[Ssc-dev] Wrapping up Sprint 1: Obscura on the Android Market

[Bryan Nunez]

Hi everyone,

Shawn, Nathan and I met last Tuesday to figure out what to do to close out
the first development round for the project.

We agreed that getting the app ready for a general audience and releasing it
in the Market would get us the most bang for our buck (or at least the few
we have left in this round of budgeting).  I met with Sam and Yvette, the
Program and Executive Directors here at WITNESS and they given us the green
light to move forward.

The app will be launched as a joint Guardian Project/WITNESS project.  One
thing to be aware of is that WITNESS will need to put together a crisis
communications plan together on the off chance someone uses the app to do
something terrible.

Nathan has setup the branch and milestones:

Milestones updated/created here:
https://github.com/guardianproject/SecureSmartCam/issues/milestones

Branch:
https://github.com/guardianproject/SecureSmartCam/branches/obscurav1

The market ready app will be a simplified version that focuses on usability
and user experience, and it's primary feature will be face detection and
obfuscation.  The idea is to get buzz going for the project and the concept
of visual privacy.  This will hopefully translate into more funding
opportunities as well as exposure to tech companies and developers.

Features we're keeping:

   - Take/Choose Pic
   - Auto Face Detect (select/edit add? region)
   - Obscure methods for regions: blur, pixelize, redact, 8bit, image
   overlay (bundled smily, mask, cat, nathanize/bryanize)
   - Erase original, share, save to gallery
   - About (what's the project about, why we're doing it, teaser for version
   2 w/ video)

Feature we're leaving out:

   - Threat slider
   - Encrypt/ID

Shawn and Nathan, let me know if I've left anything out.

Thanks again everyone for a successful first sprint, and I look forward to
the next one!

-Bryan



-- 
Bryan Nunez
Technology Manager
WITNESS
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