Labs/Meeting Minutes/20110808

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Status Update 2011-08-08

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 (Target August 17th)

Done this Week

  • BrowserID integration working (using django-browserid)
  • Real time blog syndication for projects
  • Using UserVoice for feedback
  • UI tweaks

Next up

  • Enhancements to User profile editing (ability to add links to profile)
  • Surfacing featured blog posts to splash page
  • Allow users to follow projects and see aggregated blog posts on dashboard
  • Work with illustrator on graphics / branding

Want your help with...

  • Use the site and provide 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.

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

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Done this Week

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Next up

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Want your help with...

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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)

  • Extended Deadline for online submissions: August 14th
  • Get alot of proper submissions, need to directly reach out to more people
  • Rally-up Judges + push voting (Next week)

Done this Week

  • Our final event, Assembly Demoparty in Helsinki, is over. Rob Hawkes, Mr. Doob (Ricardo Cabello) and Visy (Visa-Valtteri Pimiä) did seminars for us, all well-documented.
  • Blog Post No.1 on Assembly: http://mozillalabs.com/blog/2011/08/mothership-of-demo-parties-assembly/
  • Got-in 9 more submissions, looked for and reached out to lots of demo coders, still am.

Next up

  • Push the fact that we've extended the deadline for 1 week
  • Get as much submissions into our system as possible. Most event demos still haven't been submitted
  • Organizing a little Demoparty meeting with MDN peeps on potentially taking it over - We've got alot of positive community resonance and circa 10 more requests for event collaborations.

Want your help with...

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

note: short week, statutory holiday and personal holiday

  • (Non-fake) Moda API-layer:
    • Progress on updating live queries from events, further filled out db query handling.
  • Hook UI up to the non-fake moda API layer.
    • Started IndexedDB database shim, light refactoring of database interface to support differing operation from redis.

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
    • Completed IndexedDB database shim.

Want your help with...

  • Nothing right now.

F1

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

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

  • getting ui working reliably after tests are in place

Done this Week

  • oauthorizer has been jetpacked
  • some patches landed

Next up

  • outline to help preflight security review
  • testing infrastructure in place, some tests
  • more ui/ux cleanup
  • land more of the f1 patches for owa

Want your help with...

  • ./.

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)

  • Finalize desktop mockups based on Sean Martell's designs

Done this Week

  • Sketch, mock up, and iterate on "View by Friend" page designs
  • Sketch, mock up, and iterate on mobile store designs
  • Begin privacy review surrounding social plan for the store

Next up

  • Continue work with Sean and Jason Grlicky (mobile)
  • Start work synchronizing what will be needed for the front end (esp. social, recommended) with the back end
  • Begin templatizing changes to Zamboni
  • Review architecture issues surrounding social plan
  • Continue privacy review of social

Want your help with...

  • Continual feedback on page design

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

  • Released v2 OneLiner responding to issues filed
  • Deployed search result usefulness study to some Firefox 6 beta users
  • Crunched some numbers on initial search result usefulness data

Next up

  • Clean up some issues with Test Pilot cleaning up studies and add-ons
  • Continue planning collaborative browsing and search

Want your help with...

  • Planning milestones for a collaborative browser

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

  • Team evaluation & selection for first batch of Fellows (nearly completed)
  • Finalized first iteration of Fellow curriculum
  • Started identification & outreach process to relevant projects
  • Submitted speaker proposals to LeWeb [1] & WIRED UK Conference [2]
  • Presentation at Bay Area Mobile Meetup [3]
  • First round of interviews for Program Manager role [4]
  • Setup next CoffeeFWD event [coffeefwd.eventbrite.com]
  • Meeting with WSOH winners [5]

Next up

  • Select first teams for Fellow program
  • Concentrated outreach effort
  • More interviews for Program Manager position

Want your help with...

  • Send us interesting projects you think would benefit from being part of WebFWD

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

  • Checked in Bug fixes to Staging

Next up

  • Reviewing Bug fixes with Ross Bruniges
  • Complete an online submission form

Want your help with...

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)

  • Check-in a working 'admin' panel prototype

Done this Week

  • Reviewing present prototype http://mozchallenge.herokuapp.com
  • Completed challenge submission form
  • Potential 'Judge' Shortlist created
  • Potential sponsor/supporter list created
  • IRC channel up and running / irc.mozilla.org #mozdevchallenge

Next up

  • Discussing and creating possible challenges
  • Reviewing 'community' challenge submissions
  • Reviewing prototype for bugs, enhancement requests etc.

Want your help with...

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