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 = Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]]  =
+Tomcat writes in, "I nominate the Linuxtag Team (Barbara, Axel, Kai, Kadir and William) for FoT. Was a great experience to work with them on the Linuxtag fair and we had a lot of contacts with the Community."
 = Upcoming Events =
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 | [http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/crowdsourcing/ Landing Page]
 | [http://mozillalabs.com/conceptseries/crowdsourcing/ Landing Page]
+|-
+| Using the new TryServer
+| John O'Duinn
+|
+|
+| [http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/06/13/please-be-gentle-with-the-shiny-new-tryserver/ http://oduinn.com/blog/2010/06/13/please-be-gentle-with-the-shiny-new-tryserver/]
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+| Firefox 3.6.4
+| Christian Legnitto
+| Quick status update
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 == Firefox  ==
+We're racing towards a Firefox 4, beta 1 code freeze this week, so if you've ever thought about running '''nightly builds''' to try things out early, now would be a great time to start.
+[http://nightly.mozilla.org/ Help us find bugs] before they bite our beta audience!
 == Gecko ==
 == Branch work: Firefox 3.5.x / Firefox 3.6.x / Thunderbird 3.0.x ==
+*'''Firefox 3.6.4'''
+** '''Will not ship tomorrow'''
+** Build #7 built on Friday (with fix for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562198 bug 562198]), will go to beta audience today
+** Tentative plan is to ship Firefox 3.6.4 (build #7) to everyone on Thursday, depending on beta feedback
+** Still investigating crash-stats "irregularities"
+*'''Firefox 3.5.10'''
+** Tied to 3.6.4 again
+** No known issues
 == Old Branch work: Firefox 3.0.x / Thunderbird 2.0.0.x  ==
 == Thunderbird  ==
+* [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/ Thunderbird 3.1RC2] released; please give it a try and file any bugs you find!
+* Release expected in the next few weeks, assuming that no respins are necessary.
 == SeaMonkey  ==
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 == Mobile  ==
-== IT ==
+== IT  ==
+<b>Upcoming</b>
+* We will be moving our Amsterdam POP.  Details to follow.
+** <i>Tentative date, June 21.</i>
 == Release Engineering  ==
+* downtime this Thursday evening (IT maintenance window) to perform disk maintenance on Tinderbox. Tinderbox, and hence TBPL, will be down for several hours. ({{bug|571300}})
 == QA  ==
+'''Mozilla QA Highlights'''
+* Desktop Firefox
+** Signed off on 3.7 alpha 5
+** 3.6.4 new build 7, will be testing this today.
+** Working on [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Firefox_4/Test_Plan testplan] for FF 4.0
+** Waverly outsource vendor is now doing smoke and BFT test on [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Desktop_Firefox/Waverley nightlies]
+* Web QA
+** Certify and shipped AMO 5.11.1 [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxcup/ (the Firefox Cup parts)]
+** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570656 Problems] pushing SUMO, hopefully resolved today
+* QA Services
+** Community
+*** Tomcat attended linuxTag
+**** Lot's of comments regarding performance of Firefox and the need for this to be the focus of FF 4.0
+**** Good community member recruiting event
+*** Successful 2nd Addons manager [http://www.hskupin.info/2010/06/14/results-of-the-second-add-ons-manager-testday/ testday]
-;Test Execution
+== Automation & Tools ==
+We're very heads down last week and this, but there are a couple of things to mention:
+* Getting closer on E10S mochitest, hopefully landing this week
+* Reftest is working on Android, should have patches this week
+* More details [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2010-06-14 here].
