MDN/Doc Sprints/2011June

This sprint will have an in-person component, as well as a virtual component.

Schedule

• Start: 6 June 2011, 13:00 UTC / 9:00 am US Eastern / 6:00 am US Pacific
• End: 8 June 2011, 20:00 UTC / 4:00 pm US Eastern / 1:00 pm US Pacific

You are welcome to start earlier or continue later, but this time frame is when you are likely to find other people online working on MDN. Obviously, you do not have to participate the entire time; drop in when it's convenient, and sleep when you need to.

Location

• The in-person gathering will be in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It will be immediately following and at the same location as the Open Help Conference.

NOTE: Sponsorship is available for community volunteers to travel to and stay in Cincinnati. Contact (jswisher at mozilla dot com) if you are a volunteer and want to join us in person.

• Coordinate via #devmo on irc.mozilla.org, for both in-person and online participants.

Topics

See our Etherpad for notes about who is doing or has done what.

Some places to get ideas of things to write about:

• MDN documentation wishlist
• Notes on dev-doc-needed bugs
• Convert Mozilla CSS support chart to cover multiple browsers. See the Talk page for suggested format changes.
• Add compatibility tables to JavaScript items based on ECMAScript 5 compatibility table. Include credit link where this data is used. See this page for information and templates for the compatibility tables.
• Add compatibility tables to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference pages, based on info from caniuse.com and quirksmode.org.
• Pages that need technical review.
• Pages that need editorial review

Suggest a topic, either that you want to work on, or that you'd like to see done by someone.

Who

If you're planning to participate, please add your name, IRC nickname and/or MDN user name, and what you'd like to work on, below (you need to create an account on this (spam-free) wiki in order to edit it). Consider collaborating with someone else on related topics!

Name	IRC nick	MDN ID	Topic(s)
Janet Swisher	jms	jswisher	CSS tutorial part 2
Tom Schuster (in-person)	evilpie	evilpie	JavaScript "We might investigate the possibility of a Deki script that can look in hg logs for last change dates for interfaces, but... I don't know how much effort is worth putting into that."
Florian Scholz	Elchi3	Elchi3	Finishing the HTML reference (bug 547448) Browser compat tables, HTML/CSS reference cleanup (browser agnosticism) ... (maybe some MathML leftovers or SVG stuff, I'll see what time permits)
Trevor Hobson	trevorh	trevorh	Interfaces
Daniel Lopretto	timemachine3030	timemachine3030	HTML Javascript / DOM examples General Best Practices
Manuel Strehl	boldewyn	Manuel Strehl	SVG tutorial SVG reference HTTP headers, if there's time left
Anastasia Cheetham	anastasiac	anastasia	More updating and migrating information on accessibility and ARIA from the CodeTalks wiki to MDN
Colin Clark	colinclark	colinbdclark	Accessibility tutorials, sample code, and examples Audio Data API tutorial
Kevin Lim	grendel	grendel	Browser compatibility tables

Tips for travelers

For attendees coming from outside the US:

• If you are bringing a mobile phone, make sure you have a SIM card and billing plan that works for the US.
• The US (along with a few under-developed countries in Africa) still uses magnetic-stripes rather than RFID chips for credit cards. Check with your bank to see if your credit card will work in the US. Alternatively, you can use a (magnetic-stripe) ATM card to get US dollars as you need them. Be aware that US banks usually add a small fee ($1-$3) to ATM transactions.
• We will provide "universal" power strips during the sprint. But you'll need a plug adapter and step-down power converter to plug in your laptop or other devices elsewhere.