WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-29

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Friends of the Tree

• Henry Langi: All the great work he has been doing. Running all the brownbags and helping all the users.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 29 August

Tuesday, 30 August

Wednesday, 31 August

Thursday, 1 September

• Contribute Group meeting at 10 AM PDT (meeting info and agenda on wiki) -- a forum for discussing issues around helping people get involved with Mozilla.

Friday, 2 September

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Current (3.6, 6.0)

• There will be a Firefox 3.6.21. Main goal is to backport Firefox 7 security fixes, will ship at the same time as Firefox 7
  • There is a schedule available on the wiki with freeze dates
• 3.6 EOL? No news to share on that yet. Assume we are sticking with the status quo (creating updates for 3.6) until told differently

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 7 was released to Beta channels.
• Thunderbird’s Channel Page is up.

Drumbeat

(no voice update this week) What would you include in a "Webmaking 101" course?

• The School of Webcraft is designing a beginner's "Webmaking 101" course
• The heart of the course will be a series of projects and learning challenges
• Looking for feedback from MDN and broader Mozilla community on these draft challenges: http://webmaking101.p2pu.org/challenges
  • a) are these challenges good?
  • b) what's missing? what else do you need to know to become an effective novice web developer?
• Please post feedback as comments to this blog post

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.

Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Diane Loviglio, User Experience Researcher	On Web Apps - users describing web apps from apps field research	http://fs2.mv.mozilla.com/research/apps/on-web-apps.mp4	Link to where audience can find out more information
John Slater, Director Creative	One Mozilla, The Merge	https://wiki.mozilla.org/One-Mozilla-Project	Join us on Thursday, Sept 1, for the retrospective & every Thursday afterwards for an update, Vidyo/All Your Base or #212

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• MDN 1.0
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-23
• AMO
  • We moved AMO to the Phoenix datacenter, from San Jose
  • Push on 8/24
• Mozilla.com/.org unification (One Mozilla)

QA Community

Automation Services

• Running the 'Mem Buster' endurance test
• Selenium 2.5 has been released

Engagement

PR

• Firefox to Keep Version Numbers After All
• Mozilla Will Keep Firefox Version Numbers...For Now
• Mozilla: We won't ditch Firefox version numbers

• Mozilla's WebAPI Wants To Replace Native Apps With HTML5
• Mozilla's WebAPI eyes cross-platform mobile apps

• Firefox 6 Already Sees Bump In Traffic Soon After Debut

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Artur Adib: joining the Innovation team as a Software Engineer, managed by Bill Walker, located in Washington, DC.
• Michael Edwards: joining the Research Engineering Team as a Sr. Software Engineer, managed by Andreas Gal, located in Mtn. View.
• Erin Lancaster: joining the Engineering team as a Project Manager, managed by Sheila Mooney, located in Mtn. View.

Introducing New Interns

• Matt McPherrin -- Platform
• Mohamed Dabbagh -- QA
• Trevor Fairey -- Tools