WeeklyUpdates/2015-10-05
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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
- Thanks to Francisco Picolini for his endless patience with questions from many, many Mozillians about visas, Participation leaders processes', and making arrangements for Global Gatherings
- Alba, Daniel, Manuel, Javier and the rest of the awesome Mozilla Hispano localization team who are translating the Apps & Hacks developer newsletter to Spanish. ¡Gracias!: https://hacks.mozilla.org/newsletter
- Rachel McGuigan, Rina Jensen, Krupa Raj, Marcia Knous, Lizz Noonan, Larissa Shapiro, Ilana Segall, Lindsay Saunders and Anar Simpson, for taking time to mentor our TechWomen Emerging Leaders this month. Look for the Emerging Leaders from five nations in the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa around the SF and MTV offices during October!
Upcoming Events
This Week
Monday, 05 October
Tuesday, 06 October
- Webdev Extravaganza: 10:00 AM Pacific in the Webdev Vidyo (Open to the public)
- Stream on Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/webdev-extravaganza-october-2015/
- Monthly get-together for anyone in Mozilla interested in web development. Updates on shipped projects, libraries we're working on, and more!
- Homebrew Website Club Meetups in Europe
- Edinburgh (UK) (Bar 50),
Malmö (SWEDEN) (at inUse) - 17:30-18:30 (local time) Writing Hour
- 18:30-19:30 (local time) IndieWeb meetup & hack night. See the wiki page for details
or join IRC: http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/today?beta#bottom
- Edinburgh (UK) (Bar 50),
Wednesday, 07 October
- Firefox OS meetup: a monthly meetup to gather parisian Firefox OS enthusiasts. This month Dietrich Ayala, Wilson Page and Guillaume Marty are speaking.
- Networking Workshop in the SF office for the TechWomen program - 98 technical women from the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia are in the bay area for month long professional mentorships (6 at Mozilla) and many of them will be in our commons to practice professional networking skills, mingle, and eat appetizers, all Mozillians are welcome to meet them! 6:30 pm, SF commons.
- Homebrew Website Club Meetups US (every other Wednesday)
- Be independent with your web browser and your web site.
- Portland (at Beulahland), and
San Francisco (at MozSF 1st fl Java room, host: Tantek Çelik) - 17:30-18:30 Writing Hour
- 18:30-19:30 IndieWeb meetup & hack night
Any questions? See the wiki page for detailsCreate or update your personal web site!
Share what you've gotten working, ask for help where you're stuck.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, 08 October
Friday, 09 October
Saturday, 10 October
Sunday, 11 October
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox and Cloud Services
Speaker Location: mfinkle - remote
Firefox for Android
- Click-to-view images landed in Nightly
- Search history suggestions land on Nightly & a glimpse of some UI Telemetry in a blog post
- A/B Testing a new onboarding flow lands on Nightly, could be enabled on Fx43
Firefox OS
Peter Dolanjski, Ontario, Canada (remote)
Participation/Foxfooding Update
- Participation pathways:
- Foxfooding (objective: Increase product quality, innovation ideas)
- Porting (objective: Increase Firefox OS availability)
- B2GDroid (objective: Increase number of foxfooders)
- Gaia development (objective: Increase product quality, reduce parity gap, innovation ideas)
- Paris meetup last week very productive --> updated and consolidated overall strategy and plan for Q4
- Reviewing results of feedback for foxfooding program and working on ways to scale to larger community audience. Stay tuned.
CTO Update
Speaker Location:
Content Services
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per topic. 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. The meeting is streamed in a 4:3 format in order to allow for split screen. If your slides are 16:9 "widescreen" format, please indicate in the "Sharing" column below.
Presenter | Title | Topic | Location | Sharing | 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, 4:3 or 16:9) | Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen | Link to where audience can find out more information |
Jeff Bryner | Director of Infosec | Michal` Purzynski appointed to Bro IDS Leadership team. | Moz PDX office | no | n/a | n/a |
Potch | That Guy from the Podium | View Source Conference | Mountain View | no | viewsourceconf.org | Tickets are on sale NOW! Register now for View Source- Mozilla's first Web Development conference. Spread the word - Mozilla Portland Office, we need you to help get local volunteers! Help spread the word. Direct volunteer form: https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/forms/d/1j8FtvYQlhHo5U-kUYRob3j8DdvMuBbjQRED36b6sPDE/viewform, Link via website: https://viewsourceconf.org/contact-us/ |
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 | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Volunteer location | Will be working on |
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Who is the new volunteer? | Who will be introducing that person? | Where is the introducer? | Where will the new person be contributing from? | What will the new person be working on? |
Lara, Mutriba, Esraa, Alaa, Ayah, Kumba, Techwomen Emerging Leaders! | Techwomen Mentors | Mountain View and San Francisco | Mountain View/SF this month and then Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan and beyond | Building community in Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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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? |
Isabel Rios Escobar | Pallavi Yaramada | Mountain View | Spain | Sr. Mobile QA Engineer |
Heather Crince | Sean Rich | Mountain View | San Francisco | Senior Product Manager |
Franziskus Kiefer | Christoph Kerschbaumer | Mountain View | Berlin Office | Security Engineer |
Juan Gómez Mosquera | Gregor Wagner | Berlin Office | Berlin Office | Senior Platform Engineer |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | New Hire location | Will be working on |
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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
Web QA
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
MOZFEST 2015!!!!
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