WeeklyUpdates/2009-06-01

« previous week | index | next week »

Friends of the Tree

aakashd writes in "I'd like to nominate tmyoung, shutnik, nemo and our MV intern Aaron Train for their excellent work on Friday's Fx3.5 Nightly Testday. Specifically, Aaron was able to give mconnor, ehsan, simon bünzli and dietrich some extra work on friday with a PB mode bug that'll be added to Fx3.5 RC1's release notes."

Development Updates

Firefox 3.5

Firefox Front End Work

Namoroka

QA

Test Execution

Web Dev Testing, Metrics, Accessibility, Localization, Community

Test Development

Marketing/PR

Firefox 3.5 Launch

• Community Marketing Team will be kicking off efforts to promote Firefox 3.5 this week with the Fastest Firefox video campaign.
• Last week, campus rep Vineel Reddy shared a great video to highlight Firefox 3.5's features, including speed and customization. Video here.
• Video is up from our Launch workshops

Mozilla Service Week

Community Marketing Call

• Next Community Marketing call is Wednesday, June 3rd, at 10am PDT. Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#. Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org. Please note the new the new Air Mozilla channel for all marketing-related activities.

PR

Events

• Open Source Bridge, Portland, June 17 - 19:
  • Mikeal Rogers and Dietrich Ayala are both speaking.
  • Mozilla will participate in the Hacker Lounge. Our proposed session: Firefox & extension hacking. Dietrich will also participate in the Open Web Games session.
  • We're also looking to participate in the Knowledge Fair
  • More details on our participation here.

• Open Video Conference, New York, June 19 - 20:
  • Help get the word out about the conference! http://openvideoconference.org/
  • Chris Blizzard will be speaking on the future of open video
  • We're hosting a video conference that will now kick off at the conference vs. wrapping up then.

• Open Web Conference, Vancouver, June 11 -
  • David Ascher will be speaking
  • Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer will be giving a talk
  • Let Mary know if anyone is local and wants to attend -- we have a few passes

Evangelism

• Mozilla Developer Center upgraded to MindTouch 2009; some new features are not exposed yet but will be over the next few days. For details on what's changed and what still needs to be done, read Sheppy's blog post.
• Firefox 3.5 documentation is winding down now. The flow of "hey, we don't have docs for X yet" has just about stopped.

L10n

Firefox 3.5

• 73 locales have opted in for Firefox 3.5 RC1
  • Hope to add Turkish and Mongolian before final release

Web

• Firefox 3.5 on the web dashboard
• Fastest Fox came in over the weekend and 15 locales will participate
  • ca, cs, en-US, es-AR, es-CL, fr, kk, ku, nl, ro, sk, sq, sr, vi, zh-CN
• Mozilla IT survey postponed due to technical limitations from provider that we discovered after the project localization was launched. Look to restart that in Q3

Tools

• Silme 0.5.1 to be released June 2, 2009
  • small API change to get_package
• 0.7 scheduled for release, please join the fun.
• sethb did two posts on community projects:
  • Koala
  • Silme-Narro integration

Foundation Updates

• We've been thinking and talking more about Mozilla's mission, including what makes the web better, how to describe Mozilla in one sentence, building vs. believing, and what it means to think like the web.
• We're trying to bring more community focus to www.mozilla.org, and inviting you to help us with this.