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= Video for today's meeting = | |||
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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] = | |||
Cameron McCormack for finding a simple way of drastically reducing the time required to run our debug tests. [[bug|479352]] | |||
<h1> Upcoming Events </h1> | <h1> Upcoming Events </h1> | ||
<p><b>This Week</b> | <p><b>This Week</b> | ||
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</p><p><b>Tuesday, 19 July</b> | </p><p><b>Tuesday, 19 July</b> | ||
</p><p>Diary Studies from a Google Researcher, Andrea Knight | </p><p>Diary Studies from a Google Researcher, Andrea Knight | ||
*10Forward - noon | |||
*Diary studies can be a great technique if you're trying to understand a user's behavior over the course of a week or two, but can't observe them the whole time. Learn how to make sure your diary study is successful and helps you answer your hypothesis. | |||
</p><p><b>Wednesday, 20 July</b> | </p><p><b>Wednesday, 20 July</b> | ||
Community Marketing Call: | |||
* 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. | |||
* In-progress agenda and dial-in info [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-july-20 here]. | |||
Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs | |||
*2CYA-Noon | |||
*A SF-based user research agency which worked with us before, AnswerLab, recently presented a case study of a mobile ethnography they conducted with Wells Fargo at the UPA Conference. They will share the presentation with us again with more details on Wednesday. | |||
*It would be a good way to spend you lunch time if you are interested to know more about early-stage user research, or just to hang out for mobile related user findings. | |||
</p><p><b>Thursday, 21 July</b> | </p><p><b>Thursday, 21 July</b> | ||
</p><p>Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction | </p><p>Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction | ||
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</p><p>Brian Warner will explain the cryptographic protocols, economicincentives, and proof-of-work system in Bitcoin, a new decentralized digital currency that's been in the news recently. Slides are available at <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/">[n]</a> . | </p><p>Brian Warner will explain the cryptographic protocols, economicincentives, and proof-of-work system in Bitcoin, a new decentralized digital currency that's been in the news recently. Slides are available at <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/">[n]</a> . | ||
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<p> | <p><b>Friday, 22 July</b> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
</p><p><b>Next Week</b> | |||
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<h1> Product Status Updates </h1> | <h1> Product Status Updates </h1> | ||
<h2> Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) </h2> | <h2> Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) </h2> | ||
* Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration | |||
* Seeing double digit aurora channel growth again | |||
** (And, anecdotally, lots of love for the memory improvements there) | |||
* Blog post coming on release timing in rapid release, since there's still a lot of uncertainty | |||
** It'll be on the [http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/ channels blog], stay tuned! | |||
<h2> Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0) </h2> | <h2> Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0) </h2> | ||
<ul><li> The <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20">Firefox 3.6.20</a> (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted | <ul><li> The <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20">Firefox 3.6.20</a> (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted | ||
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<p>Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week. | <p>Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
==Drumbeat== | |||
* [http://planet.drumbeat.org/mojo/ Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab]: awesome [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/lecture-four-resources lecture & slides] from Chris Heillman this morning. | |||
** (Archived video version coming soon) | |||
* [http://popcornjs.org/ Popcorn.js]: stick around for Lightning Talk from Brett Gaylor on their new release! | |||
<h1>Speakers </h1> | <h1>Speakers </h1> | ||
<p>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. | <p>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. | ||