WeeklyUpdates/2013-08-12

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 12 August

• MAKER PARTY: New York, USA: Five-Day, Beam Center's Design-Build One-Week Summer High School Intensive workshop, will introduce techniques related to analysis, data-gathering, diagramming and precedent study. Building on these ideas, the students will then be guided through simple design techniques including sketching and model-making, with the ultimate goal of transforming parts and pieces of the Beam Center facility through their understanding, ideas and actions.

• MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day, MakerKids' Minecraft and Digital Media Creation Camp, will teach how to create skins, install mods, and even setting up servers! Campers, will get to create your their world in Minecraft, learn how to 3D print, experiment with vlogging (video blogging) and podcasting, and more!

• MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day, Handmade/Textile Musuem of Canada present DIY Summer Camps & Crafting Across the Generations. Handmade! invites kids to spend some time offline this summer and craft their own creative experiences at the Textile Museum of Canada.

• MAKER PARTY: Toronto, CA: Five-Day Holocaust and Human Behaviour Teacher Seminar. Using Facing History’s unique sequence of study, teachers will explore the range of choices that led to the failure of democracy and ultimately the murder of millions of Jews and other targeted groups. The seminar investigates the complexities of human behavior, judgment, memory, and how individuals can make a difference in the world today.

Tuesday, 13 August

• MAKER PARTY: Pittsburgh, USA: The Labs @ CLP - South Side Summer Workshops. Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, South Side branch, is hosting an intensive workshop in interactive art for students all over the city

• MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #1. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.

Wednesday, 14 August

The Mobile Meeting (SuMo) at 10:30am on air Mozilla (please note you need to login to watch the meeting)

• MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #2. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.

Thursday, 15 August

• MAKER PARTY: Tokyo, Japan: Mozilla Japan presents Maker Party 2013@Tokyo Obon Edition #3. Participants will remix their own movies and then create a webpage to advertise it.

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

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Firefox Mobile

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Thunderbird

Thunderbird 24 is about to reach beta - It's the next mainstream version ad ESR version. We need more users using beta - currently we have a ratio of 0.43% of beta users versus mainstream. We'll have testing activities and they'll be announced on https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/thunderbird-testers

Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

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Identity

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Services

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Firefox OS

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Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Help us build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians. Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:

• March 22, 2011: Firefox 4 launches and Mozilla starts move to a rapid release model with new versions every few weeks

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. 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.

Presenter	Title	Topic	Location	Share?	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, other info)	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Kate Naszradi	Summit Communications Director	Summit Weekly Updates	San Francisco	No		Summit Registration Page, Registration questions: mozillasummit[at]shworldwide[dot]com, Summit hash-tag: #mozsummit

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you?	Area of question	Question
What's your name? What do you work on?	Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc.	What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians!

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?
Marcus Cavanaugh	Dylan Oliver	MTV	SFO	Firefox OS

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be working from?	What will the new person be working on?

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.