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<p>Slackware Linux has stood strong for more than a decade by refusing to compromise. There was a time when people used to say, &quot;If you want to learn Linux and learn it well, give Slackware a try.&quot; Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the <a href="http://bluewhite64.com">Bluewhite64</a> distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going.</p>
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<p>If <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> (CC) has any say in the matter, the Web will soon have a standard machine-readable notation for licenses. Named the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL), the notation has been under development for the last few years, partly with the cooperation of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3). It is described in a <a href="http://www.communia-project.eu/node/79">paper</a> by four Creative Commons employees and published by Communia, a European site that explores the relationship between technology and the public domain. Creative Commons plans future presentations of ccREL, and is also actively explaining the need for it -- which is what CC's Chief Technology Officer, Nathan Yergler, was doing when Linux.com caught up with him at the recent <a href="http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/">Open Web Conference</a> in Vancouver.</p>
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<p>Every major operating system has more than one media center solution for users who can't spend a day without watching a movie or listening to music. In Linux we're all familiar with <a href="http://mythtv.org/">MythTV</a> and <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/">Freevo</a>, two media center applications that are so appreciated they even have got their own distributions. Freevo is highly configurable, and Freevo 2 SNV builds look promising. MythTV has everything a personal video recorder needs, from scheduled recordings to weather plugins. The thing is, many people need a media center application just to watch Xvid files, listen to their favorite music, and watch family pictures on their television. If this is the case for you, give <a href="http://www.entertainer-project.com/">Entertainer</a> a try.</p>
content found: 
<p>It has been said that the best things in life are free. While this isn't always true, it applies in this case. If you've struggled with GNUplot, <a href="http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/">JPgraph</a> or other charting applications, FusionCharts Free is a breath of fresh air. Have you dreamed of finding a charting and graphing application that is simple to install, easy to configure, and drop-dead gorgeous? Stop dreaming and <a href="http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/Download.asp">download</a> a copy of FusionCharts Free. You'll be producing professional quality charts and graphs in no time.</p>
content found: 
<p>I always ask people who market (as opposed to develop) GNU/Linux and open source products or services what Linux distribution they use on their own computers. More often than not, the answer is along the lines of, &quot;I'm a marketing person so I use Windows. The techies use Linux.&quot; Inna, on the other hand, uses not one, not two, but three different Linux distributions on her home computers. When she tells an IBM client Linux is the way to go, she obviously means it, and this surely makes a difference -- even if it's only a subtle one -- in her work.</p>
content found: 
<p>From the presentation, you might imagine that Adobe's <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html">announcement</a> of the Open Screen Project was major news. According to the news release, the project's goal is &quot;to enable a consistent runtime environment&quot; by relaxing some restrictions on the Flash format and releasing some specifications. However, in the free Flash community, the small group of developers dedicated to producing non-proprietary Flash tools, the reaction to the news was polite at best -- and serves as a much-needed reality check to the over-enthusiastic announcement.</p>
content found: 
<p>Purchase a new PC or motherboard soon, and the chances are good that it will come with two built-in network interfaces -- either two Ethernet jacks or one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi. Tossing in a second adapter is an inexpensive way for the manufacturer to add another bullet point to the product description -- but what exactly are you supposed to <em>do</em> with it? If you are running Linux, you have several alternatives.</p>
content found: 
<p><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap/">OfflineIMAP</a> allows you to read your email while you are not connected to the Internet. This is great when you are traveling and really need an attachment from a message but cannot connect to the Internet.</p>
content found: 
<p>&quot;I'm a genuine old fart,&quot; says <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray">Tim Bray</a> as he looks back at his three decades in computing. Widely known for his standards work on XML and the Atom syndication format, at an age when many former developers have moved entirely into management, he seems to have found a niche that takes advantage of his experience. As director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems, his job is to keep current with Web and general programming and to encourage adaptation of new developments within the corporation. At the recent Open Web Vancouver conference, Bray talked to Linux.com about how he fills his role at Sun, and the trends he sees in computing.</p>
content found: 
<p>Reality, as good writers know, is sometimes stranger than fiction.
SCO's recent performance in the U.S. District Court in Utah is a
perfect example. With years to prepare, SCO executives made some
remarkable statements in their attempt to show that <A
HREF="http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux/sco-goes-down-in-flames-novell-owns-unix">SCO,
not Novell, owns Unix's copyright</A>. </p>
content found: 
<p>Everyone knows what a Linux shell is -- you open up a Linux terminal window (such as Konsole or xterm), type in some commands, and there you are, using your Linux shell. Write your commands to a file, make it executable, run it, and you're a shell programmer. But did you know that there are different shells that you can use, and that each shell operates in a slightly different way? My personal favorite is the Korn shell; by the end of this article, it may be your favorite as well.</p>
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<p>WordPress plugins for multimedia can make your blog more interesting. These four plugins make it possible to automatically generate and configure multimedia, making your site a richer experience for your visitors and for you. </p>
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<p>What strategy is needed to really spread desktop Linux to average home users? Here are some ideas that just might work.</p>
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<p>We first met<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danese_Cooper"> Danese Cooper</a> when she was working for Sun, where she was a major internal open source advocate and often Sun's major spokesperson to the rest of the world about open source. She's currently doing something similar at Intel, besides serving on the Open Source Initiative board and generally being a popular speaker at GNU/Linux and open source conferences. She's also quoted now and then about open source, often on licensing matters.</p>


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<p>For years, device and peripheral builders could get away with ignoring the Linux desktop market. It was too small to matter, they would say. Things have changed. At the Linux Foundation meeting in Austin, Texas, last month, major PC vendors ASUS, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo said they would be telling their chipset, component, and peripheral OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) that they were going to demand Linux-compatible hardware from them.</p>
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<p><a href="http://f-spot.org/Main_Page">F-Spot</a> is a graphical photo manager that allows you to tag your image files and search and view images based on those tags. With <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpfspot/">phpfspot</a>, you can share the photo collection you manage with F-Spot with others through a Web interface and let them navigate through your photos using the tags you have set up.</p>
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<p>If you need to administer a remote server but don't feel like installing a complete, complex application like <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/122878">Webmin</a>, try <a href="http://www.web-console.org/about/">Web Console</a>, a modern, over-the-Web, AJAX-based solution that's easy to configure and use.</p>
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<p>In addition to answering questions on the <a href="http://www.linux.com/forums/">Linux.com forums</a>, in the past week we have been having some useful discussions as well. Here's a peek at some of them, along with a few forum guidelines you can follow to help keep the forums clean and get you speedier responses.</p>
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<p>You can see YouTube videos everywhere nowadays: on blogs, Google search results, even some news sites. From time to time, you can even manage to find something interesting. This article will show you some Linux tools you can use to save and convert YouTube videos.</p>
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<p>Virtually any photo manager lets you perform mundane tasks like adjusting contrast, adding a watermark, and applying effects to your photos. But even powerful applications like digiKam and F-Spot can't really help you when you need to perform the same action (or a sequence of actions) on dozens or hundreds of photos. For that you need a batch processing utility like <a href="http://photobatch.stani.be/">Phatch</a>. This nifty tool can perform no fewer than 35 different actions on your photos, and its user-friendly graphical interface makes it easy to create advanced multistep batch rules.</p>
