Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-05-24

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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. 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. Research 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	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	Creating an ambient method of communicating for 12 to 15 year old girls will create fewer interruptions that distract them from being in the moment at home and at school and improve their personal connections. Research update - Getting ready for our user research study! During last week and yesterday the pre-interviews with the girls have already been done. Focus on how they communicate now. Find out patterns and motivations in existing communication methods used by girls (Pre-Interview guide) All consent forms are also signed Enclosures for the prototype were finished in time and the prototypes with the battery were shipped to MTV. Today the team is putting packs together in MTV office, that includes: Welcome letter Possible form factors Diary (printed) that also includes instructions for using the prototype or setting up the WiFi Device with attached lanyard USB cable USB wall chargers The packs will be dropped off this afternoon/evening in girls' home by the team following these instructions Next week devices + diaries will be picked up and Liz and Katie will be in MTV for the post-interviews. The goal is finding out how the girls used the device for their own needs, their level of interest, and their ideas around preferred form factor The team will also need to start working on the data visualization of the messages exchanged by the girls (type of signal sent/received, date/time, device status...) to try to understand the visual pattern of the messages sent/received within a "conversation"
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Metrics for CD	Maria/Dylan	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
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	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki B2G Code Transition Requirements Bug 1252143 - [META Firefox OS Transition work] B2G Transition Weekly Meeting May 31st is the code transition completion date. Working on getting the homescreen working with preinstalled webapps. Need a way to populate default pinned sites Working on getting the clock app working from a remote url as an experiment Default apps are added to the places DB on first boot Icons are fixed Still need to get the dialer working and remove the rest of the Apps API An appeal for help has been issued to the volunteer community Request for dialer help
	Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki Public Transition Dashboard Smartphone apps to transition to web apps Web or Dead Apps Getting Started mentoring presentation Code Contributors Getting Started Guide B2G FAQs Code Working Group 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: B2G Vidyo room B2G OS telegram group #fxos IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. 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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