WeeklyUpdates/2011-07-18

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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

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

Thunderbird

Thunderbird 6 is going to Beta this week.

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

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation Services

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

Engagement

PR

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
• Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]