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Status Update 2011-08-29

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.

• Github Repository: http://github.com/mozilla/betafarm
• Issue Tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/284775
• Staging URL: http://betafarm.mozillalabs.com
• People: Andy Chung, Paul Osman, Ross Bruniges

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

• Public release (Target August 17th)

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.

• wiki: https://github.com/mozilla/cherrypicker/wiki
• People: Simon Wex, Andy Chung, Bryan Clark

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.

• More info: http://mozillalabs.com/demoparty
• People: Tobias Leingruber, supported by Desigan Chinniah

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).

• More info: https://github.com/mozilla/deuxdrop
• People: Andrew Sutherland (:asuth), James Burke (:jrburke), Bryan Clark (:clarkbw)

Next Major Milestone (Goal)

• Real data flow, identity with crypto established.

Done this Week

• addon data pipeline established, with a hidden frame holding the encryption, web sockets and indexdb work. A page worker bridges the UI in a browser window to that hidden frame.
• Initial updated styling from Andy applied. Initial name collection and browserid assertion grabbed and simulated to data frame.

Next up

• Do real identity creation with crypto keys, establish server connection to the identity.
• Ability to add/connect people for messaging.

Want your help with...

• n/a

F1

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

• More info:
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Roadmap
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Modularity
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/F1/Modularity/WebMod-API
  • https://github.com/mozilla/fx-share-addon
• Older info:
  • https://github.com/mozilla/f1/wiki
• People: Bryan Clark, David Ascher, Shane Caraveo, James Burke, Mark Hammond, Ben Adida

Want your help with...

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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.

• Github Repository: http://github.com/21echoes/owa-store
• Staging URL: http://21echoes.github.com/owa-store/
• People: David Kettler, Allen Short, AMO team

Prospector

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

• Blog: https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/
• Code: https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/
• Issues: https://github.com/mozilla/prospector/issues
• People: Edward Lee, Abhinav Sharma

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)

• Ramping up teams
• European press tour (September 12th - 24th)

Done this Week

• The first teams are in! [1] & [2]
• Teams set up, internal Yammer set up, Partners set up
• Added AgileZen [3] and Media Temple as partners [4]
• Meetings with Collaborative Fund, 2600Hz and others
• Deeper integration into the Mozilla web universe [5] & [6]
• P.S.: Both Fellows blogged about WebFWD [7] & [8]

Next up

• Ramping up teams
• Introduce teams to their respective mentors
• Preparation for European press tour

Want your help with...

• As per usual - help us spread the <3!

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!

• More info: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/friend-of-labs-contacts
• People: Desigan Chinniah

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

• Dashboard: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/dev-challenges-dashboard
• People: Desigan Chinniah

Paladin

Paladin is an initiative by the Mozilla community at the intersection of 3D gaming, JavaScript framework and library development, and the browser. We're tied into the bits of the web that are up-and-coming, and intend to weaponize them for gaming. And where the web is missing critical gaming support, we aim to fill those gaps.

Three pieces are already spinning up: a framework written in JavaScript to support 3D gaming in HTML5, a first game to help drive development of that framework, and a web joystick API for Firefox. The framework currently offers 3D rendering via CubicVR, physics by ammo.js (a cross-compilation of Bullet), loading via require.js, and sound. More subsystems are likely to be up and running before too long.

• Overview (in-progress): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Paladin
• People: Alan Kligman (:ack), Bobby Richter (:secretrobotron), Dan Mosedale (:dmose), David Humphrey (:humph), and irc://irc.mozilla.org/#paladin

Framework

• Github repository: http://github.com/alankligman/paladin
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/alankligman/paladin/issues

Navigame

• Github repository: http://github.com/alankligman/paladin-demo
• Issue tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/337777