WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-06

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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

• Gloria Meneses in Bogotá, CO, for her work & leadership in Mozilla Reps & her support of the FxOS launch in Colombia
• Sammy Tuman, our awesome Mountain View Shipping Wizard.

Upcoming Events

This Week

• Security Assurance team meet up in San Francisco office this week. Please stop by and say hello. "Open house" & demos on Thursday 2pm (SF 7th floor) w/ cupcakes & cookies!

Thursday, 09 May

• 2pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: Meet the security assurance team, watch demos of tools & techniques, FAQ and discussion. Cookies & cupcakes will be provided. Open to all.
• 5:30pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: we're hosting a patent reform party at Mozilla SF with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. More Info

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Mozilla Firefox pulls ahead of Google as Chrome market share slips
  • IE10 doubles marketshare as Firefox gains and Chrome loses

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

• Release is now four and a half stars!
  • I wrote a thing about the road to get here
• I thought I told you that we won't stop
  • Lucas and Ian each wrote about the UX hackathon last week, it's chock full o' delicious.
  • New tab counter, tab tray transition, tab increment animation
  • URL display in location bar
  • Dominant-colour backgrounding for favicons
  • Still setting records on stability

Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Toronto

Make your own webby Mother's Day card

• Sunday is Mother's Day! Why not send Mom a hand-crafted web page to show her how much you care? We've got a new Webmaker template that makes it easy -- and helps people learn a little HTML and CSS along the way. Coming up in today's lightning presentation from Jacob Caggiano.
  • See an example
  • Make your own
• Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:

1. Sign up for Maker Party 2013. June 15 - Sep 15. Get together at thousands of big and small webmaking events around the world.
2. Join our new "Teach the Web" open online course. Boot camp for Maker Party. Growing a small army to teach the web: programmer mentors, techie grandmas, teachers, novelists, girl scout hackers and you. Meet them and check out highlights here.
3. 8 other fun ways to get involved with Webmaker this week.

Identity

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Services

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Firefox OS

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Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

• November 14, 2000: Netscape 6 released based on open source code

60 Seconds with Mozilla IT

Speaker Location: mrz in SF (on the couch)

• Mozilla IT, a Rubik's Cube & a classroom (and a video).

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	Media	More Details
Who Are You?	What Do You Do?	What are you going to talk about?	Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space)	Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Diane Bisgeier	Program Manager, WebFWD	How you can get a WebFWD tshirt and hopefully MESSENGER BAG	Mozilla San Francisco	No screen share - just showing off the schwag you can get if you refer a team to our next class.	Here's the messenger bag :) > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater	Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
Jacob Caggiano	Lead Makesmith, Webmaker.org	Our simple template for making your Mom proud on Mother's Day	My Aunt's apartment, New York, NY	Yes, screenshare indeed.	https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrxw/edit

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?
Meadhbh Hamrick	Sid Stamm	Mountain View	Mountain View	Security Engineer
Jannis Leidel	Laura Thomson	Mountain View	Germany	Web Developer
Justin O'Kelly	Mike Manning	Mountain View	San Francisco	Managing press relations and media strategy
Jason Weathersby	Mark Coggins	San Francisco	Inman, SC	Firefox OS Technical Evangelist
Marcos Cáceres	Andrew Overholt	San Francisco	Lisbon, Portugal	Platform API Designer/Engineer
Shyam Mani	mrz	San Francisco	Mountain View	IT Developer Services

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.