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Mozilla Hacks is a pragmatic blog for people who make the Web. We also cover Firefox development and web platform development with a perspective for people who make websites (or web apps, or web services). It is managed by the Developer Relations team. | Mozilla Hacks is a pragmatic blog for people who make the Web. We also cover Firefox development and web platform development with a perspective for people who make websites (or web apps, or web services). It is managed by the Developer Relations team. | ||
==Writers' Guidelines== | ==Writers' Guidelines== | ||
==== Workflow and review process for Hacks posts ==== | ==== Workflow and review process for Hacks posts ==== | ||
*If you have a timely and pragmatic original post on a technical topic of interest (Firefox, Mozilla, the web platform, JavaScript) to Hacks' primary audience of web developers, designers, and people who make the web, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact Havi Hoffman by email, IRC, Slack. | *If you have a timely and pragmatic original post on a technical topic of interest (Firefox, Mozilla, the web platform, JavaScript) to Hacks' primary audience of web developers, designers, and people who make the web, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact Havi Hoffman by email, IRC, Slack. | ||
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==== House Style ==== | ==== House Style ==== | ||
*We respect sentence case (EU style) and Title Case (US style) titles. British and Canadian authors are welcome to use British English spelling. (We are a global, geo-distributed organization, right?) | *We respect sentence case (EU style) and Title Case (US style) titles. British and Canadian authors are welcome to use British English spelling. (We are a global, geo-distributed organization, right?) | ||
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*Length: Most Hacks articles fall in the range of 800-1500 words. Some run longer, but if they run much longer we'll encourage you to write a series rather than a single post. | *Length: Most Hacks articles fall in the range of 800-1500 words. Some run longer, but if they run much longer we'll encourage you to write a series rather than a single post. | ||
==== Markdown ==== | ==== Markdown ==== | ||
*We have a plugin that automagically converts Markdown to HTML. You should be able to write in MD and save draft. | *We have a plugin that automagically converts Markdown to HTML. You should be able to write in MD and save draft. | ||
== Editorial Calendar == | |||
We maintain a Hacks Editorial calendar on Mozilla's gcal - if you are Mozilla staff you can access it here: [https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mozilla.com_h1vjme6vi1m7o3f05vv32qa2a4@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Mozilla Hacks Editorial calendar] If you are an NDA'ed Mozillian who needs access, you may request it by pinging Havi. | |||
==Suggested Posts (this section is OUT OF DATE, pls ping/email havi if you have suggestions... )== | ==Suggested Posts (this section is OUT OF DATE, pls ping/email havi if you have suggestions... )== | ||