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 == Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
+* Front-end Australis team for their focus on performance and recent perf related sucesses
 == Upcoming Events ==
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 === Monday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}} ===
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chicago, USA: Five day [https://webmaker.org/events/882 Project Wishcraft: Felt Sew Silly Grades K -5] workshop is a mash-up of Feltville and Sewn Silly camps from earlier this season, campers wrap-up summer by making a set of playthings that will keep them happily busy indoors when the weather gets chilly. Hand-sewing and embroidery are taught in this full-day camp. No previous sewing experience is required and those with experience take on new challenges.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Dresden, Germany: [https://webmaker.org/events/243 The Webmaker Weiterbildung] workshop is for members of the Medienbildung Netzwerk in Dresden to level up their web skills and learn how to #teachtheweb. They'll learn how to use Webmaker tools, how to integrate them into other projects and programs participants are organizing and working on, more about the open ethos and ways that participants can get involved with the Webmaker Mentor Community. They'll also talk about localizing pieces and parts of Webmaker for German speakers and how we can work together to bring a maker ethos and the web to Dresden's learning offerings.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Durgapur, India: [https://webmaker.org/events/243 Hack Jam @ BCREC] will introduce participants to Mozilla and its introduction to Webmaker project, introduction and Demo on FirefoxOS paper prototyping (draw your idea for web/app/popcorn), and hands on session with webmaker tools (remix websites with the X-Ray Goggles and hack the web with Thimble). Students who attend this event will range from people who are very new to webmaking to engineering students of Durgapur.
 === Tuesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +1 day}} ===
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chapai Nawabganj, Bangladesh: Three day [https://webmaker.org/events/555 Mozilla @ Chapai Nawabgonj] workshop is a Mozilla Awareness event at Imperial Polytechnic Institute on 28/08/13. In this event we will talk about Mozilla, its mission, Mozilla Bangladesh, open web, Firefox OS, SuMo, Webmaker, how to contribute to Mozilla etc. On 29/08/13 there will be a maker party at Harimohan Govt. High School.
+*<b>Intern presentations</b> in 10 Forward and Air Mozilla at 1-2:30pm PDT: Samvedana Gohil, Shuhao Wu, Vaidik Kapoor.
 === Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chennai, India: [https://webmaker.org/events/344 Webmaker in Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College] is all about taking Webmaker to college students, helping them in hacking webpages. It will be like a hack jam party. About 50 students are expected to participate.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Yokohama, JAPAN: [https://webmaker.org/events/425 Maker Party 2013?Yokohama #1] is an entrance free workshop to remix movie clips.
+*<b>[https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/Council/ReMo_Camp_2013 Mozilla Reps Camp 28th - 1st:]</b> Madrid, SPAIN: Leadership of the Mozilla Reps program, comprised of Council members and Reps mentors, will meet for 3 days in Madrid, Spain, from August 30th to September 1st, 2013. The meeting will be comprised of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions to draft the 2013/2014 Mozilla Reps program roadmap. This will be a the second time the entire program leadership meet and work together in person, the first being in Berlin in 2012.
+*Intern presentations in the 1st floor SF Commons and Air Mozilla at 1:30-3:30pm PDT: Shilpan Bhagat, Tanay Delima, Vlad Filippov, Jonathan Wilde.
+*Ryan Seys's intern presentation will be presented from the Paris conference room Apero at 2pm CET (5am PDT). It will be recorded and posted on Air Mozilla.
 === Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Buenos Aires, Argentina: Three day [https://webmaker.org/events/348 Hacks/Hackers Media Party: Rebooting journalism] will bring together journalists, software programmers and designers from three continents to work together towards the future of the media. In this second edition of the Media Party, we hope for increased exposure, international attendance and workshop offerings. Among attendees will be representatives of multidisciplinary teams from The New York Times, Boston Globe and Zeit Online, among others; six news innovation winners from the Knight Foundation and four from the African News Innovation Challenge; Knight Fellows from the International Center For Journalists (ICFJ); and regional editors. Among invited participants are Jacqui Maher and Brian Abelson (New York Times), Brian Boyer (NPR), Joe Germuska (Knight Lab), Ted Han (Document Cloud), Annabel Church (Zeit Online), Stijn Debrouwere (The Guardian), Friedrich Lindenberg (Spiegel Online), Sonya Song (Boston Globe), Mike Tigas (Propublica), Noah Veltman (BBC), Manuel Aristarán (La Nación), Justin Arenstein (AMI), Miguel Paz (Poderopedia), Mariana Santos (La Nación Costa Rica), and others.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Yokohama, Japan: [https://webmaker.org/events/426 Maker Party 2013?Yokohama #2] is an entrance free workshop to remix movie clips.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Chapai Nawabganj, Bangladesh: [https://webmaker.org/events/534 Webmaker @ Harimohan School] will be the first webmaker event at Bangladesh with school kids. The venue is far away from the capital. The school facilitates internet connection to the student also.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Toronto, Canada: [https://webmaker.org/events/784 BabyMaker Party]. Join the BabyMaker Party Make your baby's first website or your first baby website. Don't have a baby in your life? That's okay, this "baby" doesn't have to be a real baby – let's make a website for whatever it is you love. We'll be using the Mozilla Webmaker tool Thimble to "remix" a baby website, along the way teaching some basics of coding with HTML and CSS. This event is FREE. Just spend a couple hours of your evening being silly and learning something new with other awesome, baby-lovin' people.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Brooklyn, USA: [https://webmaker.org/events/891 "That Could Be Your Sister" Design Challenge to Combat Sexual Cyberbullying]. As part of the Project: Connect Summer Youth Programming, Radio Rookies and Global Kids will host a “That Could Be Your Sister Design Challenge” for 50 NYC teenagers to envision a digital tool that would allow for better reporting and awareness of sexual cyberbullying and provide resources and support for victims.
+* [https://air.mozilla.org/ Air Mozilla brownbag Payments in the marketplace]: Want to get paid for your work on apps? Then you'll need to know about how payments work in the Marketplace. This covers paid apps and in-app payments steps through what developers will need to implement in order to accept payments from users.
 === Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
+*'''[[MDN/Doc_sprints/2013August|MDN (virtual) doc sprint]]''', starts 8 a.m. PT (15:00 UTC), continues through Saturday, 5 p.m. PT (23:59 UTC).
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Powell River, Canada: Two day [https://webmaker.org/events/353 Sunshine IO] workshop is a geekout on the Sunshine Coast.
 === Saturday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +5 days}} ===
+*'''[[MDN/Doc_sprints/2013August|MDN (virtual) doc sprint]]''', continues through 5 p.m. PT (23:59 UTC).
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Nairobi, Kenya: Two day [https://webmaker.org/events/857 Maker Party _ Go Down Art Centre] will be teaching teenage youths, most of whom are digital design students and are familiar with web technologies and tools but are definitely not gurus or experts in this field. The hope is to add something useful to their learning life, something that will ease or maybe smooth-en everything, using the awesome web leaning tools developed by the Mozilla Webmaker Community.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Nashik, India: [https://webmaker.org/events/351 Nashik Web Makers]. In Nashik Webmaker chapter people can learn, Interact and share various information and details about Mozilla Organizations current projects, Webmaker and obviously about firefox OS.And together have a great fun with learning experiment.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Tamil Nadu, India: [https://webmaker.org/events/376 webmaker party] is especially for students in and around Rasipuram.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Karuizawa-machi, Japan: [https://webmaker.org/events/770 Maker Party 2013@Karuizawa with Helpdesk, Kaetsu University] is a joint event of the summer camp of Helpdesk at Kaetsu University, which are a student organization to provide IT support to the students in the university. This is a closed event. No one outside of the organization can join.
+*<b>[https://webmaker.org/events/ MAKER PARTY:]</b> Andhra Pradesh, India: [https://webmaker.org/events/943 MozoGoggles]. This webmaker party is being organised to create awareness to a few sets of people who are really interested about the WEB. It will feature Thimble, which will be we explained in detail.
 === Sunday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +6 days}} ===
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 === Firefox Desktop ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)''
+* 23.0.1 went out last week (webRTC fixes, Radeon crash fix, dll blocklist)
+* firefox-dev is pretty active:
+** [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-August/000848.html AV scanning hooks on windows]
+** [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2013-August/000749.html find bar shifting content]
+** '''[https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev subscribe!]'''
