Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-06-07

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Currently using the learning from the user research done to hone in on the target user and pivot the product Pursue a B2B offering Investigate custom commands with multi-lingual/bi-ligual users etc Investigate in-car use cases Looking at how Mozilla's platform positioning is different than the competitors Open “Skills” Marketplace - Amazon’s marketplace is curated so as to not conflict with Amazon's business goals or their business partners’ goals. Mozilla, in contrast, can curate an unbiased marketplace. Platform White-Labeled by 35+ Companies - The platform we build on is white-labeled by QIVICON Alliance members (SONOS, Philips, Samsung….) Connect Users Directly with “Skills” Providers - Mozilla can disintermediate user transactions, allowing user direct contact with “skills” providers, as our business model doesn’t involve user tracking. (Facilitated by offline recognition) Offer a service layer - Build on top of other voice solutions for specific verticals. e.g. banking
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	The Project Link research study originally targeted the busy family segment and tested the following hypotheses: The busy families want an easy way to help them with personalized reminders & memos for various people in their household. PROVED The busy families want a way their children can interact with a device that can help with homework DISPROVED The busy families want a simple way to order groceries (etc.) & get it delivered without having to use a screen no matter whether they are home or away. PROVED The busy families want an easy way for everyone in their household to listen to music without any supervision or screen time. PROVED Next steps: Target the “Busy Mom” (segment refined after analyzing the study results) Support a way to interact with Link using Voice Implement a 3rd party voice solution - Voice research results were presented to the team last week. Focus on the “Organize & Coordination” theme Reminders Schedule coordination To-Do List (may be) Develop our MVP in London Link team is simultaneously investigating collaborations or partnerships with 3rd parties.
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	All 2.6 major feature completed: (https://wiki.mozilla.org/TV_2.6#FxOs_2.6_TV_key_features) Remote Control Enhanced browser UI Smart Folder
Project Haiku	Maria/Liz	On Target	Creating an ambient method of communicating for 12 to 15 year old girls will create fewer interruptions that distract them from being in the moment at home and at school and improve their personal connections. Project Name change New official name for the project is "Project Haiku". We are right now replacing all the references in Wiki, GitHub... (More info in this tracking document) In June a blog post will be published communicating officially the change. Research update Our User Study finished last week (May 29th) after 5 days of User Research. Here you can find some team thoughts on observing the "unboxing" experience The team did a first analysis of the individual pre-interviews with the girls to find out patterns and motivations in existing communication methods used by the girls (before the experiment) Prototypes and Diaries were picked up and Liz and Katie ran the post-interviews with each couple of girls Metrics and Data Patterns gathered in the study were analyzed to share the top Level findings per pair, per device, and overall. They were used to develop specific questions for each of the pairs/girls during the post-interviews We’re planning to have some preliminary findings to share in London. Development The team is also working on new enhancements or pending tasks that could improve the prototype performance in case of running another user study (detailed list)
Project Magnet	Maria/Francisco	On Target	We believe that broadcasting professional content (e.g. professional websites, contact info, twitter, etc) for conference presenters will help presenters promote themselves more easily than current methods Not validated Research After interviewing several conference presenters and after the analysis of all the info we have the results of our first User Study. Our previous hypothesis was invalidated but we got other insights from the interviews to form 4 questions: How can we lessen people’s anxiety at conferences? What are the barriers for attendees to provide feedback? Can we make starting a conversation easier? Is Twitter the right tool for what attendees use it for? We are creating 3 types of experiments in London All Hands for further research to have more data about those new hypotheses and get some good insights that let us choose a single direction to follow Sched: Broadcast current happenings in a room to event attendees Reduce Anxiety: Broadcast helpful information to event attendees to help reduce anxiety. Personal Hook: Event attendees broadcast a piece of personal information to make starting conversations easier. A quick Research Plan is being done to send out communications to CD, advertising the experiments and also to collect people's feedback. Development Team is working on developing all the scenarios for the User Study. List of tasks described in Sprint 4 dashboard in waffle. Other Last Thursday, project Magnet had his first check in with the Board. Herein you have the slides and the video recording
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target	What’s next Deliver Bug 1271206 (SensorWeb Q2 goals). Pushing for updates of ETA and narrative progress for the remained opended bugs Upcoming Milestone: London ww: open session: working on finalizing the deck by end of this week Deck https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i5fc5Uk5PKEphjXJaFlO7Ak8jNTVGe9hd_URywsA-oM/edit#slide=id.p Sched https://mozillalondonallhands2016.sched.org/event/75bm/sensorweb-intro-status-how-to-participate Hackathon https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1VjfiDRhGdXfeRKFL-NICVDGF-IHsPKDfX9QtFVdERH0/edit?usp=drive_web
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Metrics for CD	Maria/Dylan	On Target	First integration of projects with CD Metrics: The team has been helping to Haiku team to collect data in real time and building the dashboards that will help them to identify usage patterns in his second User Study. It's been done through Google Analytics, POST request, Big Query and Periscope to visualize the data. It's been a success that has helped Metrics team to verify the chosen framework and also a great feedback to improve our CD library (e.g. it's been added TimeStamp parameter) Project Magnet has also started to send data using the Java script library developed by Metrics team that simplifies the adoption of Google Analytics. We are now working in building the Dashboards to visualize that info Team has also working in compiling Metrics library into a Raspberry Pi. Metrics wiki have been updated with all the info about the new CD Framework for collecting Metrics based on Google Analytics Measurement Protocol API and the use of Big Query together with several visualization tools to ensure that metric data can be easily analyzed by the CD projects.
Research Team	Lindsay	On Target	Bulleted list item Bulleted list item
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki Plan to continue support thru Q1 2018. Have some logistics to resolve for the period from Jan 1 2017 to March 31 2018. Will continue to keep an eye on that.
	Code Transition (Julie)	Done	Smartphone Code Transition Wiki The code transition is considered done, and it is being transitioned to the volunteer community at this point. All staff work will halt at the end of this week after the following loose ends are tied up: Work to modernize C++ infrastructure for B2G, or it won't build any longer. There's a patch which requires a bit more testing and cleanup before the review. Bug 1276927 - Build B2G with modern C++11 compiler and STL Need to get the Dialer fully working. Can't receive calls due to issue with system messages. Bug 1277836 - Incoming calls are not received if the Dialer is not open - This is about a need for a mechanism to wake up apps when there is a system message that requires it. Still need green up tests before merging pine on mozilla central. Bug 1274295 - Meta blockers for merging pine to m-c Bug 1252482 - Testing / Build Related Tasks
	Transition to Volunteer Community (Valentin)	On Target	B2G OS Transition Wiki Global overview: 16 candidate volunteers for mentoring sessions, up from 13 a week ago; 165 people on Telegram, up from 144 a week ago; 261 people on IRC Meetings on Thursday at 18:30 CEST/16:30 UTC/9:30am PDT/22:00 IST where you can participate in the following: B2G Vidyo room B2G OS telegram group '#fxos' IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. Building and Porting (~10 volunteers) There are regular volunteer builds for flame and volunteer builds for Open C B2G installer addon signed, will be available on addons.mozilla.org soon Infrastructure (2 volunteers) Mozilla Corporation can continue to provide B2G infrastructure but not the staff to keep it running. May want a separate instance of certain tools. Need volunteers to run the infrastructure. Potential contributors identified. Governance (8 volunteers) Provisional Council created for the next 6 months, manifesto in progress
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