WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-09

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 9 May

Tuesday, 10 May

Brown Bag
"Of Browsers and Robots"
Daniel Casner from Anybots on in-browser controls and telepresence robots.
12:30PM in Ten Forward

Wednesday, 11 May
Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.

Thursday, 12 May

Friday, 13 May

• [QA] Firefox Aurora bugday: details

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5 & 6

• Merge from mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta still planned for May 17 (next week!)
• Beta meetings are already happening, Mondays at 2pm. See dev.planning for details.
• Migration of beta users from old FF4 betas has begun - progress updates next week (or at the Wednesday, 11am product call)

• Merge from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora still planned for May 24 (2 weeks!)

• New blog for tracking updates to the channels process: blog.mozilla.com/channels

Thunderbird

• Having a community run litmus testing Event next week in order to make sure that nothing is regressing. Details on how you might help are in this email.
• String freeze for Miramar at end of day tomorrow
• Comm-central will branch for Miramar at the same time

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Product Marketing Manager	Laura Mesa	Coming Mark Up Campaign	N/A	The site will have a dark launch later this week--I'll send en email when its live so you can help test!

Status Updates By Team

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Push of FF 5.0 Beta

WebQA

• Pushes this week:
  • Socorro 1.7.7.2 -- adding a "Channel" field to crash reports
  • Mozilla.com 2.3
  • MDN 0.9.4.2
  • AMO 6.0.8
    • Includes the switch to EdgeCast's CDN
  • Personas, May 3rd
  • SUMO 2.8.1 on 5/3

QA Community

• Write up of last week's London Tester Gathering event: http://blargon7.com/2011/05/london-tester-gathering-with-mozilla/
• Awesome Firefox 4 launch party in Cluj, Romania. Blog post pending. But here are some pics
• Successful test day on friday

Browser Technologies

• Mobile
  • Fennec 5 Beta -> ETA 5/17
  • Fennec 6 Aurora -> ETA 5/24
  • Beta Testday -> Friday, 5/20
  • Delayed in (Identity, Share, and Firefox Home) due to crypto and security issues. New plan of action in place
• Services
  • No client deployment this week
  • KeyExchange server deployed
• Jetpack: Flightdeck 0.9.4 tested and shipped live

Automation & Tools

• Meet Toolbox: a place to find our tools http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/

Engagement

PR

• Why We Need Firefox
• Mozilla fights DHS over anti-MPAA, RIAA utility
• Mozilla resists request to remove Firefox tool
• Mozilla Takes a Stand Against Department of Homeland Security

• It's Easy to Forget What a Global Phenomenon Firefox Is

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• Update on Contribute Inquiries:
  • The contribute group answered inquiries from over 1600 people using the Get Involved page. Before Firefox 4 and recent awareness efforts we got 300 - 400 a month. That's a growth rate of over 400%!
• Wrapped up the Mozilla Tech Tour in Senegal.
  • William Quivigier, Anthony Ricaud, Mounir Lamouri and others concluded a week of Mozilla talks and a Firefox 4 [1].
  • More info:
    • http://hanblog.info/blog/
    • http://blog.oldworld.fr/

Support

• New blog - Verdi helps you with Firefox

Introducing New Hires

• Kyle Huey
• Abhinav Sharma
• Hernan Rodriguez Colmeiro
• Shawn Gong
• Paul Stansifer
• Nikhil Marathe