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Article Idea	Status	Product Areas	Links	Notes
RequestSync API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS	bug 1018320	No MDN docs yet, shipping in FxOS 2.2 likely. Baku was fine with re-publishing his post on Hacks. Dietrich connected Baku (Andrea M) to Havi. Post on hold until the API is shipping.
Web Bluetooth API v2	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS / IoT	bug 1005848, wiki	Notable change is Bluetooth LE. Dietrich contacted Ben Tian about it, most of the APIs are privileged (yay!) but not shipping until FxOS v3 (boo).
Bluetooth Data Channels	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS / IoT		Article on BT-as-transport-layer for mesh and disconnected msging. Who to contact?
Gallery Scrollview Architecture	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Dietrich will ask DJF and Andew Sliwinski. Something iOS/Android do well, but SUPER hard to do well on Web. See Roc's post.
Project Silk	[DONE]	Firefox OS (and more?)		Mason Chang blogged, and reposting to Hacks!
Inter App Communication API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS	bug 876397	Used for media-on-lockscreen in Gaia, maybe certified only. Need to figure out priv'd uplift plan. Dietrich will ask Gaia team.
Broadcast Channel API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS	bug 966439	Havi: Jweathersby has a draft
JPM	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Android		New Jetpack + Node.js tool to replace CFX. Dietrich will ask Erik Vold.
Node Firefox OS	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Sole shepherding it now?
System Message API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS	MDN docs	Not sure what the right content or person is.
FxOS Media Remote Controls	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS	src	Dietrich will ask Jim Porter?
Presentation API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, IoT	bug 1080474	Device discovery and display! Dietrich asked Gina Yeh and Shih-Chiang Chien, but they say it's not ready to write about yet.
Gaia Web Component Migration	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Gaia team members migrating from Building Blocks to web components. Wins, hurdles, lessons learned. Large project web component patterns. Dietrich will ask Gaia team.
Payments API	[ON TRACK]	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. (Havi: Actually, there's a series of payments posts, but not a lot of testimony that we'd want to share widely yet. Next Marketplace news re: payments will be early Feb. Stay tuned)
Fetch API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android	bug 1039846	Yes please. Dietrich will poke Nikhil Marathe and Ben Kelly.
Power-positive Patterns	[ON TRACK]	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. Dietrich will write.
Functional JavaScript	[ON TRACK]	JavaScript; programming language		This is an article post on MozTPE's blog, which introduces the language feature in functional programming flavor, and shows how much nice tricks JavaScript could play with. I've modified and translated it in English, with lots of additional information & links. (Greg Weng)
Canvas updates	[DONE]	Canvas API		Florian Scholz from MDN (Havi will contact)
Firefox Hello	[ON TRACK]	WebRTC		Maire Reavy & team (Havi is in touch w/Maire)
Shumway	[ON TRACK]	Moz Research		Michael Bebenita, Chris Peterson & team (Havi is in touch-February)
Web Animations API	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android	polyfill	Dietrich will contact Rachel Nabors.
RTL in Web Apps	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android		Dietrich will reach out to Gaia team implementing RTL in 2.2
Mulet	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, DevTools		Desktop dev environment for developing Gaia. Dietrich will reach out to Ochameau.