content: <p>Slackware Linux has stood strong for more than a decade by refusing to compromise. There was a time when people used to say, &quot;If you want to learn Linux and learn it well, give Slackware a try.&quot; Attila Craciun, a Romanian software developer and Linux enthusiast, has ported the Slackware tree to the AMD64 architecture to create the <a href="http://bluewhite64.com">Bluewhite64</a> distro. We spoke with him to find out about Bluewhite64, where it came from, and where it's going.</p>
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content: <p>If <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> (CC) has any say in the matter, the Web will soon have a standard machine-readable notation for licenses. Named the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL), the notation has been under development for the last few years, partly with the cooperation of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3). It is described in a <a href="http://www.communia-project.eu/node/79">paper</a> by four Creative Commons employees and published by Communia, a European site that explores the relationship between technology and the public domain. Creative Commons plans future presentations of ccREL, and is also actively explaining the need for it -- which is what CC's Chief Technology Officer, Nathan Yergler, was doing when Linux.com caught up with him at the recent <a href="http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/">Open Web Conference</a> in Vancouver.</p>
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content: <p>Every major operating system has more than one media center solution for users who can't spend a day without watching a movie or listening to music. In Linux we're all familiar with <a href="http://mythtv.org/">MythTV</a> and <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/">Freevo</a>, two media center applications that are so appreciated they even have got their own distributions. Freevo is highly configurable, and Freevo 2 SNV builds look promising. MythTV has everything a personal video recorder needs, from scheduled recordings to weather plugins. The thing is, many people need a media center application just to watch Xvid files, listen to their favorite music, and watch family pictures on their television. If this is the case for you, give <a href="http://www.entertainer-project.com/">Entertainer</a> a try.</p>
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content: <p>It has been said that the best things in life are free. While this isn't always true, it applies in this case. If you've struggled with GNUplot, <a href="http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/">JPgraph</a> or other charting applications, FusionCharts Free is a breath of fresh air. Have you dreamed of finding a charting and graphing application that is simple to install, easy to configure, and drop-dead gorgeous? Stop dreaming and <a href="http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/Download.asp">download</a> a copy of FusionCharts Free. You'll be producing professional quality charts and graphs in no time.</p>
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content: <p>I always ask people who market (as opposed to develop) GNU/Linux and open source products or services what Linux distribution they use on their own computers. More often than not, the answer is along the lines of, &quot;I'm a marketing person so I use Windows. The techies use Linux.&quot; Inna, on the other hand, uses not one, not two, but three different Linux distributions on her home computers. When she tells an IBM client Linux is the way to go, she obviously means it, and this surely makes a difference -- even if it's only a subtle one -- in her work.</p>
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content: <p>From the presentation, you might imagine that Adobe's <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200804/050108AdobeOSP.html">announcement</a> of the Open Screen Project was major news. According to the news release, the project's goal is &quot;to enable a consistent runtime environment&quot; by relaxing some restrictions on the Flash format and releasing some specifications. However, in the free Flash community, the small group of developers dedicated to producing non-proprietary Flash tools, the reaction to the news was polite at best -- and serves as a much-needed reality check to the over-enthusiastic announcement.</p>
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content: <p><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap/">OfflineIMAP</a> allows you to read your email while you are not connected to the Internet. This is great when you are traveling and really need an attachment from a message but cannot connect to the Internet.</p>
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content: <p>&quot;I'm a genuine old fart,&quot; says <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray">Tim Bray</a> as he looks back at his three decades in computing. Widely known for his standards work on XML and the Atom syndication format, at an age when many former developers have moved entirely into management, he seems to have found a niche that takes advantage of his experience. As director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems, his job is to keep current with Web and general programming and to encourage adaptation of new developments within the corporation. At the recent Open Web Vancouver conference, Bray talked to Linux.com about how he fills his role at Sun, and the trends he sees in computing.</p>
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content: <p>Reality, as good writers know, is sometimes stranger than fiction.
SCO's recent performance in the U.S. District Court in Utah is a
perfect example. With years to prepare, SCO executives made some
remarkable statements in their attempt to show that <A
HREF="http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux/sco-goes-down-in-flames-novell-owns-unix">SCO,
not Novell, owns Unix's copyright</A>. </p>
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content: <p><a href="http://f-spot.org/Main_Page">F-Spot</a> is a graphical photo manager that allows you to tag your image files and search and view images based on those tags. With <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpfspot/">phpfspot</a>, you can share the photo collection you manage with F-Spot with others through a Web interface and let them navigate through your photos using the tags you have set up.</p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="#sumo">Firefox Screencasts Contest!</a></li>
<li><a href="#thunderbird">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="#weave">New Weave weekly meetings</a></li>
<li><a href="#embedding">Mozilla Embedding meet-up, May 8th + 9th</a></li>
<li><a href="#pascal">Pascal Chevrel speaking at University of Sevilla, May 9th</a></li>
<li><a href="#addons">Add-ons compatibility update</a></li>
<li><a href="#labs">Mozilla Labs, Higher Education, and New Opportunities</a></li>
<li><a href="#microb">MozillaLinks interviews MicroB developer, Antonio Gomes</a></li>
<li><a href="#soc">Mozilla Summer of Code project information</a></li>
<li><a href="#awards">2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a name="sumo"></a><strong>Firefox Screencasts Contest!</strong></p>
<p>SUMO (<a href="http://support.mozilla.com">support.mozilla.com</a>) and <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/">Spread Firefox</a> are joining forces and putting on a Firefox Screencasts contest!  &#8220;Starting the morning of May 19th on Spread Firefox, we will present the 100 most popular support articles from the SUMO knowledge base and ask YOU to create screencasts for one, two, three, or all of them!&#8221;  You will be allowed to submit screencasts for as many articles as you like, but only one per article.  The contest will run until June 15th.</p>
<p>The most exciting part?  There will be a winner for each of the 100 articles, and each of the 100 winners will receive a special Firefox Screencast Contest t-shirt.  Only 100 of these t-shirts will be made, so this contest is the only way to get this exclusive collector&#8217;s item.  For more information, head over to the SUMO blog and <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2008/05/01/contest-firefox-screencasts-sharing-knowledge-through-video/">read the full contest announcement</a>.</p>
<p><a name="thunderbird"></a><strong>Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Released</strong></p>
<p>As part of Mozilla&#8217;s ongoing stability and security update process, <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/05/01/thunderbird-20014-security-and-stability-release-now-available/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available</a> for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com/">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.  Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release.  For a list of changes and more information, please review the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification, or you can apply the update manually by selecting &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities.  Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 as soon as possible.</p>
<p><a name="weave"></a><strong>New Weave weekly meetings</strong></p>
<p>Starting this week, the Weave project will be holding public meetings once per week.  The first meeting will be Wednesday May 7th at 1:00pm Pacific (4:00pm Eastern, 21:00 UTC).  Meeting agendas and dial-in information can be found on the Mozilla wiki&#8217;s <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/WeeklyMeetings">Weave Meetings page</a>.</p>
<p><a name="embedding"></a><strong>Mozilla Embedding meet-up, May 8th + 9th</strong></p>
<p>Chris Blizzard would like everyone to know that there is going to be another Mozilla Embedding meet-up in Mountain View on May 8th and 9th (this Thursday and Friday).  The goal is to start scoping a new Embedding API and getting some actual code put together.  This will be run as an open meeting, so if you&#8217;re in the area and you want to attend, please contact Chris.  For more information, see <a href="http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=361">Chris&#8217;s blog post about this meeting</a>, and his <a href="http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=359">earlier post about the previous meet-up</a>.</p>
<p><a name="pascal"></a><strong>Pascal Chevrel speaking at University of Sevilla, May 9th</strong></p>
