WeeklyUpdates/2007-10-29

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

TIME CHANGE NOTICE: Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends this Sunday. New meeting time next week will be 21:00 UTC.

Friends of the Tree

Just a reminder, if you see someone going above and beyond, please nominate them as a Friend of the Tree by sending me (Asa) a quick email with a short description of their good deed. Thanks.

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9

• Three beta blockers remaining: Unified Toolbar for OS X, Cycle Collector JS Bug, and XBL Binding/Flashblock (due to regressions). All three have patches and are top priority.
• Freeze will happen once we reach zero beta blockers.
• Prioritizing for the next beta.

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox launched
  • Judges announced last week - Jesse James Garrett, Joshua Schachter, Garrett Camp, Tariq Krim, Brendan Eich
  • Event promotions kicked off and ongoing - AJAX, FSOSS, campus reps
  • PR push to media outlets and bloggers gaining traction
  • Banner ads running on Slashdot, launching this week on other developer sites
  • Pulling together internal sources and past winners for periodic "developer chats" throughout contest. Please contact Rhian if you are willing to help!

• WebRunner renamed to Prism and launched with blog post
  • announced on Thursday around 2:30pm PT
  • followup posts with additional detail from Alex Faaborg and Mark Finkle
  • lots of response from the blogosphere
  • XXk downloads as of today at noon PT
  • claims of disingenuousness from an Adobe evangelist
  • a bunch of activity in the Prism forum (including many people trying it out, reporting issues, and requesting enhancements)
  • Linux should be ready today or tomorrow; looking for help figuring out how to add shortcuts to the Applications menu on GNOME
  • not sure when Mac will be available; looking for help figuring out how to launch an app bundle using a shell script
  • some confusion about whether or not we're building a new platform; addressing this with a FAQ and a follow-up post later this week