WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-02

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• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 8600
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 8600
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  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 8600
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number

All-hands Status Meeting Agenda

Friends of the Tree

• The accessibility team is excited to call out Mark Capella for his great bug hacking. Thanks!

• Kudos to Mozilla IT/Ops to quickly scaling browserquest.mozilla.org last Tuesday when it went viral! This site wasn't even hosted on Mozilla IT managed infrastructure!

Product Status Updates (voice updates)

Firefox Future (9, 10, 11)

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Firefox Current (3.6, 8)

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Mobile Firefox

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Thunderbird

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Older Branch Work

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Drumbeat

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Mozilla Popcorn

Speaker Location: Brett Gaylor, remote

• Popcorn Maker 0.3, aka "Breakfast Club" releasing this week. Notable features:
  • Node.js based server for saving work and hosting creations (aka "cornfield")
  • BrowserID for user authentication
  • Supporting youtube and vimeo for media
• Held a Popcorn Learning Lab at new London office last Sunday, 30 web devs and film folks working together photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherworks/sets/72157629314277716/
• Launched Living Docs project to work with documentary creators, holding a hackthon at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto at end of month http://www.livingdocs.org

Identity

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Services

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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
Your Title Here	Your Name Here	What are you going to talk about?	Links to slides or images you want displayed on screen	Link to where audience can find out more information

Introducing New Hires

New Hire	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new hire?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Dan Maher	Brian Hourigan	MV	IT Systems team, webops
Tim Chevalier	David Herman	Mountain View, CA	Research Engineer
Ilana Segall	Jinghua Zhang	Mountain View, CA	Quantitative User Research
Bob Micheletto	Jeff Vier	Mountain View, CA	Mozilla Services, Operations Engineer
Michael Henry	Joe Stevensen	Mountain View, CA	Security Engineer
Yury Delendik	Andreas Gal	Edmond, OK	Software Engineer
Benjamin Francis	Faramarz Rashed	UK	Front-End Engineer

Introducing New Interns

New Intern	Introduced by	Speaker location	Will be working on
Who is the new intern?	Who will be introducing that person?	From which office will that introduction be transmitted?	What will the new person be working on?
Paul Adenot	Daniel Holbert	Mountain View	Platform (Video/Audio features)

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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)

IT/Operations & Infrastructure

• Debugged a code-related performance regression in www.mozilla.org over the weekend that was impacting site performance
• Bunch of database work
• SCL3 Data Center move
  • Lit up Bay Area POPs - PAIX & Equinix
  • Upgrading the PHX1/SCL3 link to 10GbE
  • Spun up bedrock & www.mozilla.org in SCL3
  • Configured release engineering core infrastructure
  • Installed new Firefox OS X builders
  • Migrated parts of community infrastructure
• Wrapped up Beijing, China data center move
• Preparing to ship Air Mozilla Event Kit to MozCamp LATAM

QA

WebQA

• Affiliates
  • Successfully released the 3/28/2012 milestone, push bug, bug 740019
  • Test day today
• AMO
  • AMO 6.4.8 going live at 2pm
  • Testday was Wednesday, a big Thanks to everyone for help with moderating!
• Marketplace
  • MP 6.4.8 going live at 2pm
• Input

• Jetpack Builder (aka FlightDeck)

• Mozilla.com
  • shipping one mozilla today 3/29

• Mozillians
  • Still working on the [rel:03/21/2012] release, hope to push it today or tomorrow
• Mozilla Reps testday tomorrow
• MDN
  • shipped 2.6 on 3/28

• Socorro
  • Milestone 3 successfully released today
  • push bug 740075
• SUMO
  • no updates
• Case Conductor
  • Testing the .9 release, trying to find bugs during the last few days with the Meyers
• Wiki
  • no updates

Engagement

PR

• Reasons Why Firefox Could Become a Top Browser Again

• Mozilla's BrowserQuest Points to New Online Gaming Model
• Mozilla BrowserQuest The Future of Open Source HTML5 Gaming?
• Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming

• Picture Better Web Apps With Mozilla’s Camera API

• Inside Mozilla's Amazing Office Space In San Francisco