WeeklyUpdates/2011-06-27

« previous week | index | next week »

Video for today's meeting

<video controls="controls">

</video>

Friends of the Tree

• Two Dev Derby contributors who have stood out for their enthusiasm, creativity, and dedication.
  • Stu Nicholls, who in less than two weeks has already submitted four awesome demos that are sure to push the web forward and be useful to web developers everywhere.
  • Anthony Calzadilla, who submitted the awesome Rofox demo which quickly amassed hundreds of views and helped generate lots of interest in Firefox 5.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 27 June

Tuesday, 28 June

Wednesday, 29 June
Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info here.

Thursday, 30 June

• [BrownBag] Understand your users and good ideas will follow - What is User Research & how we can help you. (Noon @TenForward)

Friday, 1 July

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox Future (5, 6, 7)

• Firefox 5 released last week, and now being served as an update for all 4.0 users
  • 30MM users already
• Next week, the next trains start rolling. That means:
  • Beta will pick up Firefox 6
  • Aurora will pick up Firefox 7
  • Nightly will start being Firefox 8

Firefox Current (3.5, 3.6, 4.0)

• There will be a Firefox 3.6.19, shipping at the same time as Firefox 6
• Firefox 3.5 is EOL, and won't appear in subsequent updates
  • Come to think of it, so is Firefox 4

Mobile Firefox

• Firefox 5 is out, getting good reviews/uptake
• Ready for Aurora to beta merge

Thunderbird

• Thunderbird 5.0 out tomorrow!
  • Please update your add-ons.
• Beta will pick up Thunderbird 6.0 and Earlybird will pick up Thunderbird 7.0 next week.

Drumbeat

• Universal Subtitles adopted by Khan Academy. GigaOm story: "Khan Academy goes global with crowdsourced subtitles"
• New online home for School of Webcraft. Old Drupal site replaced by Django-based app. Blog post on the transition and next steps.
• New Mozilla Popcorn code tutorials. Neat way to demo code. Check it out here. Along with lots of other cool Popcorn demos in the new demo gallery: http://popcornjs.org/demos

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
Head of College Recruiting	Julie Deroche	WSOH	http://htmlpad.org/wsoh/#	http://wsoh.eventbrite.com
	Patrick, Jinghua and Gilbert	Market insights, User Research, Metrics, and how we can help you.	[1]
Tour Guide	David Boswell	Community infographic and numbers	Infographic	Please add to the Community Numbers Etherpad
Director, Web Development	Mike Morgan (morgamic)	From Portland with Love - highlights/notes from the webdev offsite	photos	about OS Bridge
	John O'Duinn (joduinn)	Firefox 3.5 EOL		bug#666407

Status Updates By Team

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Fx5, tested and released, including major and minor updates to Fx5
  • 3.6, 4.0 -> 5.0

Browser Technologies

• Shipped Firefox 5 for Mobile
• Mobile Testday last friday. Bugs found
• Test signoff of Python Sync server testing. Bugs found: bug 667060,bug 667074
• Test pilot 1.2pre8 in testing

WebQA

• Really successful WebQA work week last week: https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Execution/Web_Testing/WorkWeek/2011/06
• AMO 6.1.1
• SUMO:
  • http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2011-06-21
• AMO Builder 6/21/2011
• MDN 0.9.6.1 6/22/11

QA Community

Test Automation

• Investigation and fix for broken Mozmill 1.5.3b3 beta release; Released Mozmill 1.5.4b4

Automation & Tools

• User Responsiveness Measurement Status
• Malini Das joins the A*team!
• More notes here

Engagement

Communications

• Mozilla drafts Firefox vision statement

• Desktops and Notebooks: Firefox 5 Browser Launches, Boasting Tweaks, Security, Privacy
• Firefox 5.0: 5 Reasons To Upgrade
• Firefox 5 focuses on security and privacy
• Firefox 5 offers small improvements, Do Not Track
• Firefox 5 Beta Released For Desktop And Android: See The New Features
• Five Good Reasons to Download Firefox 5

Contributor Engagement

• Videos updates from the last weeks:
  • Week of June 13
  • Week of June 6
• Community definitions updated.

Events

Creative Team

Community Marketing

Introducing New Hires

• Priya Patel - Recruiting - Lead for Mobile and Engineering
• Jason Haas - Contributor Engagement - Student Reps
• Robert Nyman - Developer Engagement
• Malini Das - Automation & Tools