View source for Tiles/Community Involvement

= Overview =

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The Content Services Team is looking to give our global community a voice through tiles in hopes of increasing awareness around the work Mozilla is doing, especially when it comes to new users & new installs.
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When a new user//new install first opens Firefox, a set of 9 pre-loaded tiles will appear on their homepage based on their location. You can learn more about how this works here on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tiles Tiles Wiki Page]. One of the 9 tiles that appear is dedicated to that user’s local community.
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We are looking towards the community to give our global community a voice through Tiles. 
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= We Need YOUR Help!=
<big>'''We are asking that members that are located within our community to create unique art for the their community tile that either links to their local Get Involved Page or a page of their choice.'''</big> 

<br />With this tile, local community members will be able to increase awareness and activity in their local or regional communities by: 
* linking the tile to their localized Get Involved page
* creating unique tile art that links to their (already localized) Get Involved page.
* linking to a page of their choice, with unique art for the tile. 

==Who can Submit==
The Community Content Teams for Tiles will be vouched Mozillians and Reps who have expressed an interest in creating meaningful content for their community. They should be from a diverse variety of areas, be able and have experience with working asynchronously, and be designers who want to broadcast their work to help people get involved with Mozilla.

We are launching our first set of Community Tiles on November 10th in a limited number of languages.  
<br /> Unfortunately, we are not currently looking for Community Tiles in all languages. Please view the current list [[#Community Tiles Needed For the First Launch | here]]. ''N.B.: If you do not see your community on this list, do not worry: we will be adding more languages as they are localized.''
==What To Submit==
The rules for what Tiles should look like can be found [https://www.dropbox.com/s/myizhz1ebue08eg/Enhanced_Tiles_on_Firefox_PARTNERS_V3%282%29%282%29.pdf?dl=0 at this link].

If you become a community content creator, you'll be submitting a Tile after discussing it in the forum. See the guidelines on [[Tiles/Community_Involvement#How_to_Submit|How to Submit a Tile here]]

== Other Community Tiles Guidelines ==

Please use language and topics that are accessible and understandable to users

Not divisive, offensive or partisan (politics, religion, etc)

More detailed information about the community.

== How to Submit ==

1. Please fill out the application for Community Content Creators [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zYqy4uK205OWEzSNPvK55J-X4woNRlcgi6dcVFLq038/viewform?usp=send_form here]

2. After you fill it out, you'll be provided with a link to a forum where you can discuss your ideas for your local tile with other Reps and vouched Mozillians from your area.

3. Discuss your Tile with '''your''' community! Use the template guidelines found [https://www.dropbox.com/s/myizhz1ebue08eg/Enhanced_Tiles_on_Firefox_PARTNERS_V3%282%29%282%29.pdf?dl=0 here]

4. Submit your finished Tile to contentservices at mozilla dot com

== Still confused?==
We will be hosting a Brown Bag on ... to further explain Community Tiles. We will be posting a link to the Brown Bag as soon as it is finished.
<br /> Read the Community Tiles [[#FAQ | FAQ]].
<br /> You can also always submit a question to contentservices at mozilla dot com

= Community Tiles Needed For the First Launch =
The Community Tile has been translated into the following languages for the launch on November 10th: en-US,fr, de, es-ES, ja, pl, ru, pt-BR. 

We are looking for members of the below 26 communities to submit tiles for the launch :

{| class="wikitable" 
|-
!#
!Country Code
!Country
!Locale for Launch
|- 
|1
|AR
|Argentina
|es-ES
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|2
|AT
|Austria
|de
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|3
|AU
|Australia
|en-US
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|4
|BE
|Belgium
|fr, en-US
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|5
|BR
|Brazil
|pt-BR
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|6
|BY
|Belarus
|ru
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|7
|CA
|Canada
|en-US, fr
|-
|8
|CH
|Switzerland
|de, fr, en-US
|-
|9
|CL
|Chile
|en-ES
|-
|10
|CO
|Columbia
|en-ES
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|11
|DE
|Germany
|de
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|12
|EC
|Ecuador
|es-ES
|-
|13
|ES
|Spain
|es-ES
|-
|14
|EU
|Europe
|en-US, de
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|15
|FR
|France
|fr
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|16
|GB
|UK
|en-US
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|17
|HK
|Hong Kong
|en-US
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|18
|JP
|Japan
|ja
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|19
|KZ
|Kazakhastan
|ru
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|20
|MX
|Mexico
|es-ES, en-US
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|21
|NZ
|New Zealand
|en-US
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|22
|PE
|Peru
|es_ES
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|23
|RU
|Russia
|ru
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|24
|SA
|Saudi Arabia
|en-US
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|25
|US
|United States
|en-US
|-
|26
|VE
|Venezuela
|es-ES
|}


==FAQ==

====What do the generic tiles currently look like?====
[[File:Mozilla_Community-11_11_14-en-US-side2.png|400px|]]
[[File:Mozilla_Community-11_11_14-en-US-side1.png|400px|]]

====How often will regional tiles be updated/refreshed?====
Tiles can be switched every week

====If you’re in a region but have EN version of the browser, can you get the regional content version?====
If you are in a region with multiple locals we will run the tile you provide in the area for which it is written in.

==== Can I submit the same community tile in different languages? ====
You are able to submit your tile in multiple languages for a community. If you only submit one tile for a multi-lingual community, we will use the generic tile for the rest of the languages.

====Is there any flexibility in the first launch country list?====
No, we might remove countries but we are not adding any. this is based on the languages we have translated.

==== Will we have the ability to have different content running at the same time, like Snippets?====
No - not in the near future. 1 tile per local per day

====Are there different versions of Tiles to different users (e.g., Nightly, Beta, Aurora)?====
Possible but not yet.

==== What about countries that have multiple languages?  will there be multiple versions of community tiles served?====
Yes, see #2.

==== For communities that don’t have design resources, will the CS team be able to provide that? or will they need to use the thumbnail visual option?====
Unfortunately, not at this time. After signing up to be a Community Content Creators, we recommend you ask for help in the forum.


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