WeeklyUpdates/2015-05-11

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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

• Julien G (a.k.a Sphinx) is MDN Contributor of the Month for April 2015! He did the "lion's share" of translating the JavaScript section of MDN into French.
• Our newest Friend of AMO is Zitronella! She is an active member of the German community who also helps keep Firefox safe. Read more about her contributions: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/05/06/friend-of-amo-zitronella/
• Thanks to Michael Balazs for stepping up to lead the featured add-ons board. Michael has been a community board member for a few years, and will now help guide and coordinate the group.
• Thanks to everyone who wrote posts for the Mozilla Hacks blog in April: Dietrich Ayala, Kumar MacMillan, Chris Mills, Jason Orendorff, Potch, J Ryan Stinnett, Piotr Zalewa, and volunteer contributors Scott Anecito and the Portland State University Capstone Project team (under the mentorship of Dietrich) and Andrzej Mazur (MozRep, tech evangelist & HTML5 game dev)!

Upcoming Events

Monday, 11 May

• Weekly Bug Triage Day

Wednesday, 13 May

• Weekly Bug Verification Day
• Watch an engineer hacking on Firefox LIVE! The Joy of Coding: Episode 14 airs this Wednesday at 10 AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM GMT.
  • Previous episodes with summaries.
  • YouTube playlist.
• Dev Talks Cluj Napoca - Mozilla Booth
• 3D Web Fest is a showcase of the best of the 3D Web, from music to art to technology. With live music and panel discussions. 7-11pm Wednesday @ Folsom Street Foundry in San Francisco.

Thursday, 14 May

• JSConf Budapest, 14th - 15th, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Talk on WebAudio presented by Soledad Penadés and several mozillian attendees.

Friday, 15 May

• Rust 1.0 Celebration May 15th at London Mozilla offices
  • Hosted by Andreas Tolfsen to celebrate Rust w informal talks
• Webdev Beer and Tell at 2PM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo room (and streaming on AirMo)
  • Open to the public!
  • Monthly get-together where webdevs across the community show off their side projects.

Saturday, 16 May

• Mozilla Reps Africa Meetup, 16th - 17th, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Mozilla Reps Africa Meetup will be the first meetup among African Reps to discuss on the progress made by independent communities over the past years and the challenges faced by each community
  • More info on the Reps event page.

• RSJS 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • Forth edition of one of the biggest JavaScript events in the region. This event serves to discover new talent.

• Advancing the Careers of Tech Women: Seattle May 16th, Seattle, WA
  • One-day engagement event for women to build skills, grow their community, and accelerate their career path. The conference includes main speaking sessions, parallel hands-on workshops, and breakout sessions for one-on-one coaching sessions.
  • Mozillian Sandra Persing as co-organizer

Sunday, 17 May

• Write the Docs May 17-19th in Portland, OR
  • Join over 300 people for a three-day event to explore the art and science of documentation
  • Mozillians Janet Swisher speaking on Entry points and guide posts: Helping new contributors find their way

Next Week

• DORS-CLUC, 18th-20th, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • DORS/CLUC is one of the biggest free and open source conferences in Croatia. Conference gathers international and local IT experts in order to exchange experiences and ideas.

• BucharestJS, 20th, Bucharest, Romania.

• Mozilla Balkans community Meetup, 22nd to 24th, Bucharest, Romania.

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox and Cloud Services

Speaker Location: Mountain View (dcamp)

• Help us test Developer Edition 40!

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

CTO Update

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Andrew Sliwinski (PDX)

http://mzl.la/changelog

• Webmaker for Android
  • Preview release & nightly builds now available: http://mzl.la/webmaker-install
  • Bug Tracking: https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-android/issues

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location:

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
Brian Anderson	Research Engineer, Rust	Rust 1.0	MTV	No	https://brson.github.io/rust1.html	https://brson.github.io/rust1.html
Dia Bondi & Greg Jost	Brand Strategy	Shape of the Web	SF	Yes	https://www.shapeoftheweb.org	More about SOTW (section starts at 0:15:00) Feedback Project wiki

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	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Volunteer location	Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer?	Who will be introducing that person?	Where is the introducer?	Where will the new person be contributing from?	What will the new person be working on?

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?
Jascha Kaykas-Wolff	Mitchell Baker	Mountain View	San Francisco	Engagement, Chief Marketing Officer
Ryan Childs	Linda Ypulong	San Francisco	San Francisco	Mozilla Operations Center Engineer
Ritu Kothari	Lawrence Mandel	Toronto (remote)	Mountain View	Firefox Release Management

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.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Automation & Tools

bugzilla.mozilla.org

Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:

• bug 1151745 Added ability to search when changing a bug's product
• bug 1151745 Changing a bug's product no longer requires an intermediate confirmation page

(Both of these features are only available if you use the new Bugzilla UI).

All changes.

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard