Webmaker/Roadmap

	Webmaker 2013 Roadmap
	Owner: Brett Gaylor	Updated: 2013-02-4
	Vision: Building a generation of webmakers. Mozilla Webmaker provides tools, community and badges that help people move from using the web to making the web.

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Priorities for the year:

Iterate on what "webmaker content" looks like, measure how users react
- starting point: "webmaker lets you make content that is irresistibly hackable"
Encourage learning by making
- lean into connected learning - make our tools fun, easy and empowering
- Measure learning through badges
Develop webmaker experiences that work in the spaces where users live online
- Frictionless sharing to Twitter, Tumblr + Facebook
- Facebook app
- Constrained mobile experience
Localization
Develop a method for external partnerships / developers to influence codebase
- ability to fork our codebase and submit pull requests that we can integrate
- ability to activate external libraries, eg Processing.js
Expose enough "code" (e.g., markup) for users to learn web mechanics if desired
Make working open and agile both work

Ship a release a week
Focus on early wins that help users make more things, more easily
Integrate with Product Marketing to source and build excitement about new content, features
Metrics-driven, user-driven priority decision making as we go vs. spec'ing out a year of features now and locking into that.
Content possibilities and types drive product priorities: we build tools to support creators vs. hoping creators will find uses for the tools

Immediate creation and testing of content types with existing tool features (content)
Sequencing in Popcorn Maker
Fix remixing flow
A series of known Popcorn Maker UX fails:
- Undo
- Event defaults (remove tedium of changing fonts, for instance)
- Fix weird escaped characters (a byproduct of our security efforts) Allow users to add an amount of time to an event (not simply the duration of the event)
- Fix layout of tray / make it resizable
- Position new events at mouse location
- Make default new layer on top
- Change background colour of canvas
- Allow users to add an amount of time to an event (not simply the duration of the event)
- Twitter cards (Thimble + Popcorn Maker)
Extend default embed page to include data about views, other remixes, etc. (i.e., start to explore gallery-like ideas from that single page)
Facebook
- Research being a Facebook App
- UX work to fit in their box size
- Initial version of our app working in FB, with lots of follow up
- Facebook Auth

A "firehose" gallery of everything people are making with our tools, sortable by most recent and most viewed
- First iteration is an internal tool used to highlight and celebrate what users make
- Following iteration is public facing
A "mentors" top level page on webmaker.org linking out to community resources
- w/ review
Refresh voice and tone, celebrate press of popcorn maker etc

Embedding in Thimble
Remix button in thimble
Fix Thimble project creation
- html5 linting for projects we publish vs. full review