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mrz
We will have a scheduled maintenance window tonight from 6:00pm to 12:00am PST. The following changes will take place:
7:00pm PST (0300 UTC) Geo-location support for bouncer/download.mozilla.org. We’ll be turning on geo-location support
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to download.mozilla.org tonight. This should improve the download experience by directing users to mirrors that are geographically close to their origin IP. See bug 459919 for more details. No downtime expected.
7:00pm PST (0300 UTC) PHP 5.2 upgrades. We’ll be rolling out PHP 5.2 upgrades on the production web servers (bug 533486). We don’t expect any user-facing downtime. Duration 3 hours.
Please let me know if you have any reason why we should not proceed with this planned maintenance. As always, we aim to keep downtime to as little as possible, but unexpected complications can arise causing longer downtime periods than expected. All systems should be operational by the end of the maintenance window.
Feel free to comment directly if you see issues past the planned downtime. [Less]
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sarah
Tristan took a wonderful picture of this when he was out at the Mountain View Office for All-Hands last week, and I couldn’t help but re-blog this photo. This is without a doubt one of my favorite places in the office to work (aside from my
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desk).
I love the light that pours in and being able to grab a cup of coffee, laptop, mouse, headphones and a notepad and be able to push through some work while looking occasionally out the window at the trees and bustling Mountain View. [Less]
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elvis314
while spending a lot of time with my n900, i have found it not very useful as a sip phone because the lack of dtmf tones for a sip account. on my n810 i could call into conferences just fine, but the n900 will not allow me to enter the conference
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number.
i did some googling and found:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505
looks like i need to update my os to make this happen.
*blogged from my n900 and fennec*
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Delphine Lebédel
The Women & Mozilla Video Website is live and you can help it grow!
We've recently added a video website to our WoMoz project tools. This Website has been created mainly in order to:
give everyone access to online video
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tutorials about Free Software and Mozilla
publish interviews of women contributors and portray their outstanding work inside FLOSS communities
display video content about the women in computer science / FLOSS subject
publish existing conferences done by women in FLOSS and IT
You can all help by uploading video content onto this new site!
If you feel like a video makes sense in regard to the list above, please feel free to submit it directly from the site's main Home page. (no account necessary to upload videos, just click the "Submit A Video" button and a site administrator will approve them)
The video website is new and we're still working on improving it (we'll also be integrating the videos into the main WoMoz site soon). So please don't hesitate if you have any suggestions concerning it's further development, we're all ears.
And last but not least, a *huge* thanks to Janet Dragojevic and to the Miro Community for this video website! [Less]
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msurman
Another Drumbeat bootstrap idea that’s getting traction is open web skills courses delivered via the Peer 2 Peer University. It’s a simple concept: people combine self organized, collaborative learning with open curriculum materials to improve
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their skills in areas like HTML, CSS and Javascript. Over time, a peer to peer certification system could emerge as well, with participants rating each others skill level.
At the moment, there are a number of us writing this up, looking for learning materials and trying to find people to help mentor and run courses. Here’s the intro from the write up in the Drumbeat wiki:
Open Web Career Track: a collection of P2PU courses for people who want to learn open web skills
The challenge: Most tech career development courses focus on certification around a single technology (e.g. MCSE or Cisco Academy). The result: students go into their careers knowing one or two tools rather than knowing how to learn and adapt tools on the fly. Also, there is a sense that permission and certification are the keys to tech career success — but the reality is that creative, entrepreneurial problem solving is much more important.
The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is planning to offer an alternative to this kind of career development. P2PU helps small groups of motivated learners to compile packages of open learning materials and design and facilitate their own courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and an open credits pilot is in the works in order to hack the formal closed accreditation system. Open web technology is the perfect pilot discipline.
The plan: Open Web Career Track is a series of P2PU courses where students collaboratively learn — and rate each other on — open web skills. The courses focus both on specific, standards-based technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) and learn-as-you-go problem solving and hacking (the real skill you need to succeed). Individual courses are organized by learners using the P2PU model. The overall program is organized as a Drumbeat project involving both employers (TopCoder?) and online career web sites (LinkedIn?).
In addition to facilitating social learning processes, P2PU is coordinating a group of individuals and organisations interested in building an open credits infrastructure (think of it as an open knowledge currency that makes sense in the knowledge economy). It will make it easy for Open Web Career professionals to showcase their skills and expertise to potential employers on personal profile pages. The open credits incubator will be held in mid-2010 and we plan to use open web career for our pilot.