<p>On Friday May 9th, Pascal Chevrel will be speaking about the organization of the Mozilla project at the <a href="http://concurso-softwarelibre.us.es/noticias">Concurso Universitario de Software Libre</a>, organized by the University of Sevilla in Spain.</p>
<p><a name="addons"></a><strong>Add-ons compatibility update</strong></p>
<p>Alex Polvi has started posting a weekly &#8220;State of the Add-ons&#8221; report wherein he talks about the status of the top 10 add-ons that are not yet compatible with Firefox 3.  This week&#8217;s list includes: Skype Toolbar for Firefox, Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, FoxyTunes, Firebug, and PicLens, among others.  For the full list, further details, and information about how to help, read <a href="http://alex.polvi.net/2008/04/30/state-of-the-add-ons-report-april-30th/">Polvi&#8217;s blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="labs"></a><strong>Mozilla Labs, Higher Education, and New Opportunities</strong></p>
<p>Aza Raskin has posted some of Mozilla Labs&#8217; goals for this year, which are centered around bringing the open-Web innovation process to a wider community.  They&#8217;re working on a number of new programs, one of which is a more formal way for engaging with higher education.  The Labs team is really excited to find new groups in academia to collaborate with, and this blog post outlines a few of their early efforts.  Read the <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/04/mozilla-labs-higher-education-and-new-opportunities/">full post at the Mozilla Labs weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="microb"></a><strong>MozillaLinks interviews MicroB developer, Antonio Gomes</strong></p>
<p>Antonio Gomes, a MicroB developer, has been interviewed by Percy Cabello of MozillaLinks.  Percy writes, &#8220;While Mozilla is gradually turning more attention to mobile platforms to expand its presence in the web, there&#8217;s another project, MicroB, that is already providing a Mozilla based solution for the Nokia Tablet PC platform.&#8221;  In the interview, Antonio talks about the MicroB project, the interactions between MicroB and the Mozilla project, MicroB&#8217;s relationship to Mobile Firefox, and more.  Read the full interview over at the excellent <a href="http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/04/antonio-gomes-on-microb-nokia-tablets-firefox/">MozillaLinks weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="soc"></a><strong>Mozilla Summer of Code project information</strong></p>
<p>The Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008 is in progress.  Over the past three years, SoC has brought together 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide.  Mozilla has a number of SoC projects underway, ranging from &#8220;Natural language parsing for automatic calendar event creation&#8221; to building OpenID support into Bugzilla.  With eleven projects in all, it&#8217;s going to be another exciting and productive summer for Mozilla projects.  For more information, including detailed descriptons of all the projects, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mozilla/about.html">Mozilla SoC information page</a>.</p>
<p><a name="awards"></a><strong>2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards</strong></p>
<p>Both Thunderbird and Firefox have won 2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards in the categories of &#8220;Favorite E-mail Client&#8221; and &#8220;Favorite Web Browser&#8221;, respectively.  Nearly 6000 readers voted this year, so these are really great awards.  The official announcement was made on May 1st, and the article announcing the winners can be found over at <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065">Linux Journal</a>.</p>
<p><a name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/WeeklyMeetings">Weave Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content found: <p>As part of Mozilla Corporation&#8217;s ongoing stability and security update process, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.</p>
<p>Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release.</p>
<p>If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu.</p>
<p>For a list of changes and more information, please review the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>Please note: If you&#8217;re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is <strong>no longer supported</strong> and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2 by downloading Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.</p>

content found: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#mitchell">Mitchell Baker&#8217;s Web 2.0 Keynote</a></li>
<li><a href="#firefox">Firefox progress in Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#changes">Changes to Featured and Recommended Add-ons on AMO</a></li>
<li><a href="#getting">Getting ready for the launch of Firefox 3</a></li>
<li><a href="#firefox3">Firefox 3 Bookmarks</a></li>
<li><a href="#flickr">Flickr Uploader, a developer&#8217;s story</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a name="mitchell"></a><strong>Mitchell Baker&#8217;s Web 2.0 Keynote</strong></p>
<p>On April 24th, Mitchell Baker gave a keynote talk at the <a href="http://www.web2expo.com/">Web 2.0 conference</a>.  Doug Turner has <a href="http://dougt.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/mitchells-web20-talk/">written up</a> some of the highlights, and provides an embedded video of the talk on his weblog.  From the talk: &#8220;[T]here is only one web.  Firefox is the best and most effective platform for getting to that one web.  We are building Firefox for mobile to spark innovation and excitement. We need an open web based development platform to do this.  We view Firefox as this platform.&#8221;  For more, <a href="http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/856176/">watch the full video</a>, head over to <a href="http://dougt.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/mitchells-web20-talk/">Doug&#8217;s weblog</a>, or check out some of the other media articles:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20681/">Firefox Goes Mobile</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207401960">Firefox Key to Open Mobile Web</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145081/mozilla_fennec_to_revolutionize_mobile_browsing.html">Mozilla: Fennec to Revolutionize Mobile Browsing</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/mozillas-fennec.html">Mozilla&#8217;s Fennec May Be Just What Mobile Browsing Needs</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a name="firefox"></a><strong>Firefox progress in Europe</strong></p>
<p>Tristan Nitot has blogged about some of the latest statistics available regarding Firefox market share in Europe.  &#8220;According to Xiti, Firefox is getting close to 29% in Europe.  The increase is 4.5 percentage points on the past 12 months.&#8221; Also, &#8220;According to Gemius (Rankings.hu), Firefox 2 is now the leading browser version in Hungary.&#8221;  For more market share news and links to these stories, <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/post/2008/04/25/Firefox-progress-in-Europe">see Tristan&#8217;s blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="changes"></a><strong>Changes to Featured and Recommended Add-ons on AMO</strong></p>
<p>Basil Hashem has <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/04/24/changes-to-the-featured-recommended-add-ons-on-amo/">written a post</a> about the recent changes to the &#8220;Featured and Recommended&#8221; add-ons part of the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org">addons.mozilla.org (AMO)</a> website.  &#8220;One of the changes that was introduced with the latest AMO redesign is the ability to highlight a wider variety of add-ons.  Instead of a single list, recommendations are now on a per-application, per-category and a per-locale basis.  This gives the community greater flexibility and increases the face time and exposure that an add-on can have.&#8221;  For more information and details about these recent changes, <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/04/24/changes-to-the-featured-recommended-add-ons-on-amo/">see Basil&#8217;s weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="getting"></a><strong>Getting ready for the launch of Firefox 3</strong></p>
<p>Paul Kim has blogged about the plans for marketing Firefox 3.  &#8220;As with every previous version launch, we will be utilizing a combination of traditional marketing and PR programs with community and grassroots outreach.  This combination has served us well over the past four years to drive adoption to over 160 million people worldwide, build the Firefox brand, and provide meaningful opportunities for participation at launch.&#8221;  For more about the Firefox 3 launch marketing plans, <a href="http://www.numenity.org/blog/2008/04/23/getting-ready-for-the-launch-of-firefox-3/">check out Paul&#8217;s post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="firefox3"></a><strong>Firefox 3 Bookmarks</strong></p>
<p>Last week Deb Richardson wrote a great introduction to Firefox 3&#8217;s new bookmarking features.  Like most people, she talks about being frustrated with the state of bookmarks in older browsers, where they end up as a junk-drawer of forgotten links.  &#8220;Firefox 3 introduces a few new features to bookmarks that make them much, much easier to use, more useful in general, and much more useful in particular for catastrophically disorganized folk like me.&#8221;  If that sounds like you, <a href="http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/04/22/629/">check out the whole article</a>.</p>
<p><a name="flickr"></a><strong>Flickr Uploadr, a developer&#8217;s story</strong></p>
<p>Richard Crowley, the developer of Flickr&#8217;s XUL-based cross-platform <a href="http://flickr.com/tools/">uploader utility</a>, has written a great article outlining the reasons they chose XUL and the hurdles he&#8217;s had to overcome throughout development.  Included is a list of links to detailed blog posts he wrote during (and about) the development of the project.  It&#8217;s a great article and well worth a look &#8212; check it out over at the <a href="http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/04/16/flickr-uploadr-start-to-finish-now/">Flickr developer blog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content found: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#fx2">Firefox 2.0.0.14 released</a></li>
