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== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
Satdav - for doing all of the SuMo mobile meeting agendas and arranging the monthly air Mozilla meeting
* Satdav - for doing all of the SuMo mobile meeting agendas and arranging the monthly air Mozilla meeting
North American Reps for showing leadership in setting up the Devderby contest
* North American Reps for showing leadership in setting up the Devderby contest


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
*Intern presentations in TOR conference room High Park at 2-3:30pm EDT (11am-12:30pm PDT): Dhaval Giani, Guillaume Abadie and Max Li.
*Intern presentations in TOR conference room High Park at 2-3:30pm EDT (11am-12:30pm PDT): Guillaume Abadie and Max Li.


*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Salamiyah, Syria: [https://webmaker.org/events/552 Celebration of training children on ICT and digital literacy]. ICTs Training help children of Salamieh Telecentre to access world information. Participants will create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art through SCRATCH program. It is easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations – and share your creations with others on the web.
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Salamiyah, Syria: [https://webmaker.org/events/552 Celebration of training children on ICT and digital literacy]. ICTs Training help children of Salamieh Telecentre to access world information. Participants will create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art through SCRATCH program. It is easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations – and share your creations with others on the web.
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* Intern presentations in the 1st floor SF Commons at 1-3:30pm PDT: Shane Tully, Tim Gaweco, Hannah Quay-de la Valle, Jez Ng and Alex Wafula.
* Intern presentations in the 1st floor SF Commons at 1-3:30pm PDT: Shane Tully, Tim Gaweco, Hannah Quay-de la Valle, Jez Ng and Alex Wafula.
* Noon Pacific / 1900 UTC in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla, a brownbag: Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. Laura Thomson will repeat the engineering management and leadership talk she recently gave at OSCON.
* Noon Pacific / 1900 UTC in Ten Forward and on Air Mozilla, a brownbag: Minimum Viable Bureaucracy. Laura Thomson will repeat the engineering management and leadership talk she recently gave at OSCON.
* 2 p.m. Pacific in Ten Forward and Air Mozilla: Using the crash-stats API. Crash-stats.mozilla.com provides public statistics and engineering details about every Firefox crash. The site now exposes an API so that QA, engineers, release managers, and researchers can extract this data in a machine-queryable and machine-readable formats. In the talk, Peter Bengtsson demonstrates the crash-stats API. He answers questions about current capabilities and future plans for the API.


=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
* 9:00 AM Pacific / 16:00 UTC: Community IT Kick Off Call
* [http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4+PM+UTC+August+23+2013 9:00 AM Pacific / 16:00 UTC]: Community IT Kick Off Call
** [[IT/Community#Weekly_Call|Agenda and dial-in information]] (feel free to add items to the agenda)
** [[IT/Community#Weekly_Call|Agenda and dial-in information]] (feel free to add items to the agenda)


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*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chicago, US: [https://webmaker.org/events/907 Design Like Wright: Summer Saturdays: Family Designing Spaces]. Parents and budding architects will try their skill at designing an interior space with Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy in mind. After an exploration of the innovative spaces of Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House, families will work together to design and draw a scaled floor plan of a 2-bedroom apartment.
*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chicago, US: [https://webmaker.org/events/907 Design Like Wright: Summer Saturdays: Family Designing Spaces]. Parents and budding architects will try their skill at designing an interior space with Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy in mind. After an exploration of the innovative spaces of Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House, families will work together to design and draw a scaled floor plan of a 2-bedroom apartment.
*<b>[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-workshop-august-24th-in-porto-alegre-brazil-sign-up-now/ FIREFOX OS APP WORKSHOP:]</b> Porto Alegre, BR. Tech evangelism team hands-on workshop for pre-qualified app developers/app porters.


=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
=== Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* 23.0.1
** Drivers {{bug|901527}} and {{bug|902349}}
* Press excitement about metro
** [http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-8-firefox-coming-in-december-2013-8?op=1 Windows 8 Users That Hate Internet Explorer Will Soon Be Saved By Firefox]
** [http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-schedules-metro-firefox-for-december-release-7000019532/ "If you’re waiting for a touch-friendly alternative to Internet Explorer on Windows 8, you’ve now got some milestones to look forward to..."]


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
* New about:home redesign tablet optimization landed on fig \o/ {{bug|888905}}
* Chromecast support for Firefox goodness is in progress {{Bug|901803}}
* Landed in Fx25 {{Bug|722902}} - Make AMO more discoverable in the browser
* SkiaGL backed canvas turned on for all Android platforms


=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
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=== Webmaker ===
=== Webmaker ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: OpenMatt in Toronto''
* [https://webmaker.org/events Maker Party] continues til Sep 15!  [https://blog.webmaker.org/london-ivory-coast-pittsburgh-and-more-a-maker-party-event-roundup Last week's highlights]: Ivory Coast, London, Pittsburgh.
* <b>New features shipping for Webmaker.org</b>.
** <b>Work week full of win</b>. Check out [http://webmakerv2.tumblr.com/post/58462140423/a-work-week-full-of-win Brett Gaylor's blog post recap on what's coming].
** Includes profile pages, new teaching kits, localization, media synch, bringing the X-Ray Goggles back + more
* <b>Make your own movie out of animated GIFs.</b> [https://jake.makes.org/popcorn/1bd8 A brand new test project for Popcorn]. Try it!
[[File:Popcorn_maker_--_screen_shot_gif_movie_with_tutorial.png|400px]]


=== Identity ===
=== Identity ===
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=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: NoAudioYo.''
 
