Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-05-03

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Team meetup in Berlin on 5/16 - 5/20 to focus on user testing and formulating hypothesis The entire team is going to be engaged in user testing to ensure that the full scope of users is understood Currently working on connecting with Friends and Family to discuss voice activation needs
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Market Segment Looked into three potential segments: busy family, kids (at home/at school), elderly. Chose the busy family segment. Hypothesis (still being refined) 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%. Research Need to research what we perceive as the busy family segment, determine what their needs are and if there’s an intersection of that and what we can offer. Developing a framework or script for conducting the consumer interviews to be tested first before members of the team conduct interviews. Exploring the possibility of using DScout for our research study as well as a guerrilla style friends/family study Sampling, interviewing, and analysis tips were shared with the team Want to invest in brainstorming and research process over the next couple weeks Differentiators Have developed a list of how we might differentiate ourselves from the competition Demos Showed phase 1 demo to leadership team and received good feedback Currently working on video for London demo Worked with the Mountain View WPR team to use the Battlestar Galactica conference room as a demo/showcase room for Link devices
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	2.6 milestones: 4/27 branched 7/15 FC
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	We received positive feedback at our second check in last Friday (Slides and video recording) To test our current hypothesis, we've started to design our next round of research. The test will include a functional research prototype that we'll share with a small group of 12-15 year-old girls. We're investigating the use of the Particle "Photon" and "Internet Button" products as a quick start way to get a tactile, connected device into study participants hands. More details here. We finalized our Research Findings from our first user study.
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Finished Sprint 1: we already have a very basic client for Android and iOS to discover physical webs. This will be useful for prototyping and hypothesis validation. Some demo videos for iOS and Android recorded during our Sprint 1 Demo and Retrospective The goals for sprint 2: Research: Work in the assumptions/hypotheses document to be reviewed. Be able to have downloadable builds (not finished in sprint 1) Some legal issues have been raised about the distribution of iOS builds via Testflight and also with the Apple Developer Program account used that need to be clarified. Polish the clients as many tasks/issues have been detected when they were developed during last sprint. It would be also great start trying with URLs and start setting common use cases for the London office (specially for visitors) and London All Hands. Beacons research finished and now evaluating some providers to do a purchase.
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	General updates Technical review (https://goo.gl/lUf8qr) with Dylan on 4/28 What’s done 1st deployment success in a school http://blog.sensorweb.io/2016/04/26/our-first-user-ping-sing-elementary-school/ What’s next portal refinement (adding intro video, etc etc) Takeouts from legal review (map, SSO) maker faire taipei on 5/7, 5/8 (https://goo.gl/irPKgA) keep on deploying to schools. Upcoming Milestone: Planned second PIB update on 5/4 London ww: hackathon (in planning), open session (in planning)
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	Porting FirefoxOS Meeting merged with Weekly B2G Meeting Planning for meet up in London
Metrics for CD	Maria/Dylan	On Target	After studying several third party the team decided to go for Google Analytics. It fits our needs both in terms of metric collection and visualization GA has been already vetted in Mozilla and we are already paying for a premium service Implementing GA will be faster and less effort than adapting the Mozilla telemetry pipeline for use with CD projects We are working in three major activities: Implementing a library for Rust and JS that simplifies the adoption of Google Analytics by the trains Documenting the parameters that can be used for collection of events Evaluating reporting/visualization tools to ensure that metric data can be easily analyzed by the trains The target of this is ensuring all the trains send information in a consistent way and dashboards/reporting are consistent cross-train.
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Technical Research Looking at different ways to work moving forward Working on formulating hypothesis to prove Will be working with the different teams to move the hypothesis forward Market Research Continuing deep dive into conversational UI and digital assistants Getting access to consumer insights database from Forrester - Forrester Technographics User Research First deep dive into user research will be in the Vaani team working with the team on researching the product with everyone's involvement setting up workshops for the meetup in Berlin Setting up a workshop in London for the CD Team (What do you do after your train has been chosen?)
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki Plan to continue support thru Q1 2018. Have some logistics to resolve for the period from Jan 1 2017 to March 31 2018. Will continue to keep an eye on that.
	Code Transition (Julie)	On Target	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki Working on removal of MobileID, Engineering Mode, and Apps APIs Continuing to work on getting homescreen and dialer working as chrome. The homescreen is now showing pinned sites on boot. We have a more solid plan for our build and test infrastructure. Merging back to master/m-c is coming soon, probably not this week but we are getting closer Working to get Gaia integration test suite (Gij) green. This is progressing along with the app:// to chrome:// conversion. We will not attempt to port the existing Gaia unit tests (Gu) during the refactor. We will rely on community to write new unit tests, likely mochitest-plain.
	Transition to Volunteer Community (George)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki Code contribution needs (more) experienced contributors. People mostly busy building and flashing now. 6 volunteers for code mentoring sessions to be organized soon. Future of infrastructure still in discussion. Test/Build infra at Mozilla could be available for a few more months. Volunteer contributors encouraged to have their own build infra for smartphone devices (already the case for ZTE Open C Fr). Documentation working group is active, working on restructuring the MDN doc. Permission to edit some parts of MDN might be a blocker here. Governance model decided for the module ownership system. Non-technical modules will be created to match the working groups. To be re discussed on week 20. Communication group to release a call for contribution on Tuesday the 3rd. Discourse category and Telegram group show an increasing activity over the past week. More information can be found at B2G Transition Working Groups
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