WeeklyUpdates/2007-07-23

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Development Updates

Gecko 1.9

• M7 Gecko Feature Freeze July 25th.
• Major New Features:
  • Anti-Malware
  • Finalized Offline APIs
  • Secure Wrappers

Developer Relations

• Headed to OSCON (shaver, mfinkle, jresig and fligtar)
• WebRunner experimentation continues
  • Adding spellcheck suggestions and password support
  • Better external link detection
  • Creating an extension to manage webapps from Firefox
  • Exploring the use of Firefox3 as a runtime for WebRunner

Foundation Updates

Note that Frank is traveling to Portland today for OSCON and won't be participating in the weekly call.

• Grants and related activities
  • Henri Sivonen completed another milestone in his Mozilla Foundation-funded HTML5 conformance checker project.

• IP/legal issues
  • Frank and Gerv did some internal licensing-related stuff.

• Other
  • Frank was on vacation and traveling a good part of the week.
  • Zak has been working to help get the Internet as a Public Good symposium organized.
  • David has been working on various tasks related to donations to the Mozilla Foundation.
  • Gerv attended the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.