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<li> | <li>'''Join our new community calls'''. Want to help teach the web? Join Webmaker Mentor Community -- now every two weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC/10am EST/7am PST. [https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/mentors-thursday3 Next call is Jan. 23rd] | ||
<li> | <li>Innovative new ways to teach the web. Check out this new [http://hivenyc.org/portfolio Hive NYC project portfolio] and [http://hivenyc.org/2014/01/07/hive-watching/ blog post] | ||
<li>Hive Chicago | <li>Hive Chicago: gearing up for a big [http://explorechi.org/destination-chicago.html Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th]. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding badges. | ||
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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
- Thanks to Bob Thulfram for his series of detailed blog posts on game programming for Firefox OS. So far this month he's covered localStorage, asyncStorage and IndexedDB as well as two game reviews!
- Thanks to Nishanth Anchala, and the entire team of student organizers at Techfest, IIT Bombay for bringing and supporting Mozilla and Firefox OS to one of Asia's largest tech conferences.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 13 January
Tuesday, 14 January
Wednesday, 15 January
Thursday, 16 January
Friday, 17 January
Saturday, 18 January
Sunday, 19 January
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
- Desktop team is at a work week this week, no update (but more to come, soon!)
Firefox Mobile
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Firefox OS
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- Announced at CES Panasonic: Next Generation Smart TVs powered by Firefox OS and more.
- Announced the Firefox OS Tablet Contributor Program More details to follow soon. Asa Dotzler asa@mozilla.com is the primary contact.
- Great progress on the Firefox OS Visual Refresh and DSDS over the last weeks.
- Discussions continue on changes to the development schedule among B2G Drivers on list and in weekly meeting. No decision final yet.
- I'm publishing weekly updates on the significant changes in Firefox OS at my blog asadotzler.com - will add m.d.b2g and m.d.gaia to that distribution this week.
- 1.3 stabilization is still priority #1
- APC Paper is shipping (movie)!
Older Branch Work
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Webmaker
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- Join our new community calls. Want to help teach the web? Join Webmaker Mentor Community -- now every two weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 UTC/10am EST/7am PST. Next call is Jan. 23rd
- Innovative new ways to teach the web. Check out this new Hive NYC project portfolio and blog post
- Hive Chicago: gearing up for a big Maker Party this Saturday, Jan. 18th. Part of Chicago City of Learning initiative. Teaching digital skills and awarding badges.
Open Badges
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- Year in review. Check out this timeline that shows all of the great work from the Open Badges team and contributor community: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00!
- Highlights include launching 1.0 in March, building a badge system for the entire city of Chicago, having Bill Clinton talk about the need for the badges work while announcing a commitment (with Mozilla, MacArthur and more) to better 2M lives through badges in the next 2 years and zeroing in on BadgeKit!
- Read more here: http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review
Mozilla Science Lab
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- New paper by Greg Wilson and a number of Software Carpentry instructors on best practices in scientific computing in PLOS Biology: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/01/best-practices-has-been-published.html
- Latest project exploring "code as a research object" with Github and figshare: http://mozillascience.org/code-as-a-research-object-a-new-project/
- Awesome hack by MoCo colleague Victor Ng to help researchers better access open scholarly content: http://mozillascience.org/accessing-content-on-the-web-extending-the-open-access-button/
Mozilla Reps
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Grow Mozilla
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Identity
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Services
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Firefox Marketplace
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Thunderbird
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Web Compatibility
Speaker Location: Austin (vidyo)
- Vimeo launched a new (h264) HTML5 player which works nicely on Firefox Mobile and FxOS.
- M3U8/HLS streaming support recently landed in Firefox Mobile. Still work to do for FxOS and <video @src> support.
- Youtube videos cut off in FxOS browser fixed.
- Google fixes G+ mobile menu bug.
And a friendly reminder to dogfood and use the Mobile Web Compatibility Form to report any compat issues!
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.
}Roundtable
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
| Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who Are You? | What Do You Do? | What are you going to talk about? | Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) | Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
| Diane (Bisgeier) Tate & Didem Ersoz | WebFWDees | What's next for WebFWD, Mozilla & startups and how you can participate :) | Moz SF + MV | More at http://blog.webfwd.org | n/a | n/a |
| Erin Knight | Open Badges | Open Badges Year in Review | Internetz (Remote) | Tiki Toki Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/216462/Open-Badges-in-2013/#vars!date=2013-12-28_20:15:00! | For more info: More at http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/71643223520/2013-the-year-in-review and | |
| Diane (Bisgeier) Tate & Didem Ersoz | WebFWDees | What's next for WebFWD, Mozilla & startups and how you can participate :) | Moz SF + MV | More at http://blog.webfwd.org | n/a | n/a |
| 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows | Knight-Mozilla OpenNews | Please say hello and help us welcome our new Fellows, who will be in SF for the week for onboarding! | Mozilla SF office | Meet the Fellows: http://opennews.org/fellowships/2014meet.html | n/a | n/a |
| Who are you? | Area of question | Question |
|---|---|---|
| What's your name? What do you work on? | Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. | What would you like to know? |
Welcome!
Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.
Introducing New Volunteers
| New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new volunteer(s)? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where is the new person based? | What will the new person be doing? |
Introducing New Hires
Introducing New Interns
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Eugen Sawin | Bradford Lassey | Mountain View | Germany Remote | Software Engineer - FFOS |
| Douglas Sherk | Faramarz Rashed | Mountain View | Toronto Office | Software Engineer - FFOS |
| Robert Rayborn | Matthew Grimes | Mountain View | San Francisco | User Advocacy |
| Joni Savage | Ibai Garcia | Mountain View | Seattle | Content Manager |
| Lawrence Lin | Brian Huang | Mountain View | Taiwan Taipei office | Firefox OS Senior QA Engineer |
| Penton Sun | Natasha Ma | Mountain View | Taiwan Taipei office | PR Manager |
| Amy Lee | Patryk Adamczyk | Toronto Office | Toronto Office | Visual Designer - FFOS |
| Daniel Stenberg (:bagder) | Jason Duell | Seattle | Sweden | Networking Stack (HTTP, etc). |
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.