-;WebQA
+== Security  ==
+== Evangelism  ==
+'''PR'''
-;QA Community
+*[http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/mozilla-evangelist-criticizes-apple-html5-showcase.ars Mozilla evangelist: Apple HTML5 demos harm the open Web]
-;Test Dev
+*[http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/06/mozilla-tracking-a-week-in-the.html Mozilla tracking a week in the life of a Firefox browser]
-== Automation & Tools ==
+*[http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/14/latest-firefox-4-pre-alpha-showcases-new-design/ Latest Firefox 4 Pre-Alpha Showcases New Design]
+*[http://www.conceivablytech.com/1254/products/mozilla-gives-a-first-taste-of-firefox-4/ Mozilla Gives A First Taste of Firefox 4]
+*[http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/358570/firefox-readies-webm-support Firefox readies WebM support]
+*[http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/06/09/mozilla.to.bring.webm.support.to.firefox.4/ Firefox 4 to bring WebM support]
-== Security  ==
+*[http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/11/firefox-friday-five-on-security-the-world-cup-and-webm/ Firefox Friday Five: on security, the World Cup and WebM]
+*[http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Kicks-Off-the-Firefox-Cup-with-32-Country-Personas-144286.shtml Mozilla Kicks Off the Firefox Cup with 32 Country Personas]
-== Marketing/PR  ==
+<br> '''Events'''
-'''PR'''
+*[http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-10/bh-us-10-home.html Black Hat USA 2010] July 24-29, 2010; Las Vegas, NV - We will be hosting our "traditional" Mozilla milk &amp; cookies party on 7/28.&nbsp; Look for more information shortly. <br>
+*[http://www.fisl.org.br/10/www/en FISL 2010] July 21-24, 2010; Porto Alegre, Brasil - We are looking into having a Mozilla room, talks and other activities. &nbsp;Follow progress on the[https://wiki.mozilla.org/FISL:2010 wiki page].&nbsp;
+*[http://www.guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010 GUADEC 2010] - July 24-30, 2010; Netherlands.&nbsp; We are sponsoring at the bronze level. &nbsp;no Mozilla talks schedules.<br>
+*Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY&nbsp; - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
+*[http://www.blogher.com/blogher-10 BlogHer '10] - August 6-7, 2010 - Looking into sponsorship opportunities - we will be having a hotel suite and a presence in the GeekLab.&nbsp; More details soon!
+*[http://makerfaireafrica.com/ Maker Faire Africa] - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
+*[http://www.renegadecraft.com/chicago Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010] - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. &nbsp;Check out the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/RenegadeCraftFair2010_Chicago wiki] for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
+*London Add-ons Challenge (name TBC): Exploring two consumer-focused events in SF &amp; London.
-'''Events'''
 '''Creative Team'''
 '''User Participation'''
-* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxcup/ Firefox Cup] is live!
-* Help get the word out:
+*[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxcup/ Firefox Cup] is live!
-** Please tag everything with #fxcup
+*Help get the word out:
-*** Here are all the relevant bit.lys/URLs you might need & blog references:
+**Please tag everything with #fxcup
-**** Firefox Cup Blog Post: http://mzl.la/b6wnkS
+***Here are all the relevant bit.lys/URLs you might need &amp; blog references:
-**** Firefox Cup campaign page: http://www.firefoxcup.com
+****Firefox Cup Blog Post: http://mzl.la/b6wnkS
-**** Firefox Cup logo:  http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3
+****Firefox Cup campaign page: http://www.firefoxcup.com
-**** Gallery of the 32 team Personas:  bit.ly/boxwIP
+****Firefox Cup logo: http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3
-** Retweet @firefox: http://twitter.com/firefox / http://twitter.com/firefox/status/15833505879
+****Gallery of the 32 team Personas: bit.ly/boxwIP
-** Facebook:
+**Retweet @firefox: http://twitter.com/firefox / http://twitter.com/firefox/status/15833505879
-*** Please "like" and "comment" on our Facebook update: http://www.facebook.com/Firefox
+**Facebook:
-*** Change your profile pic to a Firefox logo: http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3  or http://mzl.la/9pa92Q
+***Please "like" and "comment" on our Facebook update: http://www.facebook.com/Firefox
-** Stay tuned as we announce our round winners:
+***Change your profile pic to a Firefox logo: http://mzl.la/9Bm2k3 or http://mzl.la/9pa92Q
-*** June 16th: Round 1 country winner announced.
+**Stay tuned as we announce our round winners:
-*** June 23rd: Round 2 country winner announced.
+***June 16th: Round 1 country winner announced.
-*** June 30th: Round 3 country winner announced.
+***June 23rd: Round 2 country winner announced.
-*** July 7th: Round 4 country winner announced.
+***June 30th: Round 3 country winner announced.
-*** July 14th: Overall country winner announced.
+***July 7th: Round 4 country winner announced.
+***July 14th: Overall country winner announced.
 == Support ==
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 == Webdev  ==
+* Launched Socorro 1.7: replace NFS with Hbase
 == L10n  ==
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 = Roundtable =
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]