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Mozilla Labs Meetup – Thursday, August 27th

After a brief hiatus, we are back again for another edition of Labs Night, our monthly meetup to discuss Labs projects, your projects and the Open Web. Our August session will be this Thursday9 pm at the (still) new Mozilla HQ – 0 Castro Street, Suite 0 in downtown Mountain View. The event is open to everyone, so if you are in the area feel free to stop by. Our featured speaker this week is Li Gong, Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online, the Beijing based subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation. Li will be talking about a wide variety of topics related to firefox, the mozilla community and the open web in China. We will also hear what a lot of the Mozilla Labs projects have been working on, in 5 minute lightning talk style presentations. We’ll have a few slots open for other lightning talks as well. [lien] [EN]

Monthly Labs Meetup - August 2008 - San Francisco

It’s time for another Monthly Meetup. This month’s meetup will be Thursday, August 28th, 6pm at the Twitter office - 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, San Francisco. There will be progress updates on the various active Labs projects as well as plenty of opportunity for discussion and hacking. And of course, pizza :) If you are in [...] [lien] [EN]

Welcome to the new Labs website!

A while back, the Labs team decided that it was time to update the look and feel of our web presence. We took advantage of that work to also do a full upgrade to the back-end of the site. Today we’re proud and excited to launch the end result of that project. The team involved with design, development, and testing work has been stellar, and includes - Sean Martell, Neil Lee, Ryan Doherty, Stephen Donner, Krupa Raj, and Raymond Etornam. This site is wholly their creation and they’ve all been a fantastic (and fun) to work with. The site itself is constructed on a straightforward WordPress Multi-User installation, with two custom themes designed by Sean and developed by Neil and Ryan. All content and customization for each project site can be edited via the WordPress UI, making updating and maintaining the site significantly easier. [lien] [EN]

Become a Test Pilot!

Today, we are announcing that our Test Pilot platform is opening with the release of the first Test Pilot add-on for Firefox . We are looking for Firefox users of all levels of skill and all levels of technical knowledge to help improve Firefox and Labs experiments. If you are interested in helping Mozilla make your Web experience better, join the Test Pilot team now! How test pilots help - Test Pilot is an opt-in program that everyone on the Web can join to improve the Web experience by conducting or participating in usability related tests. When you install the Test Pilot add-on, you will automatically become a Test pilot, and you will receive the notice for upcoming tests. You will have the option to quit tests or leave the platform. If the test requires you to install a new feature or product. [lien] [EN]

Weave 0.5 Released

Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together. It is part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services more closely with the browser. Major Features - What is Weave Sync all about? In short, Weave Sync lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you to all your Firefox browsers — including our mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs. For example: Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers, so you can get to your favorite sites with just a few keystrokes, Continue what you were doing: have the ability to open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers. [lien] [EN]

Weave usernames and case-sensitivity

We’ve noticed that a majority of users who complain about not being able to change their password or even login are unable to do so because Weave treats usernames in a case-sensitive manner. If you don’t happen to remember the exact capitilization of your username at the time of registration, there is very little you can do short of creating a new account. We recognize that this is an important issue and are looking to address it. Case-insensitive usernames should result in fewer confused users and an all-round better experience for anyone dealing with Weave accounts. As Weave is continously growing, doing this is no longer a trivial task. We service thousands of users everyday, so our main goals for making the switch are to minimize distruptions, not cause any data loss and have the change be completely transparent to end. [lien] [EN]

Open Design Lunch – Thursday 7/16 in Mtn. View

Mozilla Labs will be hosting an open design lunch this Thursday at the Mozilla offices in Mountain View. In line with previous editions of the event, we will be soliciting topics from attendees at the beginning and then discuss each problem (or idea!) in turn. The Weave team has been working on refreshing the user experience for users on the desktop as well as on mobile devices. We’ll be presenting a few mockups of the team’s work so far and hope for feedback from the community. If you have a design problem that you’re facing, have a design idea that you’d like to discuss, or simply like to offer feedback to other folks looking for design help – we’d love to have you! Our office is located at 0 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 1 and we will start promptly at noon on Thursday. [lien] [EN]

