{"id":9091,"date":"2013-06-20T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2013-06-20T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T00:25:04","slug":"hatchery-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2013\/06\/hatchery-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchery Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we announced <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2013\/04\/announcing-mozilla-hatchery\/\">The Hatchery<\/a>, Mozilla&#8217;s new program to support emerging product ideas. We want to update you on how things have gone since then, and give you a peek at what is to come and how you can get involved.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have coaches! We heard from many of you wanting to help out as a subject matter expert for product development, design, front end development and more. We had so many offers to help that we&#8217;ve created a database of our new coaches, and invite more of you to join with us!<\/li>\n<li>One of our first projects, <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/en-US\/towtruck\/\">TowTruck<\/a>, is off and running! TowTruck is a service for websites that makes real-time collaboration easy! It started out a few months ago and we&#8217;re providing design and user research support to the team. Though still in its early stages, the press have been super interested in TowTruck; you can read more about TowTruck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmagazine.com\/news\/behind-mozilla-s-towtruck-collaboration-tool-132708\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/dd\/2013\/04\/14\/mozilla-towtruck-is-an-experimental-project-that-adds-google-drive-like-collaboration-to-any-site\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what is next?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greater definition of focus areas. Be on the lookout for more clarity from us around what kinds of projects we&#8217;re prepared to support. Expect themes to emerge, such as &#8220;HTML5 mobile apps&#8221;, so that multiple small teams can work in parallel, and learn from each other.<\/li>\n<li>Prototypes. If you submit an application, must provide a prototype (mockup, sketch, code, etc.) with your application. This will help us better understand your idea and to see if there is a good fit.<\/li>\n<li>Refer projects to us. We heard from a few of you and are keen to hear from more. Be sure to check out our program criteria on our <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/en-US\/hatchery\/#FAQ\">FAQ <\/a>and encourage people in your network to apply.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution list. We will set up an email list for interested parties where you can expect updates from us every few weeks. Contact us if you&#8217;d like to get on our distribution list at labscoaches@mozilla.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always, we welcome any feedback as we evolve this process! You can send it to labscoaches@mozilla.com too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>To innovation!<\/p>\n<p>The Hatchery Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we announced The Hatchery, Mozilla&#8217;s new program to support emerging product ideas. We want to update you on how things have gone since then, and give you a peek at what is to come and how you can &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2013\/06\/hatchery-update\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22904],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}