WeeklyUpdates/2014-03-10

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla Friends of Mozilla

Rika Pi, new QA contributor, has been finding new bugs and confirming incoming bugs on Firefox Desktop, Android, and Metro. Thanks!

Thanks to Jennie Rose Halperin for her awesome help managing the localization process for the new contributor research project!

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 10 March

Tuesday, 11 March

Wednesday, 12 March

Thursday, 13 March

Friday, 14 March

Saturday, 15 March

Sunday, 16 March

Next Week

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Desktop

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox Mobile

Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)

Firefox OS

Speaker Location:

Webmaker

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Open Badges

Speaker Location: nonverbal

Last week, we launched Mozilla BadgeKit, the new set of open, foundational tools to make the badging process easy. BadgeKit:

  • Supports key stages in the badging experience including creating, designing, assessing and issuing.
  • Includes remixable templates and milestone badges allowing for easy customization.
  • Provides modular and open options (standards) for the community of badge makers to use and build upon within their existing sites or systems.

Availability of BadgeKit:

  • Open now in private beta for select partner organizations that meet specific technical requirements.
  • Apply for access to the private beta hosted version.
  • Grab the code for each tool within Github.

Mozilla Science Lab

Speaker Location: nonverbal

  • Our Director Kay Thaney is in Nairobi right now for a workshop that kicks off tomorrow focusing on discoverability and openness of African scholarship.
    • Read her blog post on thinking open and thinking globally in science.
    • Follow the hashtag #scholarAfrica to learn more.

[Policy & Advocacy]

Speaker Location: nonverbal

  • This week marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. To celebrate the birth of the Web, Mozilla is participating in the Web at 25 and Web We Want campaigns launching later this week.
    • Find the campaign at webat25.org later this week.
    • Stay tuned to see how you can contribute to an interactive quilt that will enable people to fill in a message with the type of Web that people want.

[Open News]

Speaker location: nonverbal

  • We've launched Source Guides, a batch of topical collections of advice and tutorials on data journalism and source in the newsroom. More collections to come!

Mozilla Reps

Speaker Location:

Firefox Student Ambassadors

Speaker Location: Written update

Interested in learning more about the Firefox Student Ambassador Program? Join us tomorrow for 'Office Hours' over IRC to get some info and ask your questions!

  • Tuesday, March 11th
  • 7:30am Pacific/ 5:30pm CEST/ 9:00pm IST/ 3:30pm UTC
  • IRC: #firefoxstudents

Grow Mozilla

Speaker Location:

Identity

Speaker Location: Vidyo

Last Friday, we announced that Persona is transitioning to community ownership. You can read more on the Identity blog at http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-community-ownership

The most important points:

  • Mozilla is still supporting Persona. We're just not funding new feature development.
  • Many of the original paid contributors are still working on Persona in their free time, alongside long-time community contributors.
  • Persona is Open Source! Join us in #identity and #persona and help us fix authentication on the web! :-)

As for why the change is happening: Read the blog post! In short, we didn't see as much adoption as we were hoping for by this point, nor did we see a clear path to adoption by other browsers / major email providers. Instead of piling on features, we've decided to keep Persona focused on what we know it does well: simple, email-based authentication.

Questions? Please feel free to get in touch with me: https://mozillians.org/u/callahad/

Services

Speaker Location:

Firefox Marketplace

Speaker Location:

IT

Speaker Location:

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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.

Presenter Title Topic Location Share? Media More Details
Who Are You? What Do You Do? What are you going to talk about? Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen Link to where audience can find out more information
Mihca Anderson HR Business Partner Removing roadblocks to productivity Mountain View No N/A https://blog.mozilla.org/people/2014/03/06/removing_roadblocks/

https://wiki.mozilla.org/People:removing_roadblocks_to_productivity
Mike Hoye Community Manager Code Firefox Mozilla Toronto No None http://CodeFirefox.com and http://www.amara.org/en/search/#/?q=codefirefox

Roundtable

Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.

Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!

Who are you? Area of question Question
What's your name? What do you work on? Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. What would you like to know?

Welcome!

Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.

Introducing New Volunteers

New Volunteer(s) Introduced by Speaker location New Volunteer location Will be working on
Who is the new volunteer(s)? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where is the new person based? What will the new person be doing?

Introducing New Hires

New Hire Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Who is the new hire? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be working from? What will the new person be working on?
James Barnell Albert Villarde Mountain View San Francisco Network Engineering
Lilian Castro Denelle Dixon - Thayer Mountain View San Francisco Executive Assistant
David Durst Wil Clouser Mountain View Remote - VA Web Engineering

Introducing New Interns

New Intern Introduced by Speaker location New Hire location Will be working on
Who is the new intern? Who will be introducing that person? Where is the introducer? Where will the new person be working from? What will the new person be working on?

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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Firefox

Platform

Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

  • We deployed a new version of the mesa libraries to the Amazon's test instances

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

  • GDC 2014
    • The Platform, Marketplace, and Developer Relations teams are proud to support Mozilla's presence at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco next week, where the Mozilla Games Initiative will be showcasing some great demos of our current capabilities and presenting our plans for the future of gaming at Mozilla.
    • Martin Best, Vladimir Vukicevic, Alon Zakai, Luke Wagner, Angelina Fabbro, and Bill Maggs will be speaking, and there will be several important and exciting announcements
    • There will be a quick presentation at next Monday's MoCo meeting about our presence at GDC.
    • GDC Website
    • Contact Robyn Chau (robyn@mozilla.com) with questions.

Social Support