Summary: Implement 5 new pages for Student Reps on mozilla.org

Designs and Content

Designs

• Reps/ PSDs, JPGs, and PNGs -- you have to be on the Office VPN
  
• JPGs -- public

Content - Google Docs

• Welcome
• Projects
• Marketing (Coming soon)
• Highlights
• Help

WebDev

Tasks

• Create page templates
• Add content
• Code dynamic features
• Add l10n infrastructure
• Setup staging site

Dynamic features

• Welcome page
  • Removed: Video (this will be in phase 2)
  • Embedded Google map
    • Dino head pins mark schools where Reps are
    • Each pin shows the name of the Rep and their school when clicked
    • To the right, list displays Reps and their schools shown in the current map
• Highlights page
  • Manual updates, every few months
  • how does l10n work?
  • no dynamic content needed
  • form on Highlights page sends an email to studentreps@mozilla.com including a success story that a user would like highlighted.
• Help page: questions form sends an email to studentreps@mozilla.com

Localization functionality

• Custom Open Font for each locale
• Supports l10n Jetpack so Reps can easily submit text strings
• Each page can support different content depending on the local
• Top use case: different projects for each locale on the Projects page
  

Technical

• Production Acceptance info
  

L10n

• Mechanism
  • Planned: new mechanism mentioned by Seth
    
  • Back-up: Gettext
• Targeted locales
  • First batch will be: EN, DE, FR, SP, IT, PL

Logistics

• URLs
  • http://studentreps.mozilla.org
  • http://studentreps.mozilla.org/projects
  • http://studentreps.mozilla.org/marketing
  • http://studentreps.mozilla.org/highlights
  • http://studentreps.mozilla.org/help

• How will users find these new Campus Reps pages?
  • from the mozilla.com top menu, under "Community"
  • from the Spread Firefox Campus Reps pages
  • mozilla.org's contribute page
    

• Existing Reps pages on Spread Firefox
  • The Spread Firefox Campus Reps pages will be dropped.
  • Spread Firefox will point users to the new pages
    • Existing tab + page will be a "We've moved!" placeholder
    • News / events promo block will remain
  • What happens to Spread Firefox Campus Reps content?
    • Dropped / archived
    • Look at how to archive project forums, comments, etc

Bugs

• Master
• WebDev
  • 562394 reCAPTCHA keys
• QA
  • 560573 Sending Messages Fail on http://studentreps.stage.mozilla.com/highlights.php
  • 560577 Implement reCAPTCHA on http://studentreps.stage.mozilla.com/highlights.php
• l10n
  • 564069 Internationalize the Student Reps website
  • 564077 Set up cronjob to SVN Update translations for studentreps.mozilla.com on stage
  • 564073 Setup cronjob to extract .po for studentreps.stage.mozilla.com
  • 564067 Setup locale detection for studentreps.mozilla.com
  • 564065 Setup cronjob to compile .po to .mo on studentreps.stage.mozilla.com

Timing

• Start date: March 29, 2010
• Launch date: June 22
  
• Dev: 2-3 weeks
  
  • Implement design
  • Implement l10n backend
  • Finalize and implement content
  • Completed by April 16
    
• QA round I: 10 days
  • Test pages and l10n backend
    
  • Bug fixes
  • Completed by April 28
• L10n
  • String Freeze
  • Launch locales: en-US, es, de, sq
  • Completed by June 21
    
• QA round II
  • Check formatting for launch locales for text overflow
  • Verify contact form works
  • Completed by June 22
    

QA

• Latest Browser Support (i.e. no IE 6)

People

• Craig Cook - webdev
• Raymond Etornam- QA
• Seth Bindernagel - l10n
  
• Irina Sandu - EU marketing
• William Reynolds - marketing
  
• Mary Colvig - marketing
  

Meetings

3/26/10

• Kick-off meeting
  
• Discussed purpose of project, planned initial timeline
  
• Biggest considerations: l10n backend
  
• Proposed ideas: Using Jetpack for l10n, unique Open Fonts for each locale
  
• Goal: Launch pages in early April (initial launch date: May 7)