WeeklyUpdates/2014-01-06
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Contents
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Mozilla participating in CES in Las Vegas, NV. Jan 7-10. (http://www.cesweb.org/home)
Description:
- Hospitality suite in the Venetian Hotel for Press and BD meetings
- Andreas Gal speaking on: “The Smartphone/Tablet Economy: The Consumer Obsession”
- Rick Fant speaking on: “The App Community”
Monday, 06 January
Tuesday, 07 January
Wednesday, 08 January
- 13:00 PST : SecReview - Autoland
- Description: Autoland is a system that scans bugzilla for changes made by authorized people, and reflects those changes into hg. It interacts with the releng try system to "try" patches and with hg to "land" them into various trees.
Thursday, 09 January
- 6pm CET / 12pm EST / 9am PST Mozilla Town Hall (AreWeMeetingYet for your local time) Foundation Board Candidate Discussion
| Candidate | Bio Link |
|---|---|
| Speigel Online CEO and early German blogger Katharina Borchert | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/KatharinaBorchert |
| Brazilian open internet advocate and law professor Ronaldo Lemos | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Board/RonaldoLemos |
- If you would like to meet Katharina and Ronaldo and provide feedback on their candidacy for the Board, please join us. Mitchell, Katharina and Ronaldo will be taking questions in IRC, and Mitchell will be accepting feedback directly by email.
- https://air.mozilla.org/town-hall/
- join irc.mozilla.org #airmozilla for backchannel discussion
- If you would like to meet Katharina and Ronaldo and provide feedback on their candidacy for the Board, please join us. Mitchell, Katharina and Ronaldo will be taking questions in IRC, and Mitchell will be accepting feedback directly by email.
- 10:00 AM Pacific / 18:00 UTC: Grow Mozilla discussion -- a forum for discussing community building at Mozilla
- Agenda and dial-in information (feel free to add items to the agenda)
Friday, 10 January
Saturday, 11 January
Sunday, 12 January
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)
- Happy new year! 2014 is going to kick ass!
- Metro is trying, despite significant weather adventure, to have a work week this week in Toronto to carry it towards 1.0. If you haven't checked it out lately, you should, it's pretty hot.
- Desktop is meeting up next week to plan out 2014 work
- Desktop, Android and Services teams working hard to pull together sync with Firefox Accounts before the next merge day. Give them hugs, and help if they ask.
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: remote (mfinkle)
- Work continues on improving page load performance
- Looking at Java and Gecko profiling
- Some fixes have landed
- More in the works
- Work continues 3rd party integration for the Firefox Home page
- Exploring ways of storing/caching data
- Exploring different views/lists
- ANR reporting and fixing
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: remote (pdol)
- 1.3 stabilization is priority #1
- Rocketbar landed on master just before the holidays, can enable in the developer settings
- Movistar Uruguay *sold out* of their Firefox OS phones, and Firefox OS sales were 30% of their holiday sales (article)
- VIA Technologies announced support for Firefox OS and FREE APCs for developers who fix known issues (press release)
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location:
60 Seconds with IT
Speaker Location: San Francisco
- Tegras are mooovin and groovin.
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox Marketplace
Speaker Location:
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
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. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.
| Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Share? | Media | More Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who Are You? | What Do You Do? | What are you going to talk about? | Where are you presenting from? (Moz Space, your house, space) | Will you be sharing your screen? (yes/no, other info) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Roundtable
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
| Who are you? | Area of question | Question |
|---|---|---|
| What's your name? What do you work on? | Is your question about policy, a product, a Foundation initiative, etc. | What would you like to know? |
Welcome!
Let's say hello to some new Mozillians! If you are not able to join the meeting live, you can add a link to a short video introducing yourself.
Introducing New Volunteers
| New Volunteer(s) | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new volunteer(s)? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where is the new person based? | What will the new person be doing? |
Introducing New Hires
Introducing New Interns
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? |
| Amy Lee | Jaime Chen | SFO | Toronto |
| Geoff Piper | Jishnu Menon | Mountain View | Mountain View |
| Ted Clancy | Gregor Wagner | Mountain View | Toronto |
| Philip Walmsley | Tony Santos | Mountain View | Vancouver |
| Clara Carle | Lori Jashinsky | Mountain View | Paris |
| Wendy Chan | Winnie Aoieong | Mountain View | Mountain View |
| Niran Amir | Pete Scanlon | Mountain View | San Francisco |
| Carol Huang, Omega Feng, Ting-Yu Chou | Harly Hsu ,Thinker Lee | San Francisco | Taipei |
| New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be working from? | What will the new person be working on? |
| Jonathan Wei | David Bolter | Toronto | Toronto | Accessibility - Core support, mobile, TBD |
| Viktor Stanchev | Vladan Djeric | Toronto | Toronto | Extending and improving the Gecko Profiler |
| Willie Cheong | Bhavana Bajaj | Mountain View | Mountain View | Help build Release Readiness Dashboard |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Social Support
@Mozilla wants to share your cool blog posts, product updates, and most definitely your community stories and events! Add a note here, write to communications@mozillafoundation.org or tweet @Mozilla
