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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DAVID ASCHER and MOZILLA MESSAGING
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ALEX FAABORG and FIREFOX 3 THEMES
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Host Asa Dotzler
Guests:
Michell Baker, Mozilla Chairman
John Lilly, Mozilla CEO

Cast & Crew
Produced by Marcia Knous
Camera by Clint Talbert
Production Assistance by Carsten Book and Alix Franquet

TOPIC: Mozilla Corporation Role Changes

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Welcome to another installment of Air Mozilla Live. I’m your host, Asa Dotzler.

We’ve got a very interesting show for planned you today. We’ll be joined by Mitchell Baker and John Lilly to discuss the recent role changes at Mozilla.

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 2
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 was released on Dec 18th, and is available for download.

Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center at wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3 as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.

Mozilla Labs launches Weave
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Weave is a new Mozilla Labs project where Mozilla formally explore how Web browsers like Firefox can do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. For more information, visit the Mozilla Labs blog at labs.mozilla.com

Live Chat Support
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On Dec 28th, Mozilla officially opened Live Chat support to users of Firefox. Users who can’t find answers to their support questions in the knowledge base or the forum can now get real time help troubleshooting their issues with more skilled Firefox users.

If you’re interested in learning more, or even better, in helping out, visit the support site at support.mozilla.com

Spread Firefox v2
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A brand new version of Spread Firefox (SFX) has been launched. Spread Firefox is the home of the Mozilla Marketing efforts. There you can find official Mozilla marketing projects as well as scores of volunteer efforts. Spread Firefox exists to unite the community into one cohesive marketing force that even competitors with unlimited resources can’t compete with. For more information, and to get involved, visit the all new Spread Firefox site at spreadfirefox.com

Planet Mozilla
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And as has become customary, we wrap up today’s news segment with notices of additions and changes to our community voice, planet.mozilla.org

Smokey Ardisson – Smokey is a Camino contributor. Specifically, he leads the QA team, co-leads the website and documentation team, and contributes build-related patches.

Zbigniew Braniecki, AKA Gandalf – Gandalf is a member of the Board of Directors in Mozilla Europe and is going to work on various aspects of the Mozilla community with Paul Kim and Tristan Nitot starting in mid January.

Brad Lassey – Brad joined Mozilla in October after focusing on mobile browsing for France Telecom for 4 years. He’ll be working in the Mobile team and blogging about Mozilla’s mobile activities.

Seth Spitzer – Seth is a long-time Mozilla contributor who is currently a member of the Firefox team at Mozilla. He’ll shortly be moving to an email startup with Scott MacGregor and David Bienvenu.

Marco Zehe – Marco Zehe has only been in the Mozilla Community for a few months but has already made a huge impact improving accessibility.

Jeff Griffiths – Jeff has been working for ActiveState for over 4 years, primarily involved with user and community support, web development and evangelism around extending and customizing Komodo.

Ben Hearsum – Ben got involved with Mozilla through the Seneca program, and he now works on QA and Build tools.

Christian Sejersen – Christian Sejersen joined Mozilla a month ago to head up the mobile engineering group.

Edward Lee – Edward (Mardak on IRC) is a Summer 2007 Mozilla/ActionMonkey intern now starting the Ph.D. program at UIUC, yet somehow manages to find time to work on the Download Manager.

We’ve also added the Camino Blog and for those that track blogs individually, it should also be noted Doug Turner moved his blog.

All of these changes are tracked, with links, at the Planet Changes blog. blog.mozilla.com/planet

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And that’s the news. We’ll be back after the break with our special guests, Mitchell Baker and John Lilly.

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Mitchell Baker and John Lilly

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Host Asa Dotzler
Guests:
Melissa Reeder (Creative Commons)
Mark Finkle & Dave Townsend (Mozilla Evangelism and Mozilla Apps)
Christian Sejersen (Mozilla Mobile)

Cast & Crew
Produced by Rainer Cvillink
Co-Producer and Camera by Marcia Knous
Production Assistance by Rhian Baker, Mary Colvig, and Carsten Book

TOPIC: Creative Commons, Extension Development and the Extend Firefox contest, and Mozilla Mobile.

http://creativecommons.org/
http://extendfirefox.com
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile

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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 you today. We’ll be joined by Melissa Reeder from Creative Commons, Mark Finkle & Dave Townsend for the Extend Firefox program, and Christian Sejerson of Mozilla Mobile.

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 the various IM networks at username airmozilla.

First, the news.

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Book of Mozilla

This week we saw the launch of the Mozilla Project’s community newsletter titled about:mozilla. The weekly newsletter, appearing every Monday, will cover the latest news, information, and announcements from across the breadth of the Mozilla project, giving you a heads-up on the coming week’s meetings and events, and helping you stay on top of what’s going on in the Mozillaverse.

Deb Richardson, the project coordinator encourages community members to submit news items for about:mozilla. She says in the initial issue, “If there’s something you think should be included in the newsletter, send it along to mozilla-news-submissions@mozilla.org. If you have questions or comments, you can contact the editor at news-editor@mozilla.org. Your feedback is always welcome and appreciated.”

This News Segment at Air Mozilla Live will rely heavily on the about:mozilla newsletter and we encourage you to subscribe to stay up to date between AML broadcasts.

