WeeklyUpdates/2008-03-31

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 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

Development Updates

IT

• Vendor recommended switch upgrades (see Outage report)
• stage.mozilla.org in "transit" as we experiment - see justdave's blog for more info
• Bugzilla upgraded
• Firefox 2.0.0.13 related issues, and various cluster-wide performance tuning

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Anniversary Party tonight! Rsvp at anniversary@mozilla.com. Details
• FISL, April 17 - 19, Brazil: Activities include:
  • Community Party on 4/17
  • Firefox in Brazil Panel on 4/18
  • Mozilla Workshop 4/18
  • Mitchell speaking on 4/19

Mozilla.com

• en-US version of the redesigned site is ready...will post info for a public beta soon.

Support

Foundation Updates

• Grants and related activities
  • Eitan Isaacson completed the intermediate milestone for his Orca contracted Braille project.

• CAs and related issues
  • I worked on the applications from Comodo and KISA
  • I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied.

• Public communication
  • David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including helping with a 10th anniversary page and a proposed new About page.

• Upcoming activities
  • Zak will be speaking at the Go Open conference April 8 and 9, 2008, in Oslo, the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.
  • Frank will be attending the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD.
  • Frank is planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible.
  • Frank will be out for a few days the week of April 7 to handle a family medical issue.

For more information please see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.