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Weekly updates from Mozilla IT on things we're doing to support and empower all of Mozilla in our mission keep the web a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent.

2018-10-08

• The IT Hackathon was last Thursday, October 4th, and it was a huge success! Close to 40 people participated in tracks on AirMo, Service Delivery, Conference Rooms, and Service Lifecycle. For Mozilla IT, it demonstrated our new orientation as a collaborative, experiment-driven, solution-building organization. We look forward to sharing what we've learned as we work with all Mozillians to find new ways to build and preserve the web.

• MDC (Mozilla Data Collective) has been upgraded to the latest release 5.3.1. Databot is now integrated with and available in MDC. Databot is now in #mozdatacollective, #mdcdatabot_test1 and #mdcdatabot_test2 slack channels. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the testing of the alpha version of databot. Your feedback is really valuable to the release of this feature in MDC. Thank You! Here’s a link to Quick How-To Databot

2018-10-01

• Doing the work of our mission is rewarding and exciting, and the open web needs Mozilla’s leadership now more than ever. To lead, we need to be strong and united and need to trust one another. Please take care of each other and support your fellow Mozillians. Can you think of 1 or 2 people who have done great work? Reach out and thank them! Everyone feels better when they know their work is being seen and appreciated.
• The Service Desk has designed a set of tools, documents, videos and services that can be self-administered by you. Such tools will allow you to address certain issues that you encounter with your technical environment, or to find answers to some common questions or situations. Look out for an email and a Hub banner to be posted soon.
• Do you have Slackbot ideas? I'll be leading an IT effort to deliver Slackbots to help us better collaborate and to make our day-to-day work easier. Help us deliver what you want and need! Have you worked with particularly helpful Slackbots? Do you have ideas, especially for Slackbots to improve our international and community reach? Share your ideas in Slack in our new slackbot-ideas channel!
• The IT Hackathon is this Thursday, October 4, with 4 separate sessions. A session hacking AirMo will start at 5 AM PST to better enable global participation, and three additional sessions will start at 8 AM PST, with readouts later in the day. The AirMo team would love your help hacking ways to identify and improve issues with streams in general, and Nightly in particular. The Hackathon is open to all! Sign up here and hack and learn with us!

2018-09-10

• THE FINAL COUNTDOWN- 2 DAYS to the SCL3 DATACENTER SHUTDOWN! Many teams across Mozilla have been working for months to migrate services out of the SCL3 datacenter that we will be closing THIS WEEK. We are down to the LAST 2 DAYS in the datacenter, with THIS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th being the last day that power and connectivity will be provided. Beyond that date we will be tearing down the physical infrastructure in that space. If there are any concerns please get in touch with Corey Shields.

In the spirit of Florence and the Machine:

Shake it out, Shake it out, Shake it out, Shake it out, Whoa!/ And it's hard to dance with a server on your back so shake it out/ 'Cause we are done with SCL3/ So Wednesday we'll cut it and we'll be free/ Cause we like to keep our apps running strong/ Cloud and MDC are our new dawn!

2018-08-27

• THE FINAL COUNTDOWN- 16 DAYS to the SCL3 Datacenter shutdown! Many teams across Mozilla have been working for months to migrate services out of the SCL3 datacenter that we will be closing soon. We are down to the final days in the datacenter, with September 12th being the last day that power and connectivity will be provided. Beyond that date we will be tearing down the physical infrastructure in that space. If there are any concerns please get in touch with Corey Shields. IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
• VPN Move - As part of The Final Countdown, the Mozilla VPN is moving out of SCL3. Reiterating the email that was sent on Friday: If you use the VPN, you must download a new configuration bundle at https://login.mozilla.com and use that. The old VPN will be turned off on September 12th. Any transition issues, please bring up with #servicedesk on Slack.
• AirMozilla public access unavailable until September 22, 2018. Any public events will need to be viewed on the Mozilla YouTube Channel or by logging in with any email address. Once a security update has been moved to production on September 22, air.mozilla.org will again point to the public page so that public webcasts are easily available via a single click. Until then, air.mozilla.org will point to airmo.mozilla.org. Public webcasts are always available on the Mozilla YouTube Channel or by logging in to airmo with any email. Staff and NDA Mozillians will need to log in via SSO to view secure content. Thank you for watching AirMozilla!
• Mozilla Tests and Experiments- With lots of exciting tests and experiments happening across Mozilla, it can sometimes be hard to know where you can find all of the tests. IT has put together a quick reference page on Mana so you can easily find those tests you want to contribute to. We will also refer new Mozillians to this page during new hire on-boarding going forward.

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