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Status Update 2011-01-08

Betafarm

Betafarm is an effort to create a single home for Mozilla Innovation projects. It is a website that will promote projects from Mozilla Labs, the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Research as well as the larger Mozilla Community. Users of the website will be encouraged to get involved by being able to track Mozilla events and respond to challenges (specific calls to action \-\- see the Knight Mozilla News Partnership). The larger goal being explored is to create a social, engaging web experience for people interested in innovation at Mozilla.

• Github Repository: http://github.com/mozilla/betafarm
• Issue Tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/284775
• Staging URL: http://betafarm.mozillalabs.com
• People: Andy Chung, Paul Osman, Ross Bruniges

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• Public release

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• Work week w/ Andy Chung and Paul Osman (lots of progress)
• Coordination meeting with Gunner to determine v2 features and work distribution
• Building out project pages in betafarm and tuning content template. Betafarm Content Template Feedback welcome. (Havi)

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• Finalize v1 and get it out there!

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• Check out the prototype and give us feedback

Cherrypicker

Provide people with a fake email address to signup for sites, complete purchases, and other account creation activities where they are unsure or want to avoid using their real email address.

• wiki: https://github.com/mozilla/cherrypicker/wiki
• People: Simon Wex, Andy Chung, Bryan Clark

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Demo Party

Demoparty is an initiative to foster artful exploration of open web technologies, diving into the demoscene culture.

• More info: http://mozillalabs.com/demoparty
• People: Tobias Leingruber, supported by Desigan Chinniah

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Deuxdrop

Experiment in private messaging between one or more people using encryption and allowing for federation. Focused on mobile first, with shorter on-the-go messaging, but the platform should allow for longer form messaging later.

The mobile target is similar to BlackBerry Messenger or iMessage, but using an encrypted/federated back-end and a web-technologies based "smart" client (eventually PhoneGap style, current targeting a Mobile Firefox add-on).

• More info: https://github.com/mozilla/deuxdrop
• People: Andrew Sutherland, James Burke, Bryan Clark

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F1

Mozilla F1 is a simple and fast sharing service designed to enhance the sharing experience of the browser, Firefox, when sharing web sites.

• More info:
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Roadmap
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Modularity
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Modularity/WebMod-API
  • https://github.com/mozilla/fx-share-addon
• Older info:
  • https://github.com/mozilla/f1/wiki
• People: Bryan Clark, David Ascher, Shane Caraveo, James Burke, Mark Hammond, Ben Adida

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OWA Marketplace

The OWA Marketplace is the place where people can go to install open web apps. Focus is on social discovery and other targeted recommendations.

• Github Repository: http://github.com/21echoes/owa-store
• Staging URL: http://21echoes.github.com/owa-store/
• People: David Kettler, Allen Short, AMO team

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

• Begin templatizing OWA's changes to the AMO "Zamboni" redesigns (http://chowse.github.com/amo-redux/)

Done this Week

• Dynamic layout of tiles on tile-style landing page
• Alternate ("classic view") landing page design
• Finished modifications to Zamboni
• Laid out social plans and architecture for the store

Next up

• Sketch, mock up, and iterate on "View by Friend" page designs
• Sketch, mock up, and iterate on mobile store designs
• Review architecture issues surrounding social plan
• Review privacy issues surrounding social

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• Giving me feedback on the designs! I'd like to start moving into templatizing as soon as possible, and I'd hate to change designs in any drastic once that's done.

Prospector

Explore how people search and discover content by analyzing user behavior and prototyping new interfaces.

• Blog: https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/
• Code: https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/
• Issues: https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues
• People: Edward Lee, Abhinav Sharma

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WebFWD

WebFWD is an accelerator program where we help and support teams with concrete product ideas to get to a minimum viable product (and further). The programs aim is to significantly increase our innovation throughput.

• More info: https://webfwd.org/
• People: Pascal Finette, Didem Ersoz, Julie Choi, Tobias Leingruber

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

• Get first teams into program

Done this Week

• Rolled out Fellow program [1]
• Created curriculum and game plan for Fellow program
• Reviewed initial batch of applications, identified 3 strong candidates
• Interview with BBC Outriders [2]
• Added the president & CTO of 10Gen/MongoDB to our list of mentors [3]
• Opened job req for a Program Manager [4]
• Blogged [5] & discussions with additional partners

Next up

• Select first batch of teams
• Hire a Program Manager
• Promote program

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• Promote the program
• Identify strong candidates for the program [6]
• Recommend candidates for our Program Manager position [7]

Labmates

Labmates, a Mozilla Labs Concept Series channel - is a global community of research academics. It aims to engage with the world of academia - to identify, showcase and promote research that makes the web better\!

• More info: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/friend-of-labs-contacts
• People: Desigan Chinniah

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Coding Challenges

A series of Coding Challenges engaging a global community of developers by providing engaging problems solved by Markdown and judged based on human code review.

• Dashboard: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/dev-challenges-dashboard
• People: Desigan Chinniah

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Paladin

A 3d gaming framework for the web and demo game to go with it.   The intent is to push and provide feedback for emerging media in the mobile web & Gecko as well as to ship a useful concrete framework in a way that brings more developers into the Mozilla sphere. Our first demo is influenced by both the Flight of the Navigator demo & Terminal Velocity.

• Github Repository: https://github.com/alankligman/paladin/
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/alankligman/paladin/issues
• Staging URL: https://github.com/alankligman/paladin/wiki
• People: Alan Kligman (Community), Bobby Richter (Community/Foundation), Dan Mosedale (Labs), David Humphrey (Foundation/Seneca College), more folks who might or might not yet admit to being part of the team :-)

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