State of the Thunder 8: Eating Frogs, Roadmap Progress, and Fundraising

Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder! In this recording, we're eating frogs (metaphorically) and checking in on our roadmap progress, sharing our tips and tricks for Thunderbird development tools, and talking about the hows and whys of our fundraising campaigns.

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00:00 Intro 02:39 Desktop Roadmap update for Q3 23:28 Dev tools tips and tricks 32:54 Donations, campaign frequency, and revenue health

Resources:

Thunderbird Desktop Roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap Conversation Add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/ Release channel blog: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-release-channel-update/ UI/UX mailing list: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux Account Hub video: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/video-the-new-account-hub/ Eat the Frog summary: https://productivitypatrol.com/eat-the-frog/ State of the Thunder: Volume 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfUO9C_6tw Performance profile how-to: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiling-thunderbird-performance 2024 Annual Report blog: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-report-2023-2024/ Ryan Sipes' GUADEC keynote: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/thunderbird-goes-to-guadec-2024/ TB planning mailing list: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning