WeeklyUpdates/2017-04-24

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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 Mozilla

• Thanks to David Ross for doing literally hundreds of editorial reviews on MDN!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, 25 April

• Add-ons Community Meeting
  • 10am PT; ACE Vidyo Room
    • Join the team to discuss what's going on in the add-ons community!
• WebExtensions APIs Triage
  • 10:30am PT; ACE Vidyo Room
  • Join the add-ons team to discuss design-decision-needed WebExtensions APIs and WebExtensions Experiments!
    • To submit a WebExtensions Experiment for discussion, please open an issue on the web-ext-experiments github repo.

Wednesday, 26 April

• American Spies: Jennifer Granick on U.S. Surveillance and its Global Implications
  • Location: Mozilla San Francisco + Air Mozilla
  • Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm UT
  • Host: Chris Riley

Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and political boundaries of lawful surveillance.

Because surveillance law has fallen behind surveillance technology, the U.S. government has unprecedented new powers. At our April Speaker Series, Jennifer Granick will address how Cold War programs led by J. Edgar Hoover and initiatives sparked by the September 11, 2001 tragedy have led us to today’s fusion centers and mosque infiltrators. She will also show how our current state of mass surveillance is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.

• Details on speaker series wiki.

• Advance reading:
  • Excerpt in Wired from American Spies: Mass Spying Isn’t Just Intrusive—It’s Ineffective
  • Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump
  • Video of American Spies book talk, "Modern Surveillance Under the Trump Administration”, featuring Oregon Senator Ron Wyden

Friday, 28 April

• On Friday, April 28th from 3-5pm in the Mozilla San Francisco Commons, A.C.T. “American Conservatory Theatre” will perform a test of the new play called “Blue Skies Process.” Please come, enjoy, and leave inspired through the study of another creative process.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. 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. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 "widescreen" format, please indicate in the "Sharing" column below.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Sharing	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, 4:3 or 16:9)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Vanessa Rhinesmith	Program Manager, Open Web Fellows	Open Web Fellows call for proposals	Remotely			https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/open-web-fellows/overview

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Who is being introduced?	Who are you? (the introducer)	Where are you doing the introduction?	Where are they from?	How will they be part of Mozilla?

Fireside Chat

A chance to hear from leadership at Mozilla, and have a short Q&A about a specific topic.

This Week

• "Introduction to Pocket"
  • Denelle Dixon Thayer, Chief Business Officer, Mozilla
  • Nate Weiner, CEO, Pocket
  • Kait Gaiss Growth & Marketing Manager, Pocket

Topics

Last month Mozilla acquired Read It Later, the San Francisco-based maker of the Pocket app for the desktop, iOS and Android. Pocket users have saved more than 3 billion pieces of content to date. In today’s chat we’ll learn more about why we made this acquisition, and we’ll meet some members of the Pocket team who will take us on a product tour.

You can submit questions in advance on the Moderator page or ask them live on Air Mozilla using a Mozilla Space mic or in #airmozilla on IRC.