WeeklyUpdates/2011-08-15

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Friends of the Tree

• Everyone who participated in the MDN doc sprint this past Friday and Saturday, including: Eric Bidelman, David Bruant, Ernest Chiang, Colin Clark, Ben Combee, Ernest Delgado, Trevor Hobson, Kevin Lim, Daniel Lopretto, Kenny Lu, Peter Lubbers, Mike McNally, Bradley Meck, Jeremie Patonnier, Kassandra Perch, Florian Scholz, Tom Schuster, Manuel Strehl, Art Thompson, and Jonathan Wilsson.
• Everyone who worked through the last two weekends to ship Socorro 2.2 in time for Firefox 6: Rob Helmer, Chris Lonnen, Brandon Savage, Lars Lohn, Justin Dow, Matt Brandt, Josh Berkus, Daniel Einspanjer

Upcoming Events

• Friday, August 19th is the test day for AMO Automation. If you would like to write some selenium tests, please join us!

Thursday

• Mozillians Community Phonebook brownbag -- Learn about what it is, how you can use it and how you can get involved. Thursday at 12 noon pacific on Air Mozilla

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
Director, Creative	John Slater	One Mozilla Website Project	mozilla.com/new	http://bit.ly/qWC6wO
Brownbag - SQL Injection	Michael Coates	Security Learning Center		Course Schedule

Status Updates By Team

Drumbeat

(no voice update this week)

• Wrapped up successful Hackasaurus game sprint last week
  • X-Ray Goggle training missions
  • Hackable comics
  • Hack mazes / "Portal for the Web." Potential X-Ray Goggles / Tilt 3D mash-up.
• Next up: shipping Hackasaurus beta in September!

Mobile

Getting ready to publish Firefox 6 as official release and Firefox 7 as "Firefox Beta" to the Android Market, simultaneously with desktop shipment (yay).

QA

WebQA

• AMO 6.1.9
• Socorro 2.2
• SUMO: http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-08-09

Marketing/PR

PR

Mozilla on track to ship Firefox 6

Mozilla to Improve Firefox Memory Performance by 30%
Mozilla shrinks Firefox's memory appetite by 20%-30%

Firefox 8 With New Add-On Compatibility Checks

The Mozilla Interview: Why Firefox Matters

Mozilla's New Vision: A Platform For Your Internet Life

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• James Bennett, Web Developer, MDN
• Tim Watts, Web Developer, SUMO
• Jason Thomas, Web Operations Engineer, IT Systems team
• Zac Campbell, WebQA, working on Jetpack Builder (FlightDeck) + other Selenium/automation goodness