Summit2010/Meetings

Additional meetings

This page shall help us to coordinate additional meetings at the Summit.

Maybe you'd like to meet with a group of people to sit down and discuss a topic, and none of the other talks seem to cover it?

Which meetings will happen? Who is interested? Where to go? When?

Mozilla Meetings

BOF1: Setting Goals for the Future

Lead: Mitchell Baker

Time & Place: Wednesday evening ~8:00pm, Empress Ballroom (BOF Sessions)

Description: TBD

Want to come (add yourself):

• Deb Richardson

Developer Meetings

BOF2: Security code, PSM, NSS, padlock

• We want to talk about the open issues in PSM and answer questions
• brainstorm on future code changes, such as improving the "https padlock tracking" mechanisms

Proposed time and place:

• After the "security trends" talk (B081), in the same room.

Want to come (add yourself):

• Honza Bambas
• Kai Engert
• Sid Stamm
• Dan Veditz

BOF3: Secure Authentication

• We want to talk about PKI based user authentication, SSL client auth
• brainstorm on user interfaces and implementation

Proposed time and place:

• After the "Account Manager & Online Identity" talk (B027), in the same room.

Want to come (add yourself):

• Kai Engert
• Sid Stamm
• Dan Veditz
• Honza Bambas

BOF4: Ubiquity catchup

• General face-to-face get-together and catchup of Ubiquity's developers (and anyone else interested). Discussion about Ubiquity: past, present, and future.

Proposed time and place:

• Wednesday 9:30pm, meet in front of Frontenac A

Want to come (add yourself):

• Blair McBride
• Atul Varma
• Jono Xia
• Aza Raskin
• Christian Sonne
• mitcho (Michael Erlewine)
• marsf

BOF5: JavaScript Proxies + Wrappers

• We will talk about the JS security wrappers, old and new, and GC compartments. If you want to understand how security works in content and chrome JS or you have ideas how to make it better, this is for you.

Proposed time and place:

• Thursday, 13:45, Macdonald A

Want to come (add yourself):

• Andreas Gal
• Blake Kaplan
• David Anderson
• Luke Wagner
• Dave Herman
• Chris Leary
• Peter Van der Beken
• Boris Zbarsky
• Paul Biggar

BOF6: TabCandy (tab groups)

Come learn more about TabCandy and how you can try it out and contribute! We would love to have people with XUL/platform experience attend, but a lot of TabCandy is in straight up JS/HTML too! :) Come join in the fun!

Proposed time and place:

• Thursday 5pm-6pm (during World Expo setup break)
• #tabcandy, (physical place TBD)

Want to come (add yourself):

• mitcho (Michael Erlewine)
• Aza Raskin
• Mardak
• Blair McBride
• philikon (Philipp von Weitershausen)

BOF7: Mobile UI Framework

Discuss the new Mobile UI framework initiative. Need to discuss UI conventions and the interplay between the various mobile browsers.

Proposed time and place:

• Suggestions welcome

Want to come (add yourself):

• John Resig

BOF8: Redistributing Mozilla

We hear that it isn't always easy to redistribute Mozilla products - e.g. Linux distributions want to bundle Firefox, but find it difficult to integrate what we ship.

What could we do differently to make this easier?

Proposed time and place:

• TBD

Want to come (add yourself):

• Zack Weinberg

BOF9: Mozilla.com Web Development Plans

With the coming redesign of Mozilla.com for Firefox 4, we may try do improve/simplify the infrastructure/templating behind Mozilla.com.

Proposed time and place:

• Thursday lunch.

Want to come (add yourself):

• Steven Garrity
• Mike Gauthier
• Alex Buchanan

Contributor Meetings

BOF10: Conversation with Local Communities

Lead: Mitchell Baker

Time & Place: Thursday evening 8:00pm, Empress Ballroom

Description: Come meet with Mitchell to discuss your views about Mozilla as a local community member. If you are a localizer, marketeer, or whoever, you represent Mozilla in your locale. Perhaps not surprisingly, Mitchell has traveled to many places across the world to discuss Mozilla and would love to hear from and meet you. Please join us for this chat where we can learn how to more effectively spread Mozilla in the local settings.

Want to come (add yourself):

• sethb

BOF11: SuMoMo Non English Meeting

SuMoMo is the knowledge base for Thunderbird! all SuMoMo contributors welcome but emphasis on non English SuMoMo. Would like especially like anybody who can/will contribute to SuMoMo from these languages DE, JP, IT, FR, CZ, NL, etc - host:rolandtanglao on irc ping him on #moz10, cell:+16047297924, roland AT mozillamessaging.com, Mozilla Messaging Technical Support Lead

• NB: moved from original time of 17:15 to 17:45

Agenda:

• Group Photo by Ludo!!!!
• Everybody introduce themselves briefly
• Roland to say a few words (1 minute or so!) about SuMoMo
• We know you will be tired so we'll let you go for Dinner

Meeting point : the lobby look for the asian guy i.e. Roland in orange hoody !!!

Invite your friends and other Thunderbird contributors and SuMoMo contributors!

Time and Place: When: Wed July 7th, 17:45, meet in the lobby, look for Roland, the Canadian of Asian (Filipino) heritage wearing an orange hostage

BOF12: QA & Support working hand in hand

Canceled due to lack of time - please attend the SuMoMo meeting at 17:45 or ping roland +16047297924 or roland AT mozillamessaging.com

Organizing Thunderbird QA/Support Communities - Ludovic Hirlimann and Roland Tanglao (see SuMoMo above for contact info) will present ideas to organize support better to make support more effective worldwide as well as make support and QA work better together

Proposed Time and Place: When: Wed July 7th, 17:45, meet in the lobby

BOF13: SUMO-Community meeting

The SUMO community will meet for a casual get-together in the Mozilla Cafe on Thursday night at 9.30pm, right after the World Expo. We will talk about current issues, demo our plans for the near future and have fun with Rock Band.

