Author Archives: Lawrence Mandel

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Firefox program manager

Hockey Night in Toronto 2015 Thank You Speech

This past Saturday (Jan. 31, 2015), I chaired and played in Hockey Night in Toronto as part of the Slice the ICE fundraising series for Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem. This charity hockey game, hosted at the historic Maple … Continue reading

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Stepping Down as Chair of the Engineering Meeting

As I previously shared, I have accepted a new role at Mozilla. As my responsibilities have changed, I am stepping down as the chair of the Engineering Meeting. Looking back over the last year or so of running this meeting, … Continue reading

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Lawrence Mandel Joins Mozilla Release Management

I’m excited to share that I am stepping into a new role with Mozilla as manager of the Release Management team. Below is an e-mail that my friend and manager Sheila Mooney sent to Mozilla employees last week announcing this … Continue reading

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Manager Hacking presents: A Year In the Financial Life of an Average Mozillian

Mozilla Manager Hacking is proud to announce an exciting discussion with our CFO, Jim Cook, on “A Year in the Financial Life of an Average Mozillian”. This interactive discussion is designed to map the daily, monthly, and yearly activities of … Continue reading

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Introducing webcompat.com

Web compatibility, that a site serve consistent and functional content to all Web clients, is an issue that affects the Web and with it the many companies that make products of and for the Web. The Web was founded and … Continue reading

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Mozilla Engineering Meeting Update

It has been roughly 6 months since the Engineering meeting reboot. As I previously wrote, I consider the Engineering Meeting a work in progress. As such, I have made a few additional changes to the meeting during this time that … Continue reading

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Telemetry – Reboot, Firefox OS, Probe Expiration

Telemetry has seen a resurgence of development of late due in large part to the reboot of the server side component. A group of us gathered in Portland last week to hack on Telemetry concepts (and code). I would like … Continue reading

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Mozilla Summit Toronto Hockey Game

Love Air hockey, Ball hockey, Barn Hockey, Bubble Hockey, Field hockey, Floor hockey, Ice hockey, Kitchen hockey, Road hockey, Roller hockey, Table hockey, Twist hockey? (Taken form The Hockey Song by Jughead.) Attending the Mozilla Summit in Toronto? Think that … Continue reading

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Know Thyself – Welcome to Mozilla TRIBE

TRIBE is a new Mozilla leadership program currently being built by Mozilla’s People team. The purpose of TRIBE is to transform the Mozilla culture by developing leadership skills across the project. (Modest, I know.) The focus of the initial session … Continue reading

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Mozilla Engineering/Platform Meeting Reboot

“congrats on drastically improving this meeting (IMHO) I am feeling greatly optimistic about mozilla all of a sudden” – Brad Lassey (ref) The Platform meeting has been in limbo for some time. Since taking the helm in February, I found … Continue reading

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