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Over April 26-28 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) the [https://developer.mozilla.org|Mozilla Developer Network] team will host a documentation sprint in [http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/contact.html#map-canada-vancouver|Mozilla's Vancouver office]. | |||
Remote participation and meet-ups are also encouraged. | |||
=What's MDN?= | |||
The [https://developer.mozilla.org|Mozilla Developer Network] (MDN) is one of the most popular documentation resources for developers on the Web. | |||
As an open, community-driven wiki, MDN provides Web developers, designers, application developers, and extension and theme writers with access to the best documentation, tutorials and developer tools available. Anyone can add and edit content to make it even better. It’s used by developers building resources for a better Web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. | |||
=What's a Doc Sprint?= | |||
A document sprint is a short time period, usually two to three days, when people from the community gather for focused effort on writing documentation for MDN. | |||
=Who's invited?= | |||
MDN doc sprints are open to anyone. For this one, we're expecting to have most of Mozilla's full-time writers, some volunteer contributors, and some Mozilla developers in attendance. But it's also open to any local attendees who have an interest in contributing to MDN, whether or not they're employed by Mozilla, and whether or not they've contributed to MDN before. | |||
Doc sprints are a great opportunity for people who might want to contribute to MDN to get started, in a place where they can easily get help from the other attendees. You can attend for the whole three days, or any part of the sprint. | |||
We're limited, though, by the capacity of the space: we can fit around 20 people in the communal area of the office, and are already expecting 12 attendees, so we could host 8 more people. If you'd like to attend, please contact | |||
= Schedule = | |||
The following are the times when in-person sprinters are going to be working. Remote sprinters are welcome to work outside these hours, whenever is convenient in your time zone. | The following are the times when in-person sprinters are going to be working. Remote sprinters are welcome to work outside these hours, whenever is convenient in your time zone. | ||
* Friday Apr 26: 9:30am to 5:30pm PT (16:30 Fri to 00:30 Sat UTC) | * Friday Apr 26: 9:30am to 5:30pm PT (16:30 Fri to 00:30 Sat UTC) | ||
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You are welcome to start earlier or continue later, but this time frame is when you are likely to find other people online working on MDN. Obviously, you do not have to participate the entire time; drop in when it's convenient, and sleep when you need to. | You are welcome to start earlier or continue later, but this time frame is when you are likely to find other people online working on MDN. Obviously, you do not have to participate the entire time; drop in when it's convenient, and sleep when you need to. | ||
=Topics= | |||
[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Docsprint2013April Etherpad for notes] | |||
There are two major topics to focus on: | There are two major topics to focus on: | ||
* Web Workers | * Web Workers | ||
Revision as of 00:17, 10 April 2013
Over April 26-28 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) the Developer Network team will host a documentation sprint in Vancouver office. Remote participation and meet-ups are also encouraged.
What's MDN?
The Developer Network (MDN) is one of the most popular documentation resources for developers on the Web.
As an open, community-driven wiki, MDN provides Web developers, designers, application developers, and extension and theme writers with access to the best documentation, tutorials and developer tools available. Anyone can add and edit content to make it even better. It’s used by developers building resources for a better Web, regardless of brand, browser or platform.
What's a Doc Sprint?
A document sprint is a short time period, usually two to three days, when people from the community gather for focused effort on writing documentation for MDN.
Who's invited?
MDN doc sprints are open to anyone. For this one, we're expecting to have most of Mozilla's full-time writers, some volunteer contributors, and some Mozilla developers in attendance. But it's also open to any local attendees who have an interest in contributing to MDN, whether or not they're employed by Mozilla, and whether or not they've contributed to MDN before.
Doc sprints are a great opportunity for people who might want to contribute to MDN to get started, in a place where they can easily get help from the other attendees. You can attend for the whole three days, or any part of the sprint.
We're limited, though, by the capacity of the space: we can fit around 20 people in the communal area of the office, and are already expecting 12 attendees, so we could host 8 more people. If you'd like to attend, please contact
Schedule
The following are the times when in-person sprinters are going to be working. Remote sprinters are welcome to work outside these hours, whenever is convenient in your time zone.
- Friday Apr 26: 9:30am to 5:30pm PT (16:30 Fri to 00:30 Sat UTC)
- Saturday Apr 27: 9:00am to 4:00pm PT (16:00 to 23:00 UTC)
- Sunday Apr 28: 9:30am to 5:00pm PT (16:30 to 00:00 UTC)
You are welcome to start earlier or continue later, but this time frame is when you are likely to find other people online working on MDN. Obviously, you do not have to participate the entire time; drop in when it's convenient, and sleep when you need to.
Topics
There are two major topics to focus on:
- Web Workers
- Web device APIs
We need to improve the reference pages, and create or enhance tutorial and guides for these topics.
Contributions on other topics are, of course, also welcome.
- MDN documentation wishlist
- Firefox issues with doc impacts
- Add browser compatibility tables to CSS, DOM, and JavaScript reference pages.
- Fill out browser compatibility tables on reference pages where they exist, based on info from caniuse.com and quirksmode.org.
- Pages that need technical review.
- Pages that need editorial review
- David Bruant's TODO list (mostly JS-related stuffs)
- Add live samples to existing articles on CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
- Make videos showing how to get and build Firefox code.
Suggest a topic, either that you want to work on, or that you'd like to see done by someone.
Helpful information
- Our list of subject-matter experts.
- Our list of topic drivers. These are people that organize specific areas of our documentation.
- How to add live samples to articles.
Logistics
Who
If you're planning to participate, please add your name, IRC nickname and/or MDN user name, and what you'd like to work on, below (you need to create an account on this (spam-free) wiki in order to edit it):
| Name | IRC nick | MDN ID | Topic(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janet | jms | jswisher | copyediting, cleanup |