Summit2010/Meetings

Additional meetings

This page shall help us to coordinate additional meetings at the Summit.

Maybe you'd like to meet with a group of people to sit down and discuss a topic, and none of the other talks seem to cover it?

Which meetings will happen? Who is interested? Where to go? When?

Mozilla Meetings

Coming soon!...

Developer Meetings

Security code, PSM, NSS, padlock

  • We want to talk about the open issues in PSM and answer questions
  • brainstorm on future code changes, such as improving the "https padlock tracking" mechanisms

Proposed time and place:

  • After the "security trends" talk (B081), in the same room.

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Honza Bambas
  • Kai Engert
  • Sid Stamm

Secure Authentication

  • We want to talk about PKI based user authentication, SSL client auth
  • brainstorm on user interfaces and implementation

Proposed time and place:

  • After the "Account Manager & Online Identity" talk (B027), in the same room.

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Kai Engert
  • Sid Stamm

Ubiquity catchup

  • General face-to-face get-together and catchup of Ubiquity's developers (and anyone else interested). Discussion about Ubiquity: past, present, and future.

Proposed time and place:

  • Suggestions welcome

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Blair McBride
  • Atul Varma
  • Jono Xia
  • Aza Raskin
  • Christian Sonne
  • Michael Erlewine

JavaScript / Harmony Proxies

  • Introduction to harmony proxies, the JS interface as well as our internal C++ interface.

Proposed time and place:

  • Suggestions welcome

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Andreas Gal
  • Luke Wagner

JavaScript / DOM / Wrappers

  • We will talk about the JS security wrappers, old and new, and GC compartments. If you want to understand how security works in content and chrome JS or you have ideas how to make it better, this is for you.

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Andreas Gal
  • Blake Kaplan

Contributor Meetings

SuMoMo Non English Meeting

SuMoMo is the knowledge base for Thunderbird! all SuMoMo contributors welcome but emphasis on non English SuMoMo. Would like especially like anybody who can/will contribute to SuMoMo from these languages DE, JP, IT, FR, CZ, NL, etc - host:rolandtanglao on irc ping him on #moz10, cell:+16047297924, roland AT mozillamessaging.com, Mozilla Messaging Technical Support Lead

QA & Support working hand in hand

Organizing Thunderbird QA/Support Communities - Ludovic Hirlimann and Roland Tanglao (see SuMoMo above for contact info) will present ideas to organize support better to make support more effective worldwide as well as make support and QA work better together

Engineering Meetings

IT, Labs/Services, Webdev collaboration

Projects move back and forth among these groups throughout a projects' lifecycle, but there can be lots of bumps along the way.

I'd like a meeting where people from these groups get together and we talk out ways to make everything move smoother. I guess the code phrase... to work together more like the web ;)

Proposed time and place:

  • Suggestions? Put them in. First one with an opinion wins!

Want to come (add yourself):

  • Ian Bicking
  • Les Orchard
  • Atul Varma
  • Pascal Finette
  • Zandr Milewski
  • Michael Coates

IT, RelEng: how to setup Build-VPN?

We need restricted access to RelEng production systems. First attempt at Build-VPN was uncleanly specified, and doesn't work well. Fixing this is a joint IT/RelEng goal for Q3.

Lets meet at whiteboard and brainstorm how to do this, before we start filing bugs and doing any work.

Proposed time and place:

  • Suggestions? Put them in. First one with an opinion wins!

Want to come (add yourself):


RelEng Brownbag - and RelEng Roast

All you ever wanted to know about how the RelEng infrastructure works, and how you use it faster and more efficiently. Also, Q&A session to find suggestions for future improvements?

At the December2009 allhands, there were a couple of "RelEng Roast" sessions at Academy of Science and at 650castro which people found quite useful. If you have gripes, pet peeves of things to fix or a wishlist of things you'd like to see added, this is the place.

Proposed time and place:


Want to come (add yourself):

RelEng, QA, Dev: How to Deal with Intermittent Oranges?

Intermittent test failures (oranges) are still an issue, perhaps even more so now that we have brand-new 64-bit operating systems in play.

Are people happy with brasstacks (http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/topfails/)? It seems to do most of the things we need to track intermittent test failures over time, but how many people are looking at it? At the risk of overburdening TBPL, do we need to link this info into TBPL somehow?

On the RelEng side, we had/have the facility to re-run certain tests multiple times in a row, but we've had it disabled for a while since no one was looking at the results.


Proposed time and place:


Want to come (add yourself): Chris Cooper

Engagement Meetings

PGP Signing party

Idea is that mozilla contributors from all over the world are meeting. Some of us are using PGP on a daily basis - would be nice to sign / cross sign our keys.

User:Tsk created a keyring on biglumber, please add your key there , this will facilitate - the meeting and signing process, as printing the keyring will allow an easy, I've check this signature.

If you have a pgp key consider joigning and add your key to the keyrrin (see above).

Thursday July 8th 11:30 before the lightning talks. Meetpoint the lobby.

See also: The Keysigning Party HOWTO

CAcert Signing Party

Assurers (please add your name if you want to assure) :

  • Bogomil Shopov
  • Iacopo Benesperi
  • Ludovic Hirlimann
  • Wolfgang Rosenauer
  • Karsten Düsterloh

Thursday July 8th 13:45 - 14:15 Meetpoint , The lobby.