WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-04
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Contents
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
- Happy Birthday to williamr from all of the Mozilla Community
- Many thanks to bgrins, Gijs, jryans, khuey, mccr8, njn, past, roc, smaug, and ttaubert for dropping everything to investigate and fix the leaks that were keeping the tree closed for 2 days last week.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 04 November
- 13:00 PST : SecReview - Simple Push Server
- vidyo and dial-in details available via the link
Tuesday, 05 November
- 10:30 PST : Appmaker Weekly Meeting
- come help us deliver upon the promise of Appmaker!
- vidyo and dial-in details available via the link -- 10:30 this week only, usually 10:00
Wednesday, 06 November
- 12:00 PST : Brownbag: Firefox OS Field Tests in Colombia: Results and Opportunities
- Learn about a User Experience Research trip to Colombia in August, 2013. We tested our phones on 24 middle-class Colombians for 3 weeks. Find out what happened! Open to Mozilla volunteers and paid staff.
Thursday, 07 November
- 9:00 PST : Manager Hacking
- After skipping our October session because of the Summit, ManagerHacking is back for November. With 5 sessions under our belt, this seems like a good time to take stock of the program. To that end, we are interested in hearing what YOU want/need from a program like this. As such, the Nov session will be a planning/brainstorming session led by Dia on future topics and session structure (discussions, presentations, etc). This is your chance to influence the direction of this program!
Friday, 08 November
- 12:00pm to 1:30pm: Community Building workshop in Portland Mozilla Space hosted by Benjamin Kerensa
Saturday, 09 November
Sunday, 10 November
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- FF25 looks solid
- Learn to love the feature keyword in bugzilla
- seer! bug 881804
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: (remote) mfinkle
- Tracking feedback on Fx25 release
- Landed more cleanup and performance improvements to Fx26 and Fx27
- Started planning work for Fx28. See team notes and the roadmap for more details.
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: no verbal update this week
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:' Sandip Kamat (Vidyo)'
- Mozilla Blog (10/31/13): After Brazil, Firefox OS now in Mexico, Peru, Uruguay. With that, FxOS devices are now available in parts of 3 continents (Europe, South America and North America). Thank you, all!
- Version 1.2 (koi+ bugs): Focus on driving 1.2 blocker count to 0. Code Complete 12/16/13. Only blocker bug-fixes accepted hereon!
- Version 1.3: We are in Sprint 4. Please pre-test for no performance regressions as you check-in code.
Sprint 4 = 10/28 - 11/08; Sprint 5 = 11/11 - 11/22; Sprint 6 = 11/25 - 12/06;
- Future Versions: FxOS Product long term Roadmap https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Getting to a Million Mozillians
Here are some tips and suggestions for people who are interested in learning more about bringing new contributors in to your project.
- Who: You have connected with some volunteers and you're interested in learning about how to build on what's working so more people can join.
- Read Margaret's great blog post about increasing participation on the Firefox for Android team that has 5 helpful tips in it
- Check out the recently awarded Mozilla badges to get an idea of how some teams are recognizing contributors.
- Watch a couple of these videos that have been created by community builders for people interested in community building.
60 Seconds with Mozilla IT
Speaker Location : San Francisco
- Welcome Knowles, Opsec
- SRE team had an epic triage and their bug queue dropped by 40%
- Dumitru Gherman presented a session (with Emma Irwin) on Webmaker last week at MozFest
- Mike Poessy @ SFO servicedesk reduced imaging time for windows machines from a couple of hours to 20 mins
- Jake Watkins worked on https://github.com/dividehex/metric-collective, Mark and Q worked on improving Windows imaging for release engineering and Dustin helped setup Puppet for the Auto tools team.
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 |
| Mathew Caldwell | Recruiting Cheerleader | Our new Careers site | Mountain View | Yes - My browser to show the new career site | ||
| Sylvie Veilleux | VP IT | Response to question - do we have a plan to migrate away from the proprietary Vidyo client + flash to something based on WebRTC for our meetings? If so, do we have a timeline for this? | San Francisco (+ Jb remotely, if needed) | |||
| Mike Hoye | Engineering Community Manager | DashCon 2014: The Mozilla Dashboarding Convention | Toronto | Happening in the Vancouver MozSpace, January 14th, open to all. | A longer post on the way dev-planning shortly. |
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!
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? |
| Andreas Tolfsen | Jonathan Griffin | Toronto | London | Marionette and B2G Automation |
| Sevaan Franks | Ian Barlow | Toronto | Toronto | Firefox UX \o/ |
| Melinda Salazar | Tony Santos | Remote | Remote | UX Designer |
| Vance Chen | Thomas Ho | SFO (recorded) | Taipei | Firefox OS - Technical Account Manager |
| Wilson Page | Hema Koka | Mountain View | London | Firefox OS - Frontend Software Engineer |
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.
