Mozilla Developer Program (MDP)

Owners: Robert Nyman, Stormy Peters

Status: Living document, subject to on-going revision and status updates.

Feedback: If you have good ideas and would like to contribute to the Developer Program and its activities, or you believe that your team should involved in a certain part, please feel free to reach out directly to Robert: robert [at] mozilla [dot] com

Goals

Enable, inspire and collaborate to make the Web the primary platform used to create experiences across all connected devices.

The Mozilla Developer Program (MDP) is aimed at building long-term relationships with developers, to include and introduce them in what we do and act as a complement specifically to our Evangelism, MDN and the Firefox Marketplace. It is about tying together our developer facing efforts, and it also exists to continue the work for the Mozilla mission, inspiring people to use open standards no matter which platform they work on.

We want to help introduce developers to open web technologies, inspire them to contribute and help them out with their endeavours. The idea is also to cater to developers looking for something to sign up for and belong to, which is especially important in the mobile world.

In the short to medium term, we seek to:

• Set a base number of features
• Identify developer needs
• Work iteratively in bringing features and possibilities to developers to help them choose Open Web technologies

Audience

By Developer Type

• HTML5 Developers:
  • HTML5 Game Developers
• Mobile App Developers: iPhone & Android app developers with an interesting in porting apps and learning the web
• Web Developers: General web developers unfamiliar with HTML5 specifics/or mobile app UX who can be encouraged to build quality apps and more

Strategy

• Unifying content and developer-focused offerings in a Content Zone on MDN
• Engaging directly in Q&A and forums with developers
• Offering a membership, for free
• Newsletter subscription
• Evaluating data and features that will help developers choosing the web

Participants & Stakeholders

Developer Engagement Team (Stormy Peters)

• Technical Evangelism team (Mark Coggins)
• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) team (Ali Spivak)
• Developer Program (Robert Nyman)
• Engineering (Luke Crouch)
• Contributors from the Global Mozilla community
  • Localizers
  • Speakers, community leaders and evangelism reps

Developer Tools

• Developer Tools (Dave Camp, Jeff Griffiths)

Apps & Marketplace

• Apps & (Bill Walker, Fred Wenzel)

Components

The Mozilla Developer Program consists of (subject to change over time):

• Content Zone on MDN
• Developer blog - Mozilla Hacks
• Q&A, on Stack Overflow
• Newsletter
• MDN account

Activities by Phase

The idea is to describe the activities and roadmap for the Developer Program by phase. It also means that started phases will most likely continue running while in parallel with moving into new phases, e.g. membership, Q&A interaction and more.

Initially, the main initial group we're targeting is mobile developers who are developing for the mobile web as the first target, and help them with support, information and more about Firefox OS and the Open Web on mobile in general. This means developers who are:

• Porting apps to HTML5
• Building partial native/hybrid apps through PhoneGap and similar solutions
• Offering the full mobile web experience, through Firefox OS or responsive HTML5 web sites

I. Create the Developer Program

Dependencies

• Technical Evangelism participation in Q&A initiatives
• MDN engineering team

Anticipated Start Time

• Started

Activities

II. Membership offerings

Dependencies

• MDN Engineering team

Anticipated Start Time

• January 2014

Activities

III. Broadening the offering

Dependencies

• Technical Evangelism
• MDN
• Market research
• Identity team
• Marketplace & AMO Engineering team

Anticipated Start Time

• Q1 2014

Activities