WeeklyUpdates/2014-03-31
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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 Mozilla 
Dominik and Rina would like to nominate Mahay Alam Khan (a.k.a. Mak) for running the recruitment for our local community research in Bangladesh and for his last minute help on our survey! Mak is truly a great organiser and leader! Thanks so much!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 31 March
Tuesday, 01 April
- Mozillians Town Hall - Recent Leadership Changes 9:30am - 10:30am PT, MTV Commons, (open to staff and vouched Mozillians): https://air.mozilla.org/town-hall-leadership-changes/
- WebDev Monthly Extravaganza (10:30am PT, open to all), webdev Vidyo
- Do you do web development? So do we! Come hang out with us and talk about web development at Mozilla!
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webdev/Meetings/2014/April_1
Wednesday, 02 April
- Great Wide Open, April 2-3, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Jason Weathersby speaking
Thursday, 03 April
- 10:00 AM Pacific / 17:00 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, 04 April
Saturday, 05 April
- JoomlaDay Atlanta, April 5, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Jason Weathersby speaking
Sunday, 06 April
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location:
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location: (mfinkle)
- Quick Share: Now on context menus too!
- Firefox Hub - Stage 1: Testing some Feed related panels
- Testing snippets on Nightly
- UI Telemetry is starting to land
- Keep testing Sync and Webapps!
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: nonverbal update
- Webmaker was featured on LifeHacker on Friday!
- Help us test the WebLitMapper, a new bookmarklet for tagging content around the web that aligns with the Web Literacy Map.
- Try it out and share feedback here.
Open Badges
Speaker Location: nonverbal update
- Check out what went on with the Open Badges team last week in this blog post: http://openbadges.tumblr.com/post/81016590237/badger-beats-the-week-in-review-33
Mozilla Science Lab
Speaker Location: nonverbal update
- We still have some seats left at our [upcoming Women in Science and Engineering Bootcamp http://mozillascience.org/software-carpentry-week-in-review-march-24-30-2014/] at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (April 14-15).
- Heading to PyCon? Join us for one of our 5 events, from events for librarians to those looking to learn R or instructor training. [More information here http://pycon.blogspot.ca/2014/02/software-carpentry-at-pycon.html].
- Catch up on the latest Software Carpentry (our education program) news in [Ivan Gonzalez's roundup http://mozillascience.org/software-carpentry-week-in-review-march-24-30-2014/].
Open News
Speaker location: nonverbal update
- OpenNews Source is wrapping up #botweek, a full week of news-bot analysis, tutorials, project walkthroughs, and more. Check out the series so far: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/tags/botweek/
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: San Francisco
Pierros Papadeas has created some graphics that show how the People, Engagement and Foundation teams are coordinating to increase the number of active contributors by 10x this year.
It's not every day that you get to talk about sharks, parachutes and hard hats when describing the work you do, so I definitely wanted to share the images. Check out the full explanation to learn more.
If you have any questions about how this will help you grow community around your projects, feel free to join the Grow Mozilla discussion this Thursday, post to the community building mailing list or attend the upcoming Enabling Communities Town Hall.
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox Marketplace
Speaker Location:
IT
Speaker Location: mjeffries, San Francisco
ServiceNow improvements video now posted - check out the changes we have made to make ServiceNow easier to use for your IT needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xv_wU-6_VQ
EUS, WPR, and WebEngineering have made improvements to employee and guest badging: Employee and guest badging systems have been updated and improved. Employee badging stations are now in all Mozilla Spaces, and will enable individual and workweek badging at all locations. Peekaboo guest badging system improvements Peekaboo stations have been deployed to all Mozilla Spaces. WebEngineering is working on more improvements for Peekaboo.
Desk Phone improvements Made perf. improvements to improve phone system management. Faster number lookup- less than 7 seconds for extension lookup, among other improvements.
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 |
| Mike Taylor | Web Compat Engineer | webcompat.com | Austin, TX | Yes | n/a | http://dev.webcompat.com |
| William Reynolds | Product manager for Community Tools | Add more accounts to mozillians.org and new Reps activities system | San Francisco | No | mozillians.org post | mozillians.org post, Reps activities system post |
| 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
| New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is the new hire? | 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? |
| Howie Chang | Kevin Hu | Taipei(record) | Taipei | Firefox OS – Engineering PM |
Introducing New Interns
| 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? |
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Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
