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background-color:rgba(220,220,240,0.4); border-radius:3px;"> <b>Subject:</b>[Council
Meeting] Thunderbird Projects, Community Manager Update,
Financial Home<br>
<b>From:</b>Philipp Kewisch <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kewisch@thunderbird.net"><kewisch@thunderbird.net></a><br>
<b>To:</b>Tb-planning <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 04/05/2017 19:52:35 19:52 GMT ST +0100
[Week 18]<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;">Hello
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="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><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;">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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<p>this is amazing. I think this a great example for an unexpected
way that open source can do something good in the world.</p>
<p>My hats off to you Kent!<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;">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="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><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;">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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<p>Sounds difficult, with the added limitations on working offline.
Thanks again Kent for investing the time in this - you should
probably have an intern helping you!<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;">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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<p>Good news. My most important questions: are you still thinking of
this being a part time offer?</p>
<p>Axel<br>
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