WeeklyUpdates/2008-10-13

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 2, 2008)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
• +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
• +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
• http://air.mozilla.com/ to watch and listen
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Friends of the Tree

• Ted writes in, "I'd like to nominate Ben Hearsum for his hard work on reinventing release automation to work with Mercurial, and making the 3.1 beta 1 release happen."

• Seth joins Ted in nominating Ben. "I'd like to nominate Ben Hearsum for friends of the tree for re-spinning zh-CN by hand so the locale could participate in the FF 3.1 Beta 1 release."

Ben Hearsum, this weeks build/release hero and Fried of the Tree!!

Please send FotT nominations to asa@mozilla.org. This is a great opportunity for the community to recognize those who go above and beyond, so please tell me when you see that happening. Thanks.

Development Updates

Branch work: Firefox 2.0.0.18 / 3.0.4

• Code freeze is October 24, a week from this Friday
• Please land any approved patches
• Please work on any blocking bugs
• Reminders will be sent quite often
• Now triaging approvals with new criteria
• Intend on changing release scheduling per proposal

Firefox 3.1

• Aiming for a beta 1 release this week (tomorrow if all goes well)

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Europe:

• JDLL, Lyon, France, Oct 17 - 18: Tristan and the Mozilla FR community to attend.
• [http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/oswc/presenta Open Source World Conference, Malaga, Spain, Oct. 20 - 21: Tristan keynoting.
• Web 2.0 Berlin, Oct 21 - 23: John Lilly is keynoting.
• Moz Camp, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 25 - 26
• Mozilla Labs EU Innovation Tour: Aza Raskin & Dan Mills will be in Europe from Oct 20-26 for both press meetings and labs meetups.
• Internet CEE Conference, Warsaw, Poland Oct 28: Seth Bindernagel will hold a session on the Importance of Localization in Open Source

U.S. and more:

• ICMC/USP Computer Science Week, Oct. 13, San Carlos, Brazil: Remote presentation for students at San Carlos University today at 3:30.
• WhereCamp PDX, Oct. 17 - 19, Portland, OR - Dietrich Ayala demo'ing Geode.
• FSOSS, Oct. 24 - 24, Seneca College, Toronto - Mary to follow up with Dave to find out what else is needed from Mozilla.
• Nonprofit Software Development Summit, Nov. 17 - 19, Oakland, CA: Please check it out if you are local!
• Green Festival, San Francisco, Nov. 14 - 16: Mozilla will have passes for 200 people. Please let Mary or Julie know if you want to attend.
• FOSSCamp Dec. 5 - 6: Organized by Ubuntu folks. Please check it out if you are local!

Impact Mozilla

• since launch: 80,000 unique visitors to impactmozilla.com
• discussion forum: 90 members have joined
• submissions: approx. 100 emails received
• Please help us spread the word among student groups and marketing professionals... initial deadline is two weeks away!

Support

• Time for a new Support Firefox Day!
  • Friday, November 21st
  • Focus will be on localization, so the event will be split up into more than one time slot to allow people to participate around the globe.
  • More info about the event to follow shortly.

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

• AMO 4.0.2 open bugs & fixed bugs -- Code freeze Monday night, midnight
• Lars Lohn and Frank Griswold are in the final stages of re-engineering the Socorro filesystem -- read Lars' post about it or the SocorroFileSystem wiki page
• Austin King posted a patch for the Socorro topcrashers cron job (woot)
• Les Orchard worked on an activity feed for all public Mozilla activity -- looking at fleshing this out over the next few weeks, but here is a demo of his work