<li><a href="#camino16">Camino 1.6 released</a></li>
<li><a href="#privacy">Proposed changes to Mozilla&#8217;s privacy policy</a></li>
<li><a href="#amo">AMO 3.2: The Road Ahead</a></li>
<li><a href="#survey">Community Survey results</a></li>
<li><a href="#security">Security metrics that matter</a></li>
<li><a href="#webware100">Firefox wins &#8220;Browser&#8221; category of the Webware 100</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a name="fx2"></a><strong>Firefox 2.0.0.14 released</strong></p>
<p>As part of Mozilla Corporation&#8217;s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from <a href="http://www.getfirefox.com">GetFirefox.com</a>.  It is strongly recommended that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release.  If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification.  This update can also be applied manually by selecting &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu.</p>
<p>If you are still running Firefox 1.5.0.x, you are highly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2, as <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/05/30/firefox-2004-and-firefox-15012-security-and-stability-update/">Mozilla ceased supporting Firefox 1.5.0.x in May 2007</a>.  Simply choose &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu to begin the upgrade process.  For more information about this release, see <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/16/firefox-20014-security-and-stability-update-now-available-for-download/">the DevNews blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="camino16"></a><strong>Camino 1.6 released</strong></p>
<p>The Camino Project is proud to announce Camino 1.6, a major update to the Camino web browser.  This release includes a number of new features and improvements, including a customizable toolbar search field, a find bar, software update, a scrolling tab bar, and enhanced AppleScript support.  For more information about this release, see the <a href="http://caminobrowser.org/releases/1.6/">release notes</a> and the official <a href="http://caminobrowser.org/blog/2008/#camino1.6">release announcement</a>.</p>
<p><a name="privacy"></a><strong>Proposed changes to Mozilla&#8217;s privacy policy</strong></p>
<p>In February, Basil Hashem <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/02/08/candidate-revisions-to-mozillas-web-site-privacy-policy/">blogged</a> about some proposed changes to Mozilla&#8217;s privacy policies.  After considering the feedback and commentary that arose then, the proposed policy has been revised, and Basil has blogged about it again.  &#8220;The new policy conforms to the commitments laid out in the earlier discussion.  Absent any major objections, we plan to update the policy as proposed and implement the web analytics tool immediately.  [The] most notable difference this time around is that Google Analytics is not in the picture.  Only Omniture is under consideration.&#8221;  For more information, and for a copy of the revised policy, see <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/04/15/proposed-changes-to-mozillas-privacy-policy/">Basil&#8217;s latest blog post on the topic</a>.</p>
<p><a name="amo"></a><strong>AMO 3.2: The Road Ahead</strong></p>
<p>Madhava Enros, User Experience lead for the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) redesign, has posted a detailed discussion about the reasoning behind and road ahead for the AMO 3.2 release.  &#8220;In the 3.2 redesign, our goal was to improve the experience for people new to the idea of add-ons as well as the large and growing set of people who want to stop in, quickly find something to improve their online experience, and be on their way again.  All of that said, &#8230; [a] successful AMO must support add-on developers and those advanced users who are at the forefront of add-on testing and reviewing.&#8221;  To read more, see <a href="http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005015.html">Madhava&#8217;s blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="survey"></a><strong>Community Survey results</strong></p>
<p>At the end of 2007, Stats Malolepszy and Seth Bindernagel closed Mozilla&#8217;s first community survey and began analyzing the responses and drawing some conclusions from the data collected.  They have finally reached a point where they are ready to publish some results.  Much of the raw data has been presented earlier, at FOSDEM in February, but they have taken the time to refine what they have learned.  These refined conclusions are being published as a series of blog posts, the first four of which are: <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/communitysurveys/2008/04/15/measuring-the-temperature-of-the-community/">Measuring the Temperature of the Community Part 1</a>, <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/communitysurveys/2008/04/16/taking-the-temp-the-second-post-in-a-series-about-survey-1/">Part 2</a>, <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/communitysurveys/2008/04/18/taking-the-temp-the-third-post-in-a-series-about-survey-1/">Part 3</a>, and <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/communitysurveys/2008/04/21/taking-the-temp-the-fourth-post-in-a-series-about-survey-1/">Part 4</a>.</p>
<p><a name="security"></a><strong>Security metrics that matter</strong></p>
<p>Asa Dotzler, as part of the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/ftr/">For the Record</a> project, has written a detailed blog post discussing security metrics, and what security metrics actually matter.  &#8220;A number of press articles&#8230;are offering the confusing and incorrect conclusion that the effective security and safety of web browsers can be measured by simply counting the number of vendor disclosed software flaws. This kind of measuring is flawed for several reasons, all related in that they make it more difficult for consumers to make informed decisions about their online safety.&#8221;  For more of this article, please see <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/ftr/2008/04/15/security-metrics-that-matter/">Asa&#8217;s post at For the Record</a>.</p>
<p><a name="webware100"></a><strong>Firefox wins &#8220;Browser&#8221; category of the Webware 100</strong></p>
<p>The 2008 <a href="http://www.webware.com/">Webware 100 Awards</a> recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications available today.  After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, the editors selected 300 finalists which were then voted on by Web users, who voted nearly two million times to select the 100 top products &#8212; 10 each in 10 categories &#8212; from the list of 300 finalists.  We are proud to announce that Firefox has been voted as the winner of the &#8220;Browser&#8221; category this year.  For more information about the award, check out the <a href="http://www.webware.com/8301-13546_109-9913314-29.html">Firefox Webware 100 web page</a>.</p>
<p><a name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content found: <p>As part of Mozilla Corporation?s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from <a href="http://getfirefox.com/">http://getfirefox.com</a>.</p>
<p>We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 2.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting ?Check for Updates?? from the Help menu.</p>
<p>For a list of changes and more information, please review the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/">Firefox 2.0.0.14 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>If you are still running Firefox 1.5.0.x, you are highly encouraged to upgrade to the Firefox 2 series as Mozilla <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/05/30/firefox-2004-and-firefox-15012-security-and-stability-update/"><strong>ceased supporting </strong>Firefox 1.5.0.x</a> in May 2007. Simply choose ?Check for Updates?? from the Help menu to begin the upgrade process.</p>

content found: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#fx3rc1">Firefox 3: Tree in lockdown for RC1</a></li>
<li><a href="#tinderbox">New Tinderbox trees for LeakTest and UnitTest</a></li>
<li><a href="#fennec">Ars Technica reviews Fennec</a></li>
<li><a href="#mitchell">Mitchell Baker video interview in Paris, part 1/2</a></li>
<li><a href="#privacy">Mozilla Websites, Web Analytics and Privacy</a></li>
<li><a href="#amo">Feedback on the recent AMO release</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a title="fx3rc1" name="fx3rc1"></a><strong>Firefox 3: Tree in lockdown for RC1</strong></p>
<p>On April 8th, the Firefox tree entered a lockdown period in preparation for delivering Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1.  The same process will be used for this release as for past betas &#8212; the blocker lists will be driven to zero, and only patches with explicit approval will be allowed to land in order to more tightly control potential for regressions.  For more information, please see the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/08/tree-is-entering-lockdown-for-firefox-3-release-candidate-1/">DevNews blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a title="tinderbox" name="tinderbox"></a><strong>New Tinderbox trees for LeakTest and UnitTest</strong></p>
<p>Chris Cooper and Dave Miller recently added two new trees to tinderbox.mozilla.org: UnitTest and LeakTest. As you might guess, these new trees will house the staging environments for the unittest machinery, JavaScript test machines, and the leaktest machinery. You should look there if you&#8217;re looking for something on MozillaTest that is missing.</p>
<p>While he was at it, Chris added two new machines to to the Firefox tinderbox tree to improve our unittest coverage on Windows. Named qm-win2k3-02 and qm-win2k3-03, these new machines should provide added information and help diagnose single-machine failures.  For more information, see <a href="http://coop.deadsquid.com/?p=1083">Chris&#8217; weblog post</a>.</p>
<p><a title="fennec" name="fennec"></a><strong>Ars Technica reviews Fennec</strong></p>
