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= Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] =
= 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}}


Cameron McCormack for finding a simple way of drastically reducing the time required to run our debug tests. [[bug|479352]]
= Upcoming Events =
<h1> Upcoming Events </h1>
'''This Week'''
<p><b>This Week</b>
</p><p><b>Monday, 18 July</b>
</p><p><b>Tuesday, 19 July</b>
</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>


Community Marketing Call:
'''Monday, 18 July'''
* 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
'''Tuesday, 19 July'''
*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>
Diary Studies from a Google Researcher, Andrea Knight
</p><p>Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction
</p><p>Brownbag, Thursday, 21 July, 12:00 noon, 10-Forward (also on Air Mozilla)
</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><br />
<p><b>Friday, 22 July</b>
</p>
</p><p><b>Next Week</b>
</p>
<h1> Product Status Updates </h1>
<h2> Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) </h2>


* Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration
10Forward - noon
* 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>
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.  
<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> Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
</li><li> Code freeze for <i>non-blockers</i>: 2011-07-25
</li><li> <b>Code freeze for <i>blockers</i>: 2011-08-01</b>
</li></ul>
</li></ul>
<h2> Mobile Firefox </h2>
<h2> Thunderbird </h2>
<p>Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week.
</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>
<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>
<table class="fullwidth-table">


<tr>
'''Wednesday, 20 July'''
<th>  Title
 
</th><th> Presenter
<br>Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info [
</th><th> Topic
http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-july-20 here].<br>  
</th><th> Media
 
</th><th> More Details
'''Thursday, 21 July'''
</th></tr>
 
<tr>
Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction
<td> New uses of popcorn.js
 
</td><td> Brett Gaylor
Brownbag, Thursday, 21 July, 12:00 noon, 10-Forward (also on Air Mozilla)
</td><td> Popcorn.js - the butt kicking HTML5 media framework
 
</td><td> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/popcornmonday.pdf
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 [http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/] .
<p>&lt;a href="http://www.popcornjs.org"&gt;www.popcornjs.org&lt;/a&gt;
 
</p>
 
</td><td> http://www.popcornjs.org
'''Friday, 22 July'''
</td></tr>
 
<tr>
'''Next Week'''
<td> Mozilla's Local Communities
 
</td><td> David Boswell
= Product Status Updates =
</td><td> New pages that highlight Mozilla's local communities around the world
 
</td><td>
== Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) ==
<p>&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/africamideast.html"&gt;Africa and the Middle East&lt;/a&gt;
 
</p><p>&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/asia.html"&gt;Asia and the South Pacific&lt;/a&gt;
== Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0) ==
</p><p>&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/europe.html"&gt;Europe&lt;/a&gt;
* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20 Firefox 3.6.20] (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted
</p><p>&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/latinamerica.html"&gt;Latin America&lt;/a&gt;
** Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
</p>
** Code freeze for ''non-blockers'': 2011-07-25
</td><td>
** '''Code freeze for ''blockers'': 2011-08-01'''
</td></tr></table>
 
<h1> Status Updates By Team  </h1>
== Mobile Firefox ==
<h2> Firefox  </h2>
 
<h2> Platform </h2>
== Thunderbird ==
<h2> Messaging  </h2>
 
<h2> Mobile  </h2>
Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week.
<h2> IT </h2>
 
<h2> Release Engineering  </h2>
== Drumbeat ==
<h2> QA  </h2>
 
<p><dl><dt>Test Execution
= Speakers =
&lt;/dt&gt;</dl>
 
</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.
<ul><li> Shipped Firefox 6 beta 2 for Mobile to Android Market
 
</li><li> working through a qa sync and load environment within the team
{| class="fullwidth-table"
</li><li> Mobile QA and Services QA workweek this week (offsite on 7/19)
|-
</li></ul>
! Title
<p><dl><dt>WebQA
! Presenter
&lt;/dt&gt;</dl>
! Topic
</p>
! Media
<ul><li>AMO &lt;a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=806865&amp;resolution=FIXED&amp;classification=Server%20Software&amp;query_format=advanced&amp;target_milestone=6.1.5&amp;product=addons.mozilla.org"&gt;6.1.5&lt;/a&gt;
! More Details
</li><li>SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-12
|-
</li><li>MDN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671560 7/14
| New uses of popcorn.js
</li><li>Personas https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671552 7/14
| Brett Gaylor
</li></ul>
| Popcorn.js - the butt kicking HTML5 media framework
<p><dl><dt>QA Community
| http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/popcornmonday.pdf
&lt;/dt&gt;</dl>
[http://www.popcornjs.org www.popcornjs.org]
<dl><dt>Automation Services
| http://www.popcornjs.org
&lt;/dt&gt;</dl>
|-
</p>
| Mozilla's Local Communities
<ul><li> Upcoming QA Automation Services work week in Cambridge, on July 25th - 29th
| David Boswell
</li></ul>
| New pages that highlight Mozilla's local communities around the world
<h2> Automation &amp; Tools </h2>
|
<h2> Security  </h2>
[http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/africamideast.html Africa and the Middle East]
<h2> Engagement  </h2>
 
