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** Old data purged (but backed up) to reduce database size | |||
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Webtools&component=Graph+Server&target_milestone=0.6&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= A few new features] | |||
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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
WeeklyUpdate Live
You can watch the weekly meetings live at Air Mozilla You can also view previous meetings from the "on-demand" button on the Air Mozilla player. Meetings will be posted for on-demand consumption shortly after the meeting conclusion.
Friends of the Tree 
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
Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.17 / 3.0.2 , 3.0.3
Gecko 1.9.1
Firefox 3.1
TB 3
Mobile
IT
- Upcoming Maintenance
- More Netscaler OS upgrades
- kernel upgrades
- mailman upgrades
- Final MySQL 4 -> 5 migration (Tuesday), will affect:
- Bonsai
- Despot
- Graph Server
- Litmus
Release Engineering
QA
Security
Marketing/PR
PR
- Coverage of Impact Mozilla marketing project
- Quieter week in US due to press coverage of economy and upcoming election
Events
- MozCamp, Oct. 25 - 26, Barcelona, Spain
- MexicoWeb 2.0, Nov. 3 - 4: First major event for Mozilla Mexico. Chris Hofmann and John Resig speaking.
- FOSSCamp Dec. 5-6th, Mountain View, CA. It's organized by Ubuntu folks and they are looking for Mozilla participants.
- Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland
- Next events triage will be help on October 8th, 2008 at 10am PDT.
Support
- No updates
Metrics
Evangelism
- Firefox 3.1 documentation work continues; DOM 3 text nodes, HTML 5 canvas text and shadows, and various other things are now documented.
- Continuing to work with MindTouch to ensure that as many of our requests as possible are addressed in the next release of Deki.
Mozilla Labs
Webdev, Add-ons, AMO
- Graphserver db and code update last week.
- Old data purged (but backed up) to reduce database size
- A few new features
L10n
- 36 locales participate in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1
Foundation Updates
Highlights
- Plans for Mozilla participation in Teaching Open Source track at Seneca FSOSS conference finalized. Also, planning pre-FSOSS reception @ Mozilla Toronto.
- Mozilla Foundation approved sponsorship for UK Citizens Online Democracy for mySociety.org 5th birthday party (tomorrow).
- Made further progress with mozilla.org archiving, redirect and bug triage work. Also addition of new Policies page.
- Moved forward on efforts to improve certificate authority review process by adding more human resources and implementing a [http://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Schedule target schedule.'
Program activities
- Education
- Mark and Frank worked with Seneca to plan the FSOSS Teaching Open Source track and arrange a separate informal get-together for people participating in that track.
- Mark, Frank, and Zak had a teleconference to scope simple research on who is doing what in open source education, to help in planning and making decisions about our own program efforts.
- Grants
- The Mozilla Foundation gave a $2,000 grant to UK Citizens Online Democracy, the organization behind the mySociety project.
- CAs
- Frank drew up a proposed target schedule for taking pending requests into the public discussion phase, and put Microsec Ltd into public discussion per the above schedule.
Public communications and community outreach
- Powered by Mozilla
- David met with John Slater and Tara about the "Powered by Mozilla" landing page and design guide, and with Catherine Brady about "Powered by Mozilla" legal guidelines
- David looked into getting the "Powered by Mozilla" logo in Firefox and Thunderbird
- www.mozilla.org
- David continued archiving, redirect and bug triage work.
- David set up a redirect to point to new Firefox Style Guide on www.mozilla.com.
- David added new Featured Mozilla-Based Applications for October (Stylizer and Miro).
- David posted a new Policies page.
- David participated in the www.mozilla.org planning meeting and posted notes.
Other
- Zak did some administration work on the Mozilla Governance list and wikified the draft unified privacy policy documents.
Upcoming activities
- Mark will be in Mountain View for meetings (October 6-9).
- Gerv will be representing the Mozilla Foundation at the mySociety fifth birthday event (October 14, London).
- Mark and Frank will attend and participate in the FSOSS 2008 conference at Seneca College (October 23-24, Toronto).
- Mark will attend EU Mozilla Camp (October 25-26, Barcelona).
- We have a Mozilla Foundation staff retreat planned for late October (October 28-30, Mountain View).
- Zak will deliver the opening keynote for the AFUP (French PHP User Group) Forum PHP conference (December 8, Paris)