WeeklyUpdates/2015-03-16
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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
- Thanks to the new Firefox Marketplace user review moderators, who brought the queue down to 0 for the first time!
- Thank you Yuni, for translating the March featured addons blog: http://www.mozilla-hispano.org/complementos-destacados-para-marzo-de-2015/
- A huge thank you to espressive for great work and grace under pressure on the Firefox OS page
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 16 March
Tuesday, 17 March
- W3C Social Web Working Group meeting, all day, at MIT, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, 18 March
- W3C Social Web Working Group meeting, all day, at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
- Take a look under the hood as an engineer writes and reviews real code for Firefox Desktop! The Joy of Coding: Episode 6 streams LIVE at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET / 5 PM GMT on Air Mozilla.
Thursday, 19 March
- IndieWebCamp Cambridge, all day, at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Co-organized by Tantek.
- Spots still available: Sign up on the guest list!
- Javascript open day, all day, at Campus Microsoft France, Paris
- Guillaume Marty will give a talk about es6 and Firefox OS and there's a Mozilla booth with Firefox OS devices.
Friday, 20 March
- IndieWebCamp Cambridge, all day, at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Co-organized by Tantek.
- Spots still available: Sign up on the guest list!
- 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.
- Mozilla Tunisia community meetup. The aim of this meetup is to fix the agenda for the year and work on the remaining tasks for our main projects. It's going to be a strategy meetup with diverse workshops.
- QA Marathon in Dhaka (Day 1): we'll be teaching people how to get involved with Mozilla QA (note: this is a two day event).
Saturday, 21 March
- QA Marathon in Dhaka (Day 2): we'll be having people putting into practice the skills learned on Day 1.
Sunday, 22 March
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox and Cloud Services
Kev - Quick update on Search
- Continuing to solicit feedback (and yes, I read it all :) )
- Yahoo launched as default on Mobile in the US
- Launched an MDN search enhancement to better highlight MDN content on relevant development queries; continuing to tweak triggering criteria, but any feedback is welcome
- Focusing on five areas of enhancement over the next several quarters, focusing on product quality and results quality.
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
CTO Update
Speaker Location:
Content Services
Speaker Location: Sean Bohan, NYC
- How Advertising Works: Programmatic is scheduled for Monday March 23rd at 4pm ET.
- Darren Herman and Jason Schmidt will be giving a 40-minute presentation on the programmatic ad space, how it works, what it does and how it impacts users.
- This session will be recorded for those who can't make that time.
- Find out more here: https://air.mozilla.org/how-advertising-works-programmatic/
Webmaker
Speaker Location: Ben Moskowitz, remote.
Updates:
- MoFo and MWC
Speaker Location: Amira Dhalla in Brooklyn, NY.
- Slides: http://bit.ly/1wR19O0
Updates:
- Mozilla Web Clubs Curriculum testing is on-going. It is now in 24 cities, and coming to more. Check it out: http://bit.ly/1Mfmggu and read the report on what we've learned with out testers: http://bit.ly/1FsBw7N
- Looking ahead
- New Mozilla Learning Networks site to launch in April
- Grow test cities to 200
- Develop "Teach like Mozilla"
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
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 |
Sean Bohan | Content Services | Partner Tiles | NYC | Yes (thanks Potch) | Deck is here | See deck link above |
Darren Herman | VP Content Services | Request for Innovation | NYC | No | N/A | N/A |
Martin Best | Web Platform | GDC Recap | Remote (Vidyo) | Please Screen Share: I will shared slides and request to broadcast video found at: https://youtu.be/eI1r5t3K23A | GDC Summary Site: https://games.mozilla.org/gdc | None |
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 Volunteers | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteers location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|---|
Who is the new volunteer(s)? | 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? |
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? |
David Bryant | Johnny Stenback | Mountain View | Mountain View | VP of Engineering, Platform |
Benjamin Niolet | Michaela Smiley | US Remote (NC) | US Remote (VA) | Email Marketing Manager |
Abby Realeza | Jess Amann | Mountain View | Mountain View | 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? |
<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
Web QA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
bugzilla.mozilla.org
Notable changes to bugzilla.mozilla.org during the last week:
- bug 1102428 Bugzilla now shows the status of reviews from MozReview on the show_bug page
- bug 1003701 You can now block review, feedback, and needinfo requests (via the Account Information Preferences Tab)
- bug 1137080 A user's profile page now identifies users who have canconfirm and/or editbugs permissions
- bug 1137368 The assignee of bugs can now edit attachments details. This was a blocker for autoland support.