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== Community ==
== Community ==
* SpreadFirefox 2.0 -- Currently working with RainCity and Mozilla folks on the launch of SFx 2.0. Staging site up for review at the end of the week, we hope to release a version for testing on 8/27.
* SpreadFirefox 2.0 -- Currently working with RainCity and Mozilla folks on the launch of SFx 2.0. If we get infrastructure up today or tomorrow, we can have the staging site up for a first review at the end of the week, we hope to release a version for widespread testing on 8/27. - Asa
 
* Surfaced t-shirt and community swag issue for certain locales. We're going to prototype a solution that might allow us to bring certain Mozilla Store items to locations where it was previously cost prohibitive. - Asa
 
* Surfaced a need from communities wanting to build local advocacy sites and proposed a solution that would expand the current l10n shared server infra or create a new one for hosting local advocacy communities. - Asa
 
* India activities continue at speed - Seth


== Mozilla Labs ==
== Mozilla Labs ==
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= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
* IP/legal issues
** Frank Hecker responded to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation
** Frank contacted a company about putting proper MPL, etc., notifications in the EULA and other material for their Mozilla-based product.
* Grants and related activities.
** The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the 2008 [http://www.w4a.info W4A conference] (renewing our sponsorship from this year).
** Henri Sivonen completed another milestone on his Foundation-funded [http://about.validator.nu/ conformance checker] work.
* Web sites
** David Boswell worked more on revising the [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ Foundation section of www.mozilla.org].
* Other
** Zak Greant worked on tying up loose ends from the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg Internet as a Public Good Symposium].
** Gerv was on vacation.
For more information see the individual status reports from [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/status-update-2007-08-10/ David], [http://hecker.org/mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-08-10 Frank], [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/ Gerv], and [http://zak.greant.com/ Zak].


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =


= Other Business =
= Other Business =

Revision as of 13:01, 13 August 2007

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In Attendance

Development Updates

Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.7

  • Tbird 1.5.0.13 code freeze on 8/9
  • Tbird Major Updates pushed to beta 8/13
    • We are hoping to release major updates later this week
  • Triage 2.0.0.7 is on-going

TB 3

  • No updates for this week.

Gecko 1.9

  • Nothing but blockers.

Firefox 3

IT

  • Continuing to set up talos/performance Mac Minis
  • More server/kernel upgrades this week (continuing from last week)

Build

  • We're going to switch to nightlies from the new reference platform this week, probably on Wednesday; the new nightlies are available on FTP.

QA

Security

Marketing/PR

  • SUMO -- next round of knowledge base articles is up for writing/editing. Join the growing community to help.
  • Mozilla24 event coming September 15-16.
  • Welcome Alix Franquet to the marketing team!

Community

  • SpreadFirefox 2.0 -- Currently working with RainCity and Mozilla folks on the launch of SFx 2.0. If we get infrastructure up today or tomorrow, we can have the staging site up for a first review at the end of the week, we hope to release a version for widespread testing on 8/27. - Asa
  • Surfaced t-shirt and community swag issue for certain locales. We're going to prototype a solution that might allow us to bring certain Mozilla Store items to locations where it was previously cost prohibitive. - Asa
  • Surfaced a need from communities wanting to build local advocacy sites and proposed a solution that would expand the current l10n shared server infra or create a new one for hosting local advocacy communities. - Asa
  • India activities continue at speed - Seth

Mozilla Labs

Developer Relations

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Foundation Updates

  • IP/legal issues
    • Frank Hecker responded to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation
    • Frank contacted a company about putting proper MPL, etc., notifications in the EULA and other material for their Mozilla-based product.
  • Grants and related activities.
    • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the 2008 W4A conference (renewing our sponsorship from this year).
    • Henri Sivonen completed another milestone on his Foundation-funded conformance checker work.

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

Roundtable

Other Business