WeeklyUpdates/2014-06-02
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 Roundtable
- 3 Welcome!
- 4 <meta>
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of Mozilla 
- Big thanks to rctgamer3 for identifying and sending us hundreds of spam accounts on AMO.
- Thanks to the newest member of the volunteer app review team, Jaipradeesh, who has reviewed nearly 350 apps since joining three weeks ago.
- Thanks to add-on reviewers Diego and Andreas, who reviewed hundreds of add-ons last week, making a huge dent in the queue.
- Thanks to SuMo Member Satdav for finding a major security bug in nightly firefox for windows related to Java.
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 02 June
Tuesday, 03 June
- Mozillians Town Hall - 2014 Goals - Invest in Sustainability - https://wiki.mozilla.org/2014#Invest_in_Sustainability 9:00am - 10:00am PT on Air Mozilla or live in SF/MV.
Wednesday, 04 June
- Just a reminder this is open to all contributors and not just SuMo SuMo Mobile Meeting- - On vidyo - https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sumo-mobile 10:30am - 11:00am PT on Air Mozilla or Michelle Luna Vidyo Room.
Thursday, 05 June
- Firefox OS 2.0 Bug Bash - Try out new 2.0 features!
- Time: 4pm - 7pm PST
- IRC: #fxosqa
- Vidyo: QA
- Dial In: 1-800-707-2533, pass: 369, room: x9245
- Mozilla Recruiting is hosting a virtual Skills Lab on "How to make your Referrals successful" and will be around to answer your questions on all things Recruiting. no sign up required, just join vidyo room Mozilla_Recruiting or the irc channel #recruiting
- Time: 8:30am PDT-10:00am PDT
- Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. Mozilla is a sponsor, speaking, and leading a panel. See http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2014 for details.
- 5PM UTC / 1PM EST / 10 AM PST - Security Open Mic
- An open meeting to chat anything security related with the Mozilla Security team.
- Vidyo: SecReview Room // Dial-in Info (phone): - US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 - Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 - Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 - Conference num 99710
Friday, 06 June
- Personal Democracy Forum in New York City. Mozilla is a sponsor, speaking, and leading a panel. See http://personaldemocracy.com/conferences/nyc/2014 for details.
Saturday, 07 June
Sunday, 08 June
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Woah theme submissions post-29!
- That makes me think of
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Open Badges
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Science Lab
Speaker Location: non-verbal
- Check out our latest prototpying work, compliments of Victor Ng, extending the Open Access Button to help make research discoverable. We'd love your feedback and help.
- We'll be hosting a global multi-site Science Lab sprint July 22-23 on educational material, tools and prototypes and training. Get involved! All are welcome.
Mozilla Reps
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: Mountain View
One of Mozilla’s goals for this year is to increase the number of active contributors by 10x. That means that many new people will be joining the community and we want to make sure they have a positive experience.
To help new contributors understand more about what they’re getting involved with, we’ve posted draft text of a new volunteer agreement to Governance. I wanted to share the discussion to get feedback and input.
Before reading through it, I’d like to be clear about a couple of points:
- This is not intended to be a document that people will sign
- This is not something that applies to existing contributors, just to new people who are joining the community
Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox Marketplace
Speaker Location:
IT
Speaker Location: mjeffries, Mountain View
VMWare Cluster Migrations - Changing engines at 36K feet without your passengers noticing!
Last month, IT set out to replacing some aging VMWare clusters with shiny new clusters. Being that these new clusters were setup as individual clusters from a clean slate, getting the virtual machines migrated to the new clusters took a bit of strategic engineering. We have published a blog post today outlining the details of our "lifeboat method" of migrating virtual machines from one cluster to another with no downtime or impact. Around 1,000 VMs moved and nobody noticed. Just how we wanted it. Check out this blog post for the technical details of how we did it:
https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2014/06/02/pay-no-attention-to-the-virtualization-behind-the-curtain/
A/V Survey Update
Thanks to all of the submissions to our surveys on Conference Rooms and Vidyo Desktop We received responses from over 23% of all Mozillians on kudos and points for improvement Watch this space for upcoming improvements on your A/V experiences!
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 |
| David Boswell | Community Building on the People Team | @mozilla.org email addresses for volunteers | San Francisco | No | No | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/UsgIRmdv9Kk |
| Sean Rich | Make IT awesome | Removing roadblocks to productivity --> Broken Communication Channels | San Francisco | No | No | https://etherpad.mozilla.org/1i8Z0jT7Zk |
| Mardi Douglass | Communications | Mozillians and World Cup madness | Remote | No | No | |
| Darren Herman | Content Services | Tiles experiment in Nightly | San Francisco if his flight arrives on time (if it doesn't, Johnath will take this) | No | No | |
| Lizz Noonan | Brand Engagement Coordinator | MozCamp 2014 Weekly Update | San Francisco | No | No | https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCamps_2014 |
| Jim Cook | Finance | Q1 2014 Product Activity Survey | Mountain View | No | No | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Productactivitysurvey |
Roundtable
Do you have a question about a Mozilla Project or initiative? Let us know by Friday- we'll do our best to get you an answer.
