2005-06-06 - Summary of mozilla.org staff meeting
Gervase Markham
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Present: mconnor, justdave, gerv, marcia, asa, myk, rafael, chase,
chofmann, jst, cbeard, jpatel, hecker, bienvenu, dria, bsmedberg.
*Thunderbird 1.0.3/4/5 (TBD)*
- drivers and security group to determine number
*Firefox 1.1a1 and Thunderbird 1.1a1 feedback*
- Out for about a week
- Started tracking regressions and talkback topcrashers
- The bulk of reported topcrashers are known issues
- We suspect we are better than alpha quality
- reporter.mozilla.org has stats and a topsites listing
*1.1a2 timeframe*
- Dependency upon software update landing
- Mike Morgan from OSL is going to work to help with server side
- 3-4 weeks out
*Google's Summer of Code*
- MozDev are handling this for us
*Awards*
- PC World Product of the Year for Firefox, Thunderbird also in Top 100
products
- CNet Editor's Choice Award for Firefox
- PC Magazine Editor's Choice for Firefox
- many others, compiling awards on a Mozilla Press Awards page.
*News Server*
- Got a Memorandum of Understanding for new news infrastructure with
provider
- Going forward as fast as possible
*Docs*
- mozilla.org is now under a CC BY-SA licence
*Community Awards*
- Phase 2: call for nominations for individuals against categories
- Call goes out before the end of this week
- MoFo employees not eligible? Needs thinking about
- Any contribution since (and including) the creation of the Foundation
- Asa will circulate draft to staff
*Conferences*
- GNOMEDEX
- asa, scc going.
- On an open source panel ("Future of Open Source")
- 23rd-25th of June.
- Anything exciting and new, tell Asa to give a demo
- OSCON in Portland in August (dmose going)
- Euro OSCON in Amsterdam in October
*Server Transition Plan*
- We are moving from one colo to another
- Need good data on what's going down when
- No really good time to do it
- Planned for sometime June 20-24th
- A week before 1.1a2
Gerv
Chris Ilias
> *News Server*
>
> - Got a Memorandum of Understanding for new news infrastructure with
> provider
> - Going forward as fast as possible
Does that mean you're not using the hardware owned by the Foundation?
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Rinaldi J. Montessi
> - mozilla.org is now under a CC BY-SA licence
This?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Rinaldi
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Michael Lefevre
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>> - mozilla.org is now under a CC BY-SA licence
>
> This?
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Actually the link is to version 2.0 of the licence. If you go to
http://www.mozilla.org you will see it at the bottom of each page.
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Michael
Gervase Markham
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
No - 2.0, at the moment.
Can you summarise the differences? Are they important?
Gerv
Gervase Markham
> Does that mean you're not using the hardware owned by the Foundation?
I believe so.
Gerv
Rinaldi J. Montessi
IANAL ;)
Appears to be a couple of minor modifications:
quoting from
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2005-May/002313.html
(1) To take account of the needs of people who create wikis and thus
allow attribution to the wiki rather than the author or to the wiki and
one or more authors as they prefer
(2) To take account of the open access journal requirements, namely,
that academics and others can secure attribution to themselves and
their university or sponsoring institute and/or the journal
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http://creativecommons.org/
Follow above link for complete post.
Rinaldi
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Gervase Markham
> (1) To take account of the needs of people who create wikis and thus
> allow attribution to the wiki rather than the author or to the wiki and
> one or more authors as they prefer
That sounds very useful! I will investigate this.
Gerv