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Friends of the Tree

Newcomer Jiten Thakkar (deLta30 on IRC) has fixed several non-trivial platform bugs in the past month. Say hi and thank you if you see him!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 24 October

Tuesday, 25 October

• GTAC (Google Test Automation Conference) Meet & Greet Mixer

Wednesday, 26 October

Thursday, 27 October

• Brown Bag: User Research - Findings from Q3
• 12pm PST
• We'll be presenting the findings of 3 case studies that we preformed over the last quarter.

Friday, 28 October

• Tobias Markus Final Presentation
• 1 pm PDT
• Intern Final Presentation - topic is TBD.

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (8, 9, 10)

• Migration day is only three Tuesdays away, but I'm going to hand off this week's update to mobile because OMGMOBILE.

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0 - 7.0)

• We are doing a Firefox 3.6.24, shipping with Firefox 8
  • You might get contacted to land backported security fixes, please do so ASAP
• Firefox 3.6 → 7+ advertised is postponed, more details coming soon

Mobile Firefox

• Just finished a mobile work week in Toronto
• Progress is happening quickly on the Native UI
• We don't have nightly updates yet, but if you want a point in time snapshot to poke at, point a QR code reader at this:

(And if you don't have a QR code reader - go get one so that next week when we have real nightlies with updates, you can point your reader at *that* code instead)

Nightlies (without update feature) are here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-birch-android/

Thunderbird

Is Thunderbird Pretty Yet? (tl;dr - Not yet, but we're working on it. :)

Drumbeat

No voice update this week

• Just 11 days to go til the Mozilla Festivalin London!
  • Great design challenges, learning labs and keynotes

• Your help with "Mozilla History 101?"
  • How would you tell the story of how Mozilla saved the web? Compiling links, resources and multimedia for a "pocket history" of Mozilla. Please add here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Mozilla-History-101

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.

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

• AMO 6.2.7
• SUMO 2011-10-18

QA Community

Automation Services

• Mozmill 1.5.5 released
• Quick turnaround on the Mozmill 1.5.6 release due to 3rd party add-on updates in Nightly builds of Firefox

Automation & Tools

Security

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Calendar and Meeting details

General Meeting Details
* IRC Channel: #security
* Etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/secreview
* Dial-in Info:
** In office or soft phone: extension 92
** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92
** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92
** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369
** Conference num 624

Engagement

PR

• At Popcorn Hackathon, Coders Team With Filmmakers to Supercharge Web Video
• Firefox 8 Beta: Better Controls For Add-Ons, Tabs
• Mozilla Eyeing Native UI for Firefox on Android
• Firefox for Android Looks Promising

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

Introducing New Hires

• Amy Tsay: joining the Add-ons team, managed by Justin Scott, located in the Mountain View office.
• Gregg Lind: joining the User Research team, managed by Jinghua Zhang, located in Minneapolis, MN.
• Frank Lee: joining the Products team, managed by Ragavan Srinivasan, located in Vancouver, BC Canada.
• Gregor Wagner: joining the DOM team, managed by Johnny Stenback, located in the San Francisco office.
• Barry Munsterteiger: joining the Developer Engagement team, managed by Stormy Peters, located in San Francisco office

Introducing a New Intern

• Santiago Hollmann, Engagement Team (and longtime rep for Mozilla in South America)

Foundation Updates

Roundtable