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Friends of the Tree

Cameron McCormack for finding a simple way of drastically reducing the time required to run our debug tests. bug 479352

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 18 July

Tuesday, 19 July

Diary Studies from a Google Researcher, Andrea Knight

10Forward - noon

Diary studies can be a great technique if you're trying to understand a user's behavior over the course of a week or two, but can't observe them the whole time. Learn how to make sure your diary study is successful and helps you answer your hypothesis.

Wednesday, 20 July

10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET.
In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.

Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs

2CYA-Noon
A SF-based user research agency which worked with us before, AnswerLab, recently presented a case study of a mobile ethnography they conducted with Wells Fargo at the UPA Conference. They will share the presentation with us again with more details on Wednesday.
It would be a good way to spend you lunch time if you are interested to know more about early-stage user research, or just to hang out for mobile related user findings.

Thursday, 21 July

Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction

Brownbag, Thursday, 21 July, 12:00 noon, 10-Forward (also on Air Mozilla)

Brian Warner will explain the cryptographic protocols, economicincentives, and proof-of-work system in Bitcoin, a new decentralized digital currency that's been in the news recently. Slides are available at [1] .

Friday, 22 July

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (6, 7, 8)

Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration
Seeing double digit aurora channel growth again
- (And, anecdotally, lots of love for the memory improvements there)
Blog post coming on release timing in rapid release, since there's still a lot of uncertainty
- It'll be on the channels blog, stay tuned!

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0)

The Firefox 3.6.20 (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted
- Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
- Code freeze for non-blockers: 2011-07-25
- Code freeze for blockers: 2011-08-01

Mobile Firefox

Thunderbird

Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week.

Drumbeat

Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab: awesome lecture & slides from Chris Heillman this morning.
- (Archived video version coming soon)
Popcorn.js: stick around for Lightning Talk from Brett Gaylor on their new release!

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.

Title

Presenter

Topic

Media

More Details

New uses of popcorn.js

Brett Gaylor

Popcorn.js - the butt kicking HTML5 media framework

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/popcornmonday.pdf

www.popcornjs.org

http://www.popcornjs.org

Mozilla's Local Communities

David Boswell

New pages that highlight Mozilla's local communities around the world

Africa and the Middle East

Asia and the South Pacific

Europe

Latin America

Status Updates By Team

Firefox

Platform

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

Shipped Firefox 6 beta 2 for Mobile to Android Market
working through a qa sync and load environment within the team
Mobile QA and Services QA workweek this week (offsite on 7/19)

WebQA

AMO 6.1.5
SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-12
MDN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671560 7/14
Personas https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671552 7/14

QA Community

Automation Services

Upcoming QA Automation Services work week in Cambridge, on July 25th - 29th

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive

Next Up For Firefox: Instant Sync

Today is Mozilla’s 8th Anniversary

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

Labs

BrowserID is launched! Follow identity.mozilla.com for updates, come talk to us if you have ideas!

Developer Tools

Add-ons

Webdev

L10n

People Team

Introducing New Hires

Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
Aakash Desai has officially joined the Contributor Engagement team as a product manager for the Mozillians platform. [Mary Colvig]
Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]
Allison Naaktgeboren: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
Randell Jesup: Joining the Layout team, managed by Rob O'Callahan, located in Pennsylvania.
Brad Fuellenbach: converting from seasonal employee to full-time on the Recruiting team, managed by Bret Reckard, located in Mtn. View Office.
Gregory Szorc: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
Erica Muxlow has joined Infra Ops as the 'Infrastructure Project Manager' [mrz]
Chenxia Liu: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Massachusetts.
James Murdock: Joining the Legal team, managed by Harvey Anderson, located in Mtn. View Office.
Fabien Cazenave has joined as a contractor working on the editor component in Gecko. [ehsan]

