WeeklyUpdates/2014-11-24
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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 Mozilla
- A big THANK YOU to all localizers on MDN. We started the year with 4 locales 100% translated; now we have 11 and several more very close! This represents a huge amount of work localizing the open web's documentation. Feel free to help them.
- Thank you to VP7, Nino, Gio, and shoewilliam for their help with the cross-platform testing of Marketplace apps on desktop!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 24 November
Tuesday, 25 November
Wednesday, 26 November
Thursday, 27 November
Friday, 28 November
Saturday, 29 November
- JSCONF Argentina in Buenos Aires on Nov 29th
- Andreas Gal is the keynote speaker of this first JSConf to be organized in Latin America.
- A pre-event workshop to showcase the Dev Browser Edition to the local programer community is organized by Mozillian Guillermo Movia and his team, Felipe and Pablo.
Sunday, 30 November
- It's the last day of the month, so be sure to note your Marketplace and Add-on contributions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Contributing/Nov2014#Get_Recognized. The contributor of the month will be chosen from this list, and announced early next month.
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- FF10 launch check in
- Search changes
- If you missed the announcements, start with chris' blog post
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: MTV (Asa)
- Firefox OS on Raspberry Pi. (Potch to read in his brilliant baritone)
- An excellent how-to video that includes instructions and links (from Bunny & Boar). http://youtu.be/U467HSjuFOs
- Mozilla Wiki page with links, mailing lists, and how you can participate in this project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fxos_on_RaspberryPi
- Over the last two weeks, we've seen 360 patches from 197 Mozillians with 7 first time OS contributors.
- Johannes Weißl patchified Carlos Sánchez' fix and landed it for 971353 - hamachi: 'Unknown SIM card state' or 'No SIM' after flashed with self-build build
- Francesco Canessa fixed 1079776 - [Contact] Set ICE contact page is missing background
- Matěj Cepl fixed 1096057 - Could we get Czech(QWERTY) keyboard?
- Dorian fixed 943165 - [Messages] Bug 934531 follow-up: make the visual right for numbers-only headers
- Phaninder Pasupula fixed 936823 - [first run] on last attempt for correct PUK, two messages with same meaning shown/concatenated
- Daniel Bonnevier fixed 1090919 - Audio is lost when mediaserver restarts (AudioPolicyService death callback problem?).
- Cristian Carlesso fixed 1092536 - add animation to clearing of all notifications
- Flame Phone Updates
- Two weeks ago our Flame partner shipped Firefox 2.0 for the Flame with an over-the-air-update.
- Large shipment of Flames arrived in MTV on Friday. If you've reached out to me with a request for a Flame or I've offered to send you one, expect to get a shipping notice in the next couple of days. If you're in MTV, you can swing by my desk to pick up your device. I will try to bring a batch to Portland for folks wanting to avoid shipping.
- As soon as we have our first Foxtrot builds (we're working with our Flame partner on this) I'll be flashing those to the 200 Foxtrot Flames and shipping those out.
- Interesting New Features & Fixes
- 1081731 - Add private browsing to Firefox OS in Gaia
- 1020847 - Support handwriting for Simplified Chinese
- 1082675 - Enable app-grouping by default
- 1095727 - Tweak fling curving prefs
- 1066888 - Overscroll physics improvements
- 1092104 - The first level Settings menu items should never be disabled
- 1092888 - Enable selection carets for non-editable fields
Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
CTO Update
Speaker Location
Content Services
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
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.
| 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 |
| Azita Rashed / Dave Herman | CTO Office | Updates from the CTO | Mountain View and Remote | No | N/A | N/A |
| Andrea Wood | Fundraising | Updates on our end-of-year fundraising efforts plus Official Mozilla Gear (PDF of presentation here) | Remote | Yes | NA | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Foundation/EOY |
| Dave Steer | Advocacy | Help us recruit Open Web Fellows! | Remote | Yes | NA | advocacy.mozilla.org |
| Michael Huang | Firefox OS | Firefox OS Zen Launch in India | would like to share a Video only | No | https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlx5rxne6o286v1/FoxNews-001%20v2.mp4?dl=0 | N/A |
| Chris Riley | Public Policy | Net Neutrality | San Francisco | No | NA | https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/ |
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!
| 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
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Rice | Andreas Gal | Mountain View | Mountain View | Executive Assistant to CTO |
Introducing New Interns
| 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.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Cloud Services
- Content Services Housekeeping
- Preparing for Portland Work Week
- User Personalization (UP)
- The Interest Dashboard has been live for 2 weeks.
- We're continuing to develop and would love your feedback. Please send them to up-feedback@mozilla.com
- Tiles
- Tiles are live in 25 countries right now
- Mozilla Foundation launched their fundraising tile last week (Support Mozilla)
- Brown Bag for Community Tiles will be scheduled today, details to be announced next week
- Subscribe 2 Web (S2W)
- Friends of Mozilla
- Thanks to the Swedish Community for their help in adapting the S2W survey to Sweden (to be run this week), specially
- Friends of Mozilla