WeeklyUpdates/2008-08-04

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for backchannel

note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself

Friends of the Tree

(I'm out of the office today. Sam or Tim, can one of you please announce the Friends?! -A)

• Schrep nominated Ted for "seriously kicking ass to fix tests to not fail intermittently" Let's here it for Ted!
• Asa asks that you all recognize all the people that prepared and delivered great talks, discussions, and presentations at the Summit.
• Asa also wanted to recognize John Lilly and the Steering Committee for supporting the biggest and most productive gathering of the Mozilla community ever.
• Last, and definitely not least, too many people to list wrote in nominating Dan Portillo for the amazing job he did in organizing and managing the 2008 Firefox+ Summit. This was the largest event undertaking in Mozilla's history and Dan rocked it!! Let's have a giant round of applause for Dan!

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

Fx 2.0.0.17 / Fx 3.0.2

Since we last talked, Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 shipped and we had a joint post-mortem for Firefox 2.0.0.16/3.0.1.

We're currently finalizing the schedule for Firefox 2.0.0.17 and 3.0.2. If you have a bug that's blocking either release, please work on it immediately as we're more than likely aiming for a release in the next three to four weeks.

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

• Black Hat 08: Mozilla attending and hosting "Milk & Cookies Party" on Aug 6th from 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. at Caesar's Palace. Room location and other details will be posted shortly here.
• for Schools at LinuxWorld: You can help by:
  • Donating hardware
  • a school to receive refurbished hardware
  • Volunteering at LinuxWorld

Retention Marketing

Affiliates Program

Foundation Updates

• Future of the Foundation
  • David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak did a "Foundation road-trip" with Mark Surman from Vancouver up to the summit to discuss future plans. Fortunately the the rock slide waited a day or two and thus avoided wiping out the entire Foundation staff in one fell swoop.
  • We did an interactive "Mozilla Foundation 2.0" session at the summit, with lots of good suggestions from the participants. More on this later as we have a chance to write things up.

• CAs and related issues
  • Frank gave preliminary approval to requests from Comodo (for a new ECC root, bug 421946) and Wells Fargo (bug 428390).

• Public communications
  • David hosted a session on the www.mozilla.org site at the summit.

• Upcoming activities
  • Gerv will be on holiday until August 20.
  • Frank is on vacation all this week (August 4-8).

Other Business

• BMO Reorg Part One completed last Wednesday night / Thursday morning; part two coming in a few weeks