WeeklyUpdates/2014-11-03

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All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.

Friends of Mozilla Friends of Mozilla

  • HUGE THANKS TO: Varghese Thomas, Tripad Mishra, Alex Lakatos, Kohei Yoshino, Elio Qoshi, Abid Aboobaker, Md Anisur Rahman, Lavish Aggarwal, Amal Krishna T, Ravi Kumbhkar, Miguel Useche, Fernando Ramirez, Jan Bambach, Aleksander Koko, Jafar Muhammed, Alex Fuser, Michael Kohler and of course Jessica Osorio, TJ Lee and Brian King for their great work at the last-minute firefox10.org hacking and designing sprint over the last 24 hours. Also a big thanks to Community IT! You guys rock! (sorry Potch, you have to go through the whole list!)
  • Big thanks to Teo, erosman, rctgamer, Jai, shoewilliam, TheOne, and Andre Garzia for participating in the add-on and app reviewers meetup in London last week! You make AMO and Marketplace better and safer, and the community thanks you.

Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 03 November

  • Game Developers Conference Next, Los Angeles
    • Mozilla is here in sunny LA for two days, Nov 3rd and 4th, at our beautiful FirefoxOS booth
      • Bill Walker, David Camp, Harald Kirschner will be speaking about games on the web platform
  • Working with developers together. Wondering what is going on in the world of developers and how you can be involved? The November edition of DevPulse is out!

Tuesday, 04 November

  • MozillaWiki community call: 8:30 AM PST, 16:30 UTC, all are welcome.
  • Webdev Extravaganza: 10:00 AM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo (Open to the public)
    • Stream on Air Mozilla (link forthcoming)
    • Monthly get-together for anyone in Mozilla interested in web development. Updates on shipped projects, libraries we're working on, and more!
  • Lars Bergstrom will be giving a talk in MTV Commons at 2:00 PST on Servo, the new web browser engine started in Research. He will introduce the project, do some demos of its current status, talk about the project roadmap for 2015, and show how easy it is to contribute!
  • Bi-weekly Marketplace Community Meeting: 10am Pacific - Come for an update on the reviewers meetup in London, what's new for November, and more: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings
  • Python Brasil 10
    • One of the main tech events at Latin America. It's a 5 day gathering of devs, managers, researchers to discuss about open-source, development techniques and of course, Python! in Recife, Brasil.
      • Mozillian Tarek Ziade will be attending
  • Øredev 2014
    • Nov 4-7, in Malmö, Sweden
    • Øredev has its origins and focus on the software development process, from programming to project management. This is the event's 10th anniversary, and the theme this year is "passion for software."
      • Mozillians Angelina Fabbro and Christian Heilmann are speaking, Mozillians Soumya Chakraborty and Oliver Propst are supporting our presence at the Mozilla booth as well.

Wednesday, 05 November

Homebrew Website Club Meetup

  • Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco (@MozSF 1st floor)!
  • 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
  • 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night

Be independent on the web instead of just tweeting about it.

Create or update your personal site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.

Join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site.

Any questions? See the wiki page for details or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom

Intern Presentations

  • 1:30- Tomasz Kołodziejski, "TBD" MV
  • 2:00- Mihai Tabără, "Have fun with funsize!" SF

Thursday, 06 November

Friday, 07 November

Saturday, 08 November

Sunday, 09 November

  • Hop on the Firefox Cable Car!
    • Let's light a fire! On November 9th get on the Firefox cable car.
    • Bus will go to iconic locations in SF to take photos #ChooseIndependent, #fx10
    • Be sure to wear Firefox gear!
    • Meet at Mozilla SF at 10:00

Next Week

Monday, 10 November

  • Firefox CalTrain TAKEOVER!
    • On November 10th, join us in taking over the CalTrain station in SF!
    • We'll ride as a community from SF to MTV, CalTrain departs 7:14am.
    • There will be balloons and coffee at CalTrain starting 6:30 am...and piping hot breakfast waiting for you in MTV.
    • Sign up sheet will be circulated!

