WeeklyUpdates/2014-08-25

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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

Michelle Luna, From all of the contributors and staff for the at SuMo

Shout out to Clint Talbert for responding to our call for ways contributors can help more directly with product goals -- he proposed a new way to engage Aurora users.

A big shout out to the Tunisian Community for all their effort and work to help us in Grow Tunisia. Specially Melek Jebnoun, Sofien Chaabouni, Manel Rhaiem, Selmi Ahmed, Ahmed Nefzaoui and Alexander (Skander)

Thanks to the staff and volunteer community managers who took part in last week's community building working group meetup. Look for a summary of what got built coming later this week.

Dance-party style big thank you to Justin Potts for his summer Web QA contributions to Webmaker and Mozillians.

Upcoming Events

Monday, 25 August

• Aug 23-31 - Debian Conference 2014
  • Mozillians Francois Marier, Benjamin Kerensa, Oliver Propst participating

Tuesday, 26 August

Intern Presentations

• 1:00PM - Ahmed Kachkach, "TBD" SF
• 1:30PM - Gregory A. Norcie, "Towards High Entropy, Easy to Remember Passwords for FXA" SF
• 2:00PM- Vlad Filippov, "Service Authentication with Firefox Accounts" SF

Wednesday, 27 August

Homebrew Website Club Meetup

• Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and @MozSF!
• 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

"" SuMo Mobile Meeting "" This will be Michelle Lunas last ever mobile meeting as a staff its in Michelle Luna vidyo room or #sumo its at 10:30am pt https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sumo-mobile

Intern Presentations

• 1:00PM- Johan Lorenzo, "TBD" MV
• 1:30PM Piyush Waradpande, "Minion just got friendlier!" MV
• 2:00PM Luqman Aden, "TBD" MV
• 2:30PM Jonathan Bailey, "TBD" MV

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: Toronto (johnath)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

• Li Gong in MTV

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:

Content Services

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: nonverbal

• The Maker Party goes on!
  • Contributors: 5826 (5% increase from last week’s 5552)
  • Webmaker accounts: 143.9K (16% increase from last week’s 124K)
  • Events: 1913 (6% increase from last week’s 1799)
  • Hosts: 556 (13% increase from last week’s 493)
  • Expected attendees: 84,595 (11% increase from 76,200)
  • Cities: 385 (6% increase from 362)
  • Check out this list of Maker Party events that inspired us last week
  • We invite you to look at Issue 4 of Community Literacies, a series about Webmaker’s finest learning resources around the world, and the stories that bring them to life. In this installment, we explore 3 of the most inspiring teaching materials built by the community for Maker Party.

• The MozFest session proposal deadline has been extended! Please help spread the word. We'll be accepting submissions until this Friday, August 29. See http://mzl.la/Propose for more

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location: non-verbal

• Building on last week: we're still looking for new ideas re:
  • Ways that community can have impact on topline goals in Q3/Q4
  • Shout out to Clint Talbert for proposing a new way to engage Aurora users
  • If you have ideas, contact David Boswell, Mark Surman or Mary Ellen Muckerman
• Reading: David Boswell posted on the topic of Quality vs. Quantity for contribution:
  • http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/quality-over-quantity/
• More in depth verbal update coming next week

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
Michelle Marovich	Community Building	Recognition	Mountain View	no, will link to slides	https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10ochWyZ2QEoLChKwmuBUW_4zTDkK9HVcylzEZq5Wn84/edit?usp=sharing	https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozillians/Vouching
Jason Weathersby	Phones For Apps	Download, Rate and Review	Remote	yes, sharing simulator	https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/build-your-next-app-with-a-flame/
Robyn Chau	Events Program Manager, Brand Team	BrazilJS 2014	My home	No	http://mzl.la/1ldAyVS	http://mzl.la/1ldAyVS

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?
David Slater	Chris Beard	Mountain View	Mountain View	Chief of Staff

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?
Clark Gaebel	Patrick Walton	Mountain View	San Francisco	Research

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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 1050230 Use better icons for the guided bug entry product selection to differentiate Fx, Fx for Android and FxOS

All changes.

Engagement

• Engagement's Active Project Dashboard