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After the successful completion of a Project Link prototype and further study by team members, the team closed Project Link and pivoted to a project called Cue, that is focused on making the lives of busy families easier by using voice and a smart screen to manage reminders, lists, and schedule coordination.  Please visit the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Projects/Project_Cue Project Cue wiki] for information about the learning taken from Project Link that has resulted in the studies and experiments being conducted for Project Cue.

If interested in learning more about what Project Link was and what experiments were conducted, please read further.

 

'''Project Link''' had a goal of being your own, personal user agent for the smart home, creating a web of things that is completely yours. Instead of entrusting your data to a third party, a goal of the Link agent was to understand your preferences for how you wanted to interact with the world of devices in your home, and to automate your connected world for you. All of this still was to be done conveniently and securely, but completely under your control.

Project Link (formerly Foxlink) was a short-term experiment to build software building blocks that can interact with various "things". Most code was done in [https://www.rust-lang.org/ Rust].

We used the "Design Thinking" innovation approach by IDEO, where the philosophy of Product Innovation is at the center of technology (feasibility), person (desirability) & business (viability).

In the Validation stage, the Link team conducted investigations and studies to answer the questions:

Early in the Validation stage, the team experimented with consumer smart devices available today, as described in Phase 1 in the Archive section below, and developed a prototype that enabled device discovery, rule configuration for how the devices should automatically interact, and the push of notifications to the user.

The following were presentations made during the 2016/03 workweek.

All code was open source and hosted on https://github.com/fxbox. Please file bugs on Github issues for these repositories.

The core of Project Link was developed in [https://www.rust-lang.org/ Rust]. The front-end is developed in HTML5/JS using REST/WebSocket.

We also maintained a full, unclassified, list of ongoing issues, but they may not have been as easy or as detailed:

And all our source code could be found on [https://github.com/fxbox/ GitHub repositories].

[https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-project-link mailing-list].

We established [https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/connected-devices/project-link Project Link on Discourse]

Otherwise, the best way to get in touch with us was to come and chat through irc. We could be found on [http://chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23foxlink&server=irc.mozilla.org channel #foxlink of irc.mozilla.org].

Issues were filed at [https://github.com/fxbox/ GitHub repositories].

Discussions about design, improvements or radical new directions could be joined at [https://github.com/fxbox/RFC Requests For Comments].

You could find us on irc.mozilla.org, channel #foxlink.  Team members are still using this channel for Project Cue.

We used agile practices:

* "Stand-up" meetings were held on [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/foxlink-standup on etherpad] and on IRC every weekday between 5pm and 5:15pm UTC.

* Weekly meetings were held in Vidyo and [https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/foxlink-weekly on etherpad] every monday between 5pm and 6pm UTC.