WeeklyUpdates/2013-04-29
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- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 8600
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 8600
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 8600
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 8600
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 8600
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 8600
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 8600
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 8600
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 29 April
Tuesday, 30 April
- Data 2.0 Summit with Mozilla speaker today:
- - Tantek Çelik on "Panel: Web Standards: Myths and Realities"
Wednesday, 01 May
Thursday, 02 May
- 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)
Friday, 03 May
Saturday, 04 May
Sunday, 05 May
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- We're in the yandex store!
- Continuing to set records for stability on FF20 (release) and FF21 (beta) - keep it up!
- Still debugging dynamic/auto-hiding nav bar (e.g. bug 858969), please report bugs vigourously!
- Release is creeping towards 4.5 (visual) stars in the play store - do you have 2000 friends who can help?
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley in Toronto
- Last week we told you about Maker Party 2013, Mozilla's big summer learning code where people will get together around the world to make and learn with the web
- This week: we're going to tell you about what's happening specifically in the UK, through their "Make Things Do Stuff" campaign
- Get involved: you can learn more and sign up here: http://makethingsdostuff.co.uk/
Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:
- Weekly Webmaker TLDR update blog post: Introducing Maker Party 2013. Join the open online course. Building Webmaker 2.0.
- Read Moz Rep Ankit Gadgil's invitation to join our new open online course on how to teach the web
- The 16 most awesome (and awful) things we found on the web last week
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
No voice update this week
Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:
- March 17, 1999: AOL completes acquisition of Netscape
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location: Corey Shields via Vidyo (no screen share)
- hg push server had an issue last week, failover to a redundant push node happened with little impact
- Details: the way hg is setup there is a single server for changes over ssh (pushes) and a whole pool of servers for consumption through http. This single server has a passive replica that we've never had to rely on before last week. Failover to the backup node worked fine as did failing back to the primary node when it was fixed.
- Mozilla is now contributing to pool.ntp.org
- We make use of GPS based time servers in our primary data centers to ensure that our infrastructure is as close to being in sync as possible. These servers are now contributing back to the greater Internet community
- Questions? --> #it
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.
Introducing New Hires
| Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kristin Baird | Director of Integrated Marketing | Firefox Flicks update - Early Entry winners | Mountain View | Yes - playing videos | http://firefoxflicks.tumblr.com/post/47706055901/baficiearly | http://www.firefoxflicks.org |
| Paula Le Dieu | UK Hive | Make Things Do Stuff campaign | London UK via Vidyo | Yes -- PDF slides | ||
| Emajee' Summers | Around the Campfire | Mozilla/Yearup Around the Campfire Event | San Francisco, CA | No | Wikipage in progress |
| 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? |
| Benjamin Kelly | Lucas Adamski | Mountain View | Reston, VA | Software Engineer, Firefox OS |
| Julien Vehent | Joe Stevensen | Mountain View | Philadelphia, PA (remote) | Operations Security |
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? |
| Max Li | David Bolter | Toronto | Toronto | Android/FFOS accessibility (braille, magnification, TBD) |
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
- Services is launching Heka, a new high-volume logging and monitoring infrastructure. It's being deployed in Sync and Marketplace, and available to anyone who needs it. Docs at http://heka-docs.readthedocs.org