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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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 * 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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 = Other Business =
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