Hi Laura :)
2014-01-27 Laura Hilliger <
la...@mozillafoundation.org>
> -the lists
> +the Webmaker team
>
> Hi Jeremie,
>
> This is super exciting. I’ll fill out the survey, but I also wanted to
> point you to the Webmaker Roadmap.<
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Roadmap> There
> are some places where we can work together ;)
>
Oh yes, definitely. From my current knowledge, Ali Spivak and Janet Swisher
had talked to some people of the webmaker team to start such common work.
> Looking at Chris’ draft plan, I see some experiments<
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Beginners/CSS_basics#Exercise_1.3A_define_a_basic_rule_in_CSS> in
> using Webmaker tools and writing tutorials around them.
>
Absolutely, one of the first thing we plan to do on MDN is to make an
inventory of what we currently have and start organize it into some more
easy to find, easy to use area(s). But the current work is to figure out
what we should actually do to make MDN more beginner friendly (so is the
survey made for).
> Perhaps there are things we can do to collaborate on these (e.g. we have
> tutorial capabilities within our tools too, maybe we can embed content on
> MDN, and pull content from the MDN via the MakeAPI. Implications in how we
> tag stuff, etc).
>
Yes. As an example, I took a look at the Slow Parser project and I think it
would be an awesome feature to use it to build a Dabblet/JSFiddle code
editor within MDN to build interactive examples and interactive tutorials.
I'm pretty sure that trying to embed such tool into MDN would be beneficial
to both projects.
Being able to exchange content would also be awesome. However it has some
important impact on Kuma (the MDN engine) therefor, I cannot predict when
or even if it would be possible. But the idea worth considering it.
> On the “Content <
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/Roadmap#Priority_2>”
> piece: this year we want to run several sprints to create learning
> resources for the Web Literacy competencies. For the 5 Competencies you’re
> interested in focusing on, we’d be delighted to run sprints with you and
> otherwise work together to build out those resources.
>
That would be awesome :) I'm not sure we will be able to start producing
nor adding third party content before Q2, but YES, we could run coordinate
webmaker/MDN sprint.
> For sprints, we have this plan started, which includes a template for
> content creation:
>
>
https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/ContentSprints
>
> We were planning on starting with Privacy:
>
https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/WebLitStd-Competency-Privacy
>
That sounds great, I look forward to see the result :)
> We have a workweek next week, and I’ll add to talk about how we can best
> support this initiative / a brainstorming session to our agenda.
> Afterwards, maybe we can meet and share some ideas.
>
Absolutely. Know that I'm easy to reach on Monday. The rest of the week
will be a bit harder (even impossible on Tuesday and Wednesday). Anyway,
I'll be glad to discuss this further with you.
> Finally, I’m writing up a plan for #teachtheweb team “office hours”. The
> idea is that we have a set schedule of “office hours” where we run a
> hangout (using HOMAGO <
http://homago.com/>) and teach specific topics
> (“Come learn about the CSS box model!”). I was also thinking some might
> have no topic, but be like AMAs (ask me anythings). I was going to take a
> stab at making a plan, and then ask contributors to sign up for different
> things. If you like the idea, I’ll be sure to include you :)
>
Oh yes, I like this. Among the things we suspect would be great for
beginners, Chris highlight the "Mentorship" idea. As this sounds like
something similar to me, It would also be great to invite him as well.
> What’s the best way to keep each other posted on progress? Is email
> preferred?
>
Absolutely. On the MDN side everything regarding this project is discuss
publicly on the dev-mdc mailing list (with messages prefix with [Learning
Area]) and I keep track of the progress on WikiMo (
https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Learning_Area).
If you want a regular summary of the project activity, I post a progress
status on the mdn-drivers mailing list on a regular basis. If you wish I
can send it to the webmaker mailing list as well.
As this discussion looks very important to me I add the dev-mdc mailing
list as a copy and change the subject of the e-mail to start a new
discussion thread. Feel free to do the same on the webmaker part :) and to
join the discussion on dev-mdc.
> Please let us know if there are specific things about Webmaker + MDN you
> want us to think on.
>
There is nothing that pop to my head right now, but I let you know as soon
as it will be the case. As we are currently in the process to gather some
feedback about what we need to improve first is a bit to early to think
about specific things :) but I'll keep you posted.
> (And now to the actual survey ;)
>
\o/
Best,
--
Jeremie
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