WeeklyUpdates/2013-04-01

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 01 April

• HTML5 Developer Conference

Tuesday, 02 April

• HTML5 Developer Conference with Mozilla speakers toeday:
  • 9:00 Christian Heilmann: "Setting disruptors to stun!"
  • 11:40 Tantek Çelik: "microformats2 & HTML5: The Next Evolutionary Step For Web Data"
  • 14:10 Diane Bisgeier: "You Can't Build a Movement Alone"

Thursday, 04 April

• Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location:

Thunderbird

Speaker Location:

Older Branch Work

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: No verbal updates this week

• This week's Webmaker update:
  • April Fools web hacks. Use this X-Ray Goggles project to play an April Fool's joke on your friends
  • Complete blog post update on what else is happening this week: Webmaker vs. Bowie. Popcorn + the Pope. Localization workflow.

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location:

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF

• First of two firewall upgrades wrapped up on Saturday
  • was intrusive but gets us to a version that won't require disruptions for future OS upgrades
• Sponsored first open source monitoring conference ~ http://monitorama.com/
  • Laura Thompson & monitoring at (rolf) scale using crash-stats.mozilla.com as an example of the challenges of monitoring a complex distributed system at high scale, and how developers, IT/Operations, and QA can successfully work together to constantly improve things in a devops fashion.

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	Name	Topic	Media	More Details
Mozilla Founder and Chief of People	Mitchell Baker and Debbie Cohen	Mozilla Summit 2013	No media / slides	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013 https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2013/03/31/mozilla-summit/ https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/03/28/mozilla-summit-2013-the-word-is-out/

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Gijsbert Kruibosch	Justin Dolske	Mountain View	Netherlands	Software Engineer
Daniel Minor	Clint Talbert	Mountain View	Canada	Software Tools Developer, Mobile Platform
Christiane Ruetten	Yvan Boily	Mountain View	Berlin	Mobile Application Malware Specialist
Marc Schifer	Bob Moss	Mountain View	Mountain View	Senior Browser QA Manager

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

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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)

QA

WebQA

• Helped ship Input rewrite to production: https://input.mozilla.org

Webdev

• Shipped a brand new rewritten-from-the-ground-up version of Input (https://input.mozilla.org/) on March 27th. We had a full three minutes where all feedback on Input was happy.