Hi,

If anyone willing to giveaway a foxfood device, then I want to take it. I am in 
love with firefox os. But my device has been dead for about six or seven month. 
So, if anyone does not want to use foxfood device anymore and willing to 
giveaway, I am here. Please contact me.

Tapu Afrad


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From: dev-fxos <[email protected]> on 
behalf of Jean Gong <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Foxfooding update: Devices



Dear Foxfooders,


We’d like to share this follow-up communication with you on Foxfooding. In this 
message we want to focus mainly on what to do with your current Foxfooding 
devices, for those of you that have one.


Our push into the Connected Devices space will absolutely necessitate strong 
community support for our initiatives to be successful--and that means hacking 
on and testing new product innovations coming through the pipeline.


That means some kind of testing, feedback and preview program will continue to 
engage community members with new product concepts early and often. We’re not 
sure that the Sony Z3C Foxfooding devices in the existing program will be 
useful in this next phase; we need until the end of March to figure out the 
detailed design of this program based on how the product innovation 
process<https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/03/01/update-on-connected-devices/>
 proceeds. So please stay tuned for another communication that will dive into 
specifics.

What to do with existing devices

You have two choices—continue to participate in whatever the Foxfooding Program 
becomes or withdraw from it:

A)   If you want to continue participating…

Please keep your Z3C/Flame devices. They could possibly be useful for certain 
test scenarios (to be identified). Except as otherwise specified below, your 
participation will continue to be governed by the terms and conditions you 
agreed to when you signed up to participate in the Foxfooding Program.


Previously Mozilla collected data in order to improve the Foxfooding Program 
and Firefox OS.  That has changed in view of the evolution of the Foxfooding 
Program. Accordingly, we are planning to push out the latest 2.6 software for 
the Z3C’s within a few days. The primary purpose of this update is to stop the 
data collection by Mozilla on your phone (it switches off the data collection 
flag so your data will no longer be collected). We ask that once this update is 
available, you accept OTA update. In the event OTA update is not possible, we 
ask that you please install the update manually (we will provide instructions 
to do so). If you don’t accept or install the update, the data collection will 
continue.


B)   If you don’t want to continue participating in Foxfooding…

You have two things to do please:


i) Notify us by Email.   Please send us your name and email address via email 
to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> to be 
removed from the Foxfooding program. We’ll remove you from the Foxfooding 
Contributor email list so that you will no longer receive communications 
regarding the Foxfooding Program from us. If we don’t hear from you, we’ll 
assume you want to continue with the Foxfooding Program.


ii) Return/Keep Your Device.   You may either return the device to us or keep 
it.


1) Return.   If you choose to return your device to us, please bring or mail it 
to one of our Mozilla Offices<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/spaces/> 
(e.g. London, Paris, Berlin).  Or if you’re attending the London All-Hands in 
June 2016, please bring it with you. We’ll share further instructions at the 
All-Hands on returning the devices to us. In all cases of a return, please fill 
out the return form 
here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sK7CMB30aLxm926dXWCaVuCMAjt1xRBPTG0yjmu2asA/edit?usp=sharing>
 and enclose it with your phone.



2)  Keep.   You may choose to keep your device and continue to use it with 
Firefox OS, or flash it with another operating system if you wish. Please be 
aware that we will no longer be supporting the phone. It will become your 
property and you will be solely responsible for it. If you keep the phone and 
want to continue using it as a Firefox OS phone, we highly recommend upgrading 
your phones with the latest 2.6 software update before continuing to use it (or 
before you give it away). If you don’t accept the 2.6 update, the data 
collection will continue.


How we envision Foxfooding to evolve:


We originally envisioned the foxfooding program as a way for Mozillians to use, 
test and provide specific feedback that would improve a product that users were 
already relying on as their primary device. We’re well aware that this context 
is really different with Connected Devices -- it will be some time before users 
have a Mozilla product, other than a SmartTV, in their hands or homes.


While the specifics are still to be figured out, we anticipate that the program 
will evolve to ask for help from Mozillians in shaping early stage products. 
This might include testing or getting feedback on individual features and 
pre-alpha products, or potentially doing user research.


If you have ideas on what this program could look like or how you would want to 
contribute, please get in touch. We’re aiming to have a plan in place for this 
by the end of March/early April.



Next steps:

Below are a few next steps we’re going to follow through on in the next few 
days and weeks:

Step


Timeframe


OTA push for Z3C upgrades


week of 29th Feb.


Connected Devices “Office Hours”


Ongoing, 
weekly<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Participation#Communication_Channels><https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Participation#Communication_Channels>


Next communication on Foxfooding program--more details on specific scenarios 
and opportunities


March/April


London All-Hands<https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/2016_London> -- Some 
volunteer foxfooders may be invited -- process coming soon -- and there will be 
an opportunity to get together to discuss Foxfooding, or hand us back devices.


13th - 18th June



Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any questions or suggestions.


We’re excited about the future for Connected Devices, and both staff and 
non-staff community participation is being built into the fabric of how this 
team will have impact on Mozilla’s mission. Take a look on the wiki 
here<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Connected_Devices/Participation> for 
opportunities to get involved, and please don’t hesitate to reach out with your 
ideas and questions.

--
Valentin Schmitt, Vik Iya, Jean Gong

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