So here’s a short little reflection of the recent Summit 2010 at Whistler. I had the chance to meet up with many people, made lots of new friends, and chatted with a couple of acquaintances, especially since I met some at the last Summit. Shoutouts go to wsmwk, davida, dmose, _Tsk_, rebron, Standard8, sid0, jcranmer, gozer, bwinton, rtanglao, (the rest of the Thunderbird team!), Jesse, dvander, gal, dmandelin, jorendorff, brendan, Lucas, pvnick, (the rest of the Security / JS folks!), humph, Gregorio, Julie, (the rest of the Education folks!), Zhang Jinghua, Wen Shaohua, Mozilla China, Amie, mitchell, shaver, lilly, and everyone else I forgot to mention..

It’s the conversations at such conferences that make all the differences, the private chats by the wayside of all the interesting talks (QA and Fuzz talks were of familiar topics, while Rust seemed really brilliant because I couldn’t really comprehend the entire gist of it). I fully encourage any fellow student (undergraduate or otherwise) to attend these conferences if possible – you don’t fully realize what you’ve brought out of it until it’s over.

Bear stories seem so commonplace that they no longer seem unique. All was quiet on the rockslide front – they had this new highway into Whistler when the Winter Olympics was held in Whistler, and Fairmont was equally good compared to Westin (sans the power outage!) But of course, we had the party at Roundhouse, and that was epic.

And oh, I played Rock Band for the first time after Summit 2008.

On the way back, the flight to Hong Kong landed after the last connecting flight to Singapore left, so I stayed over at the Marriott Sky City for a night. Internet was expensive (so I didn’t go online), but I could watch Spain win the World Cup 2010 over the Netherlands!

I suspect they might be due to the following changes, but I don’t know for sure and might not have much time with the impending school semester ahead of me.

Patches are welcome at Google Code though.

Please be reminded that ViewAbout development has moved to Google Code.

And now presenting:

Chris (AnttyC) – Thunderbird, visualization (Blog):

Chris’ ogg theora (141MB) or unprocessed mov (1.2G) versions are available for download.

Simon (Simon or Nomis) – Thunderbird, Mozmill (Blog):

Simon’s ogg theora (54MB) or unprocessed mov (464MB) versions are available for download.

Daniel (Libras2909) – Thunderbird, application code (Blog):

Daniel’s ogg theora (75MB) or unprocessed mov (629MB) versions are available for download.

Thanks guys for another wonderful semester of CS3108 (Mozilla)!

(Recorded on a MBP’s webcam, onto iMovie, and immediately saved as .mov, then later converted to ogg theora)

Additionally, if you have been using Thunderbird for a period of time (either a matter of months or years) and would like to be able to help others out, I suggest you sign up for an account there to help out. This way, everybody can see one another’s responses and who knows, one response may be the answer someone is looking for! (Thanks Wayne – wsmwk – for suggesting this)

Everyone who wants to contribute is recommended to file issues and post patches, there is also a latest 2.0pre version available from the tip, which adds support for a lot more about: pages, and also supports opening about: pages in tabs in Thunderbird.

And now presenting:

Daniel (Libras2909) – Thunderbird, application code (Blog):

Daniel’s ogg theora (101MB) or unprocessed mov (890MB) versions are available for download.

Simon (Simon or Nomis) – Thunderbird, Mozmill (Blog):

Simon’s ogg theora (97MB) or unprocessed mov (858MB) versions are available for download.

Chris (AnttyC) – Thunderbird, visualization (Blog):

Chris’ ogg theora (91MB) or unprocessed mov (805MB) versions are available for download.

Please do contact them directly if you are interested to know more about what they have been doing or will be doing in the future. Also, be sure to catch their updates at Mozilla Education Planet!

(Recorded on a MBP’s webcam, onto iMovie, and immediately saved as .mov, then later converted to ogg theora)

1. Install, shutdown, uninstall
2. Folder Views
3. Migration
4. Updating Thunderbird
5. Import
6. Window configuration
7. Toolbars and menus
8. Account settings & Preferences (Options)
9. IMAP accounts
10. POP accounts (exclude Global Inbox)
11. Gmail Accounts
12. .Mac accounts
13. Global inbox
14. Mail composition
15. Spell checker
16. RSS account & subscriptions
17. Newsgroups
18. Message Aging
19. Navigating and displaying messages
20. Downloading and saving
21. Image blocking
22. Return receipts
23. Proxies
24. Offline, disk space
25. Moving, copying, deleting messages
26. Views and labeling messages
27. Message filters
28. Message search
29. Address search
30. Virtual folders
31. Message Grouping
32. Quicksearch
33. Address books
34. Junk mail
35. Extensions
36. Theme management
37. Help
38. Printing
39. Master Passwords & password management
40. Phishing, spoof detection
41. Secure connections
42. Digital signing, encrypting messages
43. Software Update
44. Find as you type (FAYT)/Quickfind
45. Windows Search and Spotlight integration

Head over to Ludovic’s (_Tsk_ on IRC) blog for more information.