User:Dietrich/Dashboard

Active Projects

Area	Thing	Notes	Links
Easing Contribution, FxOS Ecosystem, FxOS Priority Markets	FxOS Contribution Challenge - Local Content	Engaging developers in India & Mexico to develop apps focused on the needs of those markets.	https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Dietrich/LocalContent
Academic, FxOS Priority Markets	OSU Senior Capstone	Undergrad senior capstone program, 3 students, 3 months, working with Network team to build network-condition-aware scheduler API.	http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/dmcgrath/classes/14F/cs461/index.cgi?project=131
Easing Contribution + Scaling Output	Papercuts + Mentored bugs	Product identifies priority bugs, engineers mentor those bugs, contributors (partner, academic, volunteer) fix those bugs.	https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Papercuts
Easing Contribution + Scaling Output	Projectizing the Roadmap	Firefox OS product roadmap and development resource plan assumes traditional waterfall process. By representing Firefox OS goals as microprojects with clear deliverables, entities outside our employee base can help achieve those goals.	https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Projects
Academic	U of Michigan Research	Graduate research lab at University of Michigan focused on mobile network/device performance and efficiency. I'm working on integrating their findings into our architecture and technology roadmap.	https://wiki.mozilla.org/FirefoxOS/Research
Communication, Ongoing	@boot2gecko	Currently have Planet Firefox OS posts being autotweeted, as well as any bug that lands in FxOS product that has "feature" keyword.
Communication, Ongoing	@hackb2g	All Gaia commits are autotweeted through this account.
Communication, Ongoing	Planet Firefox OS	Putting anyone blogging about technical Firefox OS topics on there.	http://planet.firefox.com/os

Finished Projects

Area	Thing	Notes	Links
Academic	PSU Capstone 2013 - Fall	Five CS students from Portland State University implemented a web messaging system for Firefox OS using Firebase.	http://psucapstonea.github.io/, https://github.com/PSUCapstoneA/firefox-im
Academic	PSU Capstone 2014 - Spring	Six CS students from Portland State University are implementing a network-aware zero-configuration newsreader targeted at first-time smartphone owners in markets with slow/unreliable/rare connectivity, leveraging the findings of Mozilla UR dept and the UMich graduate resource lab.	Proposal slides, Project status and notes, code
Academic	Open Academy	Multiple universities, implementing device-to-device app sharing over NFC+Bluetooth	https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxos-openacademy