Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-05-10

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	User Testing, User Testing, User Testing - The team is moving forward with testing 2 people each to see what products really fit the market right now and what products would help people with their day Mihaela helped with narrowing down the user segment Age: 25-55 years Employment status: full time employed/full time student Comfortable with technology Mix of males and females Own single family home - at least half of participants Berlin Meetup next week will take these findings and solidify them into narrower hypothesis as well as narrow the user segment
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Market Segment Research Busy families was chosen as the segment to focus on. Working hypothesis, which is being refined, is: We believe that by offering a smart virtual assistant to busy families, we will reduce the time they spend on day to day tasks by 20% and increase the amount of time the families spend with each other by 20%. Team has begun research into busy family segment to determine what their needs are and if there’s an intersection of their needs and what we can offer. A framework or script for conducting the consumer interviews was developed and will be used by members of the team to conduct interviews. Team has been trained on how to conduct the interviews and collect data. Team will conduct at least 20 interviews, and most of those will be completed this week. Data from the interviews will be organized and analyzed over the following couple of weeks. Technology Research Have developed a prioritized list of how we might differentiate ourselves from the competition. Research into targeted technologies will be conducted over the next 2-3 weeks. Demos On screen interviews for the London All Hands demo video have been filmed. Have also filmed segments showing Link functionality. These will be edited and integrated into a two minute segment to showcase Link in the demo. Battlestar Galactica conference room now contains Link devices to showcase its functionality. There's a demo door installed with a smart lock that will be installed against the wall to the right of the monitors sometime this week. Motion detectors, a smart camera, and smart lights have also been installed.
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	2.6 milestones: 4/27 branched 7/15 FC
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	Hypotheses Creating an ambient method of communicating for 12 to 15 year old girls will increase their personal connections / bring their world closer, reduce the need to communicate via methods that distract them from being in the moment at home and at school and also reduce parents’ anxieties about the amount of time children stare at their phones Research On the tech side, we continue prototyping the test device we'll hand to participants. The team filed a bunch of issues and are collectively working down the list Prototype code is showing up in our repo We've got a quick status video showing explorations on the hardware side, we are starting to put together all the components into a portable and hopefully robust enclosure LED animations have been specified and we need to continue working on the Research Plan and the logistics to have all ready. Probably we will shift the research a few days. Instead of starting on May 21st, we'll start on the 25th. Next Friday we have our following check in with Ari/Faramarz/Bertrand
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Research/Hypotheses After reviewing assumptions/hypotheses document the team decided to start with this assumption "people will be willing to broadcast their personal information, specially in events as conferences" The target audience are Conference presenters, promoting themselves Research plan will be done this week, the rest of the Team will start having informal talks with people inside Mozilla that are used to present in conferences and other events. Development As part of our goals for sprint 2 we already have downloadable builds. Project Magnet in GitHub has been updated so the community can have all the info available to download Android builds and also create their own ones in Android and iOS.
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	General updates Product innovation board updated on 5/4 What’s done maker faire taipei on 5/7, 5/ 8 Collected 40+ feedback forms. 5/11 the team will review the overall achievements from this 2-day event Q2 goals set up. Look at the meta Bug 1271206 - [meta] Implement SensorWeb for Q2 What’s next Deliver Bug 1271206 (SensorWeb Q2 goals) keep on deploying to schools. London ww preparation Upcoming Milestone: London ww: hackathon (in planning), open session (in planning)
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	The research team all came together for the first time to map out what the future of the team looks like. We are working out a few key points that you can see outlined in the planning doc Working on team formation Getting the team to work off of each others research Ensuring the team is coming at problems from the same perspective Get to the point that we have a product backlog of ideas
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki
	Code Transition (Julie)	On Target	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target
	Transition to Volunteer Community (George)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki
Participation Update		On Target
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