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Moved this content to [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/User:Dria:MDC_Ideas my MDC user page] -- [[User:Dria|Dria]] 20:02, 17 Mar 2006 (PST)
 
=== Audiences ===
 
# Web content and application developers
# Mozilla Independent Software Vendors (Mozilla ISVs)
# Mozilla Contributors (traditional "Mozilla Developers")
 
=== Overall Site Requirements ===
 
* Single account creation and login facility for the whole site, including all components and subsites.
* All components must have a consistent look and feel and navigation system.  In an ideal world this is easily skinnable.
* Navigation breadcrumbs to reflect site structure and user location (?).
* Single search facility for the whole site, with advanced search that enables sub-site and component searching.
* Overall structure must be flexible – we don’t want to have to start this whole thing from scratch in a year or three.
 
=== Possible Features ===
 
==== Developer spotlight ====
Periodically we choose a developer out of the community who is doing particularly good or interesting work. We interview him/her and bring him, and his projects, to the attention of the development community as a whole.
 
==== Technology spotlight ====
Periodic articles outlining particularly interesting/useful technologies, whether they be old or new.  Do an article introducing the technology, then provide links to other resources within MDN related to that community -- documentation, educational materials, code samples, other articles, etc.  Examples of these would be XUL, XHTML, CSS...etc.
 
==== Topic spotlight ====
Periodic articles about a particular topic of concern/interest to the community.  These would introduce the topic, the various issues surrounding it, and some of the Mozilla technologies and approaches related to it.  Topics could include things like standards, accessibility, cross-browser design and development, etc.
 
==== Tool spotlight ====
Periodic articles about one of the Mozilla-created and/or hosted tools, such as Venkman, Bugzilla, Bonsai, whatever.  These articles would serve as introductions to these tools with links, to comprehensive documentation, articles, tutorials, FAQs, and so forth.  Bringing the tools to light so developers can take better advantage of the stuff that's available to them.
 
==== Developer Newsletters ====
Weekly or bi-weekly opt-in mailouts that will remind people about MDN and bring them back to take a look.  These should not be empty missives, but should contain a summary of the news and changes that have taken place since the last newsletter went out.  Maybe have one newsletter per audience, or one big one for the whole site, or some combination.
 
This might be more effectively done simply by making it very very clear how to subscribe to RSS feeds.
 
==== Guest Articles ====
Weekly articles by outside contributors about anything development related, for any or all of the three developer communities.  Ideally, we would eventually have enough content coming in that we could have at least one new feature-length article per week per developer subsite.
==== Tips & Tricks ====
Short, task- or topic-specific articles that reveal some bit of useful information to developers.  Each developer subsite would have its own set of tips and tricks, but they would be integrated into the Knowledge Base (or just be part of the KB).  These can be posted as often as possible, whenever they come available, and can be derived from a wide variety of sources.  Mining mailing lists and forums is a good place to get ideas -- if someone posts something useful or interesting, approach them about writing it up.
 
==== Mozilla Recommends ====
This could be a list of books, magazines, websites, courses, or what-have-you that the MDN community deems to be useful.  I initially envisioned this as being simply a bookstore, with reviews of and links to recommended books, but it could be expanded to include whatever useful resources are out there.

Latest revision as of 04:02, 18 March 2006

Moved this content to my MDC user page -- Dria 20:02, 17 Mar 2006 (PST)

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