WeeklyUpdates/2015-01-12
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- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 12 January
Tuesday, 13 January
Wednesday, 14 January
- Homebrew Website Club Meetup
- San Francisco (@MozSF 1st floor), Chicago, and Portland.
- 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
- 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night
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Create or update your personal web site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!
or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom
Thursday, 15 January
Friday, 16 January
- Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5 from 5pm-9pm at Google, San Francisco
- Josh Carpenter speaking
- It's VR time! Let's kick off 2015 with a super exciting event featuring 5 expert talks about browser-based virtual reality at SFHTML5. After that, head over to the VR world tour kick-off event at The Metreon!
- Webdev Beer and Tell at 2PM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo room (and streaming on AirMo)
- Open to the public!
- Monthly get-together where webdevs across the community show off their side projects.
Saturday, 17 January
Sunday, 18 January
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox
Speaker Location:
- Growth themes for Q1 (cmore)
- Hello
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: No speaker today
- We're back from a great week at CES. Panasonic's new 4K TVs will run Firefox OS under the hood.
- http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/panasonic-4k-tvs-with-firefox-os/ and lots more press
- Release version 2.2 is underway- Feature Landing is Feb 23, 2015. For more dates, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#B2G_Scheduling
- See https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap#2.2_Focus_Features for 2.2 features
Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
CTO Update
Speaker Location:
Content Services
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker: Andrew Sliwinski Location: PDX
- Major updates launched last week to Webmaker.org focused on improving the visitor to user registration conversion rate.
- Splash
- Navigation
- Login
- Next up:
- On-boarding - Get new users making & learning right away
- Marketing - Privacy day campaign
- Mobile - Field testing in India
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.
| Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who Are You? | What Do You Do? | What are you going to talk about? | Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) | Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
| Peter B, Richard M | Air Mozilla | Help out edit past Air Mozilla events | MV Moz Office | Live demo on Potch's screen | https://air.mozilla.org/unpicked-pictures/ | https://air.mozilla.org/contributors |
Roundtable
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
| Who are you? | Area of question | Question |
|---|---|---|
| What's your name? What do you work on? | Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. | What would you like to know? |
Welcome!
Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.
Introducing New Volunteers
| New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new volunteer(s)? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where is the new person based? | What will the new person be doing? |
Introducing New Hires
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Alexandra Costello | Mary Ellen Muckerman | San Francisco | San Francisco | |
| Rachel Berenbaum | Michelle Marovich | Mountain View | San Francisco | |
| Bryan Bell | Bill Maggs | San Francisco | US Remote |
Introducing New Interns
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Cloud Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
bugzilla.mozilla.org
Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:
- bug 1050232 The first of a batch of changes improving the guided bug entry form landed. This improves the bug filing experience for the majority of our users.