WeeklyUpdates/2007-11-05

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (21:00 UTC until March 9, 2008)
• 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

Friends of the Tree

Mike Connor nominated Robert Accettura this week. "Robert Accettura stepped up in a really huge way to get Reporter working again, despite a broken wrist: blog post and bug 389131 / bug 389128. Clearly someone's kicking ass."

Seth Spitzer and Dietrich Ayala have nominated Marco Bonardo (mak77@supereva.it) for friend of the tree. "He's been helping with Places on and off since July 2007. He's helped by optimizing our SQL queries and by fixing and triaging bugs. Most recently he did some in depth analysis of the indexes we have in the places database, suggesting several valuable improvements.(See bug 381795)

Development Updates

Marketing/PR

Support

• Meeting the team in Toronto.
• Initial draft of a video contest to get screencasts for our knowledge base articles. [1]
• Decision on article feedback and content categorization.

Retention Marketing - What's New Page test for 2008 update

Tested 2 test pages vs. current (control) page

• Test page had 3.5x higher click-thru than the control page
• 3% of users who hit the test page decided to download an add-on immediately
• Plan to do another test for 2010 to test overall effectiveness of the whatsnew pages on AMO downloads

Evangelism

MDC

• Continuing work on Firefox 3 documentation.
• Evaluating some tools and software that may be used in the future to make MDC better, including Deki Wiki.

Asa

• Prepared initial draft of plan for resurrecting "For the Record", a community-based public relations and press response program. I'll get the doc posted shortly. The program will start to roll this week or early next.
• Held first "Ask Asa Live" on Friday. Will be moving that blog feature to video as a regular weekly interactive discussion at Asa Live
• Initial planning for next Air Mozilla Live. Hopefully our first "remote" broadcast with Christian and possibly other Mobile guests. We'll be combining a local (here in Building K) live video stream with a remote feed from Christian in Europe. If this goes well, we'll be able to radically expand our interviewee pool.

shaver

• Back from paternity leave, fought to a stalemate with the inbox.
• Connected with blogger Chris Soghoian about some errors in his article regarding Mozilla/Google relationship and the feature-inclusion process for Firefox and other products.
• Started distilling various threads into an "ES4 FAQ" to make it easier for people to get up to speed on what's being proposed, and who's objecting to what. Should be ready as a draft in the next day or two.

Mozilla Labs

• Extend Firefox
  • Submission tool shipping tomorrow - 11/6
  • PR push to media outlets and bloggers gaining traction
  • Banner ads launched last week on Read/Write Web, LifeHacker, Digg, and Gizmodo
  • Anyone who will be in MV for the co-working week who would like to participate in a video developer chat, please contact Rhian
  • Pulling together internal sources and past winners for periodic "developer chats" throughout contest. Please contact Rhian if you are willing to help!