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Community,</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Time
flies when you are discussing Thunderbird -- Lightning fast (ba
dum tss). We had another meeting last Friday discussing the the
hiring situation and the financial home announcement. Sorry for
the delay in posting this, tomorrow is our next meeting already.<br>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To
start off, Kent gave us some insights into a project he is
working on that relates to Thunderbird. He is working with a
group of inmates at Clallam Bay Corrections Center in an effort
to improve their chances of gaining employment after their
sentences have ended. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">They
will be working on Thunderbird and Lightning in an effort to
modernize the code, essentially helping us in our efforts to
secure Thunderbird’s future. The tasks will start fairly small
by converting existing code (e.g. use of ES6 classes,
async/await instead of Task.jsm), the level you’d expect as a
good first bug. Afterwards they will be working on more
complicated issues. </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Of
course the method of development is quite different than you’d
expect from the average contributor. The inmates cannot search
for documentation until they have found out how the tools work.
They don’t have internet access to find solutions on Stack
Overflow. They cannot interact with the Thunderbird community
through bugzilla or mailing lists to ask questions. When
committing patches, they cannot just push to hg.mozilla.org.
Kent will be gathering the required documentation, teaching the
inmates the tools of the trade, pre-reviewing the code and will
serve as an intermediate to get their work into the product.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It
is most important that there is public record of each inmate’s
contributions, this will be their reference when applying for
jobs. Therefore each contributor will commit their work using a
separate account that Kent will operate on their behalf. I think
this is a very exciting project and am eager to hear more about
their progress.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Next
we discussed the community manager position. We have made
progress in defining the role, but there is still some
disagreement as to which parts of the role will pay off. We do
agree that having someone on this role will help amplify our
community and ensure that willing volunteers have all the tools
they need to get started. The job requisition will be updated
after some final discussions via email, I will send you the link
as soon as possible. <br>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">As
a side note, our position for a build engineer is still open. We
have received almost 50 applications and will soon triage them
to see if there are viable candidates. If you are interested, or
know someone who could be a good fit, this does not mean you
shouldn't apply. Be confident, I am sure you are at least as
awesome as those that have applied.<br>
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<span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Finally,
we had some concluding discussions on our financial home
announcement. Our position has not changed, but we made some minor
changes to ensure that the post accurately conveys our decision
and reflects recent discussions with involved parties. These
changes needed a final sign-off before we can publish, we will
make the announcement shortly.<br>
<br>
Philipp -- on behalf of the Thunderbird Council</span>
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