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I agree 100% with the reasoning for changing the app's URL from 
mozillians.org.

To me, I think phonebook.mozilla.org would make more sense since we 
already refer to mozillians.org as the Phonebook. There is a separate 
Phonebook app for staff already at phonebook.mozilla.org, which is less 
relevant now that we have a better Phonebook app for everyone to use.

We could move the staff app to an intranet or different URL and then 
have the Phonebook app live at phonebook.mozillians.org. This would 
allow us to have a similar naming convention for tools (eg: phonebook, 
tasks, events, badges) that are all nouns. On the other hand, "connect" 
is a verb and doesn't follow the convention for the other tool names.

This requires a bit more IT work than the sanest approach you proposed, 
but I think it would benefit users more.

William


On 11/30/11 4:15 PM, Aakash Desai wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The Mozillians team has been thinking about the things we'd like to do with Engagement Tools and how Mozillians.org mesh over time. Currently, the plan is to build out things like a TaskBoard and an Events Manager (each as platforms from the onset) over the next year, while also laying groundwork to better integrate the Community Directory app with a Web Service API and a means to parse for aggregated Contributor Metrics (i.e. moving it to become a platform) [1].
>
> These apps are expected to be lightly tied to each other and resemble more of a collection of tools, but its likely that they become much more closely tied than they should be if they are all built on Mozillians.org. People will believe it to be a single app and treat it as such. Further, any of these apps could become large depending on needs and popularity; we'll need enough space for them to grow on their own freely.
>
> The sanest approach here is to emulate this type of product development not only within the codebase, but also within our URL scheme.
>
> So, what does that mean? Well, its the following:
>
> 1. Host the Phonebook app on connect.mozilla.org instead of mozillians.org and re-direct from the latter until it is not necessary.
> 2. Host the TaskBoard on tasks.mozilla.org and the Events Manager on events.mozilla.org. Any new tools will have their own sub-domain on mozilla.org as seen fit.
>
> This proposal works with another tool in the Engagement Toolkit, input.mozilla.org. We've had universal approval by pretty much everyone asked on #mozillians and on the Contributor Engagement team, but that doesn't mean much until it's gone through this mailing list. So, here's a call out to ask for opinions on if this matches everyone's expectations of the roadmap.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Aakash Desai
>
> Product Manager, Engagement Tools
> Moz Profile: http://mzl.la/aakashd
>
>
> P.S. This isn't going to happen overnight.
>
> [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozillians/Milestones/Phase2#P1:_Phonebook
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