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* Big thanks to Jlin and guillermo for helping with a Vidyo issue last Tuesday
* Big thanks to Jlin and guillermo for helping with a Vidyo issue last Tuesday
* Thanks to Rosana Ardila, Lonnen, Patrick Finch, Marie Reavy, Doug Turner, Emma Irwin, and Jason Weathersby for helping to vet potential VP of HR candidates last week
* Thanks to Rosana Ardila, Lonnen, Patrick Finch, Maire Reavy, Doug Turner, Emma Irwin, and Jason Weathersby for helping to vet potential VP of HR candidates last week


== Upcoming Events ==
== Upcoming Events ==
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We’ll be covering the importance of online privacy and, we have some special participants joining us like: Mozilla, McAfee, Privacy International, iKeepSafe, DuckDuckGo, and Center for Democracy and Technology.
We’ll be covering the importance of online privacy and, we have some special participants joining us like: Mozilla, McAfee, Privacy International, iKeepSafe, DuckDuckGo, and Center for Democracy and Technology.


== '''Privacy Lab''' - a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco - at the San Francisco Commons <br /> ==
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'''Privacy Lab''' - a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco - at the San Francisco Commons <br />
Cooper Quintin from the EFF, will present "A State of the Union for Privacy and Consumer Protection and Wishlist for 2015" (3.30pm PT).
Cooper Quintin from the EFF, will present "A State of the Union for Privacy and Consumer Protection and Wishlist for 2015" (3.30pm PT).
* 3.00pm - 5.00pm PT  
* 3.00pm - 5.00pm PT  
* Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-lab-a-meetup-for-privacy-minded-people-in-san-francisco/
* Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/privacy-lab-a-meetup-for-privacy-minded-people-in-san-francisco/
* To RSVP to attend the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/privacy-lab-a-meetup-for-privacy-minded-people-in-san-francisco-tickets-15148861653
* To RSVP to attend the event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/privacy-lab-a-meetup-for-privacy-minded-people-in-san-francisco-tickets-15148861653
'''Teach The Web Talks''' celebrates Data Privacy day with Stacy Martin, Senior Privacy Manager at Mozilla.
We will discuss how to be Smart with your Privacy and how to teach people who has access to their data, where it goes or could go, and that they have a choice in all of it.
*Join us live via [https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c19lfgukc5m7ahk45s3r0l1lt20 Google hangout] at '''12pm PT/ 3pm ET/ 8pm GMT'''. Post your questions on [http://discourse.webmaker.org/t/teach-the-web-talk-data-privacy-day-smart-on-privacy-with-stacy-martin-from-mozilla/1147 discourse] or on Twitter using #Teachtheweb
If you cannnot join us live, find out how to get involved on our [https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:Teach_the_Web_Talks Teach the Web Talks Wiki ]
'''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-01-28-homebrew-website-club Homebrew Website Club Meetup]''' <strong>Be <em>independent</em> with your web browser <em>and your web site</em>.</strong>
* San Francisco (@[[MozSF]] 1st floor), Chicago, and Portland.
* 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
* 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night <blockquote><p>Create or update your personal web site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.</p><p>Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!</p></blockquote> Any questions? See '''[http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-01-28-homebrew-website-club the wiki page for details]''' <br/>or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom


=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
=== Thursday, {{#time:d F|{{SUBPAGENAME}} +3 days}} ===
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*The Content Services team is planning on running a Brown Bag session on "How Advertising Works" for any Mozillians interested. Depending on response, we may run this more than once or do a follow-up to answer questions. The Brown Bag will be scheduled for mid-Feb and we will have a final date/time for next Monday's Project Call.
*The Content Services team is planning on running a Brown Bag session on "How Advertising Works" for any Mozillians interested. Depending on response, we may run this more than once or do a follow-up to answer questions. The Brown Bag will be scheduled for mid-Feb and we will have a final date/time for next Monday's Project Call.


*Content Services has released a Request for Innovation (RFI) for Programmatic Advertising. You can find it on our blog here: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/01/22/request-for-innovation/
*Content Services has released a Request for Innovation (RFI) Content and Advertising. You can find it on our blog here: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/01/22/request-for-innovation/
Feel free to check it out and let us know what you think on Yammer!
Feel free to check it out and let us know what you think on Yammer!


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* Google is running Summer of Code again in 2015. Mozilla has had the pleasure of participating every year so far, and we are hoping to participate again this year. In the next few weeks, we need to prepare a list of suitable projects to support our application.
* Google is running Summer of Code again in 2015. Mozilla has had the pleasure of participating every year so far, and we are hoping to participate again this year. In the next few weeks, we need to prepare a list of suitable projects to support our application.
* Would you like to mentor a student through a 3-month coding project next summer? If so, add your project ideas to our [[Community:SummerOfCode15:Brainstorming|brainstorming wiki page]].
* Would you like to mentor a student through a 3-month coding project next summer? If so, add your project ideas to our [[Community:SummerOfCode15:Brainstorming|brainstorming wiki page]].
=== Web VR ===
''Speaker Location: Josh Carpenter, San Francisco''
* WebVR landed in Nightly: http://bit.ly/1wom6Jf
* Mozvr.com update: http://mozvr.com
* Tutorial on creating web VR prototypes: http://bit.ly/1LbRlSG
* TechCrunch coverage: http://tcrn.ch/1CPmbdD
* HTML5 Meetup on Browser Based VR (Jan 16) recording: http://bit.ly/15LLO5m
* Looking ahead to 2015...


== Speakers ==
== Speakers ==
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| ''Maja Frydrychowicz''
| ''Maja Frydrychowicz''
| ''Stephen Donner''
| ''Syd Polk''
| ''Mountain View Office''
| ''Mountain View Office''
| ''Canada Remote (QC)''
| ''Canada Remote (QC)''
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