View source for Identity/Department Status/2013-11-08

;Identity Department Focus:
* Firefox Accounts:  A single account that brings a growing ecosystem of useful services to any firefox user.
* Sync.next: The new Sync - it does what you expect, its built on Firefox Accounts, and lets you access your data wherever you are.
* Persona:  An  open authentication system for the web gives you the fantastic  convenience of social sign-in, without sacrificing your privacy.

For more information related to all Identity projects: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity

;[Hot-off-the-Press] 
The Identity Engineering Roadmap for all projects currently in development can be viewed at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Roadmap

;Firefox Accounts on FirefoxOS
Project Overview:
* We are integrating Firefox Accounts into FirefoxOS.   Users will be able to sign into FirefoxOS during first time setup, or  whenever they run an application that uses Firefox Accounts.  For 1.3  this will mean a single sign in for Marketplace and Where'sMyFox. In the future, this same account will support Sync and new services built  by mozilla or our community.
* A single place for native implementation overview, status, and teams: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Native_Implementations

Current Activities: 
* We are continuing our charge towards FxA on FxOS v1.3 deadline on December 9th. 
* Break-down of tasks and strategies for landing:
** https://github.com/SamPenrose/fxa-fxos/blob/master/dependencies.md
**  tracking bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=920135&maxdepth=4&hide_resolved=1
* To get a view of our current status, check out the demos below:
** FTE Flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSUN7SAEmw
** Demo of the most recent FTE account creation, email verification, WMF sign in, FxA settings: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4ebdg3vnisxpey/fxa_flow_presentation.m4v

Firefox Accounts (FxA) has other initiatives in progress that include: FxA Service, Sync.next for Android and Desktop, and FxA on the Web.  Further information can be found on the Firefox Account wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/FirefoxAccounts 

;Sync.Next (formerly known as PiCL)
Project Overview:
* Sync.Next includes two major efforts: Firefox Accounts on Desktop and Android, and a simplified Sync
* Firefox Accounts are a safe and easy way to connect with Mozilla and non-Mozilla services across all of your devices -- laptop, phone, desktop or tablet -- so you have access to the services and data you need, whenever you need them, from wherever you are.
* One of the first services built on Firefox Accounts will be Sync.  Logging into Firefox with your Firefox Account gives you access to all  of your open tabs, awesome bar, and bookmarks.

Current Activities:
* Weekly Engineering Report: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2013-November/000607.html

For more information on Sync.Next:
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User_Services/Sync User Services/Sync]
* [http://people.mozilla.com/~zfang/FirefoxAccount/PiCL_0710.pdf PiCL Desktop Flow Mockup]
* [http://people.mozilla.com/~cbeasley/PiCL_Android_Signin_130701.png PiCL Android Flow Mockup]

;Persona
Project Overview:
* Persona is an authentication system that eliminates per-site passwords, by allowing users to sign in with their email address.
* It's long term goal is to become a standardized and browser-native means of decentralized authentication on the Internet.

Current Activities:
* Workweek in Brighton. An update will be provided in our next status report
* New team focus explained: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.identity/Grd5XwRW-UA/4-Bh49Y74YYJ

;Metrics
Project Overview:
* Measuring FxA, Sync.next and Persona

Current Activities:
* We're scoping out FxA related metrics projects, notes here: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/fxacct-metrics
* The first project we'll focus on: One-Metric-That-Matters for FxA on FxOS (successful signup completion rate) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936560
* Planning on attending DashCon 2014: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/DashCon2014

;UX
* There is a lot of exciting UX work in progress. Don't hesitate to stop by and check out what our UX team, John Gruen and Ryan Feeley, have been up to lately. The UX wiki page can be viewed at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/UX