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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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Demos
Product/UX
- Continued market validations
- Studying market activities, comparable solutions etc to refine Vaani offering. (PRD draft ready)
- Defining User research plans for Voice solution expectations by users
Engineering
- Working through the milestones that are due on April 1st
- Getting ready to set up work for the next sprint
- Setting up mac env w/openHAB...
- Getting Hue bound and working
- Getting WEMO bound and working
- Getting Sonos bound and working
- Getting LIFX light bound and working
- Creating video demo of everything working
- Maven plugin integration to build JNI shared objects for pocketsphinx
- Maven plugin integration to build JNI shared objects for webrtc_vad
Program
- I am very excited to be working with this team and am ramping up
- Looking into other ways to track the product
- Scheduling the 2nd Demo when the execs are in Berlin
QA
- Looked into the previous voice collection app and thought about how to convert it to a web application
- Action: Distribute summary of the app and our approach
Participation
- Talking with Kelly and David about coding competition and what we will need to do before we can launch.
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| Project Link
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Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)
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On Target
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Project
- Workweek in Mountain View with dev, product and UX members
Product
- Discussions on product differentiators and vision for Project Link
UX
Research
- User research conducted for Amazon Echo product and results shared here
Engineering
Workweek Accomplishments
- Technical overview sessions presented by team members for IFTTT, Taxonomy/APIs , Adapters, Authentication/Tunneling, Web Push, Web App Modules. Presentation documentation will be shared soon on wiki.
- Conducted Q&A session with Rust developers
- Taxonomy integration progress for Hue and Motion Sensor Adapter
- Implementation of secure connection to FoxBox
- Workweek ended with following Demos
- Implementation of simplified Recipes UI
- Web Push Adapter implementation and integration with taxonomy
- IFTTT (Recipes) integration demonstrated with rule created and triggered with a clock and IP camera.
- Taxonomy integration for IP Camera Adapter and ability to take snapshots from the app
- Kwikset Door Lock integration demonstrating discovery and open/close actions
Participation
- dev-project-link@mozilla.org public mailing list created
- Meetings Notes from community participation plan discussion are here.
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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.
- In parallel, we are exploring to work with an external creative agency to help us either make our ideas better or create even better new ideas.
- Strategy Analytics research material:
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| Project SmartHome
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Maria/Liz
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On Target
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- Shift in the project, Research plan presented two weeks ago has been revisited after receiving some feedback from Valerie.
- Last week the team focused on:
- Revisiting the Research plan and the new hypothesis.
- Creating the new research plan to learn about the needs of the new targeted audiences: Babysitting age (12 to 15 years old) and independent elderly (aging in place)
- Explore limits of “making dumb things smart” in the home.
- During this week all team members are conducting the new Research plan via interviews
- Next week in Portland the plan is
- 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 Sensor Web
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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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| Porting
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Nicole/David/Peter
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On Target
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- Cyanogenmod:
- working with Adam to hand ownership of this GitHub organization to someone else to pick up and maintain
- ideally needs to be done ASAP
- have the go-ahead from legal \o/
- Nexus Player
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| FlyWeb
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Nicole/Dylan
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On Target
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- TOR Work Week April 4-8
- Drivers: Peter (Overall), David B. (Product), Jacqueline (UI/UX), Nicole (FlyWeb)
- Purpose: Design Sprint, Explore what it would be like if FlyWeb were a product. Go beyond the boundaries that the FlyWeb team has been brainstorming. Rapid Prototyping and ideation.
- Implementation:
- http server can take inbound requests and proxy them and get a response
- Working on discovery api so that the front end can call the back end to start discovery
- Meeting with MBest for roadmap feedback from platform.
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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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- 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 Shutting down F/OTA Channel Mar 31st.
- Valentin to sent out reminder on Discourse for community members to accept last OTA Foxfood build released on Mar 3rd.
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| Transition to Volunteer Community (George)
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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
- Need to start work on governance
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| Participation Update
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Brian
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On Target
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- Vik Iya is pulling together all the pieces here
- Project briefs being written this week on participation items for contributions to train projects [Brian]
- Final pieces being put in place Community Experimentation Launchpad [Rosana]
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| Metrics for CD
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Maria
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On Target
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- Last Friday we finished sprint 1 The target was transmitting a sample crash ping
- Sprint 2 will be focused on fixing validation problems on the server side when transmitting the crash ping and starting the work in the Histograms library
- It will require a high level design first so later we can decide what components to maintain or not.
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