WeeklyUpdates/2011-01-10
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Video for today's meeting
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Friends of the Tree 
David Boswell nominates Milos, Cédric, Goofy, Edo and Dwayne for their recent help making progress with localizing www.mozilla.org.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 10 January
Tuesday, 11 January
Wednesday, 12 January
- Community Marketing Call: Wednesday Jan. 12 @ 10 a.m. PST/18:00 UTC/19:00 CET. Agenda and call details here.
- Inaugural CraftHacks at Mozilla: Bring your portable crafts. Details: 10Forward, 6 - 8 p.m. Friends & SOs welcome.
Thursday, 13 January
- Website Task Force meeting at 10 am pacific to discuss web fonts, universal tab and site checklist proposals
Friday, 14 January
Next Week
Product Status Updates
Firefox 4
- Freezing for beta 9 presently
- We expect at least one more beta, working out schedule now
- Stability numbers on the beta are looking great
- Dev teams looking very hard at which blockers are hard blockers
Firefox 3.6 and 3.5
- Non-blocker code freeze is tomorrow, 2011-01-11
- We will be doing the "scary" advertised update for 3.0 users on Tuesday, 2010-01-18
Mobile Firefox
- Beta 4 code freeze is Thursday
Thunderbird
- Thunderbird 3.3a2 scheduled for release in January.
- Continuing to improve review responsiveness.
- Folks interested in diving in deeper to the Thunderbird community are encouraged to check out the list of Thunderbird-related communications channels put together by protz.
Older Branch Work
Drumbeat
- School of Webcraft: course registration opens Wed, Jan 12
- New Batucada version of Drumbeat.org: staged and moving to security review 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Working on getting broader exposure for the F1 link-sharing add-on.
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
- Desktop Firefox
- Getting prepared for Beta 9 testing this week
- Browser technologies
- Shipped Flightdeck 1.0a7
- FF Home 1.1
- QA Community
- David Burns is creating a draft P2PU course
Automation & Tools
- We have Bughunter system back up after it melted its database
- Check out our new War on Orange UI
- Beginning work on the new TP5 page set for performance testing
- More information here
Security
Engagement
PR
- Motorola Atrix dual-core phones wants to kill your laptop – with Firefox
- Internet Explorer falls behind Firefox in Europe for first time, says StatCounter
- Firefox, Linux and the future of the web
- Developer Interview Series: Firefox For Android’s Matt Brubeck
Events
- Campus Party (Jan 17 - 23, 2011): Jono Xia will be joining Brazil's largest LAN Party which will be headlined by Al Gore this year. Jono's session will focus on gaming and Firefox 4. Community will host a Jetpacks and Universal Subtitles sessions.
- Fosdem (Feb 5 - 6, 2011): Gearing up for 2011's conference in Brussels.
Creative Team
Support
Metrics
Evangelism
Labs
Developer Tools
Add-ons
Webdev
L10n
Introducing New Hires
- Winston Bowden joins the User Engagement team as Email Strategy and Operations Senior Manager. (Jane Finette)
- Luke Crouch joins the Web Development team as an engineer for the Mozilla Developer Network. (Mike Morgan)
