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Status
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Notes
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| Vaani
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Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)
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On Target
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- Product
- Work week in Portland last week
- Choosing Hypothesis to test and priorities
- Working with User Research to find the best ways to test the Hypothesis
- Engineering
- Reviewing Feedback from the Berlin event
- Getting ready to Demo to the exec team tomorrow (come check it out)
- Working on Pocketsphinx STT Implementation
- Will be able to use the offline implementation by the end of this sprint
- Working on Voice recording and synthesis
- Ongoing Architecture discussions. How we can achieve skills or Services through Vaani
- General
- You can see the sprint items on Trello
- You can see the weekly meeting notes here
- Next Demo will be 4/27 it is on the CD calendar
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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 and Research
- Continued brainstorming on product differentiators
- Working on user segment research and user interviews to gather user pain-points
- Continuing the evaluation of voice integration options and other possible collaborations
- Held discussions for next phase targets, will meet again Thursday to finalize direction
Engineering
- Working on video of first phase demo that shows open/close window sensor, hue lights, and door locks integrated into fox box and working end to end, along with notifications enabled via Web push.
- Ensuring consistent performance
- Designing and developing a demo/showcase room for Link devices that includes building a separate vlan, installing devices. Hope to use this for the London All Hands video
Participation
- Will discuss and prioritize how volunteer contributors can help at London All Hands after next steps are agreed upon
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| Smart TV for 2.6
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Josh
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On Target
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- Bulleted list item
- Bulleted list item
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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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- 4/25 branch - technical issue, should be ready 4/27
- TV team preparing sunset plan propose to Ari.
- Web Apps descoped due to Marketplace team resource issue.
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| Project SmartHome
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Maria/Liz
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On Target
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- We did: Met in Portland with CD PM and UX teams.
- We learned: Our hypothesis was still pretty broad. So we narrowed and refined it [1]
- Next we will: Finalize a new Research Plan to test our hypothesis [2].
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| Project Magnet
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Maria/Francisco
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On Target
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- Development continues with the tasks committed for Sprint 1.
- We have already a very basic client for Android and iOS, and the team is working to have downloadable builds.
- Legal team is working in setting up a development account for Connected Devices to enroll in the Apple Developer program (so we can have versions of the Magnet App for iOS and sign our builds). It's been tracked in Bug 1266923.
- We have contacted with Scott Jenson who is leading the Physical Web project in Google. He’s going to send us some beacons and offered us to help us to get more through a manufacturer in Shenzhen.
- We are trying to prepare a real demo in London All Hands using sched application.
- Sam Foster has started his Research work about Beacons,
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| Project Sensor Web
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Cindy/Wesley
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On Target
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- General updates
- MVP up and running.
- 1st deployment success in a school
- What’s done
- lots of bug fixes, and polishes
- intro video
- talked with legal to spot check: will followup on terms of use, user data, login credential
- What’s next
- portal refinement (adding intro video, etc etc)
- maker faire taipei on 5/7, 5/8
- sensor and kit partners: talking to MTK, Particle
- keep on deploying to schools
- technical review with Dylan this week
- Upcoming Milestone:
- Planned second PIB update on 5/4
- London ww: hackathon (in planning), open session (in planning)
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| Porting
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Nicole/David/Peter
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On Target
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B2G add-on installer
- Continuing to get usage, someone found some “issues”
- Collecting metrics for usage and looking to build a dashboard
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| Metrics for CD
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Maria/Dylan
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On Target
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- The team continues the investigation of other third party solutions (instead of the Telemetry pipeline) and also visualization tools
- We hope we can make a discussion during this week. investigation info
- For the time being the option Amazon Mobile Analytics + Periscope seems the better option
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| Research Team
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Lindsay
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On Target
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- Market Research
- Updated Market Research Resources page
- Smart Home
- Looking into addressable market size for the 12 - 15 years old target and research about their lifestyle
- Looking for research about habit formation
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| Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset
Smartphone Transition Wiki
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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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| Foxfooding (Jean)
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On Target
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| Transition to Volunteer Community (George)
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On Target
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| Participation Update
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On Target
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| Other Announcements
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