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* Revised hypothesis:
Description of busy family segment and revised hypotheses:
* Data from nearly 30 interviews of family and friends in the busy family segment is being synthesized and evaluated.
Families in the US with 2 or more kids in elementary schools (PS-5), all living together in the same household; both the parents are working full time from 9am to 5pm and are between 30 & 40 yrs old, well educated, and in a medium to high income bracket.
We believe that:
* These families are leading an extremely busy & demanding lifestyle, constantly juggling many different aspects of their daily life spanning home, work, kids, shopping, hobbies etc.
* These families seem to always be short on time.
* They are overwhelmed with their day to day routines that they feel they haven’t had enough time to spend on things close to their heart.
* These families crave to have some time back on their hands; a simple way for them to get stuff done, but not have to spend an eternal amount of time on it.
 
Their needs are…
 
1. The busy families want an easy way to help them with personalized reminders & memos for various people in their household.
* The mothers of the household are currently reminding their spouses/caretakers/kids multiple times throughout the day via voice prompts or text messages.
2. The busy families want a way their children can interact with a device that can help with homework
* The kids are currently requesting help from parents to assist with their homework or using the internet to gather the necessary information.
* The kids are currently requesting their parents to verify the completion of their homework or relying on information gathered from their teachers/peer verification.
3. The busy families want a simple way to order groceries (etc.) & get it delivered without having to use a screen no matter whether they are home or away.
* They are making a stop at the grocery shop and shopping for groceries OR
* They are using an online shopping/delivery service app if available & adding groceries one at a time and scheduling the delivery.
4. The busy families want an easy way for everyone in their household to listen to music without any supervision or screen time.
* They are using their CD players & manually browsing music in their music libraries to play it OR
* They are using the streaming service that they’ve subscribed to & browsing through their playlists or searching for the music & playing it manually.
 
* Data from approx. 20 interviews of family and friends in the busy family segment has been synthesized and evaluated.
 
* Investigations of 3rd party Voice solutions for the next phase of Link are to wrap up by end of this week.
* Investigations of 3rd party Voice solutions for the next phase of Link are to wrap up by end of this week.
* Once the research has been completed, the following validation questions can be answered:
* Once the research has been completed, the following validation questions can be answered:
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** Can it be solved?
** Can it be solved?
* Next step: Gate 1 approval
* Next step: Gate 1 approval
* Link team is still simultaneously investigating collaborations or partnerships with 3rd parties.
* Link team is simultaneously investigating collaborations or partnerships with 3rd parties.
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Vaani Validation (Lindsay/Sandip) On Target
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Project Link Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti) On Target

Description of busy family segment and revised hypotheses: Families in the US with 2 or more kids in elementary schools (PS-5), all living together in the same household; both the parents are working full time from 9am to 5pm and are between 30 & 40 yrs old, well educated, and in a medium to high income bracket. We believe that:

  • These families are leading an extremely busy & demanding lifestyle, constantly juggling many different aspects of their daily life spanning home, work, kids, shopping, hobbies etc.
  • These families seem to always be short on time.
  • They are overwhelmed with their day to day routines that they feel they haven’t had enough time to spend on things close to their heart.
  • These families crave to have some time back on their hands; a simple way for them to get stuff done, but not have to spend an eternal amount of time on it.

Their needs are…

1. The busy families want an easy way to help them with personalized reminders & memos for various people in their household.

  • The mothers of the household are currently reminding their spouses/caretakers/kids multiple times throughout the day via voice prompts or text messages.

2. The busy families want a way their children can interact with a device that can help with homework

  • The kids are currently requesting help from parents to assist with their homework or using the internet to gather the necessary information.
  • The kids are currently requesting their parents to verify the completion of their homework or relying on information gathered from their teachers/peer verification.

3. The busy families want a simple way to order groceries (etc.) & get it delivered without having to use a screen no matter whether they are home or away.

  • They are making a stop at the grocery shop and shopping for groceries OR
  • They are using an online shopping/delivery service app if available & adding groceries one at a time and scheduling the delivery.

4. The busy families want an easy way for everyone in their household to listen to music without any supervision or screen time.

  • They are using their CD players & manually browsing music in their music libraries to play it OR
  • They are using the streaming service that they’ve subscribed to & browsing through their playlists or searching for the music & playing it manually.
  • Data from approx. 20 interviews of family and friends in the busy family segment has been synthesized and evaluated.
  • Investigations of 3rd party Voice solutions for the next phase of Link are to wrap up by end of this week.
  • Once the research has been completed, the following validation questions can be answered:
    • Does it fit the Mozilla mission?
    • Is there a problem worth solving?
    • What is the MVP?
    • Is it something customers want?
    • Can it be solved?
  • Next step: Gate 1 approval
  • Link team is simultaneously investigating collaborations or partnerships with 3rd parties.
Smart TV for 2.6 Josh On Target
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Project SmartHome Maria/Liz On Target
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Project Magnet Maria/Francisco On Target
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Project Sensor Web Cindy/Wesley On Target
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Porting Nicole/David/Peter On Target
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Metrics for CD Maria/Dylan On Target
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Research Team Lindsay On Target
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Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset

Smartphone Transition Wiki

Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen) On Target
  • Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki
  • Plan to continue support thru Q1 2018. Have some logistics to resolve for the period from Jan 1 2017 to March 31 2018. Will continue to keep an eye on that.
  • Update on path forward for OWDCRB expected May 19, will provide a read-out next week.
Code Transition (Julie) On Target
Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin) On Target

Global overview:

  • More and more people joining, we went from 125 members on the Telegram group early this week, to 144 as of today. It also seems that we are gathering more technical profiles.

Code (2 active volunteers, 13 candidates for mentoring)

  • Increasing code contribution
  • UI/UX skilled contributors are joining
  • Meetings on Thursday at 18:30 CEST/16:30 UTC/9:30am PDT/22:00 IST where you can participate in the following:

Building and Porting (~10 volunteers)

  • There are regular volunteer builds for flame and volunteer builds for Open C
  • B2G installer addon signed, will be available on addons.mozilla.org soon

Infrastructure (2 volunteers)

  • Mozilla Corporation can continue to provide B2G infrastructure but not the staff to keep it running. May want a separate instance of certain tools.
  • Need volunteers to run the infrastructure.
  • Potential contributors identified.

Governance (8 volunteers)

  • Provisional council to tackle governance questions and prepare for the future being formed
  • Ongoing discussions on the democratic organization and decision making process

Documentation (4 contributors)

  • MDN transition completed
  • Working on translation, FAQ and guide for new contributors

Communication (7 contributors)

  • Call for contribution finished and circulated
  • Translation started, the call for contribution was translated in 5 languages in a couple days
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