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=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* 2pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: Meet the security assurance team, watch demos of tools & techniques, FAQ and discussion. Cookies & cupcakes will be provided. Open to all.
* 5:30pm - San Francisco - 7th Floor: we're hosting a patent reform party at Mozilla SF with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. [https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/event/info?id=53 More Info]


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
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=== Next Week ===
=== Next Week ===
* <strong>5/13, 5:30-7:30 PM >> SF Book Salon & Wine Reception for Susan Crawford</strong>. A decade ago, the US led the world in fast, cheap Internet. <strong>What happened?</strong> More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Captive-Audience-Book-Salon <strong>Signed books for those who arrive early!</strong>


== Product Status Updates (voice updates) ==
== Product Status Updates (voice updates) ==
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=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Toronto''<br>
''Speaker Location: Ryan Merkley, Vancouver''<br>
http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/8_bit_flowers281.jpg<br>
http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/8_bit_flowers281.jpg<br>
<b>Make your own geeky Mother's Day card</b><br>
<b>Sunday is Mother's Day!</b> Why not send Mom a hand-crafted web page to show her how much you care? Mozilla makes a tool that makes it easy to tell mom you love her -- Webmaker! We're working on a prototype this week that will help people make a page for Mom -- and learn a little HTML and CSS along the way. We'll share a sneak peek in today's lightning presentation from Jacob Caggiano.  
* <b>Sunday is Mother's Day!</b> Why not send Mom a hand-crafted web page to show her how much you care? We've got a new [https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrp3/edit Webmaker template] that makes it easy -- and helps people learn a little HTML and CSS along the way. Coming up in today's lightning presentation from Jacob Caggiano.
* [https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrn0/ See Jacob's example]
* [https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrp3/edit Use this early Thimble prototype to make your own] (more polished version coming later this week)
* Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:
* Other ways to get involved with Webmaker this week:
# <b>[http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/8_bit_flowers281.jpg Sign up for Maker Party 2013]</b>. June 15 - Sep 15. Get together at thousands of big and small webmaking events around the world.
# <b>[http://www.webmaker.org/party Sign up for Maker Party 2013]</b>. Or invite your Mom! :) June 15 - Sep 15. Get together at thousands of big and small webmaking events around the world.
# <b>[http://hivenyc.org/teachtheweb/ Join our new "Teach the Web" open online course]</b>. Boot camp for Maker Party. Growing a small army to teach the web: programmer mentors, techie grandmas, teachers, novelists, girl scout hackers and you. [http://openmatt.org/2013/05/03/hello_world/ Meet them and check out highlights here].  
# <b>[http://hivenyc.org/teachtheweb/ Join our new "Teach the Web" open online course]</b>. Boot camp for Maker Party. Growing a small army to teach the web: programmer mentors, techie grandmas, teachers, novelists, girl scout hackers and you. [http://openmatt.org/2013/05/03/hello_world/ Meet them and check out highlights here].  
# <b>[http://openmatt.org/2013/04/30/get_involved-2/ 8 other fun ways]</b> to get involved with Webmaker this week.
# <b>[http://openmatt.org/2013/04/30/get_involved-2/ 8 other fun ways]</b> to get involved with Webmaker this week.
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
* 1.0.1: In certification testing with OEMs, trying to fix bugs turned up by that process as quickly as possible.
* 1.1.0: Entering first phase of chipset vendor testing next week, so focus there is getting any regressions and new features cleaned up before it begins.
** MMS Workweek in Portland ongoing this week.
* Geeksphones seem to be flying off the virtual shelves as fast as they can restock them.


=== Grow Mozilla ===
=== Grow Mozilla ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
 
Help us [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/04/15/help-us-build-a-history-of-mozilla-told-by-mozillians/ build a history of Mozilla told by Mozillians].  Please share your memories about this Mozilla milestone:
 
* November 14, 2000: [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/05/06/milestone-netscape-6-released-based-on-open-source-code/ Netscape 6 released based on open source code]
 
[[Image:2000 netscape6 shirt.jpg|250px]]


=== 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT ===
=== 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT ===
''Speaker Location: mrz in SF (on the couch)''
''Speaker Location: mrz in SF (on the couch)''


* Mozilla IT takes Mozilla's core values & Mission to the street.
* Mozilla IT, a Rubik's Cube & a classroom (and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLVKyA7tCBQ video]).


