CloudServices/Location

Summary

The "Open Location" project is a pilot project to assess the impact Mozilla can have on the geo-location landscape, specifically to improve user privacy and enable innovation by creating a public data sets.

In order to do this assessment, we need to understand the technological challenges and get real data. Therefor the services team builds and operates a location service to provide geo-location lookup for devices, based on cell tower, wifi or IP address information.

Details

• Goals
• Privacy

Meeting

• Time: Thursday at 10:00AM PDT / 13:00PM EDT / 6:00PM UTC.
• Place: Vidyo room #geolocation (9429)
• Phone (US/Intl): 1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf: 9429#
• Phone (Toronto): 1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf: 9429#

If you cannot join via Vidyo, you can call in via one of the phone numbers. Please mute yourself with '* 1' upon joining to prevent needless noise and feedback. You can unmute yourself with '* 1' again to speak.

Get Involved

IRC

Join the #geo channel on Mozilla's IRC server (irc.mozilla.org).

Mailing List

You can subscribe to the mailing list at https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation

Report Bugs

Bugs should be reported in the Mozilla Services :: Location component of Bugzilla.

Source Code and Development

Source code for the service can be found at https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea

Developer documentation is hosted at https://mozilla-ichnaea.readthedocs.org/