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<h1> Video for today's meeting </h1>
= Video for today's meeting =
<p><span class="fck_mw_special" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="video" controls="controls">&lt;source src=&quot;http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/monday_meetings/status-2011-07-18.ogg&quot; type=&quot;video/ogg; codecs=&amp;quot;theora, vorbis&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;</span>  
 
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<video controls="controls"><source src="http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/air_mozilla/monday_meetings/status-2011-07-18.ogg" type="video/ogg; codecs=&quot;theora, vorbis&quot;" /></video>  
<h1> Friends of the Tree <img src="/images/7/72/Tree.gif" _fck_mw_filename="Tree.gif" alt="Friends of the Tree" /> </h1>
 
<p>Cameron McCormack for finding a simple way of drastically reducing the time required to run our debug tests. <a href="Bug">479352</a>
= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] =
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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
<ul><li>10Forward - noon
*10Forward - noon
</li><li>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.  
*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.  
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</p><p><b>Wednesday, 20 July</b>
</p><p><b>Wednesday, 20 July</b>
<p>Community Marketing Call:  
 
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Community Marketing Call:  
<ul><li> 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET.  
* 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET.  
</li><li> In-progress agenda and dial-in info <a href="http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-july-20">here</a>.
* In-progress agenda and dial-in info [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-july-20 here].
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<p>Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs
Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs
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*2CYA-Noon
<ul><li>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.
</li><li>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.
</li><li>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.
 
</li></ul>
</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 &lt;a href="http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/"&gt;[n]&lt;/a&gt; .
</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 &lt;a href="http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/"&gt;[n]&lt;/a&gt; .
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<p>&lt;p&gt;<b>Friday, 22 July</b>
<p><b>Friday, 22 July</b>  
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&lt;/p&gt;<p><b>Next Week</b>
</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>
<ul><li> Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration
 
</li><li> Seeing double digit aurora channel growth again
* Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration
<ul><li> (And, anecdotally, lots of love for the memory improvements there)
* Seeing double digit aurora channel growth again
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** (And, anecdotally, lots of love for the memory improvements there)
</li><li> Blog post coming on release timing in rapid release, since there's still a lot of uncertainty
* Blog post coming on release timing in rapid release, since there's still a lot of uncertainty
<ul><li> It'll be on the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/">channels blog</a>, stay tuned!
** It'll be on the [http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/ channels blog], stay tuned!
</li></ul>
 
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<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 &lt;a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20"&gt;Firefox 3.6.20&lt;/a&gt; (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 &lt;a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20"&gt;Firefox 3.6.20&lt;/a&gt; (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.
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<h2>Drumbeat</h2>
==Drumbeat==
<ul><li> <a href="http://planet.drumbeat.org/mojo/">Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab</a>: awesome <a href="http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/lecture-four-resources">lecture &amp; slides</a> from Chris Heillman this morning.  
* [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.  
<ul><li> (Archived video version coming soon)
** (Archived video version coming soon)
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* [http://popcornjs.org/ Popcorn.js]: stick around for Lightning Talk from Brett Gaylor on their new release!  
</li><li> <a href="http://popcornjs.org/">Popcorn.js</a>: stick around for Lightning Talk from Brett Gaylor on their new release!  
</li></ul>
<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.
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