WeeklyUpdates/2006-05-01

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Meeting Details

• 1:00pm PDT (20:00 GMT)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• 866-432-7917 (US)
• 334-309-0297 (INTL)
• join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking

Agenda

1. Development Updates
2. IT Updates
3. Marketing Updates
4. Foundation Updates
5. Roundtable
6. Other Business

Development Updates

FF 2.0

• code freeze for Alpha 2 scheduled for this Friday (May 5th)
• Alpha 2 target is next Tuesday (May 9th)
• Places was disabled on the 1.8 branch and has been de-prioritized; no longer expected to hit Firefox 2.0
• key elements of Firefox 2 will be: visual refresh, improvements to the tabbed browsing UI, improvements to the search UI and possibly suggest-as-you-type, phishing protection, session restore, improved extension management, spell checking, performance enhancements, and some platform enhancements.

TB 2.0

• All information updated here

IT Updates

• Working on various marketing events
• Continuing VMWare migrations for build
• CVS server -> new hardware
  • Cutover is planned for Tuesday (rescheduled)
• Continued work on stats
• Continued work on network/colo buildout
  • Various gear testing
  • OpenVPN testing continues

Marketing Updates

Firefox Flicks Awards event a big success!

• announced the three winners and two honorable mentions
  • First Place "Daredevil" by Pete Macomber
  • Second Place "Wheee!" by Jeff Gill
  • Third Place "Fox Fever" by Andrew Green
  • honorable mention: "This is Hot" by Danny Robashkin
  • honorable mention: "Pass the Soap" by Chris Wedding
• screened 20 videos
• panel discussion on community-generated content, viral marketing, and web video
• lots of great press coverage around the Flicks awards ceremony
• winners and Flicks team attended SFIFF's Film Society awards dinner.

Flicks ongoing work

• nearly 200 more videos still to post to website, working to post as many as possible each day.
• finding additional exposure opportunities for top Flicks.
• getting ready to announce second phase of project

Speadfirefox Japan launched