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* Congratulations to Rabimba Karanjai for being awarded a [http://www.loftfellowship.org/ Loft Video Game Innovation Fellowship] from the Entertainment Software Association, for his Firefox OS game ''[https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/math-racer Math Racer]''. Best wishes to him for his trip to Washington DC on October 1-3 to present his game to White House and Congressional representatives interested in games in STEM education.
* Congratulations to Rabimba Karanjai for being awarded a [http://www.loftfellowship.org/ Loft Video Game Innovation Fellowship] from the Entertainment Software Association, for his Firefox OS game ''[https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/math-racer Math Racer]''. Best wishes to him for his trip to Washington DC on October 1-3 to present his game to White House and Congressional representatives interested in games in STEM education.
* Congratulations to Leona Szalai, who localizes social media content for Firefox into Hungarian, on her recent nuptials.
* Congratulations to Leona Szalai, who localizes social media content for Firefox into Hungarian, on her recent nuptials.
* Thank you to Brian King and Guillermo Movia for hand-carrying swag across 3 continents so Marcelo Poli could receive his app reviewer [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Reviewers/Points_and_Incentives prizes].
* Thank you to JP for making Community Building a P1 this week!
* Thank you to Sofien (Chaasof) for being a star Wiki gardener.
* Thank you to everyone who put in extra hours on last week's NSS security chemspill. An especially large thank you to Kai Engert for driving the patches to the finish line and landing them on the myriad release branches we had to deal with.


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
=== Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
* Brown Bag event: Firefox OS HDMI Dongle
** 11:30a-1:30p at Mozilla MTV MozSpace, in the MTV Commons
** Will be available via AirMozilla
** Come pick up a device to try out!


=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
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=== Firefox ===
=== Firefox ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: MV (cbeard) London (johnath)''
* Firefox at 10 years stuff (cbeard)
* Unheralded Heroics
** Chemspills
** Mac signing


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''


=== Cloud Services ===
=== Cloud Services ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: San Francisco (Bill Maggs)
 
Mozilla Location Service - Look for a new, much improved Mozstumbler in Google Play Store in the coming weeks! Many, many community stumbling events in planning stages. Contact your rep or Pierros Papadeas (ppapadeas@mozilla.com).
 
Firefox Accounts - FxA is available for Mozilla services. It's not hard! Resources on MDN [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_Accounts here]. If you would like FxA to do auth for your service, please contact Bill Maggs (bill@mozilla.com) or Chris Karlof (ckarlof@mozilla.com).


=== Content Services ===
=== Content Services ===
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=== Mozilla Communities ===
=== Mozilla Communities ===
''Speaker Location: Mark Surman (Toronto); William Q (remote)''
''Speaker Location: Mark Surman (Toronto); William Quiviger (remote)''


* Update on Community Tiger Team activities.  
* Update on Community Tiger Team activities.  
* Moving forward with six Contribution Challenges.  
* Moving forward with six Contribution Challenges.  
* Team is also working on: survey to better understand community health and a communications plan.  
* Team is also working on: survey to better understand community health and a communications plan.  
* William Q to give an update on the FXOS Local Presence Challenge
* William Quiviger to give an update on the FXOS Local Content Challenge


Contribution Challenges  
Contribution Challenges:
* '''Firefox : Firefox 10'''
* '''Firefox : Firefox 10'''
** Business Owner's: Winston/Eric; Community Liaisons: Kristin Baird/Brian King  
** Business Owner's: Winston/Eric; Community Liaisons: Kristin Baird/Brian King  
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** Identifying opportunities for community participation as part of the Growth team initiatives.  
** Identifying opportunities for community participation as part of the Growth team initiatives.  


* '''FXOS Local Presence:'''
* '''FXOS Local Content:'''
** Business Owner: Sakina Goth; Community Liaison: William Q.  
** Business Owner: Sakina Goth; Community Liaison: William Q.  
** Finalizing plan to produce a large volume of high quality hyper-local content for FXOS users in India and Mexico, in a very short time frame, and in parallel, train Mozillians to become skilled evangelists and developer mentors to ensure long-term sustained support and mentorship for local developers creating hyper-local content for FXOS
** Finalizing plan to produce a large volume of high quality hyper-local content for FXOS users in India and Mexico, in a very short time frame, and in parallel, train Mozillians to become skilled evangelists and developer mentors to ensure long-term sustained support and mentorship for local developers creating hyper-local content for FXOS
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** Finalizing a communications plan to continue to drive momentum/exposure for FXOS post launch. Plan will focus activities in India & Mexico.  
** Finalizing a communications plan to continue to drive momentum/exposure for FXOS post launch. Plan will focus activities in India & Mexico.  


