WeeklyUpdates/2012-07-09

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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 the Tree

• Fabio Magnoni, Luca Toledo, Clauber Stipkovic & the Mozilla Brazil community for all their help and legwork for Basecamp
• Richard Milewski, for Air Mozilla awesomeness (2x last week in support of the Mozilla Apps Hack day)
• Everyone who came and hacked for Mozilla Apps Hack Day on Sat. & Spencer Hui, who came and shot video

Upcoming Events

Monday, 09 July

Brownbag at 3pm: Add-ons Made Easy with Builder & SDK The event will take place in 10 fwd, and will be broadcast in the SF commons and over Air Mozilla

Wednesday, 11 July

• Brownbag, Wednesday 12-1pm PT, Ten Forward, Mountain View:
• Challenges to Mozilla adoption in China
  • Exploration of Chinese internet environment
  • Internet Explorer version skew
  • Implications of text input being difficult
  • Proliferation of plugins
  • Web / banking compatibility
  • Mozilla Online initiatives
  • By Gary Kwong; based upon a week of observations/interactions with our Mozillian friends in Beijing
  • All Mozillians are invited to attend.
  • Will likely be on Air Mozilla, and be recorded as well.
• Startup Office Hours: Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am - noon PST. Open to everyone.

Thursday, 12 July

• Grow Mozilla discussion at 10 AM pacific -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Agenda and dial-in information

Saturday, 14 July

• 2012-07-14 Open Web Camp IV at San Jose, California, USA.
  • Tantek Çelik - speaker on "HTML5 and microformats 2.0 - the next evolutionary step for web data" (http://plancast.com/p/bu8p/html5-microformats-20-tantek)
  • ...

For more future events, see:

• Events

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

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Firefox Mobile

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Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Webmaker

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Identity

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Services

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Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Dietrich, pdx-01 on Vidyo

• Fruitful workweek in Barcelona
• Successful live demo for Telefonica investors conference
• Feature-complete deadline on 7/20
• Detailed weekly status at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/b2g-status

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
Snappy, or using the webcam in web content	Paul Adenot, Chris Lee & Stefan Crane	We implemented a instagram-like using only web technologies during saturday's hackday.	(Need a special Firefox build, will be in 10fwd)	https://github.com/padenot/snappy
Minimalist	Sawyer Hollenshead (ux/design), Kevin Ngo (webdev)	Pretty webapp to build lists to save thoughts, uses local storage and app cache.	http://minimalist.ngokevin.com	http://ngokevin.com/blog/minimalist

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Michael Cooper	Mike Morgan	Mountain View, CA	Web Developer
Caitlin Galimidi	Bill Walker	Mountain View, CA	Program Manager, App
Andrea Marchesini	Johnny Stenback	Mountain View, CA	Software Engineer
Erik Vold	David Townsend	Mountain View, CA	Software Engineer
Melissa O'Connor	mrz	Mountain View, CA	Project Manager, IT
Erika Owens	Dan Sinker'	Philadelphia,PA Remote	Open News Community Manager

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Jonas Jensen	Ehsan Akhgari	Toronto	Platform

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

Project Status / goals for next week (keep it brief)

• Affiliates
  • 7/3 push to fix a xss vulnerability in the admin area - bug 770333 and bug 770210
• AMO
• Marketplace
• Mozilla.com
• Mozillians
  • 7/3 push to deacactivate api - bug 770613 and bug 770494
• MDN
• Socorro
  • 7/3 milestone 14.1 pushed
  • 7/6 milestone 15 pushed
• SUMO
  • Continuous deployment, no updates
• MozTrap

Engagement

PR

• For July 4th, a Declaration of Internet Freedom

• The Firefox Phone: A New Competitor to Apple, Microsoft and Google
• Mozilla developer shows off Firefox OS lock screen
• Firefox OS heading to Sprint, won't arrive before 2013
• 75% of Google and Apple apps will work on Firefox OS

• Mozilla Pushes for Release of Syrian Developer

Apps

• Demos of MozApps from the Mozilla Apps Hack Day: Snappy, MinimaList, Slithering

WebFWD

Startup Office Hours! Have a question about your startup idea or company? Ping @pfinette or @dianeb on IRC (#webfwd) every Wednesday at 11am - noon PST - open to everyone.