Proposed Time and Place: When: Thu July 8th, 21:30, meet in the Mozilla Cafe

BOF14: Thunderbird Fun/Product/Participation

Session focused on making Thunderbird an easier, more fun, and more efficient place to participate by better defining various product and participation pieces. This effects everyone working on Thunderbird to varying degrees. We will review & work through new documents and, time permitting, trial some of the process steps. People who review the documents ahead of time will find the meeting significantly more useful; check back here mid-day Wednesday for links.

Proposed Time: Thursday, July 8: 5pm-6pm (17:00-18:00)

Proposed Place: TBD; check back for details

Want to come (add yourself):

• Dan Mosedale (dmose)
• David Ascher
• David Bienvenu
• Bryan Clark
• Dave Sifry
• Blake Winton

Engineering Meetings

BOF15: IT, Labs/Services, Webdev collaboration

Projects move back and forth among these groups throughout a projects' lifecycle, but there can be lots of bumps along the way.

I'd like a meeting where people from these groups get together and we talk out ways to make everything move smoother. I guess the code phrase... to work together more like the web ;)

Topics (add yours):

• introductions: give people a chance to meet each other
• discuss our future -- how we will make things smoother/better/bigger/faster together
• (hope we can keep this one short and productive): How can we improve the way we've handled deploying Django/Python apps? What's the state of git at Mozilla and how will we handle it moving forward?

Proposed time and place:

• Suggestions? Put them in. First one with an opinion wins!

Want to come (add yourself):

• Ian Bicking
• Les Orchard
• Atul Varma
• Pascal Finette
• Zandr Milewski
• Michael Coates
• Michael Morgan
• Wil Clouser (easiest just to email webdev@ to get everyone though)
• James Socol
• wenzel
• Paul Osman
• Dan Mills
• Erik Rose
• Mike Alexis
• Ricky Rosario

BOF17: IT, RelEng: how to setup Build-VPN?

We need restricted access to RelEng production systems. First attempt at Build-VPN was uncleanly specified, and doesn't work well. Fixing this is a joint IT/RelEng goal for Q3.

Lets meet at whiteboard and brainstorm how to do this, before we start filing bugs and doing any work.

Proposed time and place:

• Suggestions? Put them in. First one with an opinion wins!

Want to come (add yourself):

BOF18: RelEng Brownbag - and RelEng Roast

All you ever wanted to know about how the RelEng infrastructure works, and how you use it faster and more efficiently. Also, Q&A session to find suggestions for future improvements?

At the December2009 allhands, there were a couple of "RelEng Roast" sessions at Academy of Science and at 650castro which people found quite useful. If you have gripes, pet peeves of things to fix or a wishlist of things you'd like to see added, this is the place.

Proposed time and place:

Want to come (add yourself):

BOF19: RelEng, QA, Dev: How to Deal with Intermittent Oranges?

Intermittent test failures (oranges) are still an issue, perhaps even more so now that we have brand-new 64-bit operating systems in play.

Are people happy with brasstacks (http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/topfails/)? It seems to do most of the things we need to track intermittent test failures over time, but how many people are looking at it? At the risk of overburdening TBPL, do we need to link this info into TBPL somehow?

On the RelEng side, we had/have the facility to re-run certain tests multiple times in a row, but we've had it disabled for a while since no one was looking at the results.

Proposed time and place:

Want to come (add yourself): Chris Cooper

BOF20: Thunderbird engineering / dev-process working session

Want to come (add yourself):

• Mark Banner
• Dan Mosedale
• Kent James

Topics (add yours):

• Canary system
• Fast-releases process
  • channels / feedback solicitation
  • next steps
• 3.2
  • first alpha schedule
  • branching discussion

Proposed time and place: depends on key attendees schedules; check back for details.

Engagement Meetings

BOF21: PGP Signing party

Idea is that mozilla contributors from all over the world are meeting. Some of us are using PGP on a daily basis - would be nice to sign / cross sign our keys.

User:Tsk created a keyring on biglumber, please add your key there , this will facilitate - the meeting and signing process, as printing the keyring will allow an easy, I've check this signature.

If you have a pgp key consider joigning and add your key to the keyrrin (see above).

Thursday July 8th 11:30 before the lightning talks. Meetpoint the lobby.

See also: The Keysigning Party HOWTO

BOF22: CAcert Signing Party

Assurers (please add your name if you want to assure) :

• Bogomil Shopov
• Iacopo Benesperi
• Ludovic Hirlimann
• Wolfgang Rosenauer
• Karsten Düsterloh

Thursday July 8th 13:45 - 14:15 Meetpoint , The lobby.

BOF23: WoMoz

A face-to-face meeting for people involved with (or interested in) issues regarding gender in open source projects. See the Women & Mozilla website for information about the group.

Schedule: TBD (tentatively scheduled for Thursday lunchtime)

Meeting Point:

Attendees: everyone welcome!

• Jennifer Zickerman (jen@mozillamessaging.com)
• Mariana Benavidez (marianabenavidez at gmail.com)
• Andrea Balle (arballe at gmail dot com)