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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]]  =
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'''This Week'''  
'''This Week'''  


'''Monday, 19 July'''  
'''Monday, 26 July'''  
* [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon OSCON] in Portland, Oregon.  Some Mozillians attending and giving talks.
*  


'''Tuesday, 20 July'''  
'''Tuesday, 27 July'''  


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'''Wednesday, 21 July'''<br>  
'''Wednesday, 28 July'''<br>  
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*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].
'''Thursday, 29 July'''
*[https://intranet.mozilla.org/Brown_Bag_Presentations Brownbag]: Jan Bosch, VP Engineering at Intuit on "Towards Compositional Software Engineering" at Noon (PT) in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla


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'''Thursday, 22 July'''


*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].
'''Friday, 30 July'''


 
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'''Friday, 23 July'''
 
*[http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ FISL 11 (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre)] in Porto Alegre, Brasil.&nbsp; Mozilla has a presence with a Mozilla room, community and scheduled talks.&nbsp; Follow information on Mozilla at FISL on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki here].




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== Firefox 4 ==
== Firefox 4 ==
* code freeze for Beta 2 is [[Releases/Firefox_4.0b2|scheduled]] for tonight at 11:59pm PT
 
* there are a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:beta2 good number of blockers] left
** some are being moved to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:beta3 beta3] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=OPEN%20blocking2.0:betaN betaN]
** if you think your blocker should be moved, say so
** if you think your blocker shouldn't be moved, and won't be ready, tell beltzner ASAP


== Firefox 3.6 ==
== Firefox 3.6 ==
* Firefox [[Releases/Firefox_3.6.7|3.6.7]]/[[Releases/Firefox_3.5.11|3.5.11]] scheduled to be released tomorrow
 
* beltzner will be running the show


== Mobile Firefox ==
== Mobile Firefox ==
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| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
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| Firefox 4 Beta
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| Johnathan Nightingale
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| Public announcement about code freeze
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| ''no slides''
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| ''above in these notes''
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== Messaging  ==
== Messaging  ==
Due to scheduling conflicts, noone will be talking on the call for the Messaging team today; we'll be back next week.


* Trunk nightlies have been resurrected after the Great XPCOM Registration Overhaul
* Effort to make Thunderbird participation more fun and rewarding started; see [http://groups.google.com/group/tb-planning the tb-planning archives] for details, and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/tb-planning join the list] to participate.
* Post-3.1 planning discussions underway in tb-planning as well.


== Mobile  ==
== Mobile  ==
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== Release Engineering  ==
== Release Engineering  ==
Releases:
 
* major update for 3.5.10 -> 3.6.6 published
Other:
* reftests now running with direct2d enabled
* now reporting regressions in trace-malloc, codesighs, refcnt leaks same as we do for other talos tests
* if you use TryServer, please read this post to mozilla.dev.planning: [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/402306d36d838d50# Changing what TryServer jobs are run by default]
* automated cleanup policy for stage is now in place. See details here: [[ReleaseEngineering:StageCleanupPolicy]]


== QA  ==
== QA  ==
;QA Org Highlights
 
* Desktop Firefox
** Firefox 3.6.7/3.5.11 shipped to beta
* Browser Technologies
** FF Home deployed to App store
* Web QA
** Ship [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.11.4 AMO 5.11.4]
* QA Services
** Community
*** Marcia and Tomcat attended Community Leadership Summit in Portland.


== Automation & Tools ==
== Automation & Tools ==
* [http://bitbucket.org/jonallengriffin/grafxbot/downloads Grafx bot] test day going ahead this Friday - we'll throw in the reftest scrolling tests just to see if we can tickle the recent retained layer code, we need to run the tool through QA anyway to be sure it's ready to go
** Submitting it to AMO this week
* Landed updated sutagent and devicemanager.py for Android
* Updated splinter extension for bugzilla, should have it finalized this week (waiting on a corresponding bugzilla change) {{bug|570786}}
* Starting work on cycle-collector performance tests {{bug|572542}}
* More information is always on [[Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-07-19|our page]].


