MDN/Doc Sprints/2010Q4

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Doc Sprint Planning

Open Web Doc Sprint

Goal: Create tutorials for web developers on using open web standards.

Dates: 9-11 October, 2010

Location: Mozilla office (Sat & Sun), Paris France; La Cantine (Mon)

Potential Topics

  • HTML5 (incl. video)
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript (esp. multithreading)
  • SVG
  • WebSockets
  • MathML

Some of Paul Rouget's demos could be used as a basis for a tutorial. That is, describe each of the parts that go into the demo, and how they fit together. Here are links to some of the demos:

Here are some examples of tutorials to use as inspiration:

Participant Profile

  • Familiar with at least one of the target topics.
  • Able to read code and then describe it in words.
  • Lives in Europe (for in-person participants).
  • Moderately fluent in English.
  • Preferably already active in the Mozilla community. However, topic expertise trumps this.

Schedule

8-Oct 
Everybody arrives; dinner together.
9-Oct 
Discuss agenda and plan; assign tasks; start working.
10-Oct 
More work on tutorials; dinner and bowling.
11-Oct 
Finish tutorials; assess and clean up. Mozilla Community dinner.
12-Oct 
Depart for home.

Logistics

Questions about logistics? Contact William Quiviger (wquiviger at mozilla dot com)

Sleep

Out-of-town visitors will be staying at the Hotel Ibis near Bastille (in the heart of Paris), a few metro stops away from the Paris office and from the Doc Sprint meeting room.

Ibis Paris Bastille Opéra,
15, Rue Breguet
75011 Paris
Tel :(+33)01.49.29.20.20
Fax :(+33)01.49.29.20.30
Map: http://bit.ly/creWLq
Nearest metro stop to go to the office: "Chemin Vert" (line 8)
Nearest metro stop: "Bréguet Sabin" (line 5)

NB: although the hotel room is pre-paid by Mozilla, you will be asked to leave your credit card number at the reception desk as a garantee in case of damages and/or extra expenses such as mini-bar items, room service etc.

Food

Breakfast is included with your hotel room. Lunch and dinner will be organized and paid for by Mozilla. Free snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the Doc Sprint.

Janet will send an email to tell you where and at what time to meet for an informal prep-meeting on Friday evening. NB: if you have special requests in terms of food, contact Janet or William!

Work

The Doc Sprint will take place on Saturday and Sunday at the Mozilla Paris office:

Mozilla Paris office:
28 Boulevard Poissonnière
75009 Paris
1st door code : 35A74
2nd door code : 61B35
1st floor, door on the left.
Metro : Grands Boulevards (line 8)
See map: http://bit.ly/aImBYV

The Doc Sprint will move to another place on Monday:

La Cantine
151 rue Montmartre, Passage des Panoramas
12 Galerie Montmartre
75002 Paris
Metro : Grands Boulevards (line 8)
See map: http://bit.ly/aImBYV

Transport

For non-Mozilla staff, please make sure to send William a scanned copy of your plane or train tickets and bus/metro/taxi receipts for the Doc Sprint and please fill out and return the following form: http://somethin-else.org/public/Mozilla_EU_expense_report_template.ods

We'll process a full reimbursement shortly after the Doc Sprint is over.

NB: When you arrive at your hotel and have checked-in, make sure to ask the reception desk for your 10 metro tickets. William will give the reception desk your tickets beforehand. If they don't have them, ask them to call him. Other solution is to buy your tickets yourself and get reimbursed.


Getting to/from the Mozilla office from your hotel

To office:
Walk to "Chemin Vert" metro station, use 1 metro ticket to get past turnstile and take metro line 8 towards "Balard" then get off at "Grand Boulevards". Once there, make sure to take exit #1 ("Sortie" in French). Follow the exit and once you're up the stairs, just walk straight on boulevard poissonnière for 50 feet and you're there - the ride will take you 7 min and door to door from hotel to office, no longer than 20 min (if you don't get lost!)

From office:
Walk to "Grand Boulevards" metro station, use 1 metro ticket to get past turnstile and take metro line 8 towards "Creteil-Prefecture" then get off at "Chemin Vert"

Se map: http://bit.ly/aImBYV

Getting to hotel from CDG airport

Taxi: it will cost you 65 EUR and it will take you 30min-50min depending on traffic.

Train: it will cost you less than 20 EUR for a return ticket and it will take you 50 min. You can buy a ticket at an automatic machine (only accepts EU credit cards though) or at a human ticket counter. From the airport, take the "RER B" train going towards Paris and get off at "Gare du Nord" then take the metro line 5 that goes towards "Place d'Italie" and get off at "Breguet Sabin". Then it's a 4 min walk to the hotel. See map: http://bit.ly/aImBYV

If want to reduce both your carbon footprint and your expenses, take the train.

Outcomes and Lessons Learned

The Open Web Doc Sprint was held as planned, on October 9 to 11, 2010.

Participants

The community participants in the sprint comprised two previous MDN contributors, Florian Scholz and Jean-Yves Perrier, and two who had not previously contributed, Sebastian Perez-Vasseur and David Bruant. Florian and Jean-Yves continue to be active contributors to MDN, and also participate in bi-weekly contributors meetings via IRC. Following the doc sprint, David Bruant also participated in the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in November 2010. Florian, Jean-Yves, and Sebastian were invited based on previous contacts; David volunteered in response to a Hack post a week before the event. One additional person volunteered to participate remotely, in response to the same blog post, but never made contact during the sprint.

This doc sprint was intentionally kept small, since this was the first event of its type that we've tried. For future events, broader participation should be pursued, through earlier and wider publicity of the event.

Schedule

Three days seemed to work well, in terms of balancing having enough time to focus and produce results versus taking time away from participants' lives. It would be possible to do a two-day or one-day sprint, but there should be proportionately more participants for shorter sprints.

There were activities planned for all of the evenings of the event, but we ended up dispersing on Sunday night, and letting participants have time to themselves. This worked out to be a better plan than non-stop activity and "togetherness". Folks were able to return on Monday feeling refreshed and ready for another day of doc work.

Content

The work accomplished is linked from a Hacks blog post.

The original plan for the sprint was to produce tutorials related to open web standards (c.f. [#Potential_Topics]). The actual topics produced were determined by participants' interests and knowledge, so only some of them relate to open standards or tutorials. Everything written is a valuable contribution to MDN, but the focus of the sprint was not maintained.

For future events, some possible ways to keep more of a topical focus would be:

  • Foster discussion/brainstorming among the participants ahead of time about what to write about.
  • Provide examples and templates of the types of documents, so participants are not starting from scratch.
  • Ask for commitments regarding who will write what on the list of brainstormed topics.
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