WeeklyUpdates/2012-09-10
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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
- Siddharth Agarwal, for his work on getting pymake used on the windows builders. Windows builds now take under 90 minutes.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 10 September
Tuesday, 11 September
Wednesday, 12 September
"The Business of Open Source" at Mozilla San Francisco, 4pm - 8pm Many misconceptions exist around the viability of open source as a business advantage. This panel will explore the ways entrepreneurs can make money while giving back to innovation by adopting open source models. We'll hear from successful open source entrepreneurs, examining their past successes and fleshing out frameworks for aspiring open source entrepreneurs. The event is hosted by both WebFWD and 10gen, providers of the popular MongoDB open source database. http://opensourcebiz.eventbrite.com/
Thursday, 13 September
- Intern presentations from 2-4pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
- Come see Kevin Ngo, Christoph Kerschbaumer, Jacques Uber, and Bing Han present what they've been working on all summer!
Friday, 14 September
- Intern presentations from 2-4:30pm in 10 Forward, TOR Commons and SF Commons.
- Come see Nick Fitzgerald, Codrut Stancu, Mihnea Balaur, Tim Disney and Vineeth Kashyap present what they've been working on all summer!
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
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Firefox Mobile
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Thunderbird
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Older Branch Work
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Webmaker
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Identity
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Services
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Firefox OS
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Grow Mozilla
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox Affiliates Facebook App | Chelsea Novak | Firefox Affiliates has a Facebook app, just like the title says. | Screencast from my laptop in Toronto please! | http://apps.facebook.com/fxaffiliates/ |
| Mozilla WebFWD Events + Graduation | Didem Ersoz (Mountain View) | We have a few [| events] this & next week leading up to our graduation on Wed., Sept 19 in SF at 4pm (also on Air Mozilla). Note that many of [| our teams] will be in town prior to meet Mozillians and others so reach out if you would like to meet them. | http://webfwdgraduation.eventbrite.com/ | |
| About Home - Firefox on Android Snippets | Barry Munsterteiger (San Francisco) | Showing a sneak peak of the Upcoming Firefox on Android snippets | Vidyo share from my laptop |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Shea Helms | Mathew Caldwell | Mountain View | Recruiter |
| Anton Kovalyov | Dave Camp | Mountain View | Sr. Platform Engineer |
| Thomas Zimmermann | Faramarz Rashed | Mountain View | Software Engineer |
| David Zeber | Gilbert FitzGerald | Mountain View | Data Analyst |
| Denelle Dixon-Thayer | Harvey Anderson | San Francisco | Associate General Counsel |
| Pierros Papadeas | Mary Colvig | Germany | Community Manager |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Burg | Brian Anderson | Mountain View | Research |
Roundtable
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
- Set-up an environment for the Brand Engagement team in support of MozCampEU.
- On-site support for BrazilJS & Firefox OS Hack Day.
- Worked with Release Engineering to increase infrastructure to support development teams.
- Working with Security Assurance to build a Panda chassis for their specific mobile testing needs.
- Continue to work on a plan for proactive system updates and maintenance, draft can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/IT/Maintenance
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- Affiliates FB app released 9/5
- AMO
- Marketplace
- Mozilla.com
- MDN
- Socorro
- Tentatively shipping "mobeta" support in Socorro 18 this Wednesday, 9/12
- SUMO
- UI revamp in process, slated for release 9/10
- MozTrap
- Wiki
- B2G