== Security  ==
== Security  ==
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'''PR'''  
'''PR'''  
*[http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/07/firefox-home-hands-on-firefox-on-your-iphone-sorta.ars Firefox Home hands-on: Firefox on your iPhone... sorta]
*[http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/Apple-Lets-Firefox-Ride-Along-on-Safari-70430.html?wlc=1279301709&wlc=1279555583 Apple Lets Firefox Ride Along on Safari]
*[http://www.fastcompany.com/1670785/firefox-home-enters-the-app-store-connects-your-pcs-browser-to-your-iphones Firefox Home Enters the App Store, Connects Your PC's Browser to Your iPhone's]
*[http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/firefox-iphone/ Firefox Home For iPhone Approved, Lets You Sync Bookmarks, Open Tabs And More]
*[http://mashable.com/2010/07/15/firefox-home-app-store/ Firefox Home Is Now in the App Store]
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20010756-264.html Apple approves Firefox sync app]
*[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/firefox-home-hits-the-iphone-looks-handy/36815 Firefox Home hits the iPhone: Looks handy]
*[http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1723107/mozilla-raises-bug-bounty Mozilla raises its bug bounty]
*[http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/07/mozilla-ups-bounty-for-reporting-vulnerabilities-to-3000.ars Mozilla ups bounty for reporting vulnerabilities to $3,000]
*[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366627,00.asp Mozilla Ups Security Bounty from $500 to $3,000]
*[http://www.scmagazineus.com/mozilla-to-revamp-add-on-code-review-process/article/174658/ Mozilla to revamp add-on code review process]
*[http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25803/page1/ Can Mozilla Deliver an Open App Store?]


<br> '''Events'''  
<br> '''Events'''  


*[http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-home.html Black Hat USA 2010] July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk &amp; cookies party on 7/28.&nbsp; Check out the information here: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Black_Hat_2010 ]<br>
*[http://www.fisl.org.br/10/www/en FISL 2010] July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We will have a Mozilla room, talks and other activities.&nbsp; Follow all of the activities that are going on through the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki page].&nbsp;
*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level.&nbsp; No Mozilla talks scheduled.<br>
*[http://www.openvideoconference.org/ Open Video Conference 2010] - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY&nbsp; - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
*[http://www.blogher.com/blogher-10 BlogHer '10] - August 6-7, 2010 - We will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab as well as a meetup on Thursday (open to non BlogHer folk)&nbsp; - sign up for the meetup [http://www.meetup.com/Mozilla-in-the-Big-Apple/calendar/14115600/ here]. <br>
*[http://makerfaireafrica.com/ Maker Faire Africa] - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
*[http://www.renegadecraft.com/chicago Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010] - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. &nbsp;Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RenegadeCraftFair2010_Chicago wiki] for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.<br>


'''Creative Team'''  
'''Creative Team'''  
Summit Visual Identity: http://musingt.com/?p=317




'''Community Marketing'''
'''Community Marketing'''
*Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday July 28th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to sarah at mozilla dot com.
*Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday July 28th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to mary at mozilla dot com.


== Support  ==
== Support  ==
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== Labs  ==
== Labs  ==
* People's Choice voting for the [http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/contacts/ Contacts Design Challenge] is open - [http://design-challenge.mozillalabs.com/contacts/vote/ vote now]!
 


== Developer Tools ==
== Developer Tools ==
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== L10n  ==
== L10n  ==
*  Firefox 4 beta 2 will be a localized beta, with the release team incorporating the "l10n-merge" tool for the first time
 
**  Localizations with untranslated strings on Mozilla Central will have the original English strings appear in the user interface
**  All localizers [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/browse_thread/thread/36e8e6baf73db09a# have been invited and encouraged] to participate
**  We will continue to use this path until we declare a formal product string freeze later in the release cycle
* Along with product l10n, Pascal has been driving all web l10n for the beta release
*  The Jetpack 1l0n API work is ahead of schedule with Gandalf running an instance of the implementation that is being created by the team from Indifex
*  Axel started [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/629155e90992676e# a thread on Dev.Planning proposing a shift in the way we release new locales].  Comments and feedback are welcomed and encouraged.
*  Stas continues to work on releasing the To-Do app that he demoed during the science fair in Whistler


= Introducing New Hires =
= Introducing New Hires =
* Paul Craciunoiu, Webdev
 
* Ravi Pina, IT
* Paul Biggar, JavaScript


= Foundation Updates  =
= Foundation Updates  =


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =

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