Mozilla Foundation launches Directed Giving program
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When you donate to the Mozilla Foundation, you now have the option of directing your donations to one of four selected projects (Bugzilla, SeaMonkey, Camino, and Mozilla accessibility for people with disabilities). You can also choose to make a traditional unrestricted donation as well. The Mozilla Foundation will take note of your choice, and keep track of how much money has been designated for each project. They will then work with the people responsible for each project and come up with some worthy project-related initiatives to fund using those designated donations.

As an extra incentive to help get the program started, the Mozilla Foundation will match 2-for-1 any donations you designate for these projects from now until the end of 2007, up to a maximum of $10,000 per project. For more information, see Frank Hecker’s blog post at http://hecker.org/mozilla/directed-giving

Firefox 3 Beta 1 shipped last week
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Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. Join the already more thn 500,000 testing this latest beta. Earlyfeedback from our community says it’s rendering modern web pages and applications really fast, people just love what we’re affectionately calling the awesomebar — the new auto-complete, full-page zoom is also getting a lot of positive reaaction.

We need all the testing we can get on the beta, so if you haven’t gotten it yet, please do and let us know how it works for your daily browsing needs.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Proto: new Mac theme in beta
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If you’re a Mac user, when you first run the beta you’ll see an offer to get Proto, the prototype of the new Firefox 3 theme for OS X. Proto represents the first phase of the new Mac theme work, driving towards a more native look and feel on that platform. The second phase will be modifying Proto to include a cross-platform shape and control set which will differentiate Firefox from other applications. The end goal should be an OS X native feeling browser that also definitely feels like Firefox. If you install the Proto add-on, you’ll get updates as new versions of the theme are available.

Extend Firefox 2 add-on contest
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Everyone knows that one of the best things about Firefox is that you can customize it to do what you want, how you want. Add-ons are the core of this magic, and we’re having our second Extend Firefox add-on development contest.

The contest runs until December 31st, and there are three Grand Prizes and twelve Runner-up prizes this year. Submissions will be judged on user experience, innovation, and the use of open standards, so it’s time to pull out all the stops and get hacking. For more information about the contest, judges, prizes, and how to enter, see the Extend Firefox website.

http://extendfirefox.com

And that’s the news. We’ll be back after the break with our first guest Melissa Reeder.

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Melissa Reeder, Creative Common’s Development Coordinator.

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Mark Finkle & Dave Townsend talking about the Extensions.

Easy Stuff Resources
extension wizard – online, simple and it works
JS xpcom wizard – online, simple and it works
mozilla IRC – #extdev is full of friendly help
building a sidebar – its easier than you think
tweaking the statusbar – covers more stuff
McCoy – signing your extension to work in Firefox 3
updating & versioning extensions – general information

Hard Stuff Resources
JS XPCOM – easier than binary and useful for sharing data across browser windows
a href=”http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_build_a_binary_XPCOM_component_using_Visual_Studio”>building with the SDK – not as easy as you would hope
building with the tree – its a better way and worth learning

More Resources
developer.mozilla.org – docs for Mozilla developers
xul reference – XUL, by the book
xul tutorial – XUL, by example
building an extension – all the various parts
code snippets – great examples for common things
addons.mozilla.org – lots of addons you can take apart & study

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Christian Sayerson, Mozilla Mobile lead

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Hiring
Regular contributor Ryan Flint will primarily be focusing on the front end performance goals
Dão Gottwald has also joined the front end team, and will be assisting in front-end fit & finish work, as well as visual polish and “delight” aspects.
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QA and Testing,
The QA team extends an invitation to join them for a testday this Friday, October 12th
*They will be testing the Accessibility Features in Firefox Nightly Builds in preparation of Firefox 3.
*Community QA leaders will be on hand in #testday on IRC from from 7am – 5pm Pacific time
More info at quality.mozilla.org
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Mozilla Events
Community Member Guillermo Movia delivered a Mozilla presentation to an audience of approx. 1600 people at CaFeCONF in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Great work, Guillermo!
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Extend Firefox Contest
The Extend Firefox competition is officially open. Contest is focused on fostering innovation in Web experience through the development of add-ons for Firefox 2. 15 prizes including 3 grandprize developer kits that will include
* Travel and accomodation to a Mozilla Developer Day of the winner’s choice, anywhere in the world
* Development gear, including a brand new 15″ Macbook Pro with VMware Fusion and ActiveState Komodo
* 1 Year Unlimited Access subscription to O’Reilly’s Safari Library
* Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, mugs and more
to learn more about the Extend Firefox contest, visit http://labs.mozilla.com/contests/extendfirefox/
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Planet Mozilla blog additions.

Stephen Donner – Stephen is a member of the Test Execution team at Mozilla. He works on both web-development testing, as well as numerous features of Firefox 3.

David Rolnitzky – A member of the product marketing team at Mozilla. His blog focuses on Mozilla’s marketing programs.
Project SUMO – The Sumo blog is a place to look at the goings-on within the Sumo project, including news, discussions, opinions, events, and more.

Sumo is short for support.mozilla.com, Mozilla’s effort to provide high quality support for Firefox users.

David Ascher -is in the process of building a new subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation focused on email and internet communication, including Thunderbird.

John O’Duinn – John leads the build team at Mozilla.

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WINDOW SNYDER and MOZILLA SECURITY

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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

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