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. 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

Community Marketing Call:

• 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET.
• In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.

Mobile Ethnography study examples from AnswerLabs

• 2CYA-Noon
• A SF-based user research agency which worked with us before, AnswerLab, recently presented a case study of a mobile ethnography they conducted with Wells Fargo at the UPA Conference. They will share the presentation with us again with more details on Wednesday.
• It would be a good way to spend you lunch time if you are interested to know more about early-stage user research, or just to hang out for mobile related user findings.

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 <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/~bwarner/bitcoin/">[n]</a> .

Friday, 22 July

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0, 5.0)

• The <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.6.20">Firefox 3.6.20</a> (used to be called 3.6.19, which was then used by the 10.7 out-of-band release) schedule is now posted
  • Shipping at the same time as Firefox 6 (August 16)
  • Code freeze for non-blockers: 2011-07-25
  • Code freeze for blockers: 2011-08-01

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 <a href="http://www.popcornjs.org">www.popcornjs.org</a>	http://www.popcornjs.org
Mozilla's Local Communities	David Boswell	New pages that highlight Mozilla's local communities around the world	<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/africamideast.html">Africa and the Middle East</a> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/asia.html">Asia and the South Pacific</a> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/europe.html">Europe</a> <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/local/latinamerica.html">Latin America</a>

Status Updates By Team

QA

Test Execution </dt>

• Shipped Firefox 6 beta 2 for Mobile to Android Market
• working through a qa sync and load environment within the team
• Mobile QA and Services QA workweek this week (offsite on 7/19)

WebQA </dt>

• AMO <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=806865&resolution=FIXED&classification=Server%20Software&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=6.1.5&product=addons.mozilla.org">6.1.5</a>
• SUMO http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-07-12
• MDN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671560 7/14
• Personas https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671552 7/14

QA Community </dt>

Automation Services </dt>

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

Engagement

PR

• <a href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/mozillas-browserid-aims-to-simplify-authentication-on-the-web.ars">Mozilla's BrowserID aims to simplify authentication on the Web</a>
• <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/07/15/a-new-technology-to-battle-website-password-fatigue/?mod=google_news_blog">A New Technology to Battle Website Password Fatigue</a>

• <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20079827-264/redesign-set-to-make-firefox-more-responsive/">Redesign set to make Firefox more responsive</a>

• <a href="http://www.conceivablytech.com/8388/products/next-up-for-firefox-instant-sync">Next Up For Firefox: Instant Sync</a>

• <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/07/15/today-is-mozillas-8th-anniversary/">Today is Mozilla’s 8th Anniversary</a>

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Carmen Collins is joining the User Engagement team as 'Content Editor' [Jane Finette]
• Aakash Desai has officially joined the Contributor Engagement team as a product manager for the Mozillians platform. [Mary Colvig]
• Irving Reid has joined the Thunderbird Team. [Blake Winton]