'''FXOS + Webmaker:'''  
* '''FXOS + Webmaker:'''  
* Business Owner: David Ascher; Community Liaison: Michelle Thorne  
** Business Owner: David Ascher; Community Liaison: Michelle Thorne  
** Finalizing plan focused on user research that helps us understand ways that 'user generated apps' can solve problems for the next billion web users. Beta testing to begin in Oct; with kickoff at MozFest.  
** Finalizing plan focused on user research that helps us understand ways that 'user generated apps' can solve problems for the next billion web users. Beta testing to begin in Oct; with kickoff at MozFest.  
** Will actively play a role in shipping Mobile Webmaker (aka Appmaker) through user testing at Maker Parties and conduct interviews with feature phone users to understand the problems they want to solve.
** Will actively play a role in shipping Mobile Webmaker (aka Appmaker) through user testing at Maker Parties and conduct interviews with feature phone users to understand the problems they want to solve.
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** Business Owner: Sean Bohan; Community Liaison: Michelle Marovich  
** Business Owner: Sean Bohan; Community Liaison: Michelle Marovich  
** Define a system to generate content for regional community tiles in 20 launch markets for October 15 and put an ongoing structure in place for regional communities to own the content schedule for regional community tiles.
** Define a system to generate content for regional community tiles in 20 launch markets for October 15 and put an ongoing structure in place for regional communities to own the content schedule for regional community tiles.
===IT/Operations===
''Speaker Location: MTV (guillermo)''<br />
Vidyo has released Vidyo Desktop v3.3.0 (27) with the below added features and fixes. This release has already been tested within IT and is ready to be released to the organization. Here are the details for the rollout:
<br>
<br>
'''Rollout Dates''':
A week from now, this update will become mandatory on Monday 10/6/2014.
Today, you can download the client w/ the following links below.
<br>
<br>
'''New Features''':
Join a conference with camera, mic and/or speakers muted Join a conference with your full screen shared and camera, mic, speakers muted Easier access to your rooms public link via client UI Many bug fixes for Windows, Mac and Linux.
<br>
<br>
'''Download Links'''<br />
OS X: https://mozilla.box.com/s/8ap0iclutieqrnh5kq2j<br />
Windows: https://mozilla.box.com/s/exlu99fpm07h0r4xkpqc<br />
Ubuntu: https://mozilla.box.com/s/bmf2ukxe1avjq6a2bdz5<br />
Ubuntu64: https://mozilla.box.com/s/yzjf3dnes6grn6dz470c<br />
RPM: https://mozilla.box.com/s/92in19khtgr1yb7qitmo<br />
RPM64: https://mozilla.box.com/s/wza4c8nzz3k01n5cnf6j<br />
<br>
Note: after upgrading, a pop-up will appear saying that you do not have a current version. Please select “Not Now” and the do not remind me checkbox.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/LGL/Legal+Resources+Home, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/
| https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/LGL/Legal+Resources+Home, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/
| Provide feedback on any of the above here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/9wwHAN2CwL
| Provide feedback on any of the above here: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/9wwHAN2CwL
|-
|Bill Mills
|Science Lab Community Manager
|Open Source Science Projects!
|Moz Vancouver
|No
|None
|Original [http://mozillascience.org/bringing-researchers-and-developers-together-a-call-for-proposals/  call for proposals].
|-
|Sakina Groth
|Product Marketing Manager
|Developer Brown Bag: The first Firefox OS HDMI Dongle!
|Remote
|No
|None
|[https://air.mozilla.org/hdmi-dongle/ Go here] to watch the brown bag presentations remotely tomorrow
|-
|Bhavana Bajaj
|Release Manger
|Update on Firefox OS Release Cadence
|(Readonly)
|No
|None
|[https://air.mozilla.org/firefox-os-release-cadence/ Go here] to watch the brown bag presentations remotely tomorrow or join us in MTV Commons at 9am PT on 9/30
|}
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| David Anderson
| Milan Sreckovic
| Toronto
| Mountain View
| Graphics
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| Xidorn Quan
| Xidorn Quan
| Jet Villegas
| Jet Villegas
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| Australia-Remote
| Australia-Remote
| Layout
| Layout
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| David Anderson
| Andreas Gal
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
| Graphics
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| Suzanne Hetrick
| Suzanne Hetrick
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| Mountain View
| Mountain View
| Executive Assistant to Dave
| Executive Assistant to Dave
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| Morgan Phillips
| Chris AtLee
| Toronto
| Tennessee-Remote
| Release Engineering
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| Robb Carroll
| Albert Villarde
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
| A/V Systems Management
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| J.C. Jones
| Richard Barnes
| Remote
| Arizona-Remote
| Security Engineering
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| Fabio Rios
| Fabio Rios
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| Netherlands-Remote
| Netherlands-Remote
| Firefox OS Engineering
| Firefox OS Engineering
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| Sharyl Sun
| Jill Alvarez
| Mountain View
| San Francisco
| University Recruiter
|}
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==== Social Support ====
==== Social Support ====
=== Web Compatibility ===
See the [[Compatibility/Mobile/2014-09-30|Minutes]]
* Should we create [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.compatibility/z1HAIYqRKsY guide for detecting and resolving simple issues?]
* Discussions about summaries of our weekly activities on the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.compatibility/RXy_Sx3Ivj4 mailing list] or on the [http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/weekly-updates.fcgi/project/webcompat Web]
* BUGS: Desktop 58 RESOLVED, 2 NEW. Mobile 1 RESOLVED, 7 NEW.
* Webcompat.com: work started on /issues view.
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