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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). Contacts: Ben Tian, Jocelyn Liu, Shawn Huang, Jamin Liu, Bruce Sun, Will Wang.
Bluetooth Data Channels	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS / IoT		Article on BT-as-transport-layer for mesh and disconnected msging. Dietrich contacted Ben Tian.
Gallery Scrollview Architecture	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Something iOS/Android do well, but SUPER hard to do well on Web. See Roc's post. Dietrich asked DJF, cc'd Andew Sliwinski. If DJF can't do it, maybe a MoFo article about how WebMaker solved it?
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	[DONE]	Firefox OS	bug 966439	Havi: Jweathersby has a draft - week of 2/2
JPM	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Android		New Jetpack + Node.js tool to replace CFX. Dietrich asked Erik Vold, who's shooting for 2/15.
Node Firefox OS	[DONE]	Firefox OS		Sole: published 2/5
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 asked Jim Porter and Dominic Kuo.
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. Wilson Page is interested, but is slammed right now. We should figure out when those APIs are getting enabled by default (behind a pref right now), and coordinate publishing with that.
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 Introduction	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android	bug 1039846	Nikhil Marathe agreed to write.
Service Worker Delta Encoding	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android		Ben Kelly, in progress.
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	[DONE]	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) This note left by Greg, Dietrich introduced to Havi to get this rolling.
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) Mid-Feb.
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 reached out to Rachel Nabors.
RTL in Web Apps	[ON TRACK]	Firefox, Firefox OS, Android		Dietrich reached out to Gaia team implementing RTL in 2.2, have some names, will narrow down.
Mulet	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, DevTools		Desktop dev environment for developing Gaia. Dietrich reached out to Ochameau.
Word Prediction for Bengali	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Article about implementing a learning algorithm for languages where a static word list can't be used. Could cover how the keyboard and prediction APIs work, how to implement prediction for a new language, and the challenges of doing so for Bengali. Dietrich will reach out to Rabimba and Tim Chien.
CSS Counter Style Level 3	[ON TRACK]	CSS	http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-counter-styles-3/	MDN contributor Saurabh Nair, scheduled 2/11
CSS Filters	[ON TRACK]	CSS	https://longsonr.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/new-svgcss-filter-support-in-firefox/	As of Fx35, no longer need SVG to do filters. Robert Longson blogged briefly about it (see link to left), but would be good to have a comprehensive post showing off filters without SVG. Should contact Robert, or see if someone who did the MDN content might want to write.
FxOS Web Server	[DONE]	Firefox OS	https://github.com/justindarc/fxos-web-server	Justin Darcangelo IRC: justindarc (Havi in touch, scheduled 2/9)
J2ME.js	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, Android?		Dietrich reached out to Myk Melez, and he's talking with team about topics.
Croma app	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS		Numix Project's Android app, ported to Firefox OS. It's beautiful. I asked them to write a post about how they ported and implemented. They responded on twitter affirmatively, waiting to hear back on email. They threatened to use disco and cheesiness in their post, which meets our technical requirements and editorial standards.
FxOS App Startup Performance	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, mobile web		Dietrich reached out to Eli Perlman, who's writing tools and best practices for this. He agreed and gave an ETA of sometime Q1.
Gaia apps with WebIDE	[ON TRACK]	Firefox OS, mobile web		in Nightly right now, Sole needs to test this and establish how it works. It would be great to publish it even with a huge "WARNING THIS IS A LANDMINE" sign, so the team gets feedback and the feature is more tested