Please note that we may not always be able to get to every item on this list, but we will try!
| 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? |
| Chris Manchester | Jonathan Griffin | Toronto | Remote - NYC | Adding structured logging to our test harnesses |
| Aaron Thornburgh | Madhava Enros | Toronto | SF | Firefox User-Experience, focused on Content Services |
| Tim Spurway | Olivier Yiptong (for Ed Lee) | Toronto | Toronto | Firefox Engineering + UP Research, focused on Content Services |
| MJ Kelly | Winston Bowden | San Francisco | Seattle | Digital content strategy for owned media (social media, email engagement, snippets) |
| Stephanie Hobson | Jeff Griffiths | Vancouver | Vancouver Office | MDN Engineering |
| Matthew Ruttley | Darren Herman | Mountain View | Remote (US) | Content Services |
| Andrew Greenfield | Winnie Aoieong | San Francisco Office | San Francisco Office | Finance |
| Catherine Groswird | Bob Moss | Mountain View Office | Mountain View Office | EA for Bob Moss & Johnathan Nightingale |
| Emily Pierce | Lisa Gray | Mountain View Office | San Francisco Office | Converting to FTE but continuing in her role with WPR in awesome office coordination |
| Rebecca Gorospe | Lori Jashinsky | Mountain View Office | Toronto Office | Converting to FTE but continuing in her role with WPR in awesome office coordination |
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? |
| Vladislav Filippov | Zach Carter | San Francisco | San Francisco | Identity/Services Engineering |
| Gregory A. Norcie | Chris Karlof | San Francisco | San Francisco | Identity/Services Engineering |
| Andrew Greenfield | Winnie Aoieong | San Francisco | San Francisco | Finance |
| Nathan Braswell | Jeff Walden | Mountain View | Mountain View | JavaScript Engine |
| Guptha Rajagopal | Sean Stangl | Mountain View | Mountain View | Javascript Engine |
| Kate Glazko | Marcia Knous | Mountain View | Mountain View | Mobile QA |
| Jeremy Poulin | Nick Hurley | Mountain View | Mountain View | Networking |
| Jonathan Morton | Kyle Huey | San Francisco | San Francisco | Platform Engineering |
| Susanna Bowen | Daniel Holbert | San Francisco | San Francisco | Platform Engineering - Layout |
| Benjamin Brittian | Eric Rescorla | Mountain View | Mountain View | Platform Engineering: WebRTC |
| Ian Connolly | Hal Wine | San Francisco | San Francisco | Release Engineering |
| Carlos Diaz-Padron | Jed Parsons | San Francisco | San Francisco | Services Engineering |
| Dylan Wong | Raymond Etornam Agbeame | Mountain View | Mountain View | Web QA |
| Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran | Nick Desaulniers | Mountain View | Mountain View | Emscripten |
| Basar Koc | Tim Terriberry | Mountain View | Mountain View | Research |
| Catalin Badea | John Schoenick | Mountain View | Mountain View | Platform Engineering: DOM |
| Eli Kariv | Jean Collings | Mountain View | San Francisco | Community Engagement |
| Melissa Martin | Jean Collings | Mountain View | San Francisco | User Engagement |
| Alex Wissmann | Marcus Cavanugh | Mountain View | San Francisco | FF OS Engineer |
| Martin McDonough | Randall Barker | Mountain View | Mountain View | Platform Engineering: Mobile |
| Georgios Kontaxis | Monica Chew | Mountain View | San Francisco | Privacy and Security |
| Lu Wang | Alon Zakai | Mountain View | Mountain View | Research |
| Piyush Waradpande | Yvan Boily | Mountain View | Mountain View | Security Assurance |
| Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte | Erik Rose | Mountain View | Mountain View | Adding JS static analysis to DXR |
| James Hobin | Gregor Wagner | Mountain View | San Francisco | |
| Harsh Pathak | Sid Stamm | Mountain View | Mountain View | Security Engineering |
<meta>
Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Cloud Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
bugzilla.mozilla.org
Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:
- bug 1014374 CSS files are now served concatenated and minified
- bug 1003950 Abusive accounts can now be automatically disabled
- bug 1009216 Clicking on the 'Whiteboard' field label now takes you to a wiki page describing common whiteboard tags
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Social Support
Policy & Advocacy
- Personal Democracy Forum — The Policy & Advocacy crew is headed to PDF in New York this week. We are a sponsor of the conference and will be running a session on ‘Re-Imagining Advocacy to Protect the Free and Open Web’. Together with panelists from EFF, Fight for the Future, Engine Advocacy and Facebook, we are hoping to share and hear new ideas to boost the global open web movement.
- Reset the Net — This week is the anniversary of the first revelations from Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance, in which the world learned that the NSA is exploiting weak links in Internet security to spy on the entire world, twisting the Internet we love into something it was never meant to be. A year ago, Mozilla helped launch StopWatchingUs to apply pressure to leaders for reform. This year, Mozilla will be joining with Fight for the Future and a host of other organizations to launch a new effort called ‘Reset the Net’ to stop mass surveillance by building proven security into the everyday internet. We encourage all Mozillians to visit ResetTheNet to learn about security tools and steps they can take, including take the pledge for better security on June 5th.