* Workweeks!
** Aug 26 - 30, Performance team in Toronto
** Aug 26 - 30, NFC team in San Francisco
** Sept 9 - 13, Firefox OS (and Friends) in Oslo
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQVuAfCDHc&feature=youtu.be Video tutorial for building Firefox OS apps with Yeoman and GruntJS, by @ladybenko]
* Welcome new Dialer peers Antony Ricaud and Fernando Jimenez
* [https://github.com/mozilla-b2g Our Github repo finally has a proper avatar]


=== Grow Mozilla ===
=== Grow Mozilla ===
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[[File:2011 b2g logo.png|300px]]
[[File:2011 b2g logo.png|300px]]
=== 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT ===
''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
*DB Engineering helped securely backup Marketplace DB.
*Relops now has OS X 10.9 automation in place, so Engineering can start testing stuff.
*Intern presentation plug! Shawn Nguyen is present tomorrow at 1300 about how he helped improve our OS X imaging process.


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| Link to where audience can find out more information
| Link to where audience can find out more information
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|-
| Kate Naszradi
| Mardi Douglass
| Summit Communications Director
| Summit Planning Team
| Summit Weekly Updates
| Summit Weekly Updates
| Mountain View
| Seattle
| No
| No
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| No
| No
|
|
|-
| Lawrence Mandel
| Program Manager
| Web compat update
| MV
| No
| [http://lmandel.github.io/webcompatupdate0813/ Slides]
| <ul><li>[[Compatibility/Guide|Getting Started Guide]]</li>
<li>[[Compatibility/StdLetters|Standard Outreach Letters]]</li>
<li>[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.mobile.compat Bugzilla issue submission form]</li>
<li>Community pages: [[Compatibility/Mobile/Spain|Spain]], [[Compatibility/Mobile/Poland|Poland]]</li>
<li>[https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/compatibility compatibility@ list]</li></ul>
|-
| Kensie (Majken)
| Mozilla Rep Mentor
| North America Reps Meetup
| San Fransisco
| No
|
| <ul><li>[https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/na-reps-meetup-2013/ Notes]</li>
<li>[https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/na-reps-meetup-community-building/ Community Building Session]</li>
<li>[https://remo.etherpad.mozilla.org/na-swot-2013/ SWOT and Action Steps]</li></ul>
|}
|}


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| Buenos Aires, Argentina
| Buenos Aires, Argentina
| Supporting and helping grow the Mozilla volunteer base across Latin America
| Supporting and helping grow the Mozilla volunteer base across Latin America
|-
| Jukka Jylänki
| Vladimir Vukicevic
| Toronto Office
| Finland
| Platform Engineer
|-
|-
| Patrick Brosset
| Patrick Brosset
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| Remote - IL
| Remote - IL
| Compiler Engineer
| Compiler Engineer
|-
| David Major
| Benjamin Smedberg
| MV Office
| MV Office
| Stability Engineer
|-
|-
| Jacob Ryan Stinnett
| Jacob Ryan Stinnett
| Dave Townsend
| Alex Poirot
| Paris Office
| Paris Office
| Remote - TX
| Remote - TX
| Software Engineer
| Firefox OS Simulator
|-
|-
| Stephany Wilkes
| Stephany Wilkes
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| San Francisco Office
| San Francisco Office
| Program Manager
| Program Manager
|-
| Shannon Clayton
| Lori Jashinsky
| Mountain View Office
| London Office
| Office Services Coordinator - WPR
|}
|}


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==== WebQA ====
==== WebQA ====
* Please see the meeting notes from last [https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/StaffMeetings/QA-Staff-08-14-2013 Wednesday's QA meeting]


==== QA Community ====
==== QA Community ====
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==== PR ====
==== PR ====
"For now, however, Heilmann emphasized that Firefox OS was intended to bring a taste of democracy into the global market, where phones are often the only way to access the web." – VentureBeat
[http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/13/the-first-firefox-phone-is-cheap-simple-totally-democratic-hands-on/ The first Firefox phone is cheap, simple, & totally democratic, VentureBeat]
[http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a507940/zte-open-firefox-os-phone-on-sale-in-uk-us.html/ ZTE Open Firefox OS phone on sale in UK, US, Digital Spy]
[http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2423253,00.asp/ Mozilla to Launch Metro-Friendly Version of Firefox on Dec. 10, PCMag.com]
[http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Windows-8-Users-That-Hate-Internet-Explorer-Will-4742028.php/ Windows 8 Users That Hate Internet Explorer Will Soon Be Saved By Firefox (MSFT), SFGate]


==== Events ====
==== Events ====
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