<p><b>PR</b>
[http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/asia.html Asia and the South Pacific]
</p>
 
<ul><li>&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/mozillas-browserid-aims-to-simplify-authentication-on-the-web.ars"&gt;Mozilla's BrowserID aims to simplify authentication on the Web&lt;/a&gt;
[http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/europe.html Europe]
</li><li>&lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/15/a-new-technology-to-battle-website-password-fatigue/?mod=google_news_blog"&gt;A New Technology to Battle Website Password Fatigue&lt;/a&gt;
 
</li></ul>
[http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/latinamerica.html Latin America]
<ul><li>&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20079827-264/redesign-set-to-make-firefox-more-responsive/"&gt;Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive&lt;/a&gt;
|
</li></ul>
|}
<ul><li>&lt;a href="http://www.conceivablytech.com/8388/products/next-up-for-firefox-instant-sync"&gt;Next Up For Firefox: Instant Sync&lt;/a&gt;
 
</li></ul>
= Status Updates By Team  =
<ul><li>&lt;a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/07/15/today-is-mozillas-8th-anniversary/"&gt;Today is Mozilla’s 8th Anniversary&lt;/a&gt;
 
</li></ul>
== Firefox  ==
<p><b>Events</b>
 
</p><p><b>Creative Team</b>
== Platform ==
</p><p><b>Community Marketing</b>
 
</p>
== Messaging  ==
<h2> Support  </h2>
 
<h2> Metrics  </h2>
== Mobile  ==
<h2> Evangelism  </h2>
 
<h2> Labs  </h2>
== IT ==
<ul>
 
<li>BrowserID is launched! Follow [http://identity.mozilla.com/ identity.mozilla.com] for updates, come talk to us if you have ideas!</li>
== Release Engineering  ==
</ul>
 
<h2> Developer Tools </h2>
== QA  ==
<h2> Add-ons  </h2>
 
<h2> Webdev  </h2>
;Test Execution
<h2> L10n  </h2>
* Shipped Firefox 6 beta 2 for Mobile to Android Market
<h2> People Team  </h2>
* working through a qa sync and load environment within the team
<h1> Introducing New Hires </h1>
* Mobile QA and Services QA workweek this week (offsite on 7/19)
<ul><li> Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
 
</li><li> Aakash Desai has officially joined the Contributor Engagement team as a product manager for the Mozillians platform. [Mary Colvig]
;WebQA
</li><li> Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]
*AMO [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=806865&resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=6.1.5&product=addons.mozilla.org 6.1.5]
</li><li> Allison Naaktgeboren: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
*SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-12
</li><li> Randell Jesup: Joining the Layout team, managed by Rob O'Callahan, located in Pennsylvania.
*MDN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671560 7/14
</li><li> Brad Fuellenbach: converting from seasonal employee to full-time on the Recruiting team, managed by Bret Reckard, located in Mtn. View Office.
*Personas https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671552 7/14
</li><li> Gregory Szorc: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
;QA Community
</li><li> Erica Muxlow has joined Infra Ops as the 'Infrastructure Project Manager' [mrz]
 
</li><li> Chenxia Liu: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Massachusetts.
;Automation Services
</li><li> James Murdock: Joining the Legal team, managed by Harvey Anderson, located in Mtn. View Office.
* Upcoming QA Automation Services work week in Cambridge, on July 25th - 29th
</li><li>Fabien Cazenave has joined as a contractor working on the editor component in Gecko. [ehsan]
 
</ul>
== Automation & Tools ==
<h1> Foundation Updates  </h1>
 
<h1> Roundtable </h1>
== Security  ==
 
== Engagement  ==
 
'''PR'''
*[http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/mozillas-browserid-aims-to-simplify-authentication-on-the-web.ars Mozilla's BrowserID aims to simplify authentication on the Web]
*[http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/15/a-new-technology-to-battle-website-password-fatigue/?mod=google_news_blog A New Technology to Battle Website Password Fatigue]
 
*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20079827-264/redesign-set-to-make-firefox-more-responsive/ Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive]
 
*[http://www.conceivablytech.com/8388/products/next-up-for-firefox-instant-sync Next Up For Firefox: Instant Sync]
 
*[http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/07/15/today-is-mozillas-8th-anniversary/ Today is Mozilla’s 8th Anniversary]
 
'''Events'''
 
'''Creative Team'''
 
'''Community Marketing'''
 
== Support  ==
 
== Metrics  ==
 
== Evangelism  ==
 
== Labs  ==
 
== Developer Tools ==
 
== Add-ons  ==
 
== Webdev  ==
 
== L10n  ==
 
= Introducing New Hires =
* Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
* Aakash Desai has officially joined the Contributor Engagement team as a product manager for the Mozillians platform. [Mary Colvig]
* Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]
 
= Foundation Updates  =
 
= Roundtable =
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