Webdev:Meetings:2011-08-02

Open Items

• All-hands questions
• Hiring update
• YOUR TOPIC HERE!

Roundtable

adrian

• Socorro
  • ElasticSearch gets closer and closer to production
  • Did a lot of code refactoring, optimizations and unit tests lately
• Favorite thing about interns: being one!

andy

• API's for perf and builder.
• Contribution front end fun for AMO.
• AMO killed Arecibo, need to fix that.
• In UK this week and next, some PTO.
• Interns: They make me breakfast.

basta

• More validator bugs
• Grizwald prototype this week
• Tablet fun
• Does anyone actually read my updates? Yup.

Favorite thing about interns: knowing where to go for lunch.

bsavage

• Making progress on the DLL directory
• Closing out last of my AMO bugs
• Learning Django/Python
• Favorite thing about interns: They make great co-pilots.

cmore

• Webifyme: Go Live August 16th
• Affiliates: Front-end and back end code in process
• Snippets: persona preview snippet on Aurora on Thursday the 4th.
• Interns: They know everything about Star Trek

dd

• Mozillians stuff
• sifting through the recruiting queue
• A tiny bit of input work
• Interns: They are S-M-R-T

jgrlicky

• Helping out Pancake (formerly Firefox Home) team with frontend work
• Getting ramped up on Apps
• Designed a couple mockups for mobile-in-mind

jlongster

• Got a staging site working with merged mozilla.com and mozilla.org:
  • http://www-dev.allizom.org/
  • http://www-dev.allizom.org/community/

• Heavy work on web service for managing web services
• New firefox download page for firefox users:
  • http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/

jsocol

• Lots of interviews.
• Looking at resumes.
• Context switching. I owe a lot of people things, I swear I'm working through the list.
• The best thing about interns is how awesome our interns always are!

kumar

• initial support for submitting web apps to AMO. Woo!
• exposing addon performance data in API
• in Israel for next 2 weeks on PTO
• RE: favorite thing about interns? The Balrog code review smackdown.

lcrouch

• MDN 0.9.9
  • http://bit.ly/ptwutM
• Hacking on agzilla/bugile to give time-ordered agile charts from bugzilla-agile
• Favorite thing about interns: I'll make John come up with something for that.

lorchard

• MDN 0.9.9 push
• Badger 2
• Interns tend not yet to be curmudgeons

malexis

• Project planning for Game On II, Labs Coding Challenge, Apps, others..
• Interviews
• Mozillians house keeping
• Resource allocation for Q3 Engagement and Moz.com projects
• "You know, interns are little miracles -- their winning smiles, their faces alight with wholesome mischief. They reminds me of me before the weight of the world crushed my spirit." (paraphrased Homer Simpson quote).

mkelly

• Affiliates backend in progress
• Persona preview snippet goes to Aurora within the week
• Piano snippet is a hit! Steal potch's synth code to remove need for samples.

My favorite thing about interns is that I'm not one anymore.

morgamic

• Had 11 recruiting-related meetings last week (interviews, debriefs)! New record!
• Working with managers, recruiting to tackle the webdev queue; good problem to have (and thanks to Dave Dash for all his help too).
• This may be my last webdev meeting since I'm playing basketball with Owen tonight.
• Favorite thing about interns: never having to say you're sorry. (jk)

ozten

• Finishing the Mozillians 1.0 LDAP backend... almost there.
• Writing tests in Django, been a while

My favorite thing about interns - Enthusiasm!

paulosman

• Working on Betafarm MVP (http://betafarm.mozillalabs.com)
• Betafarm is now called 'Mozilla Labs'
• Getting festival.mozilla.org staged

ricky

• SUMO
  • New header style
  • Karma
• Interns are too productive

tanay

• Leaving August 19th =(
• Intern project (SUMO KB helpfulness metrics) coming along well
  • In final phase: aggregate metrics page

Favorite part about interns: I am one!

tofumatt

• Fixed nightly.mozilla.org (Android builds were weird)
• Doing lots of Mozillians stuff
• Did some WebFWD stuff
• Switched from TextMate to MacVim!

Favourite thing about interns? They make good drinking buddies when I'm in Mountain View, because college kids will drink on a Wednesday!

wenzel

• hiring!
  • tackling the monster that is jobvite
  • job interviews
• webifyme
• mozilla.org merge ("one mozilla") project