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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

• August 12-13, 2011
  • 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

Past Sprints

• 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