MCS

Welcome to the MCS Project Wiki!
MCS — which stands for Mozilla Community Sites — is a project which aims to empower Mozillians with all the tools they need to get their community's online presence off the ground and keep it up-to-date, engaging and exciting.

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Get In Touch

If you are running a local Mozilla community site or are interested in local Mozilla community sites, please join the discussion.

• Mailing list: Subscribe to community-local-sites

• Chat: irc://irc.mozilla.org/#mcs

Local Sites

A list of all active local Mozilla sites can be found here. If you see a site that is missing or if you'd like to create a site that can go on this list, please use the information above to contact us.

Rationale

Our communities are serving tons of goals they own set up for themselves. They can focus on localization, promotion of open standards, quality assurance, documentation, extension development, evangelization or one of many other ways.

Mozilla's goal is to empower them and help them do what they want. One of the most important element of every community is a website. Our research indicated that building and maintaining a website is one of the most challenging and time consuming elements of working with a community. It's especially visible for smaller communities. For them, web design, website deployment, and keeping the web software up to date is a blocker to productivity that sharply reduces time they can spend on actual goal of their community.

Elements

MCS is a system that is made of several elements that are open sourced, free for use and can be combined according to the needs of its users. The tools are:

Aspect	Description
Hosting	to help set up hosting for a community website
Logo	A logo designed to give a unified feel of Mozilla ecosystem.
Slide Themes	Slide Themes for Mozilla-related presentations

What's Next

• What's next? - List of ideas or topics that could be useful for this project.

Licensing

• All images are covered by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike except of trademark signs and logos.
• All code is covered by Mozilla Public License
• Use of the theme is covered by Licensing Guidelines

After Creating Your Site

After you've created a local Mozilla site, you may be wondering what to do next to build a community around it. Here are some guides and suggestions:

• Organizing a Mozilla community