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Are you #crafty? The [ | Are you #crafty? The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Crafty Mozilla Crafty] group, a collection of Mozillians who make all manner of crafty items in the name of Mozilla, would like to invite you to join us and make stuff after our regular project meeting. | ||
This week, we're metal stamping! Tag a keychain or other metal item with your initials, favorite bug number, or whathaveyou on it, along the lines of this: [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/01/03/1531/]. All tools and materials provided. Also, feel free to bring your lunch. | This week, we're metal stamping! Tag a keychain or other metal item with your initials, favorite bug number, or whathaveyou on it, along the lines of this: [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/01/03/1531/]. All tools and materials provided. Also, feel free to bring your lunch. | ||
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- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla 
- Webmaker community nominates Kim Wilkens, an active Webmaker contributor and the founder of Tech Girls for her valuable feedback on the Webmaker team's 2014 plans.
- The AMO community nominates MaDonna, a theme contributor who has designed over 10,000 themes--an amazing feat! Her most popular one, "Sunset Over Water", has 137,659 users. See all her fabulous designs here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/user/MaDonna/
- Props to the Mozilla Hispano Localization team for working over the weekend to help localize the 1st Spanish-language issue of "Firefox Apps & Hacks" - our monthly developer-facing newsletter. Thank you Hanna, Alma, Pablo B, & Daniel! (localizacion@mozilla-hispano.org)
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 27 January
Are you #crafty? The Mozilla Crafty group, a collection of Mozillians who make all manner of crafty items in the name of Mozilla, would like to invite you to join us and make stuff after our regular project meeting.
This week, we're metal stamping! Tag a keychain or other metal item with your initials, favorite bug number, or whathaveyou on it, along the lines of this: [1]. All tools and materials provided. Also, feel free to bring your lunch.
It's 12:15-1:15pm PST today in San Francisco: Community Building Room Mountain View: Warp Core
with a simulcast vidyo in the CBT room (we wish we could send all our remoties stamping supplies, but bear with us as we try this out for the first time)
Want to join us as we take over the world? We're at #crafty on IRC.
Tuesday, 28 January
Tuesday, the 28th of January, at 12pm Pacific, the Strategy and Insights team will present the FirefoxOS 2014 Strategy on Air Mozilla, live from Ten Forward. We will go through what our priorities for the year are for achieving volume and differentiation. You will learn the current plan of record and the direction we are taking to further investigate and focus our actions. See you there (also recorded on AirMozilla).
Wednesday, 29 January
Thursday, 30 January
Friday, 31 January
Saturday, 01 February
Sunday, 02 February
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- m-c is still 29, remember?
- And what a 29:
- Australis?!
- Sync?!
- Onboarding?!
- wow. so feature. very design. wow.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto
- How do you teach privacy? As part of Mozilla's efforts around International Privacy Day tomorrow, Webmaker is collecting resources that help people teach online privacy.
- Maker Party success. More than 500 youth attended the Destination: Chicago Maker Party led by Hive Chicago last week. They participated in over 20 hands-on learning activities.
- Mozilla Gigabit Community Funds are launching next week in Chattanooga (Feb. 6) and Kansas City (Feb. 13) to support local communities of practice as they start building education and workforce development opportunities on gigabit networks.
- If you're in the area, register and drop by in Chattanooga or Kansas City.
Open Badges
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- BadgeKit Progress: We launched a clickable BadgeKit prototype with some working code last week, which we are actively user testing with participants from the Chicago & New York Hives. We are on target for beta launch in March 2014.
- Upcoming Conferences: We are in full planning mode for a few of our biggest annual conferences -
- Reconnected Learning Summit: Feb 12-13, Redwood City, CA
- SXSWEdu 2014: March 3-6, Austin, TX (3 panel presentations!)
- DML Connecting Practices 2014: March 6-8, Boston, MA
Mozilla Science Lab
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- Opening registration for a number of bootcamps this week. Care to help? Get in touch!
- Triple header at new Moore/Sloan data science centers - U Washington, NYU, UC Berkeley (March 17-18)
- Women in Science and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (April 14-15)
- PyCon'14 in Montreal (our largest yet with over 200 expected) (April 14-15)
OpenNews
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- Fellows: Held orientation for the six 2014 OpenNews fellows last week in San Francisco
- Worked with members of the ProPublica apps team to build a news app from scratch.
- App and accompanying process write-ups on ProPublica and Source go live next week.
- Source + SRCCON: Prepping for the NICAR 2014 conference at the end of February by:
- Developing new features on Source
- Laying the groundwork for our first SRCCON, which we will be announcing at the conference.
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Firefox Student Ambassadors
Written Update:
- Launched in May 2013 to engage college students with our mission and products, we now have over 9,600 Firefox Student Ambassadors in over 30 countries.
- Find out more information about what we're up to, but checking out the following resources:
- More information about how you can engage with Firefox Student Ambassadors coming soon!
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: Mountain View (Larissa Shapiro)
Community Builder Panel now live in Air Mozilla! Thanks to Richard Milewski, we now have an Air Mozilla recording of the community building experts panel that was part of the Community Builders meetup in December. In this panel our guests from the American Red Cross, the Northern California Girl Scouts, AIESEC (a global youth led development non profit) and Zen Desk speak to our group about their strategies for volunteer community building. https://air.mozilla.org/community-building-panel/
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox Marketplace
Speaker Location:
IT
Speaker Location:
Web Compatibility
Speaker Location: Austin (miketaylr)
- mobify.js fix for Firefox for Android affecting wired.com, thedailybanter.com (and more sites),
- redbus.in, weather.gr both send FxOS to the mobile sites now, thanks to community members Abdul and Thanos.
- Yahoo.com now recognises FxOS as a mobile browser.
- Pinterest search now works on FxOS
- All OLX sites now send FxOS to mobile site (fixed by a Mozillian inside the company!)
And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!
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 |
| Andrea Wood - https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/andrea/ | Online Organizing & Fundraising Lead | End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign Results | My house in Oakland, CA | Yes | [2] | [3] |
| Armen Zambrano - https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/armenzg/ | Senior Release Engineer | Toronto office | No | twitter profile | follow the squirrel at @MozRelEng | |
| Alex Fowler | Privacy and Public Policy Lead | Data Privacy Day is tomorrow - January 28th | San Francisco | No | Help us fight for privacy | |
| Potch | Podium Pal | Project Meeting Feedback | Mountain View | Yes | Feedback Form |
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! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.
Introducing New Volunteers
| New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new volunteer(s)? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where is the new person based? | What will the new person be doing? |
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? |
| Rina Jensen | Patrick Finch | San Francisco | London Office | Content Strategist |
| Eric Rahm | Dietrich Ayala | Portland | Portland office | Firefox OS performance |
| Sean Rich | Sylvie Veilleux | San Francisco | San Francisco Office | Director of IT Applications and Services |
| Daniel Gohman | Michael Bebenita | Mountain View | Mountain View | Research Engineer |
| Richard Barnes | Sid Stamm | Mountain View | Washington DC area | Security Engineering & Standards |
| Bob Owen | Sid Stamm | Mountain View | Remote in UK | Security Engineering & Platform |
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.