EU MozCamp 2009/DrumBeat/Group3/

This content was created as part of a brainstorming session at MozCamp Eu 2009

Title

Death Of IE6 Day - End The Pain

or

• "Kiss IE6 Goodbye"
• IE6 R.I.P. August 27, 2001 to August 27, 2010
• IE6 “Obituary Notice”

1 Sentence Summary

Get major websites and developers to sign up to a "no guarantee of support for IE6 after <date>", and use this as leverage in the “Upgrade the Web” process.

Goals

• Reduce number of IE installations to an ignorable percentage
• Give web developers great joy
• Reduce costs at web companies
• Enable users to enjoy the full benefits of the web
  • (Include a couple sexy examples or pain points here? How will the web be more awesome once IE6 is extinct?)
• Make it easy for evangelists to pressure & help IT departments

Audience

• End users still using IE6
• Businesses with websites, particularly large web properties
• IT departments managing IE6 deployments
• Web developers
• Evangelists to pressure & help IT departments

Potential Partners

• Prominent / popular sites who agree to sign up to stop supporting IE6
• Tech bloggers & Internet taste makers?
  • The big tech blogs, trade publications, and web sites (Slashdot, TechCrunch, boing boing? etc.) so that we can create buzz and awareness around IE6’s “death day?”

Activities

Simple one-page website:

IE 6 makes web developers miserable and keeps users from experiencing the full power of the web. After

28th August 2010

the following websites will no longer guarantee to support IE 6:

YouTube [logo] Facebook [logo] 37Signals [logo] Wikipedia Digg Slashdot Orkut .... <list of hundreds of companies>