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Final tracking fixes for round 1 plus basic info update
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=Platform Games=
=Platform Games=


The platform games initiative is made up of a core team whose works is primarily focused on making the Gecko platform, Firefox Desktop, Firefox OS, and Firefox for Android the best it can possibly be at running games.  The core team is ready to help coordinate with other groups in the community who are working on features or optimization that are important to game developers and provide assistance when needed.  Platform development continues to focus on games and we hope you are as excited as we are to make HTML5 rock on the web!
The platform games initiative is made up of a core team whose works is primarily focused on making the Gecko platform, Firefox Desktop, and Firefox for Android the best it can possibly be at running games.  The core team is ready to help coordinate with other groups in the community who are working on features or optimization that are important to game developers and provide assistance when needed.  Platform development continues to focus on games and we hope you are as excited as we are to make HTML5 rock on the web!


=Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap=
=Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap=
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*Add support for pthreads, SIMD, and WebAssembly, as mentioned above.
*Add support for pthreads, SIMD, and WebAssembly, as mentioned above.
*Further improve compilation speed.
*Further improve compilation speed.
===Continue investment in Firefox developer tooling to better support game developers.===
 
===Continue investment in Firefox developer tooling to better support game developers===
*Improve Web Worker support [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003097 1].
*Improve Web Worker support [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003097 1].
*Allow developers to break on various asm.js/WebAssembly error conditions [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088655 1].
*Allow developers to break on various asm.js/WebAssembly error conditions [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088655 1].


===Continue implementation of Service Workers to support offline.===
=====Tracking=====
<bugzilla>
{
    "bug_id":"1003097,1088655,1008453,1241485,1059724",
    "include_fields":"id, summary, status, assigned_to, target_milestone",
    "order": "bug_status"
}
</bugzilla>
 
===Continue implementation of Service Workers to support offline===
*Ship Service Workers and dependent features [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903441 1].
*Ship Service Workers and dependent features [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903441 1].
=====Tracking=====
<bugzilla>
{
    "f1": "blocked",
    "o1": "anywords",
    "v1": "903441",


    "resolution": "---",
    "include_fields":"id, summary, status, assigned_to, target_milestone",
    "order": "bug_status"
}
</bugzilla>
== Under Consideration==  
== Under Consideration==  
*Developers are having trouble identifying how many Web Workers they should create to distribute their workload.  Benchmarking methods often prove unreliable.
*Developers are having trouble identifying how many Web Workers they should create to distribute their workload.  Benchmarking methods often prove unreliable.
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{| class="wikitable fullwidth-table"
{| class="wikitable fullwidth-table"
  | Project Team Meeting
  | Project Team Meeting
|| Wednesdays at 10:00 AM (PST)/1:00 PM (EST) for 60 mins
|| Thursdays at 9:00 AM Pacific for 60 mins
* Vidyo Room:  Games's Vidyo Room
* Vidyo Room:  Games's Vidyo Room
* Invitation: Contact elancaster@mozilla.com (:elan) to get added to the meeting invite list.
* Invitation: Contact avaughn@mozilla.com (:avaughn) to get added to the meeting invite list.
* Meeting Notes: [https://games.etherpad.mozilla.org/55 Meeting Notes Etherpad]
|-
|-
| IRC
| IRC
||  
||  
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'''Games Platform & Research'''  
'''Games Platform & Research'''  
* Vladimir Vukicevic - <vladimir@mozilla.com>
* Martin Best - <mbest@mozilla.com>
* Martin Best - <mbest@mozill.com>
* Andre Vrignaud - <avrignaud@mozilla.com>
* Alan Kligman - <akligman@mozilla.com>  
* Alon Zakai - <azakai@mozilla.com>  
* Alon Zakai - <azakai@mozilla.com>  
* Jeffrey Gilbert - <jgilbert@mozilla.com>  
* Jeffrey Gilbert - <jgilbert@mozilla.com>  
* Jukka Jylänki - <jjylanki@mozilla.com>  
* Jukka Jylänki - <jjylanki@mozilla.com>  
* Luke Wagner" <lwagner@mozilla.com>  
* Luke Wagner" <lwagner@mozilla.com>  
* Marco Mucci - <mmucci@mozilla.com>  
* Naveed Ihsanullah - <nihsanullah@mozilla.com>  
* Milan Sreckovic - <msreckovic@mozilla.com>  
* Milan Sreckovic - <msreckovic@mozilla.com>  
* Naveed Ihsanullah - <nihsanullah@mozilla.com>  
* Vladimir Vukicevic - <vladimir@mozilla.com>  
* Maire Reavy - <mreavy@mozilla.com>  
* Maire Reavy - <mreavy@mozilla.com>  
* Paul Adenot - <padenot@mozilla.com>
* Ted Mielczarek - <ted@mozilla.com>
* Kannan Vijayan - <kvijayan@mozilla.com>
* Peter Chang - <pchang@mozilla.com>  
* Peter Chang - <pchang@mozilla.com>  
 
* Anthony Vaughn - <avaughn@mozilla.com>
'''Games Documentation'''
* Christopher Mills - <cmills@mozilla.com>
* Eric Shepherd - <eshepherd@mozilla.com>
 
'''Games Partner Support'''
* Bill Walker - <bwalker@mozilla.com>
* Harald Kirschner - <hkirschner@mozilla.com>
* Louis Stowasser - <lstowasser@mozilla.com>
* Nick Desaulniers - <nick@mozilla.com>
 
'''Games Public Relationship Team'''
* Paul Jarratt - <pjarratt@mozilla.com>
 
 
'''Games QA'''
* Anthony Hughes - <ahughes@mozilla.com>
* Marc Schifer - <mschifer@mozilla.com>


'''To Be Kept Informed'''
'''To Be Kept Informed'''

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