WeeklyUpdates/2013-07-29

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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

• Thank you to Amitshree on SUMO for helping to add Share Article Templates with short links to over 30 articles. - Andrew (feer56)
• Thank you to Karen Scarfone for doing editorial reviews on over 300 MDN pages, including 150+ of the Web API docs, which are a high priority for Firefox OS.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 29 July

• MAKER PARTY: New York: Global Kids will run a hands-on Game Design Summer Camp as part of the #makerparty. The camp will introduce middle school and high school students to the concepts of game design including prototyping, idea development, iteration and more. Youth will play and design in analog and online environments. The camp runs 7/29-8/1.

Tuesday, 30 July

• It's intern presentation season! Starting at 1pm in 10 Forward, the SF Commons, and TOR Commons. Come see Jason Shun, Alex Wafula, Jack Montgomery and Subhadeep Paul present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!

• MAKER PARTY: Warangal, India: The Maker Party with KIDS event helps children know about the history of Fort Warangal and to make a #makerparty popcorn video on it.

• MAKER PARTY: New York: This two day, digital arts #makerparty program is for high school students at the DreamYard Art Center. Participants will learn basic computer skills, photo and audio editing, and how to use social networks.

• MAKER PARTY: New York: In this three day #makerparty workshop, high school students visit fashion designer Alpana Bawa at her New York flagship store to design their own fashion piece. The Fashion Design workshop runs from 7/30-8/1.

• FxOS UX Team is presenting some work from the Future Themes track. The times are 10am PST and 5pm PST in the Gaia UX vidyo room (1.5 hours in duration). Please contact Jaime with questions.

Wednesday, 31 July

• MAKER PARTY: Noord-Scharwoude, The Netherlands: Playing with Thimble and Popcorn, Webmaker at OHM2013 participants will explore concepts of interest-based learning through tinkering with Mozilla Webmaking tools and remixing makes. This #makerparty event runs from 7/31-8/4.

• Meet the newest WebFWD IV cohort at our Orientation Mixer at Mozilla San Francisco from 5pm - 7pm. RSVP at http://webfwdivorientation.eventbrite.com/ -- and if you cannot join but want to be involved in WebFWD as a mentor / in some way, please let us know > webfwd@mozilla.com

Thursday, 01 August

• Manager Hacking - Thursday 9am Pacific - More Info
  • Topic: Evaluating Success & Growth Needs
  • Open to all
  • (MTV) 10 Forward, (SF) 7-Forward, (Toronto) , Remote - Vidyo

• Intern presentations starting at 1pm PDT in 10 Forward and the SF Commons. Come see Brandon Kase, David Zbarsky, Tim Kuehn, and Mohammed Almeshekah present all the glorious stuff they've been working on this summer!

• MAKER PARTY: Tîrgu Mure Romania: During the Webmaker Party at IP Workshop 2013 event there will be presentation about the web, html5, FirefoxOS, Mozilla Marketplace and how people can bring their contribution to Mozilla. This #makerparty event runs from 8/1-8/14.

Friday, 02 August

• MAKER PARTY: Maidstone, United Kingdom: Kent Scouts is hosting this EPIK WebMaker super charged WebMaker Popcorn #makerparty event for the International Jamboree. Three thousand scouts from around the world will report on their week at camp and create a popcorn video!

• MAKER PARTY: CERN Summer Webfest 2013 CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland: a grassroots initiative by summer students, open to all staff and users, seeking to spark new ideas that could innovate the future of web-based education about CERN, the LHC and particle physics. This #makerparty event runs from 8/2-8/4.

Saturday, 03 August

• MAKER PARTY: Jaipur, India: Jaipur National University will hold their Firefox Elections to help them hold #makerparty events.

• MAKER PARTY:Rankin, Pennsylvania: This four-day #makerparty workshop to build a piece of salvaged public art at the Carrie Furnaces in Rankin to display alongside the famous Carrie Deer. This workshop runs Saturdays through August 24th.

Sunday, 04 August

• MAKER PARTY: #MakerParty Boston is a 'Hive Pop-Up' style event at the MIT Media Lab. The format for this #makerparty is simple: You show up, hang out at an activity station (or three), and make stuff! After a few hours of creativity, it will be time for show and tell!

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

Speaker Location: @OpenMatt in Toronto

• Maker Party: events happening this week in the Netherlands, New York, India, Romania, an international Boy Scouts Jamboree and hacking physics at CERN.
• Web Literacy Standard (beta): What are the skills people need to be "web literate?" Introducing our new "Web Literacy Standard." A beta version of the skills and competencies needed to read, write and participate on the Web.
  • Blog post: https://blog.webmaker.org/web-literacy-standard
  • Landing page: http://mzl.la/weblitstd

Identity

Speaker Location: SF ( Vlad Filippov )

• Big News: Gmail identity bridge is live!
  • Demo: http://screencast.com/t/dLFljV2P (40 sec)
  • Now whenever you log into a site that uses Persona with a gmail email address, you can authenticate directly with Google. No new passwords!
  • Formal announcement this week, share / retweet if you can. Follow @MozillaPersona

• Mozilla IdP update:
  • For those having trouble signing into Mozilla properties with your LDAP credentials: If you have third-party cookies disabled, then white-list `login.mozilla.org` in the `Exceptions` menu. If you still need assistance, please visit #identity on IRC.

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

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

• January 28, 2010: First release of Firefox for a mobile device launched for the Nokia N900

BTW, lots of great comments to read about the landslide at the 2008 Summit.

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
Debbie Cohen, Kate Naszradi, Mardi Douglass	Summit 2013 Update	Current status of planning, brown-bag coming up soon	San Francisco	Yes	Presentation Slides	Summit Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013, IRC: #summit2013
Doug Belshaw	Web Literacy Standard project lead	RFC release	My house	Just need landing page on-screen	http://mzl.la/weblitstd	https://blog.webmaker.org/web-literacy-standard

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you?	Area of question	Question
What's your name? What do you work on?	Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc.	What would you like to know?
gfritzsche, plugins	FirefoxOS dogfooding	What is the FxOS dogfooding process? Is there an outline for which builds to test, feedback channels beyond obvious bugs, ...?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians!

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?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Jordan Lund	John O'Duinn	San Francisco	Vancouver	Release Engineering
Brian Grinstead	Joe Walker	Remote - MO	Remote - MO	Engineering
Eric Pang	Stephen Horlander	Remote - UK	Remote - UK	Graphic Designer

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?	Where is the introducer?	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)

Security

• Mozilla @ BlackHat - Milk and Cookies Event Wednesday Evening - ping mcoates@mozilla.com for info