Project Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox

Speaker Location: Chad in SFO

  • A Moment of Reflection Before the Big Bday

Speaker Location: Jessica Osorio in MTV

Firefox OS

Speaker Location: Asa in MTV

  • Firefox OS in the News:
    • London beat Paris ;-) in the Firefox OS bug squash party
    • Robert Nyman gave a great Firefox OS talk at Budapest.mobile
    • Firefox OS has become the third most used operating system on smartphones in Peru, displacing the fourth to Apple's iPhone according to Information Research Division of Netdreams.
    • Matchstick had a successful Kickstarter campaign for their Firefox OS based streaming dongle. They had a goal of raising $100,000 and closed out the campaign with with nearly half a million ($470,000) raised from 17,2180 donors.
    • The Alcatel ONETOUCH Fire E launched in Hungary
  • Flame Updates
    • As of last week, thanks to MozFest, we have nearly 1000 more Flame contributors. If you're one of the lucky folks to get a free Flame, I'd like to again remind y'all to flash to something contemporary and report bugs! Also a reminder to our veterans, we've got a large number of incoming new folks and some of them need your help getting their feedback to the right places. Please be gentle and helpful in redirecting them to Bugzilla or what ever is the appropriate forum. Thanks!
    • Foxtrot Flame shipment should arrive in a week or so. Still awaiting Foxtrot builds from partner.
    • Flame retail sales at Everbuying will wrap at the end of this month. If you were planning on purchasing one, now's the time.
    • Flame will be receiving its first major over-the-air update, from Firefox OS 1.3 to Firefox OS 2.0 in the next week or so. It's looking like Nov 10th, the Firefox anniversary :-)
  • 122 Mozillians landed 230 fixes into Firefox OS this last week.
    • We had 5 first time patch contributors to Firefox OS this week
      • Vishnu Teja landed a fix for Bug 1058526 - Poor grammar in MMS error message
      • Song Zheng landed his first changes at Bug 1057145 - The Camera feed is shifted to the right during a video call
      • Former Mozilla accessibility intern, Max Li, landed an A11Y patch at Bug 1011886 - Introduce key echo by character, word, and character and word
      • Augustin Trancart fixed SMS Bug 1083198 - Remove fallback for old gecko version in MessageManager.getMessages
      • AnirudhGP keyboard bug Bug 1083301 - Close-paren disables autocorrection of previous word
    • Key features and fixes this week
      • 985853 - [Keyboard UX update][User Story] Hold shift to enter upper case characters
      • 998106 - [Keyboard] Selecting languages other than English during the FTE causes the associated keyboard not to load.
      • 1066888 - Overscroll physics improvements
      • 1091049 - Implement fling curving in the APZ code
      • 1090562 - Rocketbar transitions are missing
      • 1088700 - Pressing the home button should smooth scroll to top
      • 1068559 - [KK] Continuous auto focus (CAF) not working in Camcorder

Cloud Services

Speaker Location:Bill Maggs in SFO

Games promotion: Humble Mozilla Bundle results

Content Services

Speaker Location: Sean Bohan NYC

  • Subscribe2Web (S2W)
    • Presented S2W at IIW - great feedback
    • Early results on survey on S2W in the US - Stay tuned for the highlights once we have covered Germany, Poland & Sweden

Webmaker

Speaker Location:

Mozilla Communities

Speaker Location: San Francisco

All Mozillians: please take a few minutes to complete this survey and then share this link with the communities you work with.

We'll be making use of this research during the Portland work week to understand the needs and issues with participation capacity and community health that we'll need to address next year.

If you're interested in learning more about the survey and getting the results when they're publishing, feel free to subscribe to the community building mailing list.

IT/Ops

Speaker Location: Mountain View

Vidyo Servers were upgraded over the weekend. This upgrade included a change to the control meeting page. This page has dropped flash and is now an HTML based page. New documentation in available on mana. Also VidyoRoom search was improved and now results appear in true Alphabetical order.

VR

Speaker Location: San Francisco

Launching mozvr.com next week. "A VR website about VR websites". Demos, blog posts, interviews. All in VR, plugin free, using experimental new builds of Firefox with VR webAPIs bundled.


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
Robyn Chau Events Project Manager The Big 5 Developer Events Remote - Los Angeles No N/A https://wiki.mozilla.org/Engagement/Brand_Engagement/Events_Team/Big_5_2014

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?
Wenyuan Chi Vincent Liu Taipei Taipei Firefox OS_Senior Software Engineer
Owen Ouyang Eric Chang Taipei Taipei Firefox OS_Senior QA Engineer
Gary Chen Junior Hsu Taipei Taipei Firefox OS_Senior Software Engineer
Fernando Jimenez Francisco Jordano Remote - London Remote - Netherlands Firefox OS - Magician
Jacob Shen Candice Serran Mountain View Mountain View Firefox OS - Engineering Program Management
Eric Strawser Michelle Marovich Mountain View San Francisco People Team - Recruiting Coordinator
Julianna Ortiz Joanne Nguyen Mountain View Mountain View People Team - HR Coordinator

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.

Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)

Firefox

Platform

Cloud Services

Messaging

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

QA

Test Execution

WebQA

QA Community

Automation & Tools

Security

Engagement

PR

Events

Social Support

Web Compatibility

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