Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-04-05

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Exec Demo 1 complete! Completed sprint planning for the next milestone. Focusing on tasks to ensure working toward answering the questions asked in the exec demo The team has started using Trello to organize sprints and the backlog Focusing on tasks to ensure working toward answering the questions asked in the exec demo to quickly prove out stated hypotheses Exec Presentation Demo Video Slides
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Product Vision for Project Link shared across the Link team & stakeholders Exploration of potential partnerships has started to complement our areas of focus for Link Analysis and research on competitive products in smart home space is continuing Continued brainstorming on user segment focus areas and differentiators Initial discussions with the Vaani team on how best to to leverage their framework into Link for voice support Research Analysis from last week's research sessions is wrapping up Engineering Last bits of Motion Sensor, Hue Lights, and Lock adapter and integration with taxonomy and rules engine for this prototype phase Integration of Recipes UI with taxonomy API Focus on getting two pilot scenarios working end-to-end by mid April Technical discussions with Vaani team had begun to see how we can enable voice interactions for Link. Test: Unit Test coverage for Thinkerbell module (IFTTT Rules), and unit test support via Karma for the web app and got the basic workings landed Automated Integration tests in progress Daily Smoke tests are up and running. Currently manual, with automation next focus Documentation Organizing effort to pull in API docs and technical docs to wiki. Public wiki now has links to the technical overview presentations, taxonomy, test docs etc. Participation Meeting scheduled on 4/7 for community participation at the London workweek for Project Link.
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	Feature completed Tab sync BT HID support Settings App On Going Remote Control Smart Folders Metrics Web Apps Category Web Apps localization Web Apps sorting TV 2.6 Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/TV_2.6 2.6 meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=TV_FxOS2.6
Smart TV Next Gen	Validation (Joe/Josh)	On Target	Working on use cases that enhances the user's engagement experience with the TV by offering better remote control, content discovery, personalization, multi-user experiences. Strategy Analytics research material: Smart TV market overview - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgd0xtTDM0TE1rWVE User research - Smart TV pain points and feature interests - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgZG9FWHpxSWxRQzQ
Project Sensor Web	Validation (Cindy/Wesley)	On Target	Pre-Alpha website http://sensorweb.io/ can collect early feedback about the SensorWeb idea and PM2.5 project what's next: integrated to show live data from deployed PM2.5 sensors There are various options of sensor kits for makers. Documents (Tutorial) ready. https://gist.github.com/yshlin/e54e7def09d032c8c3646d86b47cd4cb what's next: a demo video of booting up a Particle sensor kit
Project SmartHome	Validation (Maria/Liz)	On Target	During last week all team members are conducting the new Research plan via interviews to the targeted audiences: Babysitting age (12 to 15 years old) and independent elderly (aging in place). Legal team involvement to help us with the privacy forms (Consent & Compensation Forms) We'll be talking to 10-20 people in two audiences. This week in Portland: Summarize Research findings Choose 2 or 3 problem areas from the Research findings to focus on Brainstorm solutions to these and/or our next research plan
Project Magnet	Validation (Maria)	On Target	During past weeks the team has works in a basic React Native code base that in order to build for both iOS and Android low start due to this technical research and most of the team off Official Kick off scheduled next week (4/13/2016) Confirmed UX involvement in the project It's necessary to set the goals and following milestones (Mozilla London space experience)
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
FlyWeb	Nicole/Dylan	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Connected Devices Metrics	Maria	On Target	Team continues working on the tasks assigned to Sprint 2 Validation problems of the crash ping on the server side were already fixed Moving forward with the Histograms Library High level design was finished Team already working on some of its components (Tracking in Trello) Started the analysis of the tasks required to Dashboards and Analysis
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Format for technical research has changed Research engineers have met with each gated team and is moving forward with their research needs Vaani dig into what are the experiences from the developer perspective for using things like Alexa - skills kit and voice service Sensor Web Look into What N.A.S.A.’s program is doing to see if there is anything we can use from there? Are their any iot standards around that? Magnet & FlyWeb Booking another meeting after the flyweb workshop Link & Do Monkey (+Smart Home) David to add the items in Do Monkey that have not been technically assessed Book a meeting with Link
Firefox OS Smartphone Transition	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki Progressing closing agreements with partners on schedule Last scheduled push for Marketplace today. Moving forward with maintenance/fixes only.
	Code Transition (Julie)	On Target	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki Lots of progress made in fixing breakages, most current of which are graphics issue, build issue All tests are up and running on pine and kanikani Can now boot up the system app. with chrome Currently working on making the keyboard work Progress made in getting the process model to work Working on the telephony api
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target	RelEng delayed shutting down F/OTA Channel from Mar 31 to April 8. Valentin sent out reminder on Discourse Mon, April 4th to community members to accept last OTA Foxfood build released before deadline of OTA channel shut down.
	Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)	On Target	B2G OS Transition to Community Wiki Starting to pull together the task forces B2G OS weekly meetings are being held with staff and volunteer community for updates on code transition work and to ask for community help. Some issues with non-staff community members connecting to the meeting. Also some build issues on pine and kanikani still being worked out Documentation working group is taking off: support from staff + doc sprint are in planning Need to start work on governance with the community
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