The Open Web Career Track program is particularly focused on regions with high growth technology sectors and a strong bent towards certification. Likely places include: India, East Asia and Brasil. We want peer learning and accreditation to emerge as serious open web career path alternatives in these regions.
The reaction to this idea was good when I focus grouped it at #nsc1 in Singapore. Lots of questions, for sure. But people saw value in providing a grassroots (and hopefully very scaleable) alternative to mainstream tech courses and certification. This is one of our main goals. A few of the people I talked to also suggested getting small companies who need more tech talent involved as mentors and co-organizers. Recruiting people directly out of these courses could be a win for everyone.
We’re hoping to try a couple of these courses early next year, with at least some of them based in Asia. If you want to help organize a course — or if you know of good open web curriculum — please get in touch. You can comment below or jump onto the Drumbeat community mailing list.
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silfreed
Mozdev's Drupal instance has been upgraded to version 5.21 to address security concerns. Let us know if you have problems with any of the hosted projects.
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msurman
As I blogged the other day, I’ve been asking people for ideas on the ‘movie about the web, by the web‘ concept. One of my thought experiments was to simply ask people: what does the web mean to you? I edited the answers together as quick video
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poem just to see what it felt like.
<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="guid=tbv4XVw7&width=380&height=212" height="212" id="video-0" src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.11" title="What does the web mean to you?" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="380"></embed>
In some ways, the result is a bit schmultzy. But there is a nice affirmation also: people are totally ready to talk eloquently about very big ideas about the web. This is a good thing as the goal is to make a massively collaborative movie that helps people understand the web and why the fact that it’s open matters so much. It think the citizens of the web are more than ready to pitch in to do this.
If anyone’s interested, I’d love to see other clips responding to the ‘what does the web mean to you?’ question. Just you talking. Or you and your friends. You can just paste links below as comments. It’ll keep the thought experiment going.
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BlueGriffon
BlueGriffon has a new sidebar to handle all scripts declared inside the <head> element (scripts inside the <body> element will be visible inline and clickable to edit). The editor for embedded scripts is of course Bespin.
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zbraniecki
Those of you who follow the localization tales of Mozilla project know the mythical “L20n” concept introduced by Axel Hecht over two years ago.
Since then, we spent zillion hours thinking about this concept and maturing it. Every time I
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was working on any project – be it Verbatim, Firefox, Getpersonas, AMO, Pontoon or Jetpack L10n – I was telling myself how much better it could be, had we have L20n in place. Easier for localizers, easier for developers, easier to maintain. Did I tell you it’s faster as well?
Then, last summer, Jeremy Hiatt joined us for his summer internship and spent 3 months working with Axel and me on pushing some of the implementation concepts forward.
With the end of summer, we got again busy with upcoming Firefox 3.6 release and put L20n again in coma…
Until now.
Without getting into much detail, I can tell you that right now we’re preparing for the next, and hopefully, ultimate push toward L20n 1.0. Over the next few months you will have more than enough of blog posts and papers and demos and examples. We will be asking for feedback, presenting the syntax, experimenting with toolchain, building extensions, and slowly preparing to introduce L20n into Gecko platform and our websites.
We believe that L20n is the most crucial piece of Mozilla localization story, aligning perfectly into our core values. Mozilla is in the best position to push the localization experience to the new level, finally enabling software to speak in the natural language of the reader. Gettext is awesome, but aging technology, properties/DTD that we use in Gecko today, are limited, tens of proprietary formats (used by projects like Qt, Webkit, Apple, Nokia) just replicate the same concept. L20n shifts the paradigms of what localization is to the new level. It’s going to be big, and we hope to get a lot of people involved.
Next week I’ll start with the first demos.
p.s. those who like to read the code, may find first bits of fresh code in my hg repo. Yummy! Isn’t it? [Less]
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gerv
Version 0.4 of the Bugzilla REST API has been released. New in this version:
New /count call - get fast bug counts, either singly or in 1D, 2D or 3D tables. Great for stats.
Compatibility Notes:
The "count=1" parameter to
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bug searches to get a count is now deprecated, and will be removed in a future release. Use the above API call instead.
The Configuration object's "groups" hash will soon change to be keyed by ID rather than name (and so the "id" field has disappeared, to be replaced by a "name" field). Tracking bug.
File bugs | Give feedback. [Less]
