AIR MOZILLA LIVE – February 21, 2008
Host Asa Dotzler
Guests:
David Ascher, CEO Mozilla Messaging
Alex Faaborg, User Experience Designer at Mozilla
Cast & Crew
Produced by Marcia Knous
Camera by ???
Production Assistance by Carsten Book
TOPIC: Mozilla Messaging Launch and Firefox 3 Native Themes
Links:
http://www.mozillamessaging.com
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/getinvolved/
http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg
http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20080210-iconsM2i4/m2i4.png_large.png
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INTRO
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Welcome to another installment of Air Mozilla Live. I’m your host, Asa Dotzler.
We’ve got a great show for planned you today. We’ll be joined by David Ascher, CEO of Mozilla’s new Mozilla Messaging organization, and UE Designer at Mozilla, Alex Faaborg.
In the first half of the show, David will be talking with us about the launch of the new Mozilla Foundation subsidiary, Mozilla Messaging Inc., upcoming Thunderbird releases, and the future of internet messaging.
The second segment will feature Alex Faaborg and a community discussion about the new native look and feel for Firefox 3.
As usual, we’ll be taking your questions via IRC, IM, and email so if you haven’t already, you can join us on the server irc.mozilla.org in the channel #airmozilla or reach us on any of the IM networks at username airmozilla.
First, the news.
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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Firefox 3 Beta 3 released
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A little over one week ago, Firefox 3 Beta 3 was released. The new features and fixes are too much to list out here, but if you haven’t gotten it yet, head over to mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html and download the Beta today.
Earlier this month, Mozilla also released Firefox 2.0.0.12, a security and stability update fixing three critical security flaws.
Extend Firefox 2 Contest
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Also last week, the second Extend Firefox contest wrapped up and the winners were announced! The contest received well over 100 entries and there were three Grand Prize winners: the Minimap Sidebar Exension by Tony Farndon (UK); SamePlace by Massimiliano Mirra (Italy); and Shareaholic by Jay Meattle (USA).
AMO
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On Friday, the Mozilla’s add-ons site has just arrived in Beta at preview.addons.mozilla.org. In addition to the new look and feel, the site now has an improved developer’s control panel with statistics, better sandbox integration, and simpler categories and navigation. Check out the new site and let the AMO team know what you think.
T-Shirt Design Contest
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Mozilla is hosting a T-Shirt Design Contest to help promote the launch of Firefox 3! The winning design will have worldwide exposure as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt, and be featured as an exclusive item in the Mozilla Store. You can find out more about the contest by visiting spreadfirefox.com/tcontest.
Firefox 500M Downloads
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Today Firefox reached another amazing milestone, 500,000,000 total downloads. The Mozilla Marketing Community invites you celebrate this milestone by inviting 15 of your friends to help break another record at a site called FreeRice.com. The goal is to achieve 500,000,000 grains of donated rice in one day, enough to feed 25,000 people. You can find out more at spreadfirefox.com
FOSDEM ‘08
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This weekend, the FOSDEM ‘08 conference happens. Mozilla is be hosting a series of talks in the Mozilla Developer Room, and that schedule is now available on the FOSDEM site.
QMO
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Finally, Tony Chung would like me to remind you all that the QA team is always looking for help in testing the latest Firefox 3 betas and ongoing Firefox 2/Thunderbird 2 security releases. You can join the community of enthusiastic testers each friday in the #testday channel on irc.mozilla.org and you can subscribe to the betatesters@mozilla.org alias to be the first ones notified of new and exciting developments in Mozilla products. More information can be found on quality.mozilla.org
Planet
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As we’ve done on each prior show, we’ll wrap up the news by announcing the new additions to Mozilla’s community voice at planet.mozilla.org. A big planet welcome to Laura Thomson, Marcio Galli, Gavin Sharp, Max Kanat-Alexander, Stephen Lau, Jane Finette, Carsten Book, David Mandelin, Jens Hatlak, “Lucy” Connor, Madhava Enros, Matthew Gertner, Mic Berman, and Michael Ventnor.
You can learn a bit more about each of these Mozilla contributors by visiting blog.mozilla.com/planet and you can follow theme and scores of other Mozilla contributors by subscribing to the Mozilla planet feed at planet.mozilla.org.
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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DAVID ASCHER and MOZILLA MESSAGING
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COMMERCIAL BREAK
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ALEX FAABORG and FIREFOX 3 THEMES
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WRAP UP
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