CloudServices/Location/Meetings/2013-08-22
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Agenda
Stumbler
- Posted MozStumbler v0.2.0 build on GitHub: https://github.com/dougt/MozStumbler/releases/tag/v0.2.0
- Working with Legal/PR to update privacy notice and FAQ.
Server
Other
- Hanno has will be visiting SF the first week of September, MV the second week, and Vancouver the third.
- Chris, Mark, and Hanno met with designer Bryan Bell in SF to brainstorm stumbler gamification.
- Separate data collection server and game server
- Increases privacy because collection server doesn't know about game players and game server doesn't know about location data
- Shifts target of game cheaters from collection server to game server
- But how can game server count points without knowing location data is valid or new?
- Scoring
- N points for a new AP (to encourage players to stumble new areas)
- Give fewer points for APs already seen (to encourage players to revisit scanned)
- But discount already seen APs by the number of days since last seen (to encourage players to not rescan as often)
- Scoring cell towers versus APs
- Give more points for cell towers than APs
- Our data's cell:AP ratio is ~15:1
- WiGLE's cell:AP ratio is ~35:1
- FYI: In my roundtrip Berkeley-SF-Berkeley commute yesterday, I stumbled about 600 new APs, 3400 duplicate APs, and 20 new cell towers
- Separate data collection server and game server
Next Actions
- Hanno is reworking the stats / leaderboard and moving them to async scheduled tasks.
- Hanno to update leaderboard to consider different tokens with the same nickname as the same user.
- Chris to fix "stumbler doesn't save nickname" bug.
