WeeklyUpdates/2016-03-14
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 Welcome!
- 3 <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 Amir Faryar Zahedi, the top volunteer reviewer for addons.mozilla.org, with close to 17 thousand add-on reviews performed.
- Thanks to Vineel Reddy, Santosh Viswanathan, Ram Vaisnav and the folks at Collab House in Hyderabad for organizing and presenting at this weekend's Workshop on Firefox OS TV App Development.
Upcoming Events
This Week
- GDC 2016 is happening this week! Mozilla team will be at Moscone Center South, Booth 936. We will be demoing games and VR.
Monday, 14 March
Tuesday, 15 March
- 10am Pacific - Bi-weekly add-on community meeting
- Every Tuesday - all-day e10s office hours - get help bringing your add-ons to e10 compatibility! See who is available to help here
Wednesday, 16 March
Thursday, 17 March
Friday, 18 March
- FOSSASIA (Singapore) March 18th to 20th
- FOSSASIA is the premier Free and Open Source technology event in Asia for developers, start-ups, and contributors. Projects at FOSSASIA range from open hardware, to design, graphics and software.
- This year Mozilla will have presence with 4 talks run by volunteers: Bob Reyes, Ram Vaishnav, Rizky Ariestiyansyah, and Anivar Aravind.
- More information in the official page of the event, and in the Reps Event page.
- GDC 2016 is happening this week! Mozilla team will be at Moscone Center South, Booth 936. We will be demoing games and VR.
Saturday, 19 March
Sunday, 20 March
Next Week
Project Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox and Cloud Services
Speaker Location:
Connected Devices
Speaker Location:
CTO Update
Speaker Location:
Mozilla Communities
Speaker Location:
Gear Store
Non-verbal: gear.mozilla.org will be winding down at the end of this month. To learn more, read the blog post. In the meantime, enjoy 30% off all items.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Richard Milewski | Air Mozilla | MTV Commons | Yes - Potch has link. | https:air.mozilla.org/troubleshooting | ||
| Wander Costa (wcosta) | Taskcluster | Adding Taskcluster tasks to try | Brazil (remote) | no | Airmozilla | Presentation video (the talk is this video) |
| Tim Murray (tmurray) | Creative Director, Marketing | Mozilla Identity Initiative | SF office | no | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-qZA9aItF-xoIJ0EYg9lurt8xrqPXuGncOcxqIciPHw/edit?usp=sharing | |
| Andrea Wood | Director, Digital Advocacy + Fundraising | Encryption campaign | Remote | Yes | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19vJ-81ugJvwNJbhqd3bpDN07VdooCRbRp7dSaqFqsRk/edit#slide=id.g11e6fb376a_0_10 | advocacy.mozilla.org/encrypt |
| Melissa Romaine | Program Manager, Open Web Fellows | Applications open for Open Web Fellows 2016 program | SF Office | No | -- | https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/ |
| Amy Tsay | Add-on community manager | Developer support for upcoming changes in the add-on world | MV | No | -- | Wiki page and Blog post |
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 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? |
| Jason Laster | Jennifer Fong-Adwent | Toronto | New York (remote) | DevTools |
| Anthony Ramine | Jack Moffitt | New Mexico | Paris | Research |
| 22 Folks in MV | Diane Tate | Mountain View | Global | all things mozilla |
| Josh Gaunt | Matt Grimes | Portland | Portland | User Advocacy |
| Scott DeVaney | Amy Tsay | Mountain View | San Francisco | Add-on editorial |
| Philipp Kewisch | Amy Tsay | Mountain View | Germany (Remote) | Add-on reviews |
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
Engineering Productivity (Automation & Tools)
Security
Engagement
PR
Events
Developer Relations
If you’re staff and you speak at conferences, meetups or are involved in any events where developers can find you and interact with you, check out the staff devrel page for calendars and resources. We’re here to help!
Planning: CascadiaJS, YouGottaLoveFrontEnd, LetsEncrypt, MozLondon, TechSpeakers Phase 2, Code Schools, Trainspotting
Events / Talks / Meetups / Trainings
- Rabimba Karanjai is in NYC this week, teaching A-Frame VR to a group of high school students in Harlem.
- Potch and Belén are at GDC.
Bugs
- Filed by team in the last 7 days: https://bit.ly/devrel-filed-7d
Hacks Posts
Code / Demos
- Potch put up a page showing which version each of the Firefox release trains are on.
- Dietrich loaded the Nefertiti scan into A-Frame (thanks Kevin Ngo for A-Frame help!)
