Labs/Meeting Minutes/20110801

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Status Update 2011-01-08

Betafarm

Betafarm is an effort to create a single home for Mozilla Innovation projects. It is a website that will promote projects from Mozilla Labs, the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Research as well as the larger Mozilla Community. Users of the website will be encouraged to get involved by being able to track Mozilla events and respond to challenges (specific calls to action \-\- see the Knight Mozilla News Partnership). The larger goal being explored is to create a social, engaging web experience for people interested in innovation at Mozilla.

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Public release

Done this Week

  • Work week w/ Andy Chung and Paul Osman (lots of progress)
  • Coordination meeting with Gunner to determine v2 features and work distribution
  • Building out project pages in betafarm and tuning content template. Betafarm Content Template Feedback welcome. (Havi)

Next up

  • Finalize v1 and get it out there!

Want your help with...

  • Check out the prototype and give us feedback

Cherrypicker

Provide people with a fake email address to signup for sites, complete purchases, and other account creation activities where they are unsure or want to avoid using their real email address.

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Demo Party

Demoparty is an initiative to foster artful exploration of open web technologies, diving into the demoscene culture.

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Get alot of proper submissions, need to directly reach out to more people

Done this Week

Next up

  • Assembly Demoparty participation (Special Web competition, Workshops with Rob Hawkes, Mr. Doob + Visy) 4.-7.8.2011, Helsinki
  • Online competition official deadline August 7th -> Might extend for one more week

Want your help with...

  • Marketing...

Deuxdrop

Experiment in private messaging between one or more people using encryption and allowing for federation. Focused on mobile first, with shorter on-the-go messaging, but the platform should allow for longer form messaging later.

The mobile target is similar to BlackBerry Messenger or iMessage, but using an encrypted/federated back-end and a web-technologies based "smart" client (eventually PhoneGap style, current targeting a Mobile Firefox add-on).

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Integration of the UX (currently backed by a "fake server" for development) with the real client layer that talks to the real server layer.

Done this Week

  • Non-fake Moda API layer that allows the client UI (thread) to talk to the client back-end (thread) is bridging.
    • It is able to issue 'peep' queries and get non-updating responses and this is covered by a unit test.
    • It knows how to perform conversation summary and conversation-in-full queries, but they are not yet tested.
  • Created a mailing list: https://github.com/mozilla/deuxdrop/wiki/deuxdrop-planning-mailing-list

Next up

  • (Non-fake) Moda API-layer:
    • Complete implementation and unit test conversation summary and in-full queries.
    • Make queries updating with events (with unit tests.)
  • Hook UI up to the non-fake moda API layer. This needs to happen in the Jetpack, which will also require:
    • jsctypes binding for (djb) nacl crypto library
    • database shim that works in jetpack. (Right now we are using redis on the server which is not our production goal.)

Want your help with...

F1

Mozilla F1 is a simple and fast sharing service designed to enhance the sharing experience of the browser, Firefox, when sharing web sites.

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OWA Marketplace

The OWA Marketplace is the place where people can go to install open web apps. Focus is on social discovery and other targeted recommendations.

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

Done this Week

  • Dynamic layout of tiles on tile-style landing page
  • Alternate ("classic view") landing page design
  • Finished modifications to Zamboni
  • Laid out social plans and architecture for the store

Next up

  • Sketch, mock up, and iterate on "View by Friend" page designs
  • Sketch, mock up, and iterate on mobile store designs
  • Review architecture issues surrounding social plan
  • Review privacy issues surrounding social

Want your help with...

  • Giving me feedback on the designs! I'd like to start moving into templatizing as soon as possible, and I'd hate to change designs in any drastic once that's done.


Prospector

Explore how people search and discover content by analyzing user behavior and prototyping new interfaces.

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Continue experiments with search interfaces in the browser

Done this Week

  • Release Snaporama experiment to save and restore Panorama groups
  • Combine tabs and navigation bars with OneLiner experiment
  • Deploy initial search result usefulness study to Firefox 4 beta users

Next up

  • Follow up on OneLiner responses and issues
  • Analyze search result usefulness study for next actions (larger audience? longer study?)
  • Plan for collaborative search platform milestones

Want your help with...

  • Feedback on collaborative search initial goals

WebFWD

WebFWD is an accelerator program where we help and support teams with concrete product ideas to get to a minimum viable product (and further). The programs aim is to significantly increase our innovation throughput.

  • More info: https://webfwd.org/
  • People: Pascal Finette, Didem Ersoz, Julie Choi, Tobias Leingruber

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Get first teams into program

Done this Week

  • Rolled out Fellow program [1]
  • Created curriculum and game plan for Fellow program
  • Reviewed initial batch of applications, identified 3 strong candidates
  • Interview with BBC Outriders [2]
  • Added the president & CTO of 10Gen/MongoDB to our list of mentors [3]
  • Opened job req for a Program Manager [4]
  • Blogged [5] & discussions with additional partners

Next up

  • Select first batch of teams
  • Hire a Program Manager
  • Promote program

Want your help with...

  • Promote the program
  • Identify strong candidates for the program [6]
  • Recommend candidates for our Program Manager position [7]

Labmates

Labmates, a Mozilla Labs Concept Series channel - is a global community of research academics. It aims to engage with the world of academia - to identify, showcase and promote research that makes the web better!

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Enable Drumbeat.org to allow for user created sub-projects with projects

Done this Week

Next up

  • Review and feedback draft functionality on sub-projects and challenges
  • Request updates, tweaks to code
  • Get code onto a Drumbeat staging server for testing

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Developer Challenges

The Developer Challenges platform is a experimental new initiative from Mozilla Labs — providing a series of coding challenges — under the Concept Series umbrella. Read more: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/dev-challenges-content

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • Kick-off initial designs
  • Brainstorm potential challenges
  • Get present state of initial prototype onto Heroku server

Done this Week

  • Initial content created and reviewed
  • Inspiration and examples from other platforms gathered
  • Finalised Admin Panel spec
  • Draft an intro blog post

Next up

  • Create Challenge proposal form
  • Additional thinking on 'community' challenge aspect
  • Looking at potential judges & sponsors

Want your help with...

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