WeeklyUpdates/2010-07-12

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Friends of the Tree

• Matt Basta for fixing the whistling sink (Facilities Management confidential bug which is technically hard to make public - sorry! See this for part of the joke.)

Upcoming Events

This Week

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Product Status Updates

Firefox 4

We shipped a beta last week, despite there being a minor distraction!

Go Get It!

Firefox 3.6

• Firefox 3.6.7
  • Went to beta audience the Friday before the summit, thanks to all of those that got it out
  • Crash reports inadvertently throttled, now unthrottled
  • Investigating why we seem to have stopped at ~420k users, likely due to FF4 beta
  • Plan is to ship July 20th

Older Branch Work

• Firefox 3.5.11
  • Tied to Firefox 3.6.7
  • Went to beta last Friday, currently ~100k users

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information
Security Bounty Update	Lucas Adamski	We are updating our security bounty program!		http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html and http://blog.mozilla.com/security/

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution

• A whole lotta shipping prior to summit! (Fx4b1-includes feedback, Fx3.6.7b, Fx3.5.11b, sync1.4, FFHome to app store)
• Great job shuffling of QA resources to support all those releases at different times
• Fennectrolysis landed in trunk, but lots of brokenness with 2.0 builds

WebQA

• Mozilla.com pages for Firefoc 4b1 were shipped
• Testing of Bespin gallery 1.0 is in progress
• Testing AMO 5.11.4 and SUMO 2.2 this week

QA Community

• Great discussions at the Summit about building community
• Marcia and Tomcat in Portland for the Community Leadership Summit this weekend

Test Dev

Engagement

PR

• Mozilla releases interactive Firefox heat map illustrating just how often we hit the back button

• IBM endorses Firefox as in-house Web browser
• IBM names Firefox its default browser
• IBM Pledges Alliegence To Mozilla, Firefox To Become Its Default Browser

• User interface overhaul arrives in Firefox 4 beta
• Firefox 4 beta tested: Reflecting Chrome's shiny example
• Firefox 4 beta 1 is smart-looking, snappy
• Amid New Browser Wars, Next Version of Firefox Debuts

• Firefox Mobile goes final for Nokia N900 with add-ons
• Firefox 1.1 hits Maemo in final form, featuring Add-ons, Save to PDF and more
• Mozilla releases Firefox 1.1 for Nokia N900

• Firefox on the iPhone? Mozilla submits Firefox Home to Apple
• Mozilla Submits Firefox Home to iPhone App Store
• Firefox Home, the browser that isn’t, is now awaiting App Store approval

• Firefox's Jetpack extensions get 2010 goal

• Firefox Reaches 2 Billion Add-On Downloads
• Firefox Crosses 2 Billion Add-On Downloads

Events

• Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party on 7/28.  Check out the information here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010
  
• FISL 2010 July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We are looking into having a Mozilla room, talks and other activities.  Follow progress on the wiki page. 
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  No Mozilla talks scheduled.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab.  More details soon!
• Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities.  Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
  

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Metrics

• How Do People Interact with the Main Window of Firefox? Check out this breathtaking heatmap visualization!

Developer Tools

• Bespin 0.9a1 was released adding support for multiple Bespin instances on a page and code completion
• The first release of the Bespin Bookmarklet landed, allowing you to use Bespin in place of a textarea anywhere on the web
• We posted a new tutorial about manipulating text through custom commands which shows how to build Markdown conversion into Bespin
• A second tutorial posted during the week shows how Bespin's GUI is wired up and how you can add to it, with the beginnings of a toolbar component.

Introducing New Hires

• Irakli Gozalishvili Add-ons Engineer

Roundtable

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