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| Vaani
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Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)
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On Target
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- 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
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| Project Link
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Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)
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On Target
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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.
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| Smart TV for 2.6
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Josh
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On Target
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| Smart TV Next Gen
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Validation (Joe/Josh)
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On Target
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- 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:
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| Project Sensor Web
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Validation (Cindy/Wesley)
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On Target
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- 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.
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| Project SmartHome
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Validation (Maria/Liz)
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On Target
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- 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).
- 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
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| Project Magnet
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Validation (Maria)
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On Target
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- 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)
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| Porting
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Nicole/David/Peter
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On Target
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| FlyWeb
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Nicole/Dylan
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On Target
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| Connected Devices Metrics
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Maria
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On Target
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- 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
- Started the analysis of the tasks required to Dashboards and Analysis
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| Research Team
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Lindsay
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On Target
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- 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
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| Firefox OS Smartphone Transition
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Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)
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On Target
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| Code Transition (Julie)
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On Target
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- 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
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| Foxfooding (Jean)
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On Target
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- 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.
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| Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)
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On Target
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- 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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