• Yourself
• You project
• Mozillians
• The whole world

• Shine
• Get sex, drug and Rock'n'roll
• Get stickers, t-shirts and recognition
• Help the community get the docs they need

• Get internal and external visibility
• Get promotion
  (in combination woth Hacks Blog, evangelist talk, etc.)
• Get more user and contributors

• Gets awesome docs to help them do their work
• Is able to contribute back
• Will get to known you and love you

• Kuma — based on Django and NodeJS
• It's a wiki… on steroids
• The development team are actually ninjas.

What do you want to get out of this session?

• This is mainly just to cut on some spam
• And to share recognition and blame!
• We use Persona:
  

• You can edit pages
• You can create new pages
• But you can also:
• Report bugs at bugzilla.mozilla.org
  (Project: Mozilla Developer Network :: General)
• Get help on lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-mdc
• Get help on irc.mozilla.org #devmo

• Ali Spivack (aspivack) :: Product lead
• Janet Swisher (jms) :: Community steward
• Eric Shepherd (sheppy) :: Documentation overlord
• Jean-Yves Perrier (teoli) :: Writer
• Will Bamberg (wbamberg) :: Writer
• Chris Mills (chrismills) :: Writer
• Florian Scholz (elchi3) :: Writer
• John Karahalis (openjck) :: Kuma project lead
• Luke Crouch (groovecoder) :: Kuma lead dev.

• Hit that edit button:
• and kick some ass
• At the very worst, we can revert changes
• but we'd rather you edit stuff than send us bugs!

• Written using KumaScript, which is pretty much just JS
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
  Project:MDN/Contributing/Custom_macros
• For example, {{HTMLElemen("div")}} is found at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Template:HTMLElement

• Big or small, it's all really useful!
• Some MDN contributors literally just make a handful of small fixes each days, or week
• but it improves the site quality enormously

• Typos
• Correction of technical errors
• Title fixes
• Adding tags
• Code consistency fixes
• Code snippets
• Improving description and examples
• Proof reading, tech review
• Macro fixes
• Other minutiae
• Feedback!

• Writing new articles
• Tech editing/copy editing
• Translation
• Writing demos
• Kuma development
• Writing tools

• On social networks (Twitter, G+, FaceBook, etc.)
• Blog about mdn (and make links)
• Give talks
• Organize events
• Basically, get developers interested in using the feature/tools/whatever is on MDN, and contributing to the docs.

• It's MDN game changer
• Start or join a localization group
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
  Project:MDN/Localizing/Localization_projects

• Another MDN game changer
• Take advantage of the awsome Live Sample system: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
  Project:MDN/Contributing/Editor_guide#Using_the_live_sample_system

• Simple example :
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
  Web/CSS/animation
• Advance example :
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/
  HTML/Forms/How_to_build_custom_form_widgets/Example_5
• Build tools:
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
  Web/CSS/Tools/Box-shadow_generator

• If you are a ninja (or at least a samurai, or pirate)
• You might want to help develop the system
• It's on github
  • github.com/mozilla/kuma
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/
    Project:MDN/Kuma/Contributing

• Redesign it's on its way
• We need your feedback!