Fosdem:2011/Proposals

Current talk proposals for the Mozilla room at FOSDEM 2011

• General Thunderbird/Messaging update - Ludovic Hirlimann
• Using Gloda to extend Thunderbird - Jonathan Protzenko
• Demos of Mozilla Messaging extensions (as part of Lightning Talks) - Andreas Nilsson
• Instantbird - Florian Quèze
• HTML5 APIs : The New Frontier - Robert Nyman
  • Abstract: HTML5 is upon us and it offers a wide range of exciting possibilities when it comes to developing rich web interfaces. This talk will introduce you to a number of them, show the code to use them and give pointers and hopefully inspire you to create amazing things!
• Foundation update - Gervase Markham
• In-tab UI (status, plans, and experiments) - Robert Kaiser
• about:volunteers ++ - Bogomil Shopov
  • Abstract: see here
• Fighting I/O: a story of Firefox startup speed improvements - Mike Hommey
  • Abstract: Cold startup is the first experience a user has from an application, so you'd rather make it fast. Unfortunately, a lot of different things get in the way, from filesystems to toolchains, even including binary formats. This talk will explore various sides of the problem, and introduce some of the techniques implemented in Firefox 4.0 and in the works for subsequent major releases. This talk will cover some of the tools developed or used by Mozilla to improve Firefox cold startup, and some upcoming toolchain improvements.
• Conkeror — a keyboard-oriented web browser as xulrunner application - Axel Beckert
  • Abstract: The talk presents Conkeror (with a C), a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by software such as Emacs and Lynx but also vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways. It is self-documenting, featuring a powerful interactive help system. The talk covers the history, connections to other FLOSS projects, the often misleading name, features, concepts and the future of Conkeror.
  • Slides will show up in time at http://noone.org/talks/conkeror/, see http://noone.org/talks/ (includes short bio and contact details) until then.
• WoMoz : Women and Mozilla - Delphine Lebédel (nominated by Seth Bindernagel)
  • What has happened in the last year? And a discussion of what is to come.
• SUMO —
  • Abstract: This talk will be about how we support 400 Million users with 4 employees. It will give a high level overview of how support is handled by one big open source project, featuring our own tailormade software Kitsune.