 === Firefox Mobile ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location:'' remote (mfinkle)
+* More work continues on the new Home page. Check it out in Nightly ({{bug|862793}})
+** Well received by the Android community
+** Looking into performance and fixing up tests
+** Planning UI hooks for add-ons (banners and widgets)
+* Page action support for associated native app ({{bug|899376}})
+* Packaging Gecko as an Android library ({{bug|880118}} and [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView doc])
 === Thunderbird ===
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 === Firefox OS ===
-''Speaker Location:''
+''Speaker Location:'' remote (pdol)
+* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.gaia/gnYX6XdDpwY/nEC7SL-3W1cJ Congratulations Mike Pennisi on becoming a new peer of Clock app].
+* Gareth Aye [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.gaia/KJwm5HvONlE/6HlybCw4_4YJ posted a diagram] of how we use Marionette and NodeJS for Firefox OS integration testing.
+* Oslo work week rapidly approaching (Sept 9th) - focus on wrapping up 1.2 feature work and quality
 === 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:
+* January 18, 2012: [https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/08/26/milestone-mozilla-takes-part-in-stop-online-privacy-act-blackout/ Mozilla takes part in blackout to rally action against the Stop Online Privacy Act]
+[[File:2012_sopa_page.png|300px]]
+=== 60 Seconds with Mozilla IT ===
+''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
+The 6 week maintenance window!
 == Speakers ==
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+| Kate Naszradi
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+| Summit Communications Director
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+| Summit Weekly Updates
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+| [http://summit.mozilla.org/ Summit Registration Page],
+Registration questions: mozillasummit[at]shworldwide[dot]com,
+Summit hash-tag: #mozsummit, Internal email: summit2013[at]mozilla[dot]com, Sign-up to be a [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2013/Experiences/Site_Hosts  Site Host]
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 | ''What would you like to know?''
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+| Satdav and a contributor?''
+| ''I would like to ask about policys if possible.''
+| ''Does Mozilla have a open opertunities policy or one to do with disabilities ?''
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+| Jeff Bryner
+| Joe Stevensen
+| Mountain View
+| Portland
+| Security Engineer
+|-
+| Ho Wai Lam
+| Stephen Horlander
+| Vancouver
+| Vancouver
+| Visual Designer
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+| Urmika Devi
+| Denelle Dixon-Thayer
+| San Francisco
+| San Francisco
+| Corporate Counsel
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+| Michael Taylor
+| Lawrence Mandel
+| Toronto
+| Remote - TX
+| Web Compatibility Engineer
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+| Jukka Jylänki
+| Martin Best
+| Toronto, Office
+| Finland
+| Senior Platform Engineer
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+| Jenna Connell
+| Jill Alvarez
+| San Francisco
+| Remote - NY
+| University Recruiter
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 ==== PR ====
+"Overall then, the ZTE Open with Firefox is an interesting first look at the potential of Firefox OS. It’s not the world’s most amazing phone by a long shot, but I would never bet against the open web and with that at the core of Firefox OS, the operating system definitely has a chance to be successful in the long run." - Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch
+"The Firefox OS itself is a sort-of halfway house between iOS and Android, but without a widget-heavy home screen. It certainly looks to have potential." - Hunter Skipworth, Digital Spy
+[http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/firefox-os-gives-the-open-web-gets-central-billing/ Mozilla’s Firefox OS Gives The Open Web Top Billing On Mobile, TechCrunch]
+[http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a509168/zte-open-firefox-phone-going-hands-on-with-the-sold-out-handset.html/ ZTE Open Firefox phone: Going hands-on with the sold-out handset, Digital Spy]
+[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57599682-93/firefox-for-android-gets-new-awesomescreen-interface/ Firefox for Android gets new 'awesomescreen' interface, CNET]
+[http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/22/mozilla-firefox-ui-update-nightly/ Mozilla previews new, cleaner Firefox for Android UI on Nightly build, Engadget]
+[http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241850/Mozilla_39_Plug_n_Hack_39_project_aims_for_tighter_security_tool_integration?source=rss_news_analysis&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fs%2Ffeed%2Ftype%2Fnewsanalysis+%28Computerworld+News+Analysis%29/ Mozilla 'Plug-n-Hack' project aims for tighter security tool integration, Computerworld]
+[http://www.tomshardware.com/news/firefox-metro-windows-8-nighly-aurora-modern-ui,24002.html/ Firefox Metro for Windows 8 to Go Public in December, Tom's Hardware]
 ==== Events ====
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]