Foundation Updates

Roundtable

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+== Friends of the Tree [[Image:Tree.gif|Friends of the Tree]] ==
 * Cameron McCormack for finding a simple way of drastically reducing the time required to run our debug tests. {{bug|479352}}
-= Upcoming Events =
+== Upcoming Events ==
-'''This Week'''
-'''Monday, 18 July'''
+=== This Week ===
-'''Tuesday, 19 July'''
+=== Monday, 18 July ===
+=== Tuesday, 19 July ===
 Diary Studies from a Google Researcher, Andrea Knight
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 Diary studies can be a great technique if you're trying to understand a user's behavior over the course of a week or two, but can't observe them the whole time. Learn how to make sure your diary study is successful and helps you answer your hypothesis.
-'''Wednesday, 20 July'''
+=== Wednesday, 20 July ===
-'''Thursday, 21 July'''
+* 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET.
+* In-progress agenda and dial-in info [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-july-20 here].
+Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs
+*2CYA-Noon
+*A SF-based user research agency which worked with us before, AnswerLab, recently presented a case study of a mobile ethnography they conducted with Wells Fargo at the UPA Conference.  They will share the presentation with us again with more details on Wednesday.
+*It would be a good way to spend you lunch time if you are interested to know more about early-stage user research, or just to hang out for mobile related user findings.
+=== Thursday, 21 July ===
 Bitcoin: A Technical Introduction
@@ Line 31: / Line 40: @@
 Brian Warner will explain the cryptographic protocols, economicincentives, and proof-of-work system in Bitcoin, a new decentralized digital currency that's been in the news recently. Slides are available at [http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/] .
+=== Friday, 22 July ===
-'''Friday, 22 July'''
+=== Next Week ===
-'''Next Week'''
+== Product Status Updates ==
-= Product Status Updates =
+=== Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) ===
+* Updates live again on all trains after the most recent migration
+* Seeing double digit aurora channel growth again
+** (And, anecdotally, lots of love for the memory improvements there)
+* Blog post coming on release timing in rapid release, since there's still a lot of uncertainty
+** It'll be on the [http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/ channels blog], stay tuned!
-== Firefox Future (6, 7, 8) ==
+=== Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0) ===
+* The [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20 Firefox 3.6.20] (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted
+** Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
+** Code freeze for ''non-blockers'': 2011-07-25
+** '''Code freeze for ''blockers'': 2011-08-01'''
-== Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0) ==
+=== Mobile Firefox ===
-== Mobile Firefox ==
+=== Thunderbird ===
-== Thunderbird ==
 Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week.
-== Older Branch Work ==
+=== Drumbeat ===
+* [http://planet.drumbeat.org/mojo/ Knight-Mozilla Learning Lab]: awesome [http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/lecture-four-resources lecture & slides] from Chris Heillman this morning.
-== Drumbeat ==
+** (Archived video version coming soon)
+* [http://popcornjs.org/ Popcorn.js]: stick around for Lightning Talk from Brett Gaylor on their new release!
-= Speakers =
+== 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.
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 !  More Details
 |-
-| Popcorn.js is in your base
+| New uses of popcorn.js
 | Brett Gaylor
 | Popcorn.js - the butt kicking HTML5 media framework
-| Coming soon
+| http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7968133/popcornmonday.pdf
+[http://www.popcornjs.org www.popcornjs.org]
 | http://www.popcornjs.org
 |-
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 |}
-= Status Updates By Team  =
+== Status Updates By Team ==
-== Firefox  ==
+=== Firefox ===
-== Platform ==
+=== Platform ===
-== Messaging  ==
+=== Messaging ===
-== Mobile  ==
+=== Mobile ===
-== IT ==
+=== IT ===
-== Release Engineering  ==
+=== Release Engineering ===
-== QA  ==
+=== QA ===
-;Test Execution
+==== Test Execution ====
+* Shipped Firefox 6 beta 2 for Mobile to Android Market
+* working through a qa sync and load environment within the team
+* Mobile QA and Services QA workweek this week (offsite on 7/19)
-;WebQA
+==== WebQA ====
+*AMO [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=806865&resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=6.1.5&product=addons.mozilla.org 6.1.5]
+*SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-12
+*MDN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671560 7/14
+*Personas https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671552 7/14
-;QA Community
+==== QA Community ====
-;Automation Services
+==== Automation Services ====
 * Upcoming QA Automation Services work week in Cambridge, on July 25th - 29th
-== Automation & Tools ==
+=== Automation & Tools ===
+=== Security ===
-== Security  ==
+=== Engagement ===
-== Engagement  ==
+==== PR ====
+*[http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/mozillas-browserid-aims-to-simplify-authentication-on-the-web.ars Mozilla's BrowserID aims to simplify authentication on the Web]
+*[http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/15/a-new-technology-to-battle-website-password-fatigue/?mod=google_news_blog A New Technology to Battle Website Password Fatigue]
-'''PR'''
+*[http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20079827-264/redesign-set-to-make-firefox-more-responsive/ Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive]
-'''Events'''
+*[http://www.conceivablytech.com/8388/products/next-up-for-firefox-instant-sync Next Up For Firefox: Instant Sync]
-'''Creative Team'''
+*[http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/07/15/today-is-mozillas-8th-anniversary/ Today is Mozilla’s 8th Anniversary]
-'''Community Marketing'''
+==== Events ====
-== Support  ==
+==== Creative Team ====
-== Metrics  ==
+==== Community Marketing ====
-== Evangelism  ==
+=== Support ===
-== Labs  ==
+=== Metrics ===
-== Developer Tools ==
+=== Evangelism ===
-== Add-ons  ==
+=== Labs ===
+* BrowserID is launched! Follow [http://identity.mozilla.com/ identity.mozilla.com] for updates, come talk to us if you have ideas!
-== Webdev  ==
+=== Developer Tools ===
-== L10n  ==
+=== Add-ons ===
-= Introducing New Hires =
+=== Webdev ===
+=== L10n ===
+=== People Team ===
+== Introducing New Hires ==
 * Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
+* Aakash Desai has officially joined the Contributor Engagement team as a product manager for the Mozillians platform. [Mary Colvig]
 * Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]
+* Allison Naaktgeboren: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
+* Randell Jesup: Joining the Layout team, managed by Rob O'Callahan, located in Pennsylvania.
+* Brad Fuellenbach: converting from seasonal employee to full-time on the Recruiting team, managed by Bret Reckard, located in Mtn. View Office.
+* Gregory Szorc: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Mtn. View Office.
+* Erica Muxlow has joined Infra Ops as the 'Infrastructure Project Manager' [mrz]
+* Chenxia Liu: Joining the Services team, managed by Mike Connor, located in Massachusetts.
+* James Murdock: Joining the Legal team, managed by Harvey Anderson, located in Mtn. View Office.
+* Fabien Cazenave has joined as a contractor working on the editor component in Gecko. [ehsan]
+== Foundation Updates ==
-= Foundation Updates  =
+== Roundtable ==
-= Roundtable =
+[[Category:Weekly Updates]]
+[[Category:Meeting Notes]]