WeeklyUpdates/2008-10-06

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
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Friends of the Tree

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Development Updates

IT

• Upcoming Maintenance
  • More Netscaler OS upgrades
  • kernel upgrades
  • mailman upgrades
  • Final MySQL 4 -> 5 migration (Tuesday), will affect:
    • Bonsai
    • Despot
    • Graph Server
    • Litmus

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.

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.

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)