Matches Awesomebar Testday

Accomplished last week

Test Execution
Web QA
QA Community
  • Tomcat attended CeBit and gave a conference talk on getting involved in Mozilla.
  • Marco wrote an article on the iPhone web reading capabilities and learned quite a lot about what an eventually accessible Fennec on any platform should provide. If all goes well, this will be in the March 26, 2010 issue of the Webstandards-Magazin print issue.

Tools Dev

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

  • SXSW Interactive 2010  March 12-16, 2010; Austin, Texas.  We have a small sponsorship and are hosting a Mozilla party on Saturday, March 13th from 6-8pm at the Cedar Door.  Sign-ups for our party are here.  Check out the wiki page for information on all of our events and sessions.
  • ROFLCon II April 30 - May  1, 2010; Boston, MA.  We have a join sponsorship with the Mozilla Foundation and will be live streaming and archiving the event with HTML5 open video.
  • Processing.js Boston - April 10, 2010; Boston, MA.  Looking into putting together an event with the Processing.js team.
  • JSConf.US April 17-18, 2010; Washington, DC.  We are sponsoring this event.  We will also have Mitcho, one of our Jetpack Ambassadors conducting a Jetpack talk and putting together Jetpack hacking session in the lounge.
  • e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
  • GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  More information to come soon.
  • Open Video Conference 2010 - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.

Creative Team

  • The "rethinking the web universe" plan continues to move along. Here's the latest breakdown.
  • New Creative Collective design challenge: create the official Mozilla 2010 t-shirt.
  • Introducing the new Mozilla Developer Network logo.
  • Still working with WebDev on plugins projects:
    • Plugins Check: working on being cross functional with the latest releases of Chrome, Opera, Safari and *potentially* IE8 by the end of the month.
    • We need help testing plugins.mozilla.org. Please file bugs and assign them to Les Orchard.
    • Planning a brown bag for the next week/two weeks to talk about Plugins Check and how we can better collaborate with other teams working with Plugins ( ie OOPP).

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

Foundation Updates

Roundtable