Bespin 0.4.2, a Short Roadmap, and a Test Swarm

A couple of items to report this week from the Developer Tool’s group here in the labs - First, we released Bespin 2 code-named “H. E. Pennypacker” over at http/bespin.mozilla.com. H. E. Pennypacker is a bug-fix release focused on patching issues in our still-fairly-new collaboration engine. More details on the release are available on my blog. Short-term Bespin Roadmap: We’re busily working away on firming up longer-term plans for Bespin, but for those of you curious about our shorter-term plans, we recently published a roadmap through the end of September. Please take a look and let us know what you think. Test Swarm!: [Test Swarm] On Wednesday, John Resig on our team pushed out an alpha release of his most recent labor of love, Test Swarm. The project allows developers all over the world to contribute their browser to a swarm that continuously tests code. [lien] [EN]

Seeking Jetpack Instructors: Join Our Community Evangalism Team

Jetpack’s goal is to be extension development for everybody. As part of that goal, we are putting out an open call for people to join the community of coders, instructors, and bloggers helping others learn how to write jetpacks to make the browser a better place to work, play, and communicate. In particular, we’d love to see - Introductory talks/slides-decks about what Jetpack is, and how to use it, Jetpack tutorials and walkthroughs. We are planning on organizing events around the world to get people engaged, excited, and using Jetpack to get real-world feedback on Jetpack’s platform and it’s needs—shaping the future of Jetpack and browser development. For example, on October 2nd, we’ll be running a -hour Hackathon in Prague. The Hackathon starts with a set of hands-on lessons on learning to use Jetpack. [lien] [EN]

Introducing Test Pilot

Test Pilot is an idea for a new user testing program for Mozilla Labs that aims to build a 1% representative sample of the Firefox user base for soliciting wide participation and structured feedback for Labs experiments. Presently, whenever Mozilla publishes a new experiment we rely upon the blogosphere and word-of-mouth to attract the attention of [...] [lien] [EN]

What’s up with Weave?

As we work towards the 6 release (and eventually 0), I wanted to share more details on what we are working on. I am going to do this by grouping the work we are doing into four distinct categories. * Performance improvements We are concentrating very hard on initial sync performance. Initial sync is important for both new users as well as when you set up Weave Sync on new devices. We are working on a few different ideas to help improve initial sync performance. - WEP 2 is an attempt to allow “Weave to decide what subset of data to pull from the server and how to continue fetching the rest of the data later.” - WEP 5 aims to create an importance metric so we can come up with a meaningful subset of data. While these two are more near term, we are also exploring some ideas that are a little farther out. [lien] [EN]

Personas Gallery Welcomes Its 20,000th Design

Approximately ten weeks ago, the Personas gallery welcomed its 0th design. Today, we’re happy to announce that that the gallery has since doubled in size. The Personas experiment launched on March 1st to give you easy-to-style, easy-to-share “skins” for your Firefox browser. The results have been inspiring. Since the launch, Personas has been downloaded by nearly 7 million people, who have now have access to designs from over 0 artists. With the support of the Personas community, we continue to make it easier for artists to create new designs and have them be discovered. We developed step-by-step templates for creating designs, raised awareness of the preview functionality, and offered links to free, online tools that anyone can use to create great looking art for the browser. We also implemented a “movers and shakers” category on our homepage. [lien] [EN]

Browser Memory (Tools) Directory

We released the first prototype of the Open Web Tools Directory just over a week ago. The goal is to allow the community to track the landscape of tools. The landscape is large, and you have already stepped up to help flush it out. Within a couple of days we received about 0 additions to the tools database, and it continues to grow. In the current design, you can slice and dice the data based on the high level workflow elements of code, design, debug, test, and deploy as well as searching the data. Each item has tags associated with it which enable pivots in many directions. We have released a new version of the tools directory and in this post we discuss the new version, as well as thoughts for an Open Web Dev Center. We are using the tools directory as a way to observe what is out there, and thus what is needed. [lien] [EN]

Jetpack 0.4 – Audio Recording & Page Mods APIs

Jetpack is an experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play. Aligned with Mozilla’s goal of enabling open video and audio on the Web, we are pleased to announce the release of Jetpack , which includes experimental support for recording audio directly to Ogg-Vorbis. These new audio encoding APIs will allow developers to build Jetpacks that record high-quality audio directly from within the browser, which can then be played back using Firefox 5’s new audio tag support. This update to the rapidly evolving Jetpack APIs also enables the ability for developers to add features or functionality to any website being viewed in the browser using the “page mod” API. [lien] [EN]