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MDN Documentation Sprints

A document sprint is a short time period, usually two to three days, when people from the community gather, either in person, or for virtual sprints on IRC, for focused effort on writing documentation for MDN.

Document sprints are usually held over weekends and are advertised with a starting and finishing time. These times are useful indicators of when Mozilla staff will be participating, obviously they will sleep at night. Feel free to participate outside the times advertised if you wish.

If you have been considering participating in the documentation process a document sprint is the ideal opportunity to get started as you can be sure that there will be a large number of people available to help you with any issues that you may have.

Planned Sprints

• 30 November to 1 December, 2012, online
  • Starting 30 November, 14:00 UTC (7:00 am PT)
  • Ending 1 December, 23:59 UTC (5:00 pm PT)
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Planning and topics

Past Sprints

• 28-30 September 2012, London UK
  • Starting at 8:00 UTC (9:00 am London, 1:00 am US PT)
  • Ending at 15:00 UTC (4:00 pm London, 8:00 am US PT) -- North Americans are welcome to continue later
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Planning and topics
  • Cheerio to another MDN doc sprint

• 1 September 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Translation sprint in
  • Portuguese translation priorities
  • BrazilJS Firefox OS Apps Hack Day: fun, games & JavaScript

• 27-29 April 2012, Mountain View & San Francisco, CA
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Mountain View and San Francisco, California: April 27-29.
  • Doc sprint [insert California cliche]

• 20-21 January 2012, online
  • Starting 20 January, 14:00 UTC (7:00 am PT)
  • Ending 21 January, 23:59 UTC (5:00 pm PT)
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Planning and topics
  • Starting 2012 with loads of doc updates

• 1-2 October 2011, Berlin, Germany
  • At and during JSConf.eu in Berlin, but also virtual
  • Major focus on JavaScript and DOM docs, but contributions to other areas (and translations) are always welcome.
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org (We may try a Google+ Hangout for remote participants who are interested.)
  • Planning and topics
  • JS Conf EU fun and doc sprint results

• 12-13 August 2011, online
  • Starting 12 August, 14:00 UTC (7:00am PT)
  • Ending 13 April, 23:59 UTC (5:00pm PT)
  • Coordination via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Planning and topics
  • MDN docs get more sprint love

• 6-8 June 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Immediately following the Open Help Conference.
  • Planning and topics
  • Three(-way) cheers for the MDN doc sprint

• 1-2 April 2011, online
  • Starting 1 April, 14:00 UTC (6:00am PT) -- no joke!
  • Ending 2 April, 23:59 UTC (4:00pm PT)
  • Planning and topics
  • Another successful MDN doc sprint

• 28-29 January 2011, online
  • Starting at 14:00 UTC (6:00 am US Pacific) on 28 Jan, running through 23:59 UTC (or 16:00 US Pacific) on 29 Jan. Coordination will be via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org
  • Planning and topics
  • MDN doc sprint was a huge success

• 9-11 October 2010, Paris, France
  • Web Standards Doc Sprint — Finis! Hacks blog post describing what we accomplished.
  • Planning and logistics