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Here's the messenger bag :) > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater
| Here's the messenger bag :) > https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=361822707265407&set=pb.218655251582154.-2207520000.1367814592.&type=3&theater
| Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
| Details on WebFWD at http://webfwd.org
|-
| Jacob Caggiano
| Lead Makesmith, Webmaker.org
| Our simple template for making your Mom proud on Mother's Day
| My Aunt's apartment, New York, NY
| Yes, screenshare indeed.
| https://thimble.webmaker.org/p/lrxw/edit
|-
| Mike Morgan
| Director, Web Development
| Manager Hacking Session 2 in SF
| Mountain View
| No
| https://wiki.mozilla.org/Manager_Hacking
|-
| Dia Bondi (IRC thejudge)
| Head of Knowledge Cultivation
| Capture Mozilla is Air.Mozilla too! + Badges
| San Francisco
| No
| https://air.mozilla.org/channels/culture_and_context/ https://badges.mozilla.org/en-US/
|-
|-
|}
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| ''What will the new person be working on?''
| ''What will the new person be working on?''
|-
|-
| Justin O'Kelly
| ''Meadhbh Hamrick''
| Mike Manning
| ''Sid Stamm''
| Mountain View
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Security Engineer''
|-
| ''Jannis Leidel''
| ''Laura Thomson''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''Germany''
| ''Web Developer''
 
|-
| ''Justin O'Kelly''
| ''Mike Manning''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''San Francisco''
| ''Managing press relations and media strategy''
|-
| ''Jason Weathersby''
| ''Mark Coggins''
| ''San Francisco''
| ''Inman, SC''
| ''Firefox OS Technical Evangelist''
|-
| Marcos Cáceres
| Andrew Overholt
| San Francisco
| San Francisco
| Managing press relations and media strategy.
| Lisbon, Portugal
| Platform API Designer/Engineer
|-
|-
| ''Shyam Mani''
| ''mrz''
| ''San Francisco''
| ''Mountain View''
| ''IT Developer Services''
|-
|}
|}


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==== WebQA ====
==== WebQA ====
*Engagement
** [https://reps.mozilla.org/ New ReMo release] with some new features like events display, and auto-filtering on user's interests + bug fixes
** [https://firefoxflicks.mozilla.org/en-US/ New Flicks release] with Early Award winner posted, plus winners, partners and awards pages added.
*Firefox OS
**keep up-to-date with all the latest in a nice, digestible format, here:
***https://github.com/mozilla/gaia-ui-tests/pulse
**have Unagi commercial-RIL builds in our CI, with runs against them
**apart from an annoying "ding"-on-notification issues (each restart), they look good
**now we can troubleshoot the modem issue
**Inaris requested from ServiceNow
**have an engineering build on 1.0.1 for them
**will soon set up a download job and run against them
**3 new tests (Marketplace, Settings)
**Some good coverage re-enabled as devs repaired regressions
**Full-steam ahead on Payments testing although no significant coverage in place yet
**Dave Hunt made good gain in reliability by configuring device state before the testrun
**mbrandt 1.1 manual testing and testcase creation
*Marketplace
**Work continues on automating the app installation and payments flow using Marionette
*Mozillians
** Several issues with the dev cluster - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864422
** Near continuous deployment - small bug fixes, multiple releases over the last week
** Team is actively scoping the UI refresh work that will be accomplished this quarter. UI Mockups forthcoming in the next few weeks.
*Mozilla.com
*MDN
*Socorro
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&target_milestone=43&product=Socorro&list_id=6390000 Milestone 43] successfully released on 04.24.2013


==== QA Community ====
==== QA Community ====


=== Automation & Tools ===
=== Automation & Tools ===
* New, less noisy metrics available from Autophone, measuring [http://mrcote.info/phonedash/ Firefox startup on real Android phones]
* Working on getting gaia UI tests into [https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.b2g/QhsFilCEsCs parity with gecko tests], and so we have Gaia UI tests [https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Cedar live on Cedar (look for U's)]
* Stabilizing automated tests for x86 Android Firefox builds using emulators going well. Reftests work out of the box, hoping to have mochitests done soon. See {{bug|828571}} for details.
* More Eideticker-with-camera work going on [http://eideticker.wrla.ch/b2g behind the scenes]. Full dashboard support will arrive soon.
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Meetings/2013-05-06 More News here]


=== Security ===
=== Security ===
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== Foundation Updates ==
== Foundation Updates ==
[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
[[Category:Meeting Notes]]
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