Sprints Articles
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Doc sprint in [insert California cliché]
The last weekend in April saw yet another amazingly productive documentation sprint for MDN. A group of community members gathered at the Mozilla spaces in California, while others contributed remotely. The in-person group worked on Friday in Mozilla’s Mountain View headquarters, then spent Saturday and Sunday at the Mozilla space in San Francisco. Here is […]
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Starting 2012 with loads of doc updates
We’re aware of the problem on MDN in which error messages appear in place of code examples (and a few other places). This is due to a bug in the wiki platform software that causes some of its extensions to fail to load when a server restarts. The problem has been diagnosed by the vendor, […]
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How to get MDN swag (doc sprint January 20-21)
It has been far too long since the last MDN online doc sprint. For those of you who have been asking me when the next sprint is (yes, there are a few), you need wait no longer. We’ll be holding a sprint to work on MDN docs next Friday and Saturday, January 20 and 21. […]
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JSConf EU fun and doc sprint results
At the just-finished JSConf.eu (European JavaScript Conference), Mozilla sponsored the Hacker Lounge, and held a doc sprint during the conference. The conference kicked off with Bella Morningstar, president of the Brendan Eich Fan Club (a.k.a. Mandy Lauderdale), serenading Brendan: JSConf.eu opening song – JavaScript Will Listen from Alexander Lang on Vimeo. Later, at Brendan’s request, […]
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Tagging docs for sprint at JSConf.eu October 1-2
We’re very excited to announce that Mozilla is sponsoring the Hacker Lounge at JSConf.eu and we will be holding a doc sprint at and during the conference. The focus of this doc sprint will naturally be docs for JavaScript and DOM. We hope to encourage attendees at the conference to contribute at least a little […]
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MDN docs get more sprint love
This past weekend, at least 20 people around the globe spent time improving the docs on Mozilla Developer Network. While this was a “virtual” sprint with no centralized gathering, we succeeded in having a few local meet-ups of sprinters, in Taiwan, California, and Texas. Jeremie Patonnier added pages for 35(!) SVG interfaces to the DOM […]
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Better docs, by who? You (Doc sprint August 12-13)
tl;dr: MDN doc sprint, August 12-13, online or at local meetups organized by you. Write docs, get swag. How does better documentation for JavaScript, CSS, HTML and other open web technologies come into existence? People like you write it. MDN Doc Center contains some great docs, but it can always be clearer, more comprehensive, and […]
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Three(-way) cheers for the MDN doc sprint
Over the last three days, a group of Mozillians gathered in Cincinnati to eat N-way chili (and other cheese-laden dishes) and improve the MDN Documentation Center. This gathering was double the size of the first in-person doc sprint last October. The sprint followed after the Open Help conference, and shared time, space, food, and fun […]
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MDN doc sprint, in-person and online, June 6 to 8
In just about one month, we’ll be holding our next documentation sprint for Mozilla Developer Network, building on the success of recent sprints in April and January, and October of 2010. This will be the first sprint since October to have a planned in-person gathering. Our main topical focus continues to be open web technologies, […]
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Another successful MDN doc sprint
While this weekend’s documentation sprint was smaller than the previous one, it represented significant steps toward achieving the goal of making Mozilla Developer Network a comprehensive, usable, and accurate resource for everyone developing for the web. Eric Shepherd created and refined (and the rest of us began implementing) a format and related templates for browser […]