{"id":459,"date":"2009-06-15T15:37:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/?p=459"},"modified":"2017-03-08T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:50:06","slug":"announcing-mozilla-service-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/06\/15\/announcing-mozilla-service-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Mozilla Service Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\">Mozilla Service Week<\/a>. It is a new website for our community that aims to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promote technology related volunteering between Mozillians and their local communities<\/li>\n<li>Promote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idealist.org\/if\/mozservice09\/en\/AdvancedSearch\/VolunteerOpportunity\/default\">idealist.org<\/a> and other existing websites that make it easier to connect and change your world<\/li>\n<li>Inspire your participation during Sept 14-21 through pledges and stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/files\/2009\/06\/mozservice-screen-sm21.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Screenshot of Mozilla Service Week\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Start today<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\">Check it out<\/a> and pledge some hours. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\/tell_us\/your_pledge\/en_US\">refine your pledge<\/a> over time. Be sure to tag your various items with <code>mozservice09<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Mozillians have many \u201chi-tech\u201d skills that they may not realize are valuable outside of our community. You don&#8217;t have to be a Firefox code contributor to do tech volunteering. You can help configuring routers, helping people setup a WordPress blog, or teach a workshop on using social networks to promote causes. Anything from writing copy, doing data entry, or simply helping groups organize their information can make for a valuable service contribution.<\/p>\n<p>There is a real spirit of service growing and it\u2019s fun to chip in and Be The Difference. Cynicism is out and Participation is in!<\/p>\n<h2>Help Us Build<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019re launching early (and releasing often) to get this site into the community for early feedback. Most importantly we hope to <strong>prime the pump<\/strong> for volunteering opportunities. We are launching in English, but have built out <abbr title=\"Internationalization\">i18n<\/abbr> support and coordinated with the L10n-drivers team.  Post Firefox 3.5, where our localizers are pouring their energy right now, we are excited to <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\/tell_us\/build_mozservice09\/en_US\">launch many locale specific versions of Mozilla Service Week<\/a>. Our first non-english site will probably be mitmachwoche.de (German). Many other localizers have shown excitement for mozservice09 and localizing the site.<\/p>\n<h2>Of, for, and by the Web<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/idealist.org\">Idealist.org<\/a> for the English site to make it easy to find ways to help or to register your needs.  With the mozservice09 site, we have taken a very <strong>de-centralized<\/strong> strategy, hoping to take advantage of the <strong>strengths of the web<\/strong> itself. Outside of Idealist.org&#8217;s framework, if you want to organize a project through your blog or website for a type of service that we haven\u2019t begun to imagine, that\u2019s great! Mozilla Service Week introduces no heavy-weight process or centralized control.<\/p>\n<p>Just be sure to pledge, <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\/tell_us\/your_stories\/en_US\">Tell Your Story<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mozillaservice.org\/promote\/mozservice09\/en_US\">spread the word<\/a>. We will feature many of these stories to inspire others to get involved.<\/p>\n<h2>Show us the code!<\/h2>\n<p>From a technology perspective, one interesting aspect of the site is that when you write a story, you can provide an image or video from another website. Examples include your blog, Flickr, Youtube or Vimeo. The entire website is of course open sourced and <a href=\"http:\/\/svn.mozilla.org\/projects\/mozillaservice.org\/trunk\/\">available now<\/a>, but this JavaScript widget\/PHP backend is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/ozten\/Magic-Mini-DCMS\/tree\/master\">stand-alone library<\/a>. I\u2019m looking forward to your contributions to make it smarter about finding photos and videos from your favorite websites. An example would be support for <a href=\"http:\/\/openvideo.dailymotion.com\/us\">dailymotion.com<\/a> which will be added to the site shortly.<\/p>\n<h2>Credits:<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s been a wild and fun ride building the site with the core team:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary Colvig (Marketing)<\/li>\n<li>Jane Finette (Marketing)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Donner  (WebDev QA)<\/li>\n<li>Krupa Raj (WebDev QA)<\/li>\n<li>Jeremy Orem (IT)<\/li>\n<li>Peter Deitz (Social Actions)<\/li>\n<li>Austin King aka ozten (WebDev).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many People have been involved with the project so far (and I hope I don\u2019t forget any shout-outs): In roughly chronological order, Michael Morgan provided guidance and support. Axel Hecht, Pascal Chevrel provided <abbr title=\"Localization\">l10n<\/abbr> guidance with code review from Ryan Doherty and Fredrick Wenzel. Throughout the project Mark Surman and David Boswell from the Mozilla Foundation\u00a0have helped us shape the vision. John Slater and The Royal Order of Design (Aaron Shimer, Tim Hogan, and Stephanie Bankhead) helped design the site and Craig Cook did an amazing job with the HTML and CSS.  Ladonna Willems pitched in on the copy. Again on the L10n front Seth Bindernagel and Wil Clouser gave input. Stas Malolepszy contributed code for rewriting our <code>gettext<\/code> strings. Les Orchard wrote the Activity Feeder module. Alex Buchanan and Reed Loden prepared the promotional Badges. Our new intern Raymond Agbeame did a great job testing the site. and Jeff Balogh filed some good bugs. The rest of the webdev team also gave input and support. Additionally thanks to our partners idealist.org (Juan Cruz Mones Cazon, Ami Dar), betterplace.org (Tim Benke, Matthias Pries), and of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialactions.com\/\">SocialActions<\/a> team.<\/p>\n<p>As we add more locales and partners, I look forward to volunteering with you, watching the hours pledged ticker go up, and reading your stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce the release of Mozilla Service Week. It is a new website for our community that aims to: Promote technology related volunteering between Mozillians and their local communities Promote idealist.org and other existing websites that make &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/06\/15\/announcing-mozilla-service-week\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing Mozilla Service Week - Mozilla Web Development<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/06\/15\/announcing-mozilla-service-week\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Austin King\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/06\/15\/announcing-mozilla-service-week\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/06\/15\/announcing-mozilla-service-week\/\",\"name\":\"Announcing Mozilla Service Week - 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