WeeklyUpdates/2014-09-22

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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

• "Grazie" to Sandro Della Giustina for localization work on the Italian version of Firefox activations directory. "Gracias" to Hernan Rodriguez Colmeiro for localization of the Argentinian activations directory. "Xie Xie" to Peter Chen and Eric Tsai for localization of the Taiwanese activations directory. "Arigatou", to Chiko Shimizu for localization of the Japanese activations directory.
• Thanks to Mike Poessy and Melissa OConnor for their work to support the Belize Teach the Web event.
• Thanks to Guillaume Demesy and Alexa Roman for their invaluable weekly work on [WebCompat.com] site.
• Thanks to Knight Yoshi and MystMaker for their frequent and useful contributions to the Add-ons Forum.
• Thanks to Craig Cook for being really awesome throughout the Get Involved redesign process!
• Thanks to Clarissa Sorenson for putting community building into the onboarding process!

Upcoming Events

This Week

• QE (Quality Engineering) is relaunching the Testdays program with a new focus on mentorship - activities are scheduled all week - please join us in the #qa channel on irc.mozilla.org

Tuesday, 23 September

• The bi-weekly Marketplace community meeting is tomorrow at 10am Pacific: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings

Wednesday, 24 September

Homebrew Website Club Meetup

• Portland (@MozPDX) and San Francisco (@MozSF)! (CHI & MSP off this week)
• 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
• 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb discussions and hack night

Are you creating your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy?

If so (or you want to!), come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project...

Any questions? See the wiki page for details or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today

Mozillians Town Hall - Brand Initiatives

• Time: 10:00am - 11:00am PT
• Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/mozillians-town-hall-brand-initiatives-mozilla-firefox/
• Live from San Francisco

Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Software

• Sept 24 and 25, happening in Atlanta, GA, USA and online
• Mozillian Jennie Rose Halperin will be speaking

Friday, 26 September

PyCon India 2014

• Sep 26-28 in Bangalore, India
• Mozillian Abdul Rauf helping to organize

Saturday, 27 September

Accessibility Camp Toronto

• Toronto, Canada
• Mozillian David Bolter attending
• Mozilla sponsorship

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: SF (Eric)

• Growth team update (potch: share slides)
  • For more information, check our the [Growth_Team|team's wiki page]].

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: MTV (Asa Dotzler)

• Firefox OS launched in Bangaladesh! Grameenphone, the local operator for the Telenor Group, lauched the (Symphony manufatured) GoFox F15 for approximately $60.
• Beginning transition to KitKat builds for the Flame. Will be posting a KitKat-based Firefox OS 2.0 "testing" build to the MDN Flame page this week.
• This last week, about 100 people checked in just over 200 fixes to Firefox OS. First time contributors to Firefox OS this week included:
  • Zhenqing Liu <zhenqing.liu@spreadtrum.com> fixed FX OS crash in nsWifiMonitor::Onready(unsigned int, nsIWifiScanResult**)
  • Phil Ringnalda [philor] <philringnalda@gmail.com> fixed Forms mochitests disabled on b2g desktop
  • Lars T Hansen [lth] <lhansen@mozilla.com> fixed Gecko not booting anymore due to "bad serialized structured data (unhandled typed array element type)"
  • Goutam <goutamnair7@gmail.com> fixed The contact number is shown incompletely in the contact detail screen of SMS conversion when the contact phone label is more than 19 characters.
  • gauravmittal <gauravmittal1995@gmail.com> fixed Clean up MozL10n API use in Cost Control
  • Andreas Larsson <andreas3.larsson@sonymobile.com> fixed Homescreen application does not handle basic authentication in icon urls.
• Foxtrot applications evaluated. Results to be sent out to all applicants today or tomorrow. Phone shipments still TBD -- still waiting on builds.

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

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
William Reynolds	Product manager for Community Tools	Get vouched, vouch others on Mozillians.org	Mozilla SF	No	Display this blog post	Wiki with FAQ, Original announcement about vouching changes

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?
Johan Lorenzo	Tony Chung	Mountain View	Paris	Mobile QA
Francisco Picolini	Robyn Chau	Mozilla Las Vegas	Madrid	Community Events

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 1021902 You can now see a history of a review's requests (time taken, etc). Look for the "Review History" link on their profile page.
• bug 1052851 It's now possible to search for bugs where the assignee hasn't logged in to Bugzilla for a while (eg. http://mzl.la/1AQRMd7)

All changes.

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard

Web Compatibility

Web Compat Summary

• closed 104 Desktop issues, 7 Mobile issues
• opened 4, Desktop issues, 5 Mobile issues
• Started a discussion about our future plans for 2015, and quarter goals in 2014.
• We had a temporary issues with GitHub which closed all the Webcompat repos for a couple of hours, but came back on after we contacted them.