WeeklyUpdates/2015-01-12
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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 Niccolò Cantù, Marketplace contributor of the month for December. Niccolò began contributing in March 2014, and has since published seven apps on Marketplace, written a chapter for the FirefoxOS Quick Guide in Italian, and reported many bugs.
- Rachel Hathaway landed her first patch on Marketplace after braving a mountain of feedback (68 review comments). Thanks Rachel!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 12 January
- Mozilla Contributor Meetup
- this event will be in #contributors on IRC
- An event were we'll discuss about contributing to Mozilla. The intention is to make it bi-monthly
- From 14:00 PST to 15:00 PST
- from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM Uk time
Tuesday, 13 January
- The Marketplace community meeting is back for the new year! Join us tomorrow at 10am Pacific: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Marketplace/Community/Meetings. We'll talk about add-on signing, the new get involved page for Marketplace, and much more.
Wednesday, 14 January
- Homebrew Website Club Meetup
- San Francisco (@MozSF 1st floor), Chicago, and Portland.
- 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
- 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night
Any questions? See the wiki page for detailsBe independent with your web browser and your web site.
Create or update your personal web site — wherever you host it, shared, VPS, or at home; static, dynamic, WordPress, or other software.
Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!
or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom
Thursday, 15 January
- SuMo Day *
- A day for all contributors to help on SuMo to respond to questions **
- ThinkFWD – What's the Hold Up? Accelerating Opportunity for Women in Tech
- RSVP if you'll attend locally (SF): http://www.fwd.us/field_011515_sfthinkfwd
- https://air.mozilla.org/thinkfwd-whats-the-hold-up-accelerating-opportunity-for-women-in-tech-2/
Friday, 16 January
- Browser-Based Virtual Reality in HTML5 from 5pm-9pm at Google, San Francisco
- Josh Carpenter speaking
- It's VR time! Let's kick off 2015 with a super exciting event featuring 5 expert talks about browser-based virtual reality at SFHTML5. After that, head over to the VR world tour kick-off event at The Metreon!
- Webdev Beer and Tell at 2PM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo room (and streaming on AirMo)
- Open to the public!
- Monthly get-together where webdevs across the community show off their side projects.
Saturday, 17 January
- Mozilla Hispano Work Day in Madrid
- Mozilla Hispano contributors living in Spain will meet in Madrid for a get together, discuss and advance on the plans for the community in Spain
Sunday, 18 January
Next Week
- Rust Meetup in Paris
- On Monday 19th. More info in the meetup page
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox
Speaker Location: toronto (johnath)
- Hello Intro Video (Arcadio in SF -- load video please)
- Growth themes for Q1 (cmore in MTV -- load slides please)
Firefox OS
Speaker Location: Rick Fant
- We're back from a great week at CES. Panasonic's new 4K TVs will run Firefox OS under the hood.
- http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/05/panasonic-4k-tvs-with-firefox-os/ and lots more press
- Release version 2.2 is underway- Feature Landing is Feb 23, 2015. For more dates, see: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#B2G_Scheduling
- See https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap#2.2_Focus_Features for 2.2 features
Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
CTO Update
Speaker Location: San Francisco (mbx)
Shumway Update: Flash video continues to cause problems in Firefox. Over the next few weeks we'll start enabling Shumway in the Beta channel for some popular video players.
Recorded Demo: http://areweflashyet.com/tmp/oop/shumway.mp4
Live Demo:
- To install the Shumway add-on, go to http://www.areweflashyet.com/ and click "Install the latest Shumway extension".
- Visit:
- https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=141192919273962&set=vb.22893372268
- http://jwsolution.net/index.php/demo
Please help us test and provide feedback at https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
Content Services
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker: Andrew Sliwinski Location: PDX
- Major updates launched last week to Webmaker.org focused on improving the visitor to user registration conversion rate.
- Splash
- Navigation
- Login
- Next up:
- On-boarding - Get new users making & learning right away
- Marketing - Privacy day campaign
- Mobile - Field testing in India
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
Web Compatibility
Speaker Location: Vidyo (miketaylr)
RSVP and Call for Speakers form for Web Compatibility Summit now available. If talking about making broken things less broken is your thing, come join us on February 17th in Mountain View.
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 |
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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 |
Peter B, Richard M | Air Mozilla | Help out edit past Air Mozilla events | MV Moz Office | Live demo on Potch's screen | https://air.mozilla.org/unpicked-pictures/ | https://air.mozilla.org/contributors |
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? |
David Weir (satdav) contributor | Service Desk or IRC | Hello can you update us contributors on the IRCCLoud beta what Mozilla is doing and how we can get involved to help with this? |
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? |
Michelle Liu | Bellu Su | Recorded | Taipei Office | Administrative Assistant |
Tommy Kuo | ShihChiang Chien | Recorded | Taipei Office | Software Engineer |
Will Wang | Ben Tian | Recorded | Taipei Office | Software Engineer |
Alexandra Costello | Mary Ellen Muckerman | San Francisco | San Francisco | |
Rachel Berenbaum | Michelle Marovich | Mountain View | San Francisco | |
Bryan Bell | Bill Maggs | San Francisco | US Remote | |
Stuart Philp | Bill Maggs | San Francisco | Toronto | |
Ashish Vijayaram | Linda Ypulong | San Francisco | San Francisco | Mozilla Operations Center (MOC) |
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? |
<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 1050232 The first of a batch of changes improving the guided bug entry form landed. This improves the bug filing experience for the majority of our users.