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<\/a>Pitching project ideas at HackOnMDN weekend, Berlin 2015. Photo by Biraj Karmakar.<\/p><\/div>
\nAbout 30 Mozilla contributors gathered in Berlin over 27-29 March to collaborate for the second annual “Hack on MDN” weekend. Together, we achieved our goal of producing a ton of useful outcomes that will improve MDN in different ways, including code, content, community, and processes. <\/p>\n
Here is a list of the projects that were accomplished. All of them were worked on collaboratively, so if I miss mentioning everyone who worked on each thing, I apologize.<\/p>\n
Platform Code<\/h2>\n\n- Proof-of-concept for offline use of MDN<\/a>, implemented with Service Workers, by Szmozs\u00e1nszky Istv\u00e1n (Flaki). <\/li>\n
- Prototype Metrics dashboard for MDN<\/a>, using Google Analytics and database queries, by Rabimba Karanjai, Rob Hudson, Luke Crouch, Justin Crawford, Jannis Leidel, Akshay Aurora.<\/li>\n
- A prototype for opening MDN code samples in JSFiddle<\/a>, by Flaki, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy), Jérémie Patonnier, and Akshay.<\/li>\n
- A prototype for an annotation system for MDN editors, implemented as a Firefox add-on<\/a> and back-end server<\/a>, by Andre Garzia.<\/li>\n
- Proposal<\/a> and mock-up<\/a> for slicing MDN into smaller sites, by Vladimir Krstic, with input from Sheppy, Franceso Iovine. <\/li>\n
- Design improvements for viewing MDN on mobile devices, by Thierry Régagnon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Content<\/h2>\n\n- Additions to the Learning Area glossary, by Biraj Karmakar and Liu Xing (Meteormatt), <\/li>\n
- Refactoring CSS pages<\/a> to make them better structured for users and for Firefox Dev Tools to use, by Jean-Yves Perrier, Julien G (Sphinx), Florian, Saurabh Nair, Will Bamberg, Thierry, Sebastian Zartner.<\/li>\n
- Code samples and articles related to Touch Events. This resulted in a touch-based game, Touch Horizon<\/a>, available on Github<\/a>, and a draft article on Touch gestures and events<\/a>, by Francesco Iovine, Andrzej Mazur, Niklas Barning, and Sebastian.<\/li>\n
- Article on writing a game in Canvas, from scratch<\/a>, with code samples at every step, also available on Github<\/a>, by Andrej, Niklas, and Rabimba.<\/li>\n
- More code samples! by Andre Garzia\n
\n- Added Image Uploader on the Web Activites, Network Information API<\/a>, Notification API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added Contact Exporter on the Contacts and the Device Storage API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added simple Telnet Client to the TCP Socket API<\/a> article<\/li>\n
- Added Cyber Orb to the device orientation API<\/a> article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- For MDN Content Kits: created a template kit<\/a>, updated the wiki page<\/a>, and created an index page for Content Kits<\/a> on MDN, by Justin Crawford, Stormy Peters, and Havi Hoffman. <\/li>\n
- Curriculum plan<\/a> for MDN Fellowship orientation, by Diane Tate, with input from Michelle Thorne, Laura Hilliger, Stormy Peters, Ali Spivak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Community<\/h2>\n\n- A draft of new recognition system<\/a> and process<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar, Ali Spivak, and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- Badge for participants of the weekend<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- MDN Youtube channel<\/a> with screencasts on contributing to MDN, and the Learning area, by Biraj Karmakar.<\/li>\n
- A plan<\/a> for expanding the current “Wednesday Docs” meetup concept to more general MDN meetup-like events.<\/li>\n
- Roundtable discussion about the history of the MDN community, in preparation for our 10th anniversary celebration, later this year. Recorded by Niklas, with a bunch of people participating.<\/li>\n
- Plans for an HTML tutorial<\/a>, by Jérémie and Thierry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Processes<\/h2>\n\n- Plan for Q2 work on the browser compatibility project, by Sebastian, Rabimba, Jérémie, and Luke.<\/a><\/li>\n
- John Karahalis led a tutorial on using Git and Github for those not familiar with these tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Content<\/h2>\n\n- Additions to the Learning Area glossary, by Biraj Karmakar and Liu Xing (Meteormatt), <\/li>\n
- Refactoring CSS pages<\/a> to make them better structured for users and for Firefox Dev Tools to use, by Jean-Yves Perrier, Julien G (Sphinx), Florian, Saurabh Nair, Will Bamberg, Thierry, Sebastian Zartner.<\/li>\n