<p>Ars Technica has reviewed the first pre-alpha test builds of Fennec, Mozilla&#8217;s initial mobile Firefox prototype.  &#8220;With Firefox 3 right around the corner, Mozilla&#8217;s top lizard wranglers are turning their attention to the next step in their plans for world browser domination.  The Mozilla Mobile initiative, which was <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071011-mozillas-big-plans-for-mobile-firefox-may-be-too-little-too-late.html">first announced last October</a>, has reached the functional prototype stage.  The developers have released pre-alpha test builds of a mobile Firefox prototype, codenamed Fennec, which we tested and discussed with Mozilla Mobile director Jay Sullivan.&#8221;  <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html">Read the rest of article over at Ars Technica</a>.</p>
<p><a title="mitchell" name="mitchell"></a><strong>Mitchell Baker video interview in Paris, part 1/2</strong></p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago, Mitchell Baker was in Paris for a keynote she gave at the French Senate.  After the conference, she and the Mozilla Europe crew did a series of press interviews, and in the time between Tristan Nitot recorded two video interviews with Mitchell.  The first of these interviews has now been <a href="http://standblog.org/blog/post/2008/04/13/Mitchell-Baker-video-interview-in-Paris-part-1/2">posted to Tristan&#8217;s weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a title="privacy" name="privacy"></a><strong>Mozilla websites, web analytics and privacy</strong></p>
<p>Mitchell Baker has written an article about the application of web analytics tools to Mozilla websites.  &#8220;We live in a world of data; we should be thinking carefully about that data and its impact.  [A] core of the Mozilla community is intensely focused on privacy and the individual person&#8217;s ability to understand and control personal information.  With this in mind, I&#8217;ve put together a discussion of a particular data-gathering proposal, together with the safeguards that make me comfortable with it.&#8221;  You can <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/04/09/mozilla-websites-web-analytics-and-privacy/">read the rest of this article at Mitchell&#8217;s weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a title="amo" name="amo"></a><strong>Feedback on the recent AMO release</strong></p>
<p>Since the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/03/26/availability-of-new-addons.mozilla.org-amo-site/">release of addons.mozilla.org 3.2</a>, the <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org">AMO</a> team has been actively reviewing the feedback users have sent in through a number of channels.  In response to some of that feedback, Mike Morgan has <a href="http://morgamic.com/2008/04/11/deconstructing-mozilla-add-ons/">posted an explanation</a> of the rationale and trade-offs made with the new design and its attempts to balance the needs of various audiences AMO has to address &#8212; first-time users, seasoned experts, and add-on authors and publishers.  Basil Hashem has also <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/04/11/feedback-on-the-recent-amo-release/">written a post</a> about the feedback the team has received, summarizing the top concerns they&#8217;ve heard and outlining plans for the next iterations of the AMO site.</p>
<p><a title="devcal" name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content found: <p>As discussed at <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-04-08">today&#8217;s Firefox 3 / Gecko 1.9</a> meeting, as of 11:59pm PDT tonight, the tree entered a lockdown period in preparation for delivering Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be using the same process that has been used for the past betas. The blocker lists will be driven to zero, and only patches with explicit approval will be allowed to land in order to more tightly control potential for regressions. After taking the final blocker, we will likely enter a short <acronym title="This means go through several build cycles to ensure that patches are safe and not causing regressions">bake</acronym> period before handing over to build.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/TreeStatus">tree rules</a> have been updated to reflect that at this time the only patches that may land are:</p>
<ul>
<li> patches with <strong>approval1.9+</strong></li>
<li> patches that do not affect the Firefox build (tests, <acronym title="Not Part of The Build">NPOTB</acronym> changes)</li>
</ul>
<p>The approval queue will be monitored frequently, but if you feel like you&#8217;re not getting the response time you require, feel free to find one of the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Drivers#Endgame_Drivers">&#8220;endgame drivers&#8221;</a> on IRC or poke them over email.</p>
<p>We encourage interested parties to follow along with the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0rc1">progress of the Firefox 3 RC1 release</a>.</p>


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content found: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#fx3b5">Firefox 3 Beta 5 released</a></li>
<li><a href="#sumoday">Get involved with Firefox 3!</a></li>
<li><a href="#thunderbird">New Thunderbird Bugdays</a></li>
<li><a href="#mitchell">Mitchell Baker interview at The Guardian</a></li>
<li><a href="#dbaron">David Baron on the Acid3 test</a></li>
<li><a href="#labs">Mozilla Labs updates</a></li>
<li><a href="#breakpad">Crash reporting system changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#pictures">10th Anniversary party pictures</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a title="fx3b5" name="fx3b5"></a><strong>Firefox 3 Beta 5 released</strong><br />
Firefox 3 Beta 5 is now available <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html">for download</a>, and you should read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/">Release Notes</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/#issues">Known Issues</a> before installing.  This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.  Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3">Firefox 3 Planning Center</a>, as well as in <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning">mozilla.dev.planning</a> or on <a href="http://irc.mozilla.org/">irc.mozilla.org</a> in #granparadiso.  For more information about the release, see the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/02/firefox-3-beta-5-now-available-for-download/">DevNews blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a title="sumoday" name="sumoday"></a><strong>Get involved with Firefox 3!</strong><br />
Hearing all the great things about the upcoming Firefox 3 release and wishing you&#8217;d been a part of it?  It&#8217;s not too late!  Even when all the development and testing is done, there&#8217;s still a very important job left to do.  Providing user support can help make sure the release goes smoothly for users who are updating or trying Firefox out for the first time.</p>
<p>On April 11th the <a href="http://support.mozilla.com/">SUMO</a> (support.mozilla.com) team will be hosting a day all about getting to know SUMO and how to use the site to help other Firefox users enjoy their favorite browser.  If you&#8217;ve ever thought about helping out with Firefox user support but haven&#8217;t been sure where to start, this day is for you.  For more information and details see the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2008/04/03/firefox-3-is-great-and-so-can-you/">SUMO blog post</a> and the <a href="http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/SUMO+Day">SUMO Day information page</a>.</p>
<p><a title="thunderbird" name="thunderbird"></a><strong>New Thunderbird Bugdays</strong><br />
As part of its growing focus on users and quality, the <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/">Thunderbird team</a> has announced that <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugdays</a> will be held <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays#Schedule">every Thursday</a>.  The purpose of these bug days is: 1) to reduce the number of bugs in the bugzilla database to a more manageable level, 2) to respond to and assist bug reporters in a more timely manner, and 3) to improve the quality of bugs in the database so they can be acted on more easily by developers.</p>
<p>Bug day brings together both new and veteran Thunderbird users for a day of bug squishing.  #bugday on <a href="http://irc.mozilla.org">irc.mozilla.org</a> is where experienced bug hunters will mentor new participants, and is where everyone can help each other, gang up on bugs, and have fun.</p>
<p>The Thunderbird team needs your help to make bug days effective and fun, so please take a look at our <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays_Planning">planning document</a> and add your thoughts to the wiki or post to the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/">developer newsgroup</a>.</p>
<p><a title="mitchell" name="mitchell"></a><strong>Mitchell Baker interview at The Guardian</strong><br />
Earlier this year, Jack Schofield interviewed Mitchell Baker in London for <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/interviews.opensource">an article</a> in the Technology section of the Guardian.  He has now posted a <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/04/07/firefoxs_mitchell_baker_the_anniversary_interview_in_full.html">longer rough transcript</a> of that interview on the Guardian Technology blog.  In it he and Mitchell discuss Mozilla and Microsoft, things that are more important than chasing market share, why Mozilla isn&#8217;t using Firefox to push Thunderbird more, and why Mozilla is taking a serious look at mobile.  <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/04/07/firefoxs_mitchell_baker_the_anniversary_interview_in_full.html">Read the full article</a> at the Guardian blog.</p>
<p><a title="dbaron" name="dbaron"></a><strong>David Baron on the Acid3 test</strong><br />
The <a href="http://www.acidtests.org/">Acid Tests</a> are a series of &#8220;web standards compliance&#8221; tests put out by the <a href="http://www.webstandards.org/">Web Standards Project</a>.  The most recent of these is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3">Acid3</a>, which tests JavaScript, DOM, and SVG compliance (amongst other things).  David Baron, prominent Mozilla developer and member of the W3C CSS working group, has blogged his opinions about the Acid3 test, how he thinks the test should be used as a measure of the various browsers, and what Mozilla&#8217;s strategy is as to completing the tests.  You can <a href="http://dbaron.org/log/20080406-acid3">read more at David&#8217;s blog</a>.</p>
