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Article Idea	Product Areas	Links	Notes
RequestSync API	Firefox OS	bug 1018320	Sounds like Sole and Baku already working on it? No MDN docs yet, shipping in FxOS 2.2 likely
Web Bluetooth API v2	Firefox OS / IoT	bug 1005848, wiki	Notable change is Bluetooth LE. Who to contact?
Bluetooth Data Channels	Firefox OS / IoT		Article on BT-as-transport-layer for mesh and disconnected msging. Who to contact?
Gallery Scrollview Architecture	Firefox OS		Ask DJF? Something iOS/Android do well, but SUPER hard to do well on Web.
Project Silk	Firefox OS (and more?)		need to ask Mason Chang.
Inter App Communication API	Firefox OS	bug 876397	Used for media-on-lockscreen in Gaia, so contact one of those peeps?
Broadcast Channel API	Firefox OS	bug 966439	who?
JPM	Firefox, Android		Ask Erik Vold
Node Firefox OS	Firefox OS		Sole shepherding it now?
System Message API	Firefox OS	MDN docs
FxOS Media Remote Controls	Firefox OS	src	who to ask? Jim Porter?
Presentation API	Firefox OS, IoT	bug 1080474	Device discovery and display! Gina Yeh and Shih-Chiang Chien, but they say it's not ready to write about yet.
Gaia Web Component Migration	Firefox OS		Gaia team members migrating from Building Blocks to web components. Wins, hurdles, lessons learned. Large project web component patterns.
Payments API	Firefox OS, Firefox (soon)		Kumar did an intro, but we need to push on it's story. How have people actually used it? Testimonial stories from devs who've implemented would be dope.
Fetch API	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android	bug 1039846	Yes please.
Power-positive Patterns	Firefox OS		Dietrich's student project for making it super easy for web developers to access the network in a power-and-network-consumption aware way.