WeeklyUpdates/2010-05-10

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Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality	Laura Mesa	Newest Release of Plugin Check now supports all modern browsers!	http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/	Try it out yourself! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

Status Updates By Team

Release Engineering

• trees were closed all weekend and remain CLOSED
  • Windows build slaves have been disconnecting after 3 minutes: bug 555794
  • continue working with IT on a fix/workaround

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Test Dev

Automation & Tools

• Rolling out Bug Hunter crash & unit test failure system, gave demo to developers last week
• Working to iron out issues with Fennec + electrolysis unit tests this week
• Meeting about rolling Addon Performance into Talos this week
• Gave Design Lunch on Reviewboard/Splinter Bugzilla integration
• More items here

Marketing/PR

General

• Plugin Check: Cross Browser Functionality
  • Works with all recent versions of modern browsers
    • Chrome
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • IE
      • http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

PR

• Firefox's New Add-Ons Manager Looks Great, Adds Search Plug-In Management

• Hands-on: Mozilla's foxy Fennec prerelease build for Android
• Firefox Mobile gets started on Android
• Why Mozilla Wants the Fennec Browser on Android (and What It Looks Like)

• Firefox Wants to Be Your Online Identity Portal Too
• Firefox Steps Up to Challenge Facebook's Claim to Identity
• Account Manager for Firefox Graduates from Mozilla Labs

Events

• e27 echelon 2010 June 1-2, 2010; Singapore.  Gen will be participating in this event.
• LinuxTag 2010 June 9-12, 2010; funding from Mozilla Europe is secured; Mozilla staff and community will manage a 12m2 booth at Europe's largest Linux tech fair; Tristan Nitot, Paul Rouget and Brian King all confirmed to give keynote talks; Carsten Book and WQ leading community outreach and organization
• Black Hat USA 2010 July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - Look into putting together the "traditional" Mozilla milk & cookies party.
  
• GUADEC 2010 - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.  We are sponsoring at the bronze level.  no Mozilla talks schedules.
  
• Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY  - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
• BlogHer '10 - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
• Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
• London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF & London.
  

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Webdev

• The new version of Bouncer has landed, now with Build integration!

Introducing New Hires

• Rebecca Billings Sr. QA Eng, WebQA
• Raymond Etornam QA Eng, WebQA
• Ayan Shah, QA Intern