<p><a title="labs" name="labs"></a><strong>Mozilla Labs updates</strong><br />
Chris Beard, head of <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/">Mozilla Labs</a>, has posted a short update about what&#8217;s going on over in the laboratory.  Last week saw the launch of major updates for a number of Labs projects, including <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/performance-and-stability-update-to-weave-prototype/">Weave</a> and <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-personas-for-firefox/">Personas</a>.  They have also introduced the new <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/introducing-test-pilot/">Test Pilot project</a>, aimed at strengthening the user testing framework and community around Labs projects.  Additionally, Chris has been interviewed a few times recently, resulting in two articles that are worth checking out: <a href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9904867-2.html">Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser</a>, and <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-mozilla-wants-to-put-firefox-in-the-cloud-and-your-pocket.html">Mozilla wants to put a Firefox in the cloud and in your pocket</a>.  For more details, <a href="http://cbeard.typepad.com/mozilla/2008/04/what-the-frak-i.html">check out Chris&#8217; blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a title="breakpad" name="breakpad"></a><strong>Crash reporting system changes</strong><br />
The Mozilla WebDev team has recently pushed some important updates to the crash reporter system (codename: Socorro) aimed at improving both system usability and performance.  These changes include a widespread refactoring of the processor code (1/3rd of the Breakpad server architecture) and an update allowing for instant queuing of requested reports.  For more details, see the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2008/04/04/socorro-updates-2/">post at the WebDev blog</a>.</p>
<p><a title="pictures" name="pictures"></a><strong>10th Anniversary party pictures</strong><br />
On March 31st, the date of the original Netscape source code release, we marked the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the Mozilla Project.  While we&#8217;re celebrating &#8220;10 years of Mozilla&#8221; throughout all of 2008, there were a few parties on the 31st to help celebrate the occasion, and naturally there were more than a few digital cameras present.  Pictures from the events have been posted to Flickr, including under the &#8220;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mozilla+anniversary">Mozilla Anniversary</a>&#8221; keyword, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mozillaturns10&amp;w=all">mozillaturns10</a>&#8221; keyword, and directly to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9345516@N06/sets/72157604377271369/">David Rolnitzky&#8217;s account</a>.  It would appear that a good time was had by all.</p>
<p><a title="devcal" name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong><br />
<strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content found: <p><strong>Please note: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/">release notes</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/#whatsnew">known issues</a> before installing this beta. </strong></p>
<p>Firefox 3 Beta 5 is <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html">now available for download</a>. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3">Firefox 3 Planning Center</a>, as well as in <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning">mozilla.dev.planning</a> and on <a href="http://irc.mozilla.org">irc.mozilla.org</a> in #granparadiso.</p>
<p>New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.</li>
<li>Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.</li>
<li>Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability.</li>
<li>Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular  				SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.</li>
</ul>
<p>(You can find out more about all of these features in the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/#whatsnew">&#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221;</a> section of the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/">release notes</a>.)</p>
<p>Testers can <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html">download Firefox 3 Beta 5 builds</a> for <a href="https://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0b5&amp;os=win&amp;lang=en-US">Windows</a>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0b5&amp;os=osx&amp;lang=en-US">Mac OS X</a> and <a href="https://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0b5&amp;os=linux&amp;lang=en-US">Linux</a> in <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html">45 different languages</a>. Developers should also read the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers">Firefox 3 for Developers</a> article on the <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org">Mozilla Developer Center</a>.</p>
<p><em>Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we strongly encourage you to link to this Firefox 3 Beta 5 milestone announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at this stage of development.</em></p>

content found: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#mozilla">Mozilla turns 10</a></li>
<li><a href="#foxkeh">Foxkeh joins Disney</a></li>
<li><a href="#paul">Paul Kim interviewed by TreeHugger</a></li>
<li><a href="#moto">Mozilla Toronto offices move</a></li>
<li><a href="#amo">addons.mozilla.org (AMO) redesigned and relaunched</a></li>
<li><a href="#fx3b5">New feature in Firefox 3 Beta 5</a></li>
<li><a href="#fxgold">Firefox Gold Edition announced</a></li>
<li><a href="#module">Module ownership proposal</a></li>
<li><a href="#paperwork">Paperwork mix-up: 500 million grains of rice</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a title="mozilla" name="mozilla"></a><strong>Mozilla turns 10</strong></p>
<p>March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It&#8217;s the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source license and a governing body for the project &#8212; the Mozilla Organization &#8212; began its public work.  Ten years ago a radical idea took shape. The idea was that an open source community could create choice and innovation in key Internet technologies where large, commercial vendors could not. This idea took shape as the Mozilla project.</p>
<p>During the years since 3/31 we have taken that radical idea and proved its power. We have broadened the idea beyond anything imagined at our founding. And in the next ten years we&#8217;ll continue to be radical about building fundamental qualities such as openness, participation, opportunity, choice and innovation into the basic infrastructure of the Internet itself.  See <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/03/31/mozilla-turns-10-today/">Mitchell&#8217;s blog post</a> to read more about this anniversary, the things we&#8217;ve accomplished in the past ten years, and the incredible opportunities that lie ahead.</p>
<p><a title="foxkeh" name="foxkeh"></a><strong>Foxkeh joins Disney</strong></p>
<p>In conjunction with the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7280955.stm">recent news</a> of the American animation giant developing movies with Japanaese animation studios, <a href="http://www.mozilla-japan.org/">Mozilla Japan</a> announces the sale of <a href="http://www.foxkeh.com/">Foxkeh</a>, the popular mascot character for Firefox in Japan, to the Walt Disney Company&#8217;s new Japanese animation joint venture for an unannounced price.  Mozilla Japan marketing manager, Kaori Negoro, stated, &#8220;We are delighted that Foxkeh will have a global stage for this next stage of growth.&#8221;  Foxkeh is the mascot character for Firefox in Japan and was <a href="http://www.foxkeh.com/blog/82/index.html">named in a contest</a> of over 7000 community members in Japan.</p>
<p><a title="paul" name="paul"></a><strong>Paul Kim interviewed by TreeHugger</strong></p>
<p>Last week, <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/">TreeHugger</a> (a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information) interviewed Paul Kim, Mozilla&#8217;s VP of Marketing.  &#8220;[T]he Mozilla corporation, creator of the superb Firefox web browser, has declared their software to be 100% organic. No, it&#8217;s not to be eaten; but in this interview with Paul Kim&#8230;he explains why the term is relevant.&#8221;  <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/mozilla_firefox.php">Check out the full interview</a> at TreeHugger.</p>
<p><a title="moto" name="moto"></a><strong>Mozilla Toronto offices move</strong></p>
<p>After significant planning and heavy lifting, the Mozilla Toronto offices <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/contact.html">have moved</a> to 301 Front Street, which is the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CN+Tower+Toronto+ON">CN Tower</a>, in the heart of downtown Toronto and one of the tallest buildings in the world.  Visitors to the new office will take a 70-second elevator ride up to the 128th floor, where the Mozilla offices have quite a view.  For our more athletic visitors, there is also a <a href="http://www.uwgt.org/climbforunitedway/main.htm">stairwell</a>!  Several of the local Mozillians have blogged about the move, including <a href="http://blog.johnath.com/?p=115">Johnathan</a> and <a href="http://beltzner.ca/mike/2008/04/movin_on_up.html">Mike</a>.</p>
<p><a title="amo" name="amo"></a><strong>addons.mozilla.org (AMO) redesigned and relaunched</strong></p>
<p>For the past several months, the AMO team has been hard at work on a major site redesign, and they&#8217;re pleased <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/basil/2008/03/26/availability-of-new-addons.mozilla.org-amo-site/">to announce</a> the availability of the new AMO site.  This is a significant release for the site, and is chock-full of goodies for end users and add-on developers alike.  The focus has been predominantly to provide a visual refresh, but that isn&#8217;t all that&#8217;s been done.  A full rundown of the numerous changes is available at Basil&#8217;s weblog.  Other folks have blogged about the new site, including <a href="http://www.intothefuzz.com/2008/03/28/a-new-look-for-amo/">John Slater</a>, <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2008/03/26/bringing-sexy-back-to-amo/">Mike Morgan</a>, and <a href="http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005014.html">Madhava Enros</a>.</p>
