WeeklyUpdates/2011-03-28

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Friends of the Tree

• philor and jag for diagnosing and fixing the ridiculously slow Tinderbox tree admin page.
• Aleksej, Anders, lcamacho, and our own Henrik Skupin for making the Mozmill Crowd Testing testday a success
• GeorgeF(George Fiotakis), Greek web localizer and community superstar, for being very helpful in the L10n field in the last week. He's currently the only one who created localized screenshots for Linux and Mac for Firefox 4 features page on mozilla-europe.org. Also, he's been pretty active in the mailing-lists discussion on how to get more people involved. - Milos(milos@mozilla.com).

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 28 March

Tuesday, 29 March

Firefox Mobile Official Launch Day!!! Huzzah! Watch it live starting at 7:45 a.m. PDT on Air Mozilla. Please post questions to the launch team in #airmozilla on irc.mozilla.org or directly to @firefox with the hashtag #airmoz.

Wednesday, 30 March

Thursday, 31 March

Friday, 1 April

• MDN doc sprint today and 2 April. (No joke!)

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Thunderbird

• Current branch plan:
  • Miramar currently building from comm-central trunk with mozilla-2.0
  • no pure trunk nightlies in order to keep testing focused on Miramar

• Working on getting OpenSearch and GetAnAccount bundled with a Tb build for testing by a broader audience in preparation for Miramar

Drumbeat

• No voice update this week
• Look for blog posts on Mozilla Drumbeat Beijing, Hackasaurus hack jams in New York, plus Buttercamp NYC
• Sneak peek at some recent Popcorn demos here:
  • Robots
  • 18 days in egypt
  • Kapor Center
  • Digital Diaspora Road Show
  • GML Popcorn
  • GML Popcorn #2

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Getting the word out	Chris Beard	Brand campaign		Pilot campaign starting this week targeting digerati in Bay Area to reinforce our differentiation & advocacy position

Status Updates By Team

Messaging

• new (restartless!) release of F1, the Labs link sharing add-on for Firefox

QA

General

• Lisa Crispin gave a brown bag on Friday. Slides and video will be published asap.

Test Automation

• MozMill Crowd 0.1.2 has been released
• Selenium 2.0b3 released with Firefox 4 support

WebQA

• Shipped AMO 6.0.2
• Shipped Spark
• Shipped Web O' Wonder mobile site

QA Community

• Successful test day for Mozmill crowd extension and endurance tests

Desktop Firefox

• Not much happen last week except WE SHIPPED FIREFOX 4!!!!!!!

Engagement

PR

• Hands On With Firefox 4
• Mozilla Releases New Version of Firefox Browser
• Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4
• Firefox 4 soars, thanks to Microsoft's Luddite customers

• StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9
• Firefox 4 takes back the web from IE9 -- 6 million downloads in first 24 hours

• Firefox 3.6.16 and 3.5.18 security updates released as Firefox 4 launches

• Twitter secures mobile Firefox 4 users from XSS attacks
• Twitter Implements Mozilla's Anti-XSS Tool for Firefox 4 Users

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Ben Adida, Staff Engineer for the Apps Group