July 10 review meeting; and iThoughts on the myPhone

We’ll have a meeting on July 10 to review all the recent requests for support from the community program. It is a jam-packed week for me, leaving for India on Wednesday. So, I thought I would blog now about what we will review and then follow-up next week after I land in India.

We’ll look at the following:

1) Hosting and other support for the extension localization project: Babelzilla

2) Hosting support for FoxieWire

3) Support for a QA team member who focuses on Mac platform bugs

4) Setting up a VM for Sunbird community to do their own builds

5) Support for a platform engineer for Firefox.

I’ll report back when I can. I’m especially excited because this time around, we’ll have two new participants in the meeting. I’ve been trying to expand the group and rotate in a few spots so other long-time contributors/module owners/employees/etc. can observe and participate in the process.

Also, Asa and I will be planning our Q3 goals for what we can do to empower more members of our community this week.

(non-sequitor) Finally, I am one of the masses that bit and got an iPhone last Friday when it came out. I was in L.A. for a wedding and ducked out of the rehearsal dinner to text a friend to get me one at the Apple store. One of my friends and fellow groomsmen was lead on marketing communications for the iPhone launch and was watching me pretty intently as I unpacked the device for the first time. Have to say…the Apple team did a terrific job on the experience. I am sure it took countless emails, Powerpoi…er…Keynote presentations, meetings, and TPS reports to get it all together. I was thoroughly impressed at the detail and sleekness of the packaging. Nice job on that, Apple.

The phone is certainly very cool. Being mired in the open-source world, I am disappointed that you can’t add any applications and the phone itself is so locked down. But, I can get past that because the phone is way better than any other mobile device I have ever used.

To the dismay of Apple, I am still using Thunderbird and Lightning as my main email and calendaring clients. Ever since Philipp figured out how to allow read/write to Google Calendar (and since Mac’s iCal can read Google Calendar), I use Lightning in Thunderbird. And, my iPhone syncs with iCal, which is reading my Google Calendars, which are getting all their content from my Lightning calendar extension in Thundebird…phew…did you follow all that?