Identity/WeeklyMeeting/2013-09-30

AGENDA

• Summit reminders:
  • Passport
  • Print Immigration Letter (if you are traveling to a country other than your home country)
  • Safe travels everyone!
  • Proposal: "5 minutes about 2015"
  • [Fr] Questions people may ask you: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Spread_Persona/Common_Questions
  • UX (bi?)weekly status format
• Due to Summit - there will not be a staff meeting next week, 7 Oct. We'll re-group on Monday, 14 October

General Reminders:

• Have you signed up for note taking?
  • See: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/weekly-notetakers
• Monday meeting:
  • etherpad: https://id.etherpad.mozilla.org/weekly-moco-updates
  • Content deadline: 5 pm PDT every Thursday
• Status report archive: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Department_Status

Meeting Notes

• Everyone download What's App (free text messaging for travel abroad in Europe).
  • Bonus points for porting WhatsApp to FxOS before Wed
  • Don't forget your Passport (trust me) + consular letter
• Elevator pitch for Persona (rough mix):
  • "The ease of Facebook Connect without the suckiness of Facebook's privacy mess." -seanmonstar
  • "we want to get rid of passwords while still allowing users to choose who they trust" -francois
  • "I'm getting us the heck out of beta so we can get back tot eh business of building a Javacsript-less version of the service." -kthiessen
• Francois: chipmunk?
• UX: we're going to do an update email
  • Include our links to other UX people on related teams
  • Relying parties of Persona: Marketplace, Firefox OS, Firefox Desktop (madhava), Firefox Android (ibarlow), SUMO (will bamberg), Webmaker (k88hudson)
• Session state management issues increasingly bubbling up. we are stripping out watch API and providing a minimal plat around .get.
  • V1 of spec won't include session management.
  • Goldilocks API thread, figuring out which path to take wrt API backward compatability
• Lloyd: "greased up" + "in cage"
• English: deficient wrt cat pronouns
• spenrose: structural ways to avoid to focus on last minute/firedrill-style problems.
  • can we have five minutes about long-term time horizon? Product vision?
  • Help maintain contextual ties btwn devs/ between where we are and where we're going.
  • make long term goals explicit, socialized etc.
  • Callahad: let's harness summit-energy to get the ball rolling for high-level conversation about sign-in.

UX

• All UX talks, mocks, etc for Identity has a home and has been recently updated with the latest flows for FxOS, Fx Android and Fx Desktop.
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/UX

Docs & Engagement

• [Fr] invited to write a Persona tutorial for the Web & PHP magazine (http://webandphp.com/ )
• [Fr] gave a talk at JSFoo: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.identity/HZyK-egKHFg/discussion
• [Fr] proposed a "Persona feedback" open session for the Toronto Summit

QA

• jbonacci: Straightforward QA-style wrap-up for end of Q3

Blog Schedule

• We are working on launching a new blog series. Stay tuned for more information soon

PTO/OOO (kept in the Identity calendar for everyone's reference)

• Crystal: 30 Sep - 1 Oct : PTO
• Zach: 1 - 2 Oct : PTO
• Gene: 1 - 3 Oct : AFK
• Brian: 2 Oct - OOO fly to Brussels for summit
• JedP: 7 - 15 Oct - PTO post summit
• Ozten: 7 - 15 Oct : PTO
• Francois: 9-14 Oct PTO
• John G: 11 Oct : PTO
• Brian: 7-16 Oct : PTO
• Shane: 28 Oct - 1 Nov : PTO
• Brian: 8 - 11 Nov : OOO conference