WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-09
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Video for today's meeting
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Friends of the Tree 
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 9 August
Tuesday, 10 August
Wednesday, 11 August
Thursday, 12 August
- Websites Task Force - 10 pacific, Warp Core, x7600
- Brownbag "Being more open leads to more problem-solving performance? A comparison between free software and Web 2.0 developers' communities." - Noon (PT), 10 Forward
Friday, 13 August
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Sync landing was flawed, lots of things learned from that and recommendations will be shared tomorrow. Thanks to build team for investigating. Net is: should have used tryserver more
- three respins were required, many thanks to QA for helping us find the regressions and protect our beta audience from problems!
- we expect to be able to release beta 3 early this week
- performance improvements
- Windows 7 touch event API
- hundreds of bugfixes, improvements and other changes
- code freeze scheduled for next Monday, would like all major landings in by this Friday
- hoping to include Firefox Sync in this milestone
- be at tomorrow's development meeting for more information
Firefox 3.6
- Code freeze is this Thursday @ 11:59 pm PST
- We are not converging as quickly as we need
- If you are assigned a bug in this list, please fix/land it ASAP.
- 3.6.4/3.6.6 post-mortem will be this week, though it will no longer be on Tuesday (so that it doesn't interfere with critsmash). The date will be sent out today for review.
Mobile Firefox
Alpha 1
- Code freeze schedule for tomorrow. Need to get patches reviewed and landed. blockers
Thunderbird
Older Branch Work
- Code freeze is this Thursday @ 11:59 pm PST
- We are not converging as quickly as we need
- If you are assigned a bug in this list, please fix/land it ASAP.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your Title Here | Your Name Here | What are you going to talk about? | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Status Updates By Team
Firefox
Platform
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Last Week
This Week
- Amsterdam datacenter move: on track for Thursday
- Planning on doing kernel upgrades tomorrow
Release Engineering
QA
- QA Org Highlights
- Desktop Firefox
- started testing FF4 Beta3 on Friday. Finishing up this week.
- Web QA
- Shipped AMO 5.11.7
- Shipped SUMO 2.2/1.5.6
- QA Services
- Community
- Marcia attended BlogHer conference in NYC.
- Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
- Black Hat gets its video feed hacked
- Tighter security coming in Firefox 4
- Inside Mozilla's Firefox 4 Security
- More Than 1 in 10 Mozilla Bug Finders Turn Down Cash
Events
- Open Video Conference 2010 - October 1-2, 2010; New York, NY - Looking over sponsorship opportunities.
- Maker Faire Africa - August 27-28, 2010; Nairobi, Kenya - Looking into sponsorship opportunties.
- Renegade Craft Fair Chicago 2010 - September 11-12, 2010 - We will have a booth and be doing some innovative activities. Check out the wiki for more details Looking into sponsorship opportunities.
Community Marketing
- Community Marketing Call: Next call is Wednesday August 11th at 10 a.m. PST/17:00 UTC. Please send agenda items to sarah at mozilla dot com.
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Desigan Chinniah (Dees) - Mozilla Labs Firestarter (Community Manager)
Foundation Updates
- Drumbeat weekly call notes https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/WeeklyUpdates/August-9-2010 Please join us!
- Drumbeat Festival preparations http://www.drumbeat.org/drumbeat_festival_2010
