WeeklyUpdates/2011-05-09

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Video for today's meeting

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Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 9 May

Tuesday, 10 May

Brown Bag
"Of Browsers and Robots"
Daniel Casner from Anybots on in-browser controls and telepresence robots.
12:30PM in Ten Forward

Wednesday, 11 May

Community Marketing Call: 10 a.m. PDT/17:00 UTC/19:00 CET. In-progress agenda and dial-in info <a href="http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/call-agenda-may-11">here</a>.

Thursday, 12 May

Friday, 13 May

Next Week

Product Status Updates

Firefox 5 & 6

• Merge from mozilla-aurora to mozilla-beta still planned for May 17 (next week!)
• Beta meetings are already happening, Mondays at 2pm. See dev.planning for details.
• Migration of beta users from old FF4 betas has begun - progress updates next week (or at the Wednesday, 11am product call)

• Merge from mozilla-central to mozilla-aurora still planned for May 24 (2 weeks!)

• New blog for tracking updates to the channels process: <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/">blog.mozilla.com/channels</a>

Thunderbird

• Having a community run litmus testing Event next week in order to make sure that nothing is regressing. Details on how you might help are in this <a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/thunderbird-testers/2011-May/000056.html">email</a>.
• String freeze for Miramar at end of day tomorrow
• Comm-central will branch for Miramar at the same time

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.

Title	Presenter	Topic	Media	More Details
Product Marketing Manager	Laura Mesa	Coming Mark Up Campaign	N/A	The site will have a dark launch later this week--I'll send en email when its live so you can help test!

Status Updates By Team

QA

Desktop Firefox

• Push of <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_5b1/Test_Plan:Updates#Live_testing_on_Beta_Channel">FF 5.0 Beta</a>

WebQA

• Pushes this week:
  • Socorro 1.7.7.2 -- adding a "Channel" field to crash reports
  • <a href="http://bit.ly/jrPzKi">Mozilla.com 2.3</a>
  • <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654706">MDN 0.9.4.2</a>
  • <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/Execution/Web_Testing/AMO/Current_Release/6.0.8">AMO 6.0.8</a>
    • Includes the switch to <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648146">EdgeCast's CDN</a>
  • <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654135">Personas, May 3rd</a>
  • <a href="http://moxie.jamessocol.com/bugstats/sumo/2.8.1">SUMO 2.8.1 on 5/3</a>

QA Community

• Write up of last week's London Tester Gathering event: http://blargon7.com/2011/05/london-tester-gathering-with-mozilla/
• Awesome Firefox 4 launch party in Cluj, Romania. Blog post pending. But here are some <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/adybel/Firefox4LaunchParty?authkey=Gv1sRgCIzv9cvkz9e5Aw#">pics</a>
• <a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2011/04/29/firefox-aurora-bugday-may-6th">Successful test day on friday</a>

Automation & Tools

• Meet Toolbox: a place to find our tools http://brasstacks.mozilla.com/toolbox/

Engagement

PR

• <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/05/why-we-need-firefox/">Why We Need Firefox</a>
• <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20060636-281.html">Mozilla fights DHS over anti-MPAA, RIAA utility</a>
• <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_09fyIOmPl6DoGGUTkVsgqj3JIg?docId=b386c2459e74408e8905a589ce34e8ef">Mozilla resists request to remove Firefox tool</a>
• <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_takes_a_stand_against_department_of_homela.php">Mozilla Takes a Stand Against Department of Homeland Security</a>

• <a href="http://ostatic.com/blog/its-easy-to-forget-what-a-global-phenomenon-firefox-is">It's Easy to Forget What a Global Phenomenon Firefox Is</a>

Events

Creative Team

Contributor Engagement

• Update on Contribute Inquiries:
  • The contribute group answered inquiries from over 1600 people using the <a href="">Get Involved page</a>. Before Firefox 4 and recent awareness efforts we got 300 - 400 a month. That's a growth rate of over 400%!
• Wrapped up the Mozilla Tech Tour in Senegal.
  • William Quivigier, Anthony Ricaud, Mounir Lamouri and others concluded a week of Mozilla talks and a Firefox 4 <a href="">[n]</a>.
  • More info:
    • <a href="http://hanblog.info/blog/">http://hanblog.info/blog/</a>
    • <a href="http://blog.oldworld.fr/">http://blog.oldworld.fr/</a>

Support

• New blog - Verdi helps you with Firefox

Introducing New Hires

• Kyle Huey
• Abhinav Sharma
• Hernan Rodriguez Colmiero
• Shawn Gong
• Paul Stansifer
• Nikhil Marathe