Mozilla.org

This is a starting point for information about www.mozilla.org.

Contact Us

If you want to get involved with the site or have any questions, you can reach us by:

Email: dev-mozilla-org

Chat: #siteplanning on irc.mozilla.org

Phone: Monthly planning meetings

Getting Involved

www.mozilla.org is a community run site and we welcome anyone who would like to get involved.

For general information about working with the site, see our How to Work with Site page. See also How To Put Free Software Experience On Your Résumé.

For information about specific projects you can get involved with, see the list below (note that these are just suggestions and you are welcome to work on whatever interests you the most):

Web Development

Easy

• Fix HTML validation errors

Advanced

• Use media queries to create style sheets for small and large screens
• Code an interactive Timeline

Graphic Design

Easy

• Create graphics for Time Available tab on Get Involved page

Advanced

• Design a Community Dashboard
• Design an interactive Timeline
• Add video content to site to help us tell the Mozilla story better

Systems Administration

Easy

• Document how to run a copy of www.mozilla.org locally
  • Mozilla.org/MAC OSX Stage Setup

Advanced

• Add RSS feed for Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories
• Set up tests for our redirects

Localization

• Translate content on site
• Coordinate activities with web l10n community

QA

Easy

• Check pages with HTML Validator and identify errors

Advanced

• Set up tests for our redirects
• Triage open site bugs

Writing

Easy

• Proof pages and fix spelling and grammar errors

Advanced

• Rewrite FAQs
• Migrate technical documentation to Mozilla Developer Center

Owners

The www.mozilla.org site fits into Mozilla's governance structure as a module with owners and peers. If you want to get involved with running the site, owners and peers are picked from the people who contribute their time by making updates and fixes and by attending our regular planning meetings. We're always open to having new people get involved, so feel free to join in.

Planning Documents

• Page layout conversion docs -- How to change your page from the old layout to the new layout

• Big Picture -- A high level overview of the goals and direction of the site.

• Site Unification Project

• 2011 Roadmap

• 2009 and 2010 Roadmap

• Owners List -- A mapping of directories on the site and associated content owners

• Content Priorities -- A list of key pages we want to work on.

• Content Overlap -- A list of key pages that are duplicated on other sites

• Promo spots -- A list of the promo spots available on the site.

• Planning Agenda -- A list of open issues for discussion at monthly planning meetings.

• Site History -- A timeline with screenshots of how the site has evolved.

Archive

This section is for completed or no longer active items.

• Redesign – We're actively working on getting mozilla.org redesigned. This page tracks our progress and more information about the ideas we're using the plan the redesign.
• Repository Transition -- Information and documentation about upcoming transition from CVS to Subversion.
• Design Implementation -- A list of what we need to do, in addition to the repository transition, to implement the new design.
• Technology List -- a page that lists all technologies from the current Projects list.