WeeklyUpdates/2014-09-29

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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

• Congratulations to Rabimba Karanjai for being awarded a Loft Video Game Innovation Fellowship from the Entertainment Software Association, for his Firefox OS game Math Racer. Best wishes to him for his trip to Washington DC on October 1-3 to present his game to White House and Congressional representatives interested in games in STEM education.
• Congratulations to Leona Szalai, who localizes social media content for Firefox into Hungarian, on her recent nuptials.
• Thank you to Brian King and Guillermo Movia for hand-carrying swag across 3 continents so Marcelo Poli could receive his app reviewer prizes.
• Thank you to JP for making Community Building a P1 this week!
• Thank you to Sofien (Chaasof) for being a star Wiki gardener.
• Thank you to everyone who put in extra hours on last week's NSS security chemspill. An especially large thank you to Kai Engert for driving the patches to the finish line and landing them on the myriad release branches we had to deal with.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 02 October

• 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
  • Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: London (johnath)

• Unheralded Heroics
  • Chemspills
  • Mac signing

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:'San Francisco Bill Maggs'

Mozilla Location Service - New, much improved Mozstumbler in Google Play Store this week! Many, many community stumbling events begin planned.

Firefox Accounts - FxA is available for Mozilla services. It's not hard! Resources on MDN here. If you would like FxA to do auth for your service, please contact Bill Maggs (bill@mozilla.com) or Chris Karlof (ckarlof@mozilla.com).

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location: Mark Surman (Toronto); William Quiviger (remote)

• Update on Community Tiger Team activities.
• Moving forward with six Contribution Challenges.
• Team is also working on: survey to better understand community health and a communications plan.
• William Quiviger to give an update on the FXOS Local Content Challenge

Contribution Challenges:

• Firefox : Firefox 10
  • Business Owner's: Winston/Eric; Community Liaisons: Kristin Baird/Brian King
  • Defining a plan targeted at driving downloads as part of the Firefox 10th Anniversary campaign.

• Firefox Growth:
  • Business Owner: Chris More; Community Liaison: Larissa Shapiro
  • Identifying opportunities for community participation as part of the Growth team initiatives.

• FXOS Local Content:
  • Business Owner: Sakina Goth; Community Liaison: William Q.
  • Finalizing plan to produce a large volume of high quality hyper-local content for FXOS users in India and Mexico, in a very short time frame, and in parallel, train Mozillians to become skilled evangelists and developer mentors to ensure long-term sustained support and mentorship for local developers creating hyper-local content for FXOS

• FXOS in market Communications:
  • Business Owner: Erica Jostedt/Tristan Nitot; Community Liaison: Guillermo Movia
  • Finalizing a communications plan to continue to drive momentum/exposure for FXOS post launch. Plan will focus activities in India & Mexico.

• FXOS + Webmaker:
  • Business Owner: David Ascher; Community Liaison: Michelle Thorne
  • Finalizing plan focused on user research that helps us understand ways that 'user generated apps' can solve problems for the next billion web users. Beta testing to begin in Oct; with kickoff at MozFest.
  • Will actively play a role in shipping Mobile Webmaker (aka Appmaker) through user testing at Maker Parties and conduct interviews with feature phone users to understand the problems they want to solve.

• Tiles:
  • Business Owner: Sean Bohan; Community Liaison: Michelle Marovich
  • Define a system to generate content for regional community tiles in 20 launch markets for October 15 and put an ongoing structure in place for regional communities to own the content schedule for regional community tiles.

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
Sean Martell	Art Director	Update on the MozID logo project	Remotely - my house outside Toronto	Not sharing my screen, but when I'm finished talking I'd like to play a video available at the link shown here.	Video is on this page.	https://blog.mozilla.org/creative/
Marshall Erwin	Privacy & Data Security	Database dumping practices	Mountain View	No	No	Email questions to merwin@mozilla.com
Liz Compton	Legal Affairs Manager	Update from Legal	San Francisco	No	https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/LGL/Legal+Resources+Home, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/	Provide feedback on any of the above here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/9wwHAN2CwL
Bill Mills	Science Lab Community Manager	Open Source Science Projects!	Moz Vancouver	No	None	Original call for proposals.

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
David Anderson	Milan Sreckovic	Toronto	Mountain View	Graphics
Xidorn Quan	Jet Villegas	San Francisco	Australia-Remote	Layout
Suzanne Hetrick	Dave Slater	Mountain View	Mountain View	Executive Assistant to Dave
Robb Carroll	Albert Villarde	Mountain View	Mountain View	A/V Systems Management
J.C. Jones	Richard Barnes	Remote	Arizona-Remote	Security Engineering
Fabio Rios	Michaela Smiley	Remote	San Francisco	User Engagement
Lindsay Saunders	Caitlin Galimidi	Portland	San Francisco	Program Management - Marketplace
Fernando Jimenez Moreno	David Scravaglieri	Paris	Netherlands-Remote	Firefox OS Engineering
Sharyl Sun	Jill Alvarez	Mountain View	San Francisco	University Recruiter

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 1054141 You can now configure Bugzilla to never send you email about changes made by a particular user
• bug 891199 Clicking on "NEEDINFO" at the top of the page now scrolls you to the comment requesting the information
• bug 1037663 When creating a bug, task-specific bug entry forms are now displayed

All changes.

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard