Air Mozilla Backstage

Host: Asa Dotzler
Guests: Dan Mosedale, Mitchell Baker, & David Ascher
Cast & Crew:
Produced by Rainer Cvillink
Co-Producer and Camera by Marcia Knous
Production Assistance by Carsten Book and Seth Bindernagel
Topic: Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Search and Mozilla’s New Mail and Messaging Initiative
URLs of interest:
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/executive-director-search.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/dmose/archives/2007/08/executive_direction.html
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Foundation:Executive_Director_Search
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/09/mozillas_new_focus_on_thunderb.html
http://www.mozilla24.com/
http://store.mozilla.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-28.html
https://www.getmiro.com/about/donate/
http://blog.mozilla.com/planet/

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Mozilla 24.
This last weekend, Mozilla hosted worldwide, 24-hour open discussion to connect community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America and Europe, in person and over the web. The event was a smashing success. Thanks to all of the organizers and participants for making this happen. You can see some footage from the Stanford portion of Mozilla 24 at the Air Mozilla videocast.
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Mozilla Store
The Mozilla Store re-launched last month with a new site design and lots of new merchandise, including t-shirts, stickers and other gear. Use coupon code MOZILLASTYLE (all one word) to get 10% off your first order, and all orders of $10 or more come with a free sheet of Japanese-style stickers. Plus, the Mozilla Store team will soon be asking for your input on choosing the next item to be sold in the store – check out the store blog soon for more details about. You can visit the store at store.mozilla.org.
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Firefox 2.0.0.7
Yesterday Mozilla released Firefox 2007. This release mitigates a QuickTime flaw that could be used to compromise Firefox or a local machine. All users are encouraged to update to this release. To update, just go to the Firefox help menu and click “check for updates”.

This was also the first release to be largely produced by new automated tools created by our build team, and it took a mere 6.25 days to go from the report of the QuickTime flaw to new version in hands of users. 2.5 of which were bake-time. In combination with the 2.0.0.6 security release, Firefox users are now protected from two rather scary exploits that remain unpatched for other Windows users.
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Miro
The Participator Culture Foundation, makers of the awesome Miro program, are having a fundraising drive this month. Miro is a cross platform, free and open source video player built on the Mozilla platform. It’s also a great wqay to subscribe to the Air Mozilla videocasts and millions of other online videos. If you want to help their mission of building a free and open internet television platform, head over to getmiro.com/about/donate/
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Gran Paradiso Alpha 8, AKA M8 available later today today
Basic and unpolished UI for starring and tagging pages has been added, as well as a richer Location Bar autocomplete algorithm that matches against page title (see Places UI Plan for more details)
Malware protection (which you can test here)
Basic and unpolished UI for indicating richer website identity information has been added
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Friends of the Tree
Mitchell Baker nominated Jun Morai for all of his work in making Moizlla 24 a reality.
Shawn Wilsher nominated Edward Lee for his huge number of patches to the download manager including fixing a number of UI bugs and cross session resumable downloads.
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Planet Mozilla Updates
We’ve created and added a new blog for Air Mozilla Live announcements and show notes. The direct URL is blog.mozilla.com/airmozilla and you can find it on Planet starting today

We’ve also added the new Metrics blog to Planet. The Metrics blog is focused on providing various metrics about Mozilla and its products.

In addition to those two group blogs, we’ve also added several of the Open Komodo folks to Planet. Shane Caraveo, Trent Mick, and Eric Promislow.

Shane Caraveo – Shane is the Komodo project lead at ActiveState. He hails from the PHP world where he was responsible for much of the Windows porting work for PHP3 and contributed significantly to core PHP4 development. He has been working on Komodo for 5 or 6 years.

Trent Mick – Trent is the Komodo development lead at ActiveState. Trent is a Python guy — having some early core Python work to 64-bit Windows. He has been working on Komodo for the past 5 or 6 years and also works on ActivePython (ActiveState’s Python distribution).

Eric Promislow – Eric is a long time ActiveState senior developer. He is responsible for a lot of the Perl and Ruby support in Komodo, and for JavaScript debugging. He has been a part of the Komodo team for 5 or 6 years.

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DAN MOSEDALE – MOZILLA FOUDATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEARCH

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MITCHELL BAKER – MAILCO

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DAVID ASCHER – MAILCO

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MITCHELL BAKER & DAVID ASCHER ROUNDTABLE

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The Next Air Mozilla Live, two weeks from now, will feature Window Snyder, Mozilla’s Chief Security Something-or-Other