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=== This Week ===
=== This Week ===
Mozilla participating in '''CES''' in Las Vegas, NV. Jan 7-10. (http://www.cesweb.org/home)
Description:
*Hospitality suite in the Venetian Hotel for Press and BD meetings
*Andreas Gal speaking on: “The Smartphone/Tablet Economy: The Consumer Obsession”
*Rick Fant speaking on: “The App Community”


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=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
=== Wednesday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +2 days}} ===
* <b>[http://arewemeetingyet.com/Los%20Angeles/2014-01-08/13:00/SecReview:%20Autoland 13:00 PST] : SecReview - [https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html?view=month&action=view&invId=400554-400553&pstat=AC&exInvId=400554-405796&useInstance=1&instStartTime=1389214800000&instDuration=3600000 Autoland]</b>
** <u>Description:</u> Autoland is a system that scans bugzilla for changes made by authorized people, and reflects those changes into hg.  It interacts with the releng try system to "try" patches and with hg to "land" them into various trees.
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* <b>6pm CET / 12pm EST / 9am PST  Mozilla Town Hall ([http://arewemeetingyet.com/Los%20Angeles/2014-01-09/09:00/Mozilla%20Town%20Hall%20-%20Foundation%20Board AreWeMeetingYet] for your local time) Foundation Board Candidate Discussion</b>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate
! Bio Link
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|Speigel Online CEO and early German blogger Katharina Borchert|| https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/KatharinaBorchert
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|Brazilian open internet advocate and law professor Ronaldo Lemos|| https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/RonaldoLemos
|-
|}
** If you would like to meet Katharina and Ronaldo and provide feedback on their candidacy for the Board, please join us. Mitchell, Katharina and Ronaldo will be taking questions in IRC, and Mitchell will be accepting feedback directly by email.
*** https://air.mozilla.org/town-hall/
*** join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
* <b>10:00 AM Pacific / 18:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion</b> -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
** [[Grow/Meeting_01_09_14|Agenda and dial-in information]] (feel free to add items to the agenda)


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=== Friday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +4 days}} ===
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=== Firefox Desktop ===
=== Firefox Desktop ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)''
 
* Happy new year! 2014 is going to kick ass!
* Metro is trying, despite significant weather adventure, to have a work week this week in Toronto to carry it towards 1.0. If you haven't checked it out lately, you should, it's pretty hot.
* Desktop is meeting up next week to plan out 2014 work
* Desktop, Android and Services teams working hard to pull together sync with Firefox Accounts before the next merge day. Give them hugs, and help if they ask.


=== Firefox Mobile ===
=== Firefox Mobile ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)''
* Work continues on improving page load performance
** Looking at Java and Gecko profiling
** Some fixes have landed
** More in the works
* Work continues 3rd party integration for the Firefox Home page
** Exploring ways of storing/caching data
** Exploring different views/lists
* ANR reporting and fixing
** Cool [http://darchons.github.io/anr-dashboard/ dashboard] (thanks jchen)
** Compositor ANR hang has been [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950203 fixed] (thanks bjacob)


=== Firefox OS ===
=== Firefox OS ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:'' remote (pdol)
 
* 1.3 stabilization is priority #1
* Rocketbar landed on master just before the holidays, can enable in the developer settings
* Movistar Uruguay *sold out* of their Firefox OS phones, and Firefox OS sales were 30% of their holiday sales ([http://www.elpais.com.uy/el-empresario/smartphone-firefox-os-se-agoto.html article])
* VIA Technologies announced support for Firefox OS and FREE APCs for developers who fix known issues ([http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=7567 press release])


=== Older Branch Work ===
=== Older Branch Work ===
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=== Grow Mozilla ===
=== Grow Mozilla ===
''Speaker Location:''
''Speaker Location:''
=== 60 Seconds with IT ===
''Speaker Location: San Francisco''
* Tegras are mooovin and groovin.


=== Identity ===
=== Identity ===
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=== Thunderbird ===
=== Thunderbird ===
''Speaker Location:''  
''Speaker Location:''


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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!  New Hire
!  New Hire  
!  Introduced by
!  Introduced by  
!  Speaker location
!  Speaker location  
!  New Hire location
!  New Hire location  
!  Will be working on
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|-
| ''Who is the new hire?''
| ''Who is the new hire?''
| ''Who will be introducing that person?''
| ''Who will be introducing that person?''
| ''Where is the introducer?''
| ''Where is the introducer?''
| ''Where will the new person be working from?''
| ''Where will the new person be working from?''
| ''What will the new person be working on?''
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| Amy Lee
| Jaime Chen
| SFO
| Toronto
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| Geoff Piper
| Jishnu Menon
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
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| Ted Clancy
| Gregor Wagner
| Mountain View
| Toronto
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| Philip Walmsley
| Tony Santos
| Mountain View
| Vancouver
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| Clara Carle
| Lori Jashinsky
| Mountain View
| Paris
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| Wendy Chan
| Winnie Aoieong
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
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| Niran Amir
| Pete Scanlon
| Mountain View
| San Francisco
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|Carol Huang, Omega Feng, Ting-Yu Chou
|Harly Hsu ,Thinker Lee
|San Francisco
|Taipei
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== Introducing New Interns ==
== Introducing New Interns ==
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| Jonathan Wei
| David Bolter
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Accessibility - Core support, mobile, TBD
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| Viktor Stanchev
| Vladan Djeric
| Toronto
| Toronto
| Extending and improving the Gecko Profiler
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| Willie Cheong
| Bhavana Bajaj
| Mountain View
| Mountain View
| Help build Release Readiness Dashboard
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|}
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==== Social Support ====
==== Social Support ====
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