Connected Devices/Participation
About
Welcome to the Connected Devices participation page, your starting point to get involved in Connected Devices.
In the next few weeks, we'll be populating this wiki with more resources to help you get involved and start experimenting, prototyping and testing the future of connected devices.
Product Innovation Process
We're ramping up with a product innovation process, and there you can find some projects in progress, with other ones surfacing as they get through the gating process. Continue to look out for opportunities to contribute. Yet don't wait! We want to facilitate building from now.
Get Involved!
Project: Community Experimentation Launchpad
We're building a program that aims to empower Mozillians to dream up the future of connected devices, test and prototype their ideas and make them a reality through open collaboration and innovation. The program provides resources, tools and mentoring to help you get involved, either through contribution to an existing project or bootstrapping your own. Make sure to check this section regularly as we will be continuously updating the wiki.
How to build your own connected devices project
If you have an idea for a project and wish the collaborate with other Mozillians, here are a few quick suggestions and questions you should ask yourself to get started and get people to join you in your effort. More here...
Getting mentorship
As you get started and as you progress through your project, you'll be able to get mentoring from a cross-functional panel of technical and non-technical experts in the IoT space. You'll be to bounce off ideas, as questions and get some guidance to help you push your project forward.
Check back as we provide more information in the section soon...
Resources -- research, design, technical
Working on a project from scratch is hard, so in this section we aim to compile a set of resources to bootstrap your project and provide you with the assistance and expertise you need to get started.
- Research: this phase is crucial as you determine what your potential user base is. It entails things like surveys and user interviews.
- Design: design in the connected devices space will be a challenge as we play with new user paradigms, but also exciting in terms of possibilities.
- Technical: this will cover everything from coding, to setting up working and testing environments.
Check back as we add more resources in these areas.
Hackathon toolkits
Running events to get contributions to your project could be the secret sauce that kickstarts new ideas, get a particular task done, or keeps momentum going. A hackathon toolkit will consist of some of the following pieces:
- Determining your audience
- Advertising to reach your intended audience
- Getting resources for your events
- Sample agendas
- Sample metrics
- Tips on follow-up after the event
Check back as we provide more on each of these.
Innovation Fund: Managed by Mozilla Reps program
A volunteer-driven and lightweight Innovation Fund is being initiated by the Mozilla Reps Council. This fund is an experiment itself for the next 3 months, and will provide a lightweight and streamlined process to fund small projects that aim to experiment and prototype innovative ideas in the connected devices space. More here....
Volunteer-lead projects in progress -- help them out!
Mozillians have already started blazing their own path in this new exciting space. From a Heart Rate monitor to a Plant Watering System to a Flood Detection Sensor, ideas abound. More here....
Participate in the 'official' Product Innovation Process
As identified in the product innovation process section above, some projects running on the train model have many specific contribution opportunities. Very shortly we will be providing more specifics on all the exciting ways you can participate.
Get Connected
Connected Devices Participation is in early days, a great time to get involved. But we are moving fast. Stay with us as we set everything up.
Team Tasks
Follow along and contribute on github as we ramp up with Connected Devices participation.
| Next Steps for Connected Devices | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Task | Responsible | GitHub | Status | ||||
| Foxfooding | past program/devices clarity to existing foxfooders | Vik | #325 | In Progress | ||||
| Foxfooding | future concepts including devices/kit | Vik | #326 | In Progress | ||||
| Foxfooding | Including foxfooding as part of gating process | David | #328 | In Progress | ||||
| Process Changes | Participation in innovation process | John B | #329 | In Progress | ||||
| Process Changes | Opening consultation into Firefox OS smartphone end-of-life decision | Julie (+ Brian & William) | #330 | In Progress | ||||
| Transition | Arrange AMA with Ari | Ruben + Lucy | #331 | Complete - Transcript | ||||
| Transition | Keeping SC and CD Senior Team updated on non-staff engagement | George | #332 | In Progress | ||||
| Connected Devices | Land/Finalize the Reps Innovation Fund Details | Rosana + William | #333 | In Progress | ||||
| Connected Devices/Transition | Guideline for transition of Firefox OS events to CD events | Brian + William | #334 | In Progress | ||||
| Connected Devices | Future sort of devices (Rpi-like, TV experience, etc) to focus and encourage ports | David + Peter | #337 | In Progress | ||||
| Connected Devices | Initial conversation on repurposing the Firefox OS Participation Hub | Brian/William/Pierros/Marcia | #338 | In Progress | ||||
| Transition | "Official" communication out to non-staff | George + Lucy | #335 | Complete | ||||
| Transition | Ensuring CD/Participation Wiki is up to date | Brian | #336 | Ongoing | ||||
Communication Channels
Right now there there is no dedicated channels (apart from IRC), but it is priority for us. Check back here soon.
In the meantime, make sure to join or subscribe to the following related channels:
- IRC
- #cd-participation
- #foxfooding
- Telegram
- Foxfooders (group)
- Foxfooding News and Updates (channel)
- Social Media
- Office Hours
- Connected Devices innovation and participation calls take place on Thursdays from 10:00 CET to 11:30 CET (i.e. 17:00 CST to 18:30 CST) and from 18:30 CET to 20:00 CET (i.e. 9:30AM PST to 11AM PST). They are open to anyone to join. You can dial in on Vidyo or join on IRC, on the #cd-participation channel. Questions and reports are on a public etherpad.
- Next call is on the 25th of February. Please add your questions on this etherpad.
- Previous calls
- Connected Devices innovation and participation calls take place on Thursdays from 10:00 CET to 11:30 CET (i.e. 17:00 CST to 18:30 CST) and from 18:30 CET to 20:00 CET (i.e. 9:30AM PST to 11AM PST). They are open to anyone to join. You can dial in on Vidyo or join on IRC, on the #cd-participation channel. Questions and reports are on a public etherpad.
- Contact
- For any questions or ideas you have about participation for Connected Devices make sure to reach out to brian[at]mozilla[dot]com or find Brian on the #cd-participation irc channel (nick: kinger)
- For any questions related to the Foxfooding program, send an email to foxfood-central[at]mozilla[dot]com
- For more information about changes to Firefox Marketplace you can read more here.