- Code samples and articles related to Touch Events. This resulted in a touch-based game, Touch Horizon<\/a>, available on Github<\/a>, and a draft article on Touch gestures and events<\/a>, by Francesco Iovine, Andrzej Mazur, Niklas Barning, and Sebastian.<\/li>\n
- Article on writing a game in Canvas, from scratch<\/a>, with code samples at every step, also available on Github<\/a>, by Andrej, Niklas, and Rabimba.<\/li>\n
- More code samples! by Andre Garzia\n
\n- Added Image Uploader on the Web Activites, Network Information API<\/a>, Notification API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added Contact Exporter on the Contacts and the Device Storage API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added simple Telnet Client to the TCP Socket API<\/a> article<\/li>\n
- Added Cyber Orb to the device orientation API<\/a> article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- For MDN Content Kits: created a template kit<\/a>, updated the wiki page<\/a>, and created an index page for Content Kits<\/a> on MDN, by Justin Crawford, Stormy Peters, and Havi Hoffman. <\/li>\n
- Curriculum plan<\/a> for MDN Fellowship orientation, by Diane Tate, with input from Michelle Thorne, Laura Hilliger, Stormy Peters, Ali Spivak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Community<\/h2>\n\n- A draft of new recognition system<\/a> and process<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar, Ali Spivak, and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- Badge for participants of the weekend<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- MDN Youtube channel<\/a> with screencasts on contributing to MDN, and the Learning area, by Biraj Karmakar.<\/li>\n
- A plan<\/a> for expanding the current “Wednesday Docs” meetup concept to more general MDN meetup-like events.<\/li>\n
- Roundtable discussion about the history of the MDN community, in preparation for our 10th anniversary celebration, later this year. Recorded by Niklas, with a bunch of people participating.<\/li>\n
- Plans for an HTML tutorial<\/a>, by Jérémie and Thierry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Processes<\/h2>\n\n- Plan for Q2 work on the browser compatibility project, by Sebastian, Rabimba, Jérémie, and Luke.<\/a><\/li>\n
- John Karahalis led a tutorial on using Git and Github for those not familiar with these tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Added Image Uploader on the Web Activites, Network Information API<\/a>, Notification API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added Contact Exporter on the Contacts and the Device Storage API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n
- Added simple Telnet Client to the TCP Socket API<\/a> article<\/li>\n
- Added Cyber Orb to the device orientation API<\/a> article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- For MDN Content Kits: created a template kit<\/a>, updated the wiki page<\/a>, and created an index page for Content Kits<\/a> on MDN, by Justin Crawford, Stormy Peters, and Havi Hoffman. <\/li>\n
- Curriculum plan<\/a> for MDN Fellowship orientation, by Diane Tate, with input from Michelle Thorne, Laura Hilliger, Stormy Peters, Ali Spivak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Community<\/h2>\n
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- A draft of new recognition system<\/a> and process<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar, Ali Spivak, and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- Badge for participants of the weekend<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- MDN Youtube channel<\/a> with screencasts on contributing to MDN, and the Learning area, by Biraj Karmakar.<\/li>\n
- A plan<\/a> for expanding the current “Wednesday Docs” meetup concept to more general MDN meetup-like events.<\/li>\n
- Roundtable discussion about the history of the MDN community, in preparation for our 10th anniversary celebration, later this year. Recorded by Niklas, with a bunch of people participating.<\/li>\n
- Plans for an HTML tutorial<\/a>, by Jérémie and Thierry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Processes<\/h2>\n
- \n
- Plan for Q2 work on the browser compatibility project, by Sebastian, Rabimba, Jérémie, and Luke.<\/a><\/li>\n
- John Karahalis led a tutorial on using Git and Github for those not familiar with these tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- John Karahalis led a tutorial on using Git and Github for those not familiar with these tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- Badge for participants of the weekend<\/a>, by Biraj Karmakar and Janet Swisher.<\/li>\n
- Added Contact Exporter on the Contacts and the Device Storage API<\/a> articles<\/li>\n