Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-05-17

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Day 1 of the Vaani Meetup complete! What are we working on this week? Interviewing users (user testing) Structuring Observations Using data to form insights Prioritization of tasks Success Metrics Working in Lean
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	User Study and Interviews focused on Busy families Worked on interview guidelines, and questions with the help of Mihaela Team members reached out to nearly 30 friends and families across various cities in US, CA, and EU to schedule interviews Planning to wrap up the user study by May 17th and synthesize the results by May 20th. Investigating 3rd party Voice solutions for next phase of Link (time-boxed to wrap up by end of next week)
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 create fewer interruptions that distract them from being in the moment at home and at school and improve their personal connections. Research update Yesterday we had our third check in, slides and video recording are also available in our wiki. The team continues prototyping and preparing for our upcoming user research study that starts on May 25th (to May 29th) Wifi setup on the device using soft access point to select SSID and enter credentials Click, double-click and long-click actions hooked up to publish to device pair and implemented LED animations on receipt of each of click messages Logging actions per device-pair to Google Sheets via webhook & Zapier Started modelling the enclosure for the prototype, false-start on the 3d printer which was DOA. A replacement was received so we can start printing and iterating through this week. Working with legal team on the details for our consent forms and compatibility of 3rd party service's privacy policies (already available) Last Friday an email was sent to MTV Mozillians for recruiting We need to continue working in the logistics around the user research: interview guide, prototypes set up, diaries, instructions for the participants, support during the study...
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	Hypotheses We believe that broadcasting professional content (e.g. professional websites, contact info, twitter, etc) for conference presenters will help presenters promote themselves more easily than current methods Research Target audience: Presenters (Mix of tech and non-tech conferences, Mix of males and females, Mix of ages) Interview guide ready Interviews are planned to be finished by May 27th Development Sprint 2 finished. Some demos videos have been recorded to show the progress of the project: Magnet and Sched integration New visual features: Custom web views and a feature to provide the user the option to get rid of one of the tiles or cards. Sprint 3 started this week, goals apart of doing interviews and preparing London video: Stabilization of the app to avoid server to explode if it's used by many people. Sched adaptor: regression test, report and fix bugs. Other: After updating github project and github wiki in last Sprint we had our first two contributors! First project Magnet check in scheduled on June 2nd
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	What’s done Widget visual design: http://bugzil.la/1271540 - Visual design for the Web widget PM2.5 widget: http://sensorweb.io/sensor.html?id=B1giofox What’s next Deliver Bug 1271206 (SensorWeb Q2 goals) keep on deploying to schools. (Fix the WiFi connectivity issue in Da Quan elementary school) London ww preparation Upcoming Milestone: Sprint demo this week (May/20) 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	Currently working on bringing the research teams together Completed the research team kickoff meeting with all teams attending Research teams next steps Questions to Answer What are the goals of the research team for both general research as well as research on specific trains? Team Structure? (Formalized once we know the Goals) Have a Knowledge Sharing so the team internally as well as the CD org knows what research we have Use our talents effectively and work the teams in cross sections, meaning that an idea is vetted through user, market and technical research to see opportunity Know how to move forward when we have an idea. i.e. place it on the backlog, pitch it to the board to get placed on the the backlog or have someone in the team run with it.
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 Homescreen is now mostly working, working on a way to populate default pinned sites Biggest pieces remaining are getting the dialer working and removing the rest of the Apps API Work continues to get the automated tests passing so that we can merge the transition code branches back to master/central.
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target
	Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki Mozilla to let the community access to TaskCluster More technical contributors are joining, but there are still few actual contributions to the code for now Call for contribution published, translation on going
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