<p><a title="fx3b5" name="fx3b5"></a><strong>New feature in Firefox 3 Beta 5</strong></p>
<p>Firefox 3 Beta 5 includes support for users wishing to know more about the <a href="http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=122">robotic web technologies</a> included in Gecko 1.9.  These advanced technologies, which are <a href="http://www.robot-magic.co.uk/">indistinguishable from magic</a>, have been hidden from the primary user interface as an anti-tamper measure.  Should tampering be detected, the page will take steps to protect its own existence.  We are <a href="http://pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm">working on ways</a> of securing this page, but in the meantime, users should <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/humor/8edf/">exercise caution</a>.</p>
<p><a title="fxgold" name="fxgold"></a><strong>Firefox Gold Edition announced</strong></p>
<p>Firefox Gold 1.0 is the next-generation software tool that will enable users of all experience levels to easily create, edit, and navigate live online documents. In addition to the rich set of World Wide Web capabilities and the electronic mail, threaded discussion group, and file transfer features, Firefox Gold will also integrate powerful WYSIWYG document creation capabilities into the core Firefox environment, making composing for the Web, email, or newsgroups a simple cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop process.</p>
<p>The document creation capabilities in Firefox Gold are designed to provide both experienced and beginning content creators with a simple yet powerful solution for editing and publishing online documents.  Firefox Gold will also support inline plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Director, Progressive Networks RealAudio, and many others, allowing rich multimedia content to be incorporated into Internet sites.</p>
<p><a title="module" name="module"></a><strong>Module ownership proposal</strong></p>
<p>In a two-part blog post, Mitchell outlines her new proposal to create a group to take responsibility for the Mozilla project&#8217;s module ownership system.  The group wouldn&#8217;t do a large amount of work on a daily basis, but would be responsible for module ownership oversight, including reviewing and updating the module owners list, and dealing with other related issues when they come up.  To date, these tasks have been handled by a various individuals (David Baron, Brendan, Stuart), but have been under-owned of late.  Mitchell&#8217;s blog goes over the proposal and reasoning in detail, which you can read in her <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/03/26/module-ownership-part-1/">Module Ownership - Part 1</a>, and <a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/03/27/module-ownership-part-2/">Module Ownership - Part 2</a> posts.</p>
<p><a title="paperwork" name="paperwork"></a><strong>Paperwork mix-up: 500 million grains of rice</strong></p>
<p>The Mozilla project was a victim of its own success last week when 500 million grains of rice donated by the community through <a href="http://www.freerice.com">freerice.com</a> arrived at Mozilla HQ in Mountain View.  Arrangements have been made with the United Nations World Food Program to collect the rice for its intended recipients, but in the meantime, it is creating some complications.  Paul Kim, Mozilla&#8217;s VP of Marketing &amp; Foodstuffs, comments, &#8220;There&#8217;s rice everywhere.  We can&#8217;t get the door open, so we&#8217;re using ground floor windows to get in and out.  No one&#8217;s seen Stuart since Thursday, but our memory numbers keep getting better, so we think he&#8217;s fine.&#8221;</p>
<p><a title="devcal" name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content: <p><strong>In this issue&#8230;</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#sumo">Firefox Screencasts Contest!</a></li>
<li><a href="#thunderbird">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Released</a></li>
<li><a href="#weave">New Weave weekly meetings</a></li>
<li><a href="#embedding">Mozilla Embedding meet-up, May 8th + 9th</a></li>
<li><a href="#pascal">Pascal Chevrel speaking at University of Sevilla, May 9th</a></li>
<li><a href="#addons">Add-ons compatibility update</a></li>
<li><a href="#labs">Mozilla Labs, Higher Education, and New Opportunities</a></li>
<li><a href="#microb">MozillaLinks interviews MicroB developer, Antonio Gomes</a></li>
<li><a href="#soc">Mozilla Summer of Code project information</a></li>
<li><a href="#awards">2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards</a></li>
<li><a href="#devcal">Developer calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="#subscribe">Subscribe to the email newsletter</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a name="sumo"></a><strong>Firefox Screencasts Contest!</strong></p>
<p>SUMO (<a href="http://support.mozilla.com">support.mozilla.com</a>) and <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/">Spread Firefox</a> are joining forces and putting on a Firefox Screencasts contest!  &#8220;Starting the morning of May 19th on Spread Firefox, we will present the 100 most popular support articles from the SUMO knowledge base and ask YOU to create screencasts for one, two, three, or all of them!&#8221;  You will be allowed to submit screencasts for as many articles as you like, but only one per article.  The contest will run until June 15th.</p>
<p>The most exciting part?  There will be a winner for each of the 100 articles, and each of the 100 winners will receive a special Firefox Screencast Contest t-shirt.  Only 100 of these t-shirts will be made, so this contest is the only way to get this exclusive collector&#8217;s item.  For more information, head over to the SUMO blog and <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2008/05/01/contest-firefox-screencasts-sharing-knowledge-through-video/">read the full contest announcement</a>.</p>
<p><a name="thunderbird"></a><strong>Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Released</strong></p>
<p>As part of Mozilla&#8217;s ongoing stability and security update process, <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/05/01/thunderbird-20014-security-and-stability-release-now-available/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available</a> for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com/">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.  Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release.  For a list of changes and more information, please review the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification, or you can apply the update manually by selecting &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is no longer supported and contains known security vulnerabilities.  Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 as soon as possible.</p>
<p><a name="weave"></a><strong>New Weave weekly meetings</strong></p>
<p>Starting this week, the Weave project will be holding public meetings once per week.  The first meeting will be Wednesday May 7th at 1:00pm Pacific (4:00pm Eastern, 21:00 UTC).  Meeting agendas and dial-in information can be found on the Mozilla wiki&#8217;s <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/WeeklyMeetings">Weave Meetings page</a>.</p>
<p><a name="embedding"></a><strong>Mozilla Embedding meet-up, May 8th + 9th</strong></p>
<p>Chris Blizzard would like everyone to know that there is going to be another Mozilla Embedding meet-up in Mountain View on May 8th and 9th (this Thursday and Friday).  The goal is to start scoping a new Embedding API and getting some actual code put together.  This will be run as an open meeting, so if you&#8217;re in the area and you want to attend, please contact Chris.  For more information, see <a href="http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=361">Chris&#8217;s blog post about this meeting</a>, and his <a href="http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=359">earlier post about the previous meet-up</a>.</p>
<p><a name="pascal"></a><strong>Pascal Chevrel speaking at University of Sevilla, May 9th</strong></p>
<p>On Friday May 9th, Pascal Chevrel will be speaking about the organization of the Mozilla project at the <a href="http://concurso-softwarelibre.us.es/noticias">Concurso Universitario de Software Libre</a>, organized by the University of Sevilla in Spain.</p>
<p><a name="addons"></a><strong>Add-ons compatibility update</strong></p>
<p>Alex Polvi has started posting a weekly &#8220;State of the Add-ons&#8221; report wherein he talks about the status of the top 10 add-ons that are not yet compatible with Firefox 3.  This week&#8217;s list includes: Skype Toolbar for Firefox, Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer, FoxyTunes, Firebug, and PicLens, among others.  For the full list, further details, and information about how to help, read <a href="http://alex.polvi.net/2008/04/30/state-of-the-add-ons-report-april-30th/">Polvi&#8217;s blog post</a>.</p>
<p><a name="labs"></a><strong>Mozilla Labs, Higher Education, and New Opportunities</strong></p>
<p>Aza Raskin has posted some of Mozilla Labs&#8217; goals for this year, which are centered around bringing the open-Web innovation process to a wider community.  They&#8217;re working on a number of new programs, one of which is a more formal way for engaging with higher education.  The Labs team is really excited to find new groups in academia to collaborate with, and this blog post outlines a few of their early efforts.  Read the <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/04/mozilla-labs-higher-education-and-new-opportunities/">full post at the Mozilla Labs weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="microb"></a><strong>MozillaLinks interviews MicroB developer, Antonio Gomes</strong></p>
<p>Antonio Gomes, a MicroB developer, has been interviewed by Percy Cabello of MozillaLinks.  Percy writes, &#8220;While Mozilla is gradually turning more attention to mobile platforms to expand its presence in the web, there&#8217;s another project, MicroB, that is already providing a Mozilla based solution for the Nokia Tablet PC platform.&#8221;  In the interview, Antonio talks about the MicroB project, the interactions between MicroB and the Mozilla project, MicroB&#8217;s relationship to Mobile Firefox, and more.  Read the full interview over at the excellent <a href="http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/04/antonio-gomes-on-microb-nokia-tablets-firefox/">MozillaLinks weblog</a>.</p>
