WeeklyUpdates/2014-03-03

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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

• Thank you to Gemma Petrie in UX for her infinite wisdom and unwavering willingness to share it.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, 06 March

• Firefox OS 1.4 Bug Bash - Come Help Test Our Product!
  • Time: 4pm - 7pm PST
  • IRC Channel: #fxosqa
  • Vidyo Room: Warp Core
  • Meeting rooms
    • Mountain View: Warp Core
    • San Francisco: 233 Alice B. Toklas
    • Toronto: 5F Sheppard
  • Prizes
    • Most Blocker Bugs Found
    • Most Number of Bugs Found
    • Worst Crash Bug Found
  • Other Information
    • Bring your own device preferably - we'll only have a small handful to hand out for testing
    • Free pizza for Mountain View & San Francisco attendees

Friday, 07 March

• IndieWebCampSF - The very first IndieWebCamp in San Francisco. Join us in San Francisco at Embassy Network for two days of a BarCamp-style gathering of web creators building and sharing open web technologies to empower users to own their own identities & content, and advance the state of the indie web.
  • Time: 10:00-18:00 PST
  • IRC Channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp
  • Location: Embassy Network, 399 Webster St., San Francisco, CA, US, 94117. http://embassynetwork.com/
  • RSVP: http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/SF_Guest_List

Saturday, 08 March

• IndieWebCampSF - continued from Friday
  • Time: 10:00-18:00 PST
  • IRC Channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/indiewebcamp
  • Location: Embassy Network, 399 Webster St., San Francisco, CA, US, 94117. http://embassynetwork.com/
  • RSVP: http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/SF_Guest_List

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location:

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location:

Firefox OS

Speaker: Peter Scanlon, Acting Chief Marketing Officer
Speaker Location: San Francisco
A quick follow-up to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: posts on the Mozilla Blog that provide perspective on our participation. Includes commentary and some great short films on the following topics:

• Unleashing the Future: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/26/mwc-update-unleashing-the-future/
• The Power of Partnerships: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/26/mwc-update-the-power-of-partnerships/
• Question Closed: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/27/mwc-update-question-closed/
  
• Hope for the Future: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/28/mwc-update-hope-for-the-future/
  

Many thanks to the Mozillians who participated, or enabled, our presence this year.

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Policy & Advocacy

Speaker Location: nonverbal

• Last week we joined with the Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation to announce the News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge is an annual contest to find the best ideas to accelerate media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information.
• This year's Challenge fund totals $2.75 million to find innovative ideas that strengthen the Internet and keep it open, trustworthy and safe for free expression.
• Participating in the challenge is open to ANYONE. We highly encourage the Mozilla Community to both participate (and encourage your networks to participate) and spread the word.
• More info can be found at newschallenge.org or by contacting Dave Steer @ daves@mozillafoundation.org

Open Badges

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Mon-Wed: SXSWedu - Members of the Open Badges team will be speaking on three panels at the South By Southwest Education Festival (SXSWedu) in Austin, TX:

• Tuesday, 10:30-11:30am - Is Being Tech-Savvy the New MBA?
• Wednesday, 9-10am - Open Badges Go Global: Building Valuable Pathways
• Thursday, 9-10am - Enabling Stackable Credentials: The Future is Now

Sample tweets to share with your followers:

• How to get your dream job in the digital age + more in this #SXSWedu panel http://bit.ly/obtechsavvy @6oz @megcolek @DR4WARD @YairR
• International digital assessment & #openbadges in the wild at #SXSWedu http://bit.ly/obgoglobal @emgollie @soletelee @markriches
• Lifelong learning and alternative credentials at #SXSWedu http://bit.ly/obstackable @anmechung @parchment @cathysandeen @WGU_Registrar

Thurs-Sat: DML - We will be launching BadgeKit at the Digital Media + Learning (DML) Conference in Boston, MA on Thursday, March 6.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: nonverbal

• Greg Wilson will be hosting a workshop at SIGCSE (a major computing education conference) in Atlanta on Wednesday night, which will explore ways of using the IPython Notebook in teaching.
  • Notable Guests:
    • Fernando Perez (creator of IPython)
    • Peter Norvig (of Google)
    • Doug Blank (who is using the Notebook to make robotics more accessible to novice programmers)
    • Cam Macdonell (whose students are building a turtle graphics module for the Notebook as a course project).

OpenNews

Speaker Location: non-verbal

• We led sessions and shared some news from our team at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting conference in Baltimore last week.
  • Announced the date and location of our first-ever conference, SRCCON, July 24+25 in Philadelphia.

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:

Firefox Student Ambassadors

Speaker Location: Written Update

• Please congratulate Ambassador Jim-Bert who won our App of the Month Contest with his FoxyFlames app and will receive a Very Splendid Gear Package. Great job Jim-Bert! If you're a Student Ambassador and interested in creating an app for our March or April contests, please find out more information on our wiki page

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location:

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox Marketplace

Speaker Location: written update

Quick update on Marketplace (worlwide, all platforms) - supplied by David Bialer

• Continues on a growth trajectory fueled by Firefox OS.

• Over 1 million visits last month (Feb) from 470,000 unique visitors (Firefox OS, Android, Desktop)

• 930,000 apps installed last month Feb)

• 85% of visits are from non-english speakers (with Spanish, Portuguese #1 and #2 languages)

• Since January 2013 there have been 6 million visits to Marketplace from over 3 million unique visitors.

• The Marketplace and Firefox for Android teams are working to improve the app experience on Android this quarter in Fx29 and Fx30 to deliver a web app experience on Android on parity with native apps.

IT

Speaker Location:

Web Compatibility

Speaker Location: ATX (miketaylr)

• about.com, usatoday.com, foursquare.com, virginatlantic.com now all send mobile content to Firefox OS users.
• blogger.com blogs now have usable layout Firefox for Android.
• screen.yahoo.com fixed their <video> support sniffing (no longer falling back to Flash).
• pitchfork.com updates to modern Flexbox, CSS layout hipsters annoyed while the masses rejoice.

Send us your mobile site compat bugs!.

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

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?
Mary Ellen Muckerman	Peter Scanlon	SFO	SFO	VP - Engagement (Brand)
David Torre	Sylvie Veilleux	SFO	SFO	IT Architect
Javaun Moradi	Chad Weiner	MTV	Washington, D.C.	Product Management for Desktop
No-Jun Park	Tony Chung	MTV	Moz Toronto	Firefox OS QA

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	New Hire location	Will be working on
Anthony Verez	Joe Stevensen	Joe Stevensen	Mountain View	Security Assurance Team

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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)

People

2014 goals are now available on the wiki here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014