Connected Devices Weekly Update/2016-03-29

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Program		Status	Notes
Vaani	Validation (Lindsay/Sandip)	On Target	Demos Demo set up for Monday April 4th Video for sprint review is complete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkMFX5pdeNY&feature=youtu.be Finalizing what the London demo looks like in the next couple of weeks (stage vs. table 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.
Project Link	Validation Stage (Julie/Preeti)	On Target	Project Workweek in Mountain View with dev, product and UX members Product Discussions on product differentiators and vision for Project Link UX Interaction draft specs for Recipes reviewed First draft of visuals produced Simplified UI proposed for pilot scenes at the workweek and is on-track 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.
Smart TV for 2.6	Josh	On Target	Tv 2.6 scoped finalized : http://bit.ly/1Tb9N4a TV 2.6 Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/TV_2.6 2.6 meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=TV_FxOS2.6 Post 2.6: New architecture http://bit.ly/1X68tgE. Joe had a content meeting with panasonic last week and will discuss with Ari about future plan for TV content/marketplace this week
Smart TV Next Gen	Validation (Joe/Josh)	On Target	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: Smart TV market overview - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgd0xtTDM0TE1rWVE User research - Smart TV pain points and feature interests - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B79ce_W1QaRgZG9FWHpxSWxRQzQ
Project SmartHome	Maria/Liz	On Target	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
Project Sensor Web	Cindy/Wesley	On Target
Porting	Nicole/David/Peter	On Target	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 Done: Meta bug here
FlyWeb	Nicole/Dylan	On Target	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.
Firefox OS Smartphone Sunset Smartphone Transition Wiki	Smartphone Commercial Sunset (Karen)	On Target	Smartphone Commercial Transition Wiki Progressing closing agreements with partners on schedule Last scheduled push for Marketplace today. Moving forward with maintenance/fixes only.
	Code Transition (Julie)	On Target	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
	Foxfooding (Jean)	On Target	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.
	Transition to Volunteer Community (George)	On Target	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
Participation Update	Brian	On Target	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]
Metrics for CD	Maria	On Target	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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