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Catalin Varga
Hello everyone! Friday, March the 28th, we held a Firefox 29 Beta Testday. Thank you for helping us on running our tests on multiple platforms, doing some exploratory testing and updating some of the bugs. More details about the work … Continue reading
Matt Brandt
By several orders of magnitude this year’s Java Posse Roundup was more interesting and engaging than the previous year. In large part due to my increased comfort attending an OpenSpace event, primarily, as a participant it is up to me to infuse energy into the event even when I am not a subject expert, let alone a novice on a topic.
I’ve learned to respect the law of two feet, to be a participant in each discussion I attend or leave and find a session that does interest me.
I enjoy working with driven people who are drivers in technology who want to push the envelope on technical topics. Pushing the envelope often means making a lot of mistakes while moving forward and trusting the group your working with to support mistake making in order to make relentless forward progress. Each person while not an expert – remember the goal is to break new technical ground – adds a small piece of vital knowledge when working towards solving a difficult puzzle.
I’ve learned over the years that small gatherings of self-driven people are fair more interesting to work with than attending events where I’m spoken at. I find that if I’m going to travel to an event my time is often better invested in events like this one. Events where participants are being spoken at are great for leaning and being exposed to concepts/new tech/etc, however I can usually find the talks online and watch them at my leisure.
To get the most out the Posse Roundup you must participate. This is an event that enables the formation of relationships.
More to come in future posts.
pragmatic
The Mozilla Quality Assurance (QA) team is happy to announce the release of One and Done, a way for Mozilla community contributors to get introduced to various projects and then to become involved in an area of their interest. Contributors … Continue reading
rbillings
One of the ongoing tasks of the Web QA department is managing xfails. This document will explain what xfails are, and describe the steps one can take to investigate and update them. What is an XFail? XFail stands for expected failure and that’s … Continue reading → Continue reading
Petruta Rasa
Hello everyone! Friday, March the 7th, we held a Firefox 29 Aurora Testday. Thank you for helping us on running our tests on multiple platforms, doing some exploratory testing and updating some of the bugs. More details about the work … Continue reading
Al Billings
TrustyCon 2014 (maybe the only one ever) happened the other week as a competitor to the RSA convention because of perceived RSA collaboration with the NSA and all of the kerfuffle around the NSA and surveillance this last year. As they say on their site, “We welcome all security researchers, practitioners and citizens who are interested in discussing the technical, legal and ethical underpinnings of a stronger social contract between users and technology.”
The event sold out quickly so I was unable to attend. Helpfully, it was livestreamed, making it available to everyone and the resulting video was put up on youtube. Unfortunately, this video is one, ginormous, seven hour video. I don’t know about you but I like my viewing in smaller chunks. I also tend to listen to talks and presentations, especially when there is no strong visual component, by saving the audio portion of it to my huffduffer account and listening to the resulting feed as a podcast.
I took it on myself to do a quick and dirty slice and dice on the seven plus hour video. It isn’t perfect (I’m a program manager, not a video editor!) but it works. I’ve uploaded the resulting videos to my youtube channel in order to not destroy any servers I own. You can find the playlist of them all here but I’ve also included the videos embedded below.
Additionally, I extracted the audio from each of these files and put an audio collection up on the Internet Archive, for people like me who just want to listen to them.
TrustyCon 2014 – Opening Remarks
TrustyCon 2014 – The Talk I Was Going to Give at RSA
TrustyCon 2014 – The Laws and Ethics of Trustworthy Technology
TrustyCon 2014 – Joseph Menn Interviews Bruce Schneier
TrustyCon 2014 – Securing SecureDrop
TrustyCon 2014 – New Frontiers in Cryptography
TrustyCon 2014 – Trusted Computing Tech and Government Implants
TrustyCon 2014 – Community Immunity
TrustyCon 2014 – Redesigning NSA Programs to Protect Privacy
TrustyCon 2014 – Thank You and Goodbye
rbillings
The step that comes after Step 6 in Running WebQA Automated tests is Analyzing Results! The last article was all about how to get set up for automation, and getting the tests running. This post is all about what to … Continue reading
Cornel Ionce
Hello everyone! Thursday, February the 27th we held a Firefox 28 beta 6 Testday. Thank you for helping us on running our tests on multiple platforms, doing some exploratory testing, logging and updating some bugs. More details about the work done … Continue reading
tobbimoz
I, your favorite hypocrite, traitor or whatever people might call me, thought about writing this for a long time. Just to give a different perspective on things. I have been a contributor for a rather long time (5 years to be exact). I confess that I am not a regular contributor. These things are mostly […]
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