<p><a name="soc"></a><strong>Mozilla Summer of Code project information</strong></p>
<p>The Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008 is in progress.  Over the past three years, SoC has brought together 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide.  Mozilla has a number of SoC projects underway, ranging from &#8220;Natural language parsing for automatic calendar event creation&#8221; to building OpenID support into Bugzilla.  With eleven projects in all, it&#8217;s going to be another exciting and productive summer for Mozilla projects.  For more information, including detailed descriptons of all the projects, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mozilla/about.html">Mozilla SoC information page</a>.</p>
<p><a name="awards"></a><strong>2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards</strong></p>
<p>Both Thunderbird and Firefox have won 2008 Linux Journal Reader&#8217;s Choice Awards in the categories of &#8220;Favorite E-mail Client&#8221; and &#8220;Favorite Web Browser&#8221;, respectively.  Nearly 6000 readers voted this year, so these are really great awards.  The official announcement was made on May 1st, and the article announcing the winners can be found over at <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065">Linux Journal</a>.</p>
<p><a name="devcal"></a><strong>Developer calendar</strong></p>
<p><strong>Monday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile#Weekly_Meetings">Mobile Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/Weekly_Meetings">SUMO Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates">General Status Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings">Thunderbird Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/StatusMeetings">Firefox/Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/bug-days">Bug Day!</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Wednesday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Mac">Mac Gecko Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Infra_Status_Meetings">Performance Infrastructure Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Status_Meetings">Performance/Leaks Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/StatusMeetings">Mozilla 2 Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad/Status_Meetings">Crash Reporter + Analysis Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/WeeklyMeetings">Weave Meeting</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Thursday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Bugdays">Thunderbird Bugday</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Friday</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://quality.mozilla.org/events/test-days">Test Day!</a></li>
</ul>
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content: <p>As part of Mozilla Corporation&#8217;s ongoing stability and security update process, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.</p>
<p>Due to the security fixes, we strongly recommend that all Thunderbird users upgrade to this latest release.</p>
<p>If you already have Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting &#8220;Check for Updates&#8230;&#8221; from the Help menu.</p>
<p>For a list of changes and more information, please review the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/2.0.0.14/releasenotes/">Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>Please note: If you&#8217;re still using Thunderbird 1.5.0.x, this version is <strong>no longer supported</strong> and contains known security vulnerabilities. Please upgrade to Thunderbird 2 by downloading Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 from <a href="http://www.getthunderbird.com">www.getthunderbird.com</a>.</p>
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	/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so [0xb54d0ce5]
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	blam(mono_runtime_delegate_invoke+0x34) [0x8095ea4]
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	/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7ed64fb]
	/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7e33e5e]

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0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  7 Thread 0xb756bb90 (LWP 22162)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  6 Thread 0xb7547b90 (LWP 22163)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  5 Thread 0xb511eb90 (LWP 22164)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  4 Thread 0xb3c0cb90 (LWP 22170)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  3 Thread 0xb30d2b90 (LWP 22175)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  2 Thread 0xb27fab90 (LWP 22182)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
  1 Thread 0xb7d1b940 (LWP 22160)  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

Thread 7 (Thread 0xb756bb90 (LWP 22162)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7ede196 in nanosleep () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x08105c91 in ?? ()
#3  0xb756b344 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 6 (Thread 0xb7547b90 (LWP 22163)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7edaaa5 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x081088ff in ?? ()
#3  0xb7a451dc in ?? ()
#4  0xb7a451c4 in ?? ()
#5  0xb2d01f54 in ?? ()
#6  0x00407018 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#8  0xb7acdf1e in ?? ()
#9  0xb7a451dc in ?? ()
#10 0x08204ce8 in ?? ()
#11 0x08207a80 in ?? ()
#12 0xb7547170 in ?? ()
#13 0xb75471b8 in ?? ()
#14 0x08204ce8 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 5 (Thread 0xb511eb90 (LWP 22164)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7e29c07 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb5f494fb in PR_Poll () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
#3  0xb55278a1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#4  0x083cfdb0 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#6  0xffffffff in ?? ()
#7  0x083d0030 in ?? ()
#8  0x083d0194 in ?? ()
#9  0x083cfdb0 in ?? ()
#10 0xc5952f37 in ?? ()
#11 0xb5efcea0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#12 0xffffffff in ?? ()
#13 0x083cfb48 in ?? ()
#14 0xb511e1a8 in ?? ()
#15 0xb5527d96 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#16 0x083cf8d0 in ?? ()
#17 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#18 0xb511e198 in ?? ()
#19 0x083cfb48 in ?? ()
#20 0xb5f56554 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
#21 0x083d00e8 in ?? ()
#22 0xb5d051d2 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#23 0xb5d0520b in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#24 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 4 (Thread 0xb3c0cb90 (LWP 22170)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7edadd2 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xb5f46965 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
#3  0x08333f6c in ?? ()
#4  0x0833ede8 in ?? ()
#5  0xb3c0c21c in ?? ()
#6  0xb7edb8c5 in pthread_getspecific ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#7  0xb5f47791 in PR_WaitCondVar () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
#8  0xb5c7181e in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9b5/libxul.so
#9  0x08333f68 in ?? ()
#10 0x000493e0 in ?? ()
#11 0xc599d814 in ?? ()
#12 0xc599d814 in ?? ()
#13 0x083af5d8 in ?? ()
#14 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 3 (Thread 0xb30d2b90 (LWP 22175)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7e2c881 in select () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7f5ae14 in g_spawn_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0xb7f5b1dc in g_spawn_command_line_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x0816b295 in ?? ()
#5  0xb30d1978 in ?? ()
#6  0xb30d1974 in ?? ()
#7  0xb30d1970 in ?? ()
#8  0xb30d196c in ?? ()
#9  0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 2 (Thread 0xb27fab90 (LWP 22182)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7e34676 in epoll_wait () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0x080d0762 in ?? ()
#3  0x0000001e in ?? ()
#4  0x08badd60 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000200 in ?? ()
#6  0xffffffff in ?? ()
#7  0x0005b420 in ?? ()
#8  0xb7ed9a0c in __pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#9  0x080cef04 in ?? ()
#10 0x082060e0 in ?? ()
#11 0xb27fa2a8 in ?? ()
#12 0x080d06e0 in ?? ()
#13 0x0812962e in ?? ()
#14 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb7d1b940 (LWP 22160)):
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7e29c07 in poll () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7f27e7f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x08b870f0 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000009 in ?? ()
#5  0x000005f2 in ?? ()
#6  0x08b870f0 in ?? ()
#7  0x00000009 in ?? ()
#8  0xb7f9d5f8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#9  0xb7f9d620 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0xbff8e958 in ?? ()
#11 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#13 0x082fc6c0 in ?? ()
#14 0x08b870f0 in ?? ()
#15 0xb7e29b90 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#16 0xb7ed9df0 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#17 0xb7ed8520 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#18 0xb7f4c502 in g_thread_self () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 0xb7f281e7 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#20 0xb6c80264 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#21 0xb487ee9e in ?? ()
#22 0xbff8ea38 in ?? ()
#23 0xb487ee68 in ?? ()
#24 0x082176a0 in ?? ()
#25 0xb487ee60 in ?? ()
#26 0xb487ee48 in ?? ()
#27 0x0005be70 in ?? ()
#28 0x0005be70 in ?? ()
#29 0x0821b184 in ?? ()
#30 0x0003baa0 in ?? ()
#31 0xbff8ea30 in ?? ()
#32 0xb487ee7c in ?? ()
#33 0xbff8ea38 in ?? ()
#34 0xb487ee68 in ?? ()
#35 0xbff8ea40 in ?? ()
#36 0xb487ee50 in ?? ()
#37 0xbff8ea54 in ?? ()
#38 0xb7acd591 in ?? ()
#39 0x0005be70 in ?? ()
#40 0x00030f00 in ?? ()
#41 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#0  0xb7fbf410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()


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Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries 
used by your application.
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