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 '''note:''' all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself
-<span style="color: red">'''TIME CHANGE NOTICE'''</span>: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time Daylight Saving Time] (DST) began last Sunday. Meeting time until November 1, 2009 will be 20:00 UTC.
+<span style="color: red">'''TIME CHANGE NOTICE'''</span>: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time Daylight Saving Time] (DST) began last Sunday in the United States. Meeting time until November 1, 2009 will be 20:00 UTC.
 '''WeeklyUpdate Live''': You can watch the weekly meetings live at [http://air.mozilla.com Air Mozilla]
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 == TB 3 ==
+* 3.0b3 and 3.0 planning continuing
+* Lots of heads-down coding work
+* Thunderbird traffic from mozilla.com has been [http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/blog/archive/2009/03/mozillacom-are-you-sending-us-tr.html redirected to mozillamessaging.com].
 == Mobile ==
+Beta 1 is still in testing, but we expect a release in the next day or two.
+[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Notes/09-Mar-2009 Weekly Meeting notes]
 == IT ==
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 * Testing Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, ETA ship thursday
 ** No active blockers atm.  up-to-date [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox3.1/TestPlan/Beta3#Detailed_Results results].
-* Testing Fennec Beta 1, ETA ship tomorrow
-** Investigating {{bug|482091}}
 * Timr and Tomcat at CeBit last week, recruited around 10 volunteers to community QA
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 * Began the builds for Random Orange testing from changeset 356458e646d0 on MozillaCentral
 * Tested Fennec Beta 1 candidates, continue to improve maemkit scripts
+** ETA ship tomorrow
+** Investigating {{bug|482091}}, crashing with flash installed
 * Martijn attended [https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamp/Utrecht MozCamp Utrecht]
 == Security ==
+* Secunia 2008 Security Report - Addressing some misrepresentations in their report regarding relative numbers of security bugs in browsers.
+* Ebay issue - We are away of an issue that is being currently exploited on Ebay and we are addressing it.
 == Marketing/PR ==
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 * Next Community Marketing call is this Wednesday, March 11th, at 10am PDT.  Dial-in Info: +1.650.903.0800, followed by 92# and then 7391#.  Or you can use our toll-free number: +1.800.707.2533, followed by 369# and then 7391#. For those that can't make the call or want to participate online, join us in #marketing on irc.mozilla.org.
+* Spread Firefox:  New design to go live on March 18th.
 '''PR'''
+* Labs announces [http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/03/09/mozilla-labs-a…e-sxsw-editionmozilla-labs-announces-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition/ 2009 Design Challenge: SxSW Edition]
+* Firefox 3.1 changes to 3.5 is covered in [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=9129254&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_top ComputerWorld]
+* Mozilla [http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2009/03/06/beware-the-security-metric/ responds] to Secunia security report
+* Mitchell was on media tour in New York last week. [http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/04/questions-for-mitchell-baker-mozilla-chairman/ Coverage] is [http://www.newsweek.com/id/187745 rolling in]
+* Paul Kim chats with [http://www.rollingstone.com.mx/ Rolling Stone Mexico] about open source and Mozilla
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 '''Events'''
 * Confer 2009, Rajagiri College of Engineering & Mountain View, March 12, 2009:  Chofmann is hosting a presentation on Air Mozilla at 5:30 p.m. PDT about Mozilla and open source.
-* [http://sxsw.com/interactive/ SxSW], March 13 - 17, 2009, Austin, Texas:  Brendan Eich & Arun Rangnathan participating in [http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0900700 browser panel] again on March 16th and John Resig speaking on [http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0901059 JS libraries] on March 14th.  Labs holding a get together on March 16th at 4:30 pm at the Moonshine Grill.
+* [http://sxsw.com/interactive/ SxSW], March 13 - 17, 2009, Austin, Texas:  Brendan Eich & Arun Rangnathan participating in [http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0900700 browser panel] again on March 16th, John Resig speaking on [http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0901059 JS libraries] on March 14th, David Baron on [http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0900767 CSS3 panel] on March 15th.  Labs holding a [http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/03/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition/ get together] on March 16th at 4:30 pm at the Moonshine Grill.
 * [http://nten.org/ntc NTEN Conference], April 26 - 28, 2009, San Francisco:  They are looking for volunteers:
 ** [http://nten.org/ntc-dos Day of Service], Sunday, April 26th:  Two opportunities:
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 == Support ==
+* A [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/UX/Audit SUMO usability audit] was recently done by neilio. Currently in the process of filing bugs for many of the suggested improvements, which will be part of the SUMO 1.1 milestone (see our [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/SumoDevRoadmap2009 roadmap]).
+* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/3.5#SUMO List of updates required for the 3.5 version number update]
 == Metrics ==
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 ** Testing and evaluation of Mindtouch Deki "Lyons" is ongoing; we hope to upgrade MDC to this new release of the wiki software in April.
 ** MDC skin tweaks are in progress to improve discoverability of certain features.
+* Want more feedback on website compatibility page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism/WebsiteCompatibilityInternational
 == Labs ==
+* Personas 1.0b3 has been released with a variety of bug fixes. [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900 Get it from addons.mozilla.org] and [https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/?CategoryID=18 give us feedback in the discussion forum].
+* Design Challenge: [http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/03/announcing-the-mozilla-2009-design-challenge-sxsw-edition/ South-by-southwest edition] will be on the topic of how to improve the File Upload interface in Firefox.
+* Weave: Server is now at 2000-4000 active users and has effectively zero load, so we will be ramping up to five digits of users over the next week.  We released Milestone 4 and will release Milestone 5 soon.  If you want to help test you can request a Weave account [https://services.mozilla.com here].  If you have a Nokia N810, here is [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/InstallWeaveFennec a tutorial on how to install Fennec and Weave].
+* Ubiquity: we're launching a project to figure out how to internationalize/localize the command-line interface.  There is a lot of blog discussion ([http://felipe.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/thinking-ubiquity-in-portuguese/ portugese] [http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/ubiquity-in-firefox-japanese/ japanese] [http://www.yetanothertechblog.com/2009/03/08/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian/ italian] [http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/localizing-ubiquity-an-open-letter-to-linguists/ general]) about this; there's also a mailing list at ubiquity-i18n@googlegroups.com, and now a weekly internationalization phone meeting on Tuesdays at 5pm Pacific time.  We'd love your feedback, especially from localizers.
+* We have [http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/03/new-tab-page-proposed-design-principles-and-prototype/ a working prototype for the proposed design of the New Tab page] that puts useful things into a newly opened tab, instead of a blank white area.  We hope this can go into a future version of Firefox, so please try it out and give us feedback!
 == Developer Tools ==
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 == Add-ons ==
 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&product=addons.mozilla.org&target_milestone=5.0.3&resolution=FIXED 5.0.3 release this week]
+[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pKVzd_aYsqk84TJCrrR1PWw Anonymized Survey Results]
+* The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests)
+* There is a real need for better documentation (22 requests)
+* Tutorials are scattered across the internet and are often out of date.  (21 requests)
+*  The IDE's/tools for writing and debugging extensions are lacking.  (15 requests)
+* A few developers really want some sort of marketplace for extensions (6 requests)
+Next step: some form of roundtable to reach out to developers to go over these results and what we are doing to address some of the big requests
+Compatibility Update
+* 83.5% of add-ons compatible with 3.1
+* Will kick off 3.5 project plan this week so we can be ready for the version change.
 == Webdev ==
+'''Just what's in the wiki'''
 * Fraud form released last week - [http://www.giantspatula.com/?p=272 read David's post on this]
 * AMO 5.0.3 code freeze is today
 * Socorro - work week this week, focusing on performance and architecture
+* Austin, Lars, Les are here this week so say hi if you see them. :)
 == L10n ==
+*  [http://informationisart.com/stas/on/fennec Stas is blogging about "productizing" Fennec].  More posts to come this week.
+*  Axel and Coop have teamed up to solve many build related issues for our localized versions of Firefox.  Today, Coop is turning off bsmedberg's machines.  More explanation to follow...
+*  Continue to work on improving QA services provided to localizers
+**  [http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2009/03/06/localization-qa-survey-results/ Post from Seth on results and possible action steps].
+**  [http://www.yetanothertechblog.com/2009/03/07/about-localization-qa-survey-results/ Nice follow-up comments by flod, our Italian localizer].
+*  Localizing Ubiquity.  Mitcho is leading.
+**  [http://www.yetanothertechblog.com/2009/03/08/thinking-ubiquity-in-italian/ Another nice post from Francesco, in Italy].
 = Foundation Updates =
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 * Based on Kathleen Wilson's recommendation, Frank '''approved the CA request from [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Hongkong%20Post Hong Kong Post]''' (bug [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408949 408949]).
 * Added [http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.cs.html Czech version of Manifesto]
-* Continued working on www.mozilla.org redesign -- first round of concepts available for review this week
+* Continued working on www.mozilla.org redesign -- first round of concepts available for review this week [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla.org/Redesign/Design_Lunch#Some_Context on Thursday at the design lunch]
 = Roundtable =
 = Other Business =
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]