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DevMo and DevEdge updates

February 23rd, 2005

For months I’ve said I’ve been optimistic that the Mozilla Foundation would be able to reach an agreement allowing us to host and improve the materials from the former Netscape DevEdge site. I’m very pleased to report that my optimism was well founded.

We’ve reached an agreement with AOL that allows us to post, modify, and create new documents based on the former Netscape DevEdge materials. The agreement is done. I want to thank AOL for making this happen. Netscape DevEdge was a great resource. We’re very pleased those materials haven’t been lost and that the Mozilla Foundation can host their continued development and use. I also want to thank the many people who wrote to offer encouragement and help regarding the DevEdge materials — your encouragement was very helpful.

What happens now? Well, we probably won’t be able to simply recreate the site — we don’t have the build scripts for one thing. Naturally, we’re eager to get the data sorted out and the most important documents posted asap.

Starting next Monday we’ll have a new person working full time at the Mozilla Foundation to help with just this activity. On Monday Deb Richardson joins the Mozilla Foundation as a Technical Editor and Project Manager for DevMo. DevMo is our community based project focused on developer documentation and resources. We have a group of people interested in working on this, and are thrilled Deb can join us to provide the overall coordination, support and project management for this effort, working very closely with our volunteer community. Deb comes to us with extensive documentation and open source experience, having founded both Linuxchix and the Open Source Writers Group. She has also worked professionally as a technical writer, freelance editor, web designer and developer.

One of the first things we’ll ask Deb to do is to work with those familiar with the DevEdge material and sort out the most important documents, get those posted asap, and then develop a plan for handling the rest of the material. We want to make critical resources available asap and also build a coherent site. We already have a website at the developer part of mozilla.org that is hard to navigate, not well designed, and filled with material that is or may be outdated.

9 comments for “DevMo and DevEdge updates”

  1. 1

    doron’s blaahg said on February 24th, 2005 at 8:19 am:

    DevEdge Saved

    mitchell saves the day!…

  2. 2

    protocol7 said on February 24th, 2005 at 11:18 am:

    DevEdge saved

    The content from DevEdge, the old Netscape web developer resource, has been saved and will be published on mozilla.org. For someone who spent every day on DevEdge som years back this is great news.

  3. 3

    Warpin’ it up! said on February 24th, 2005 at 12:19 pm:

    DevEdge in the hands of Mozilla

    Netscape DevEdge content is finally in the hands of the Mozilla Foundation, I look forward to seeing it online…

    Deb Richardson joins the Mozilla Foundation as a Technical Editor and Project Manager for DevMo. DevMo is our community based project f…

  4. 4

    Anonymous said on February 24th, 2005 at 7:20 pm:

    DevEdge y DevMo

    DevEdge y DevMo

  5. 5

    Minh’s Notes said on February 24th, 2005 at 8:28 pm:

    DevEdge is coming back!

    The incredibly useful documentation that once made up Netscape DevEdge is coming back, thanks to the Mozilla Foundation’s hard work.

  6. 6

    flex-mx said on February 25th, 2005 at 2:09 pm:

    DevEdge Saved

    The content from DevEdge, the old Netscape web developer resource, has been saved and will be published on mozilla.org….

  7. 7

    BlogZiNet said on February 28th, 2005 at 4:14 am:

    DevMo, nouveau projet communautaire de Mozilla, sur les restes de DevEdge

    Mitchell Baker, la pr

  8. 8

    truerwords said on February 28th, 2005 at 6:53 am:

    mitchell’s blog: DevMo and DevEdge updates

    According to Mitchell Baker, the top dog at the Mozilla Foundation, they’ve finally reached an agreement with AOL on the old Netscape DevEdge content. We’ve reached an agreement with AOL that allows us to post, modify, and create new documents based on…

  9. 9

    Weblog 42 said on March 9th, 2005 at 3:50 pm:

    Netscape DevEdge wird als DevMo weitergeführt

    Wie Mitchell Baker berichtet, hat man sich mit AOL darauf geeinigt, dass die Inhalte von “Netscape DevEdge” in Zukunft von der Mozilla-Stiftung übernommen und gepflegt werden. Damit dürfte das Material bald wieder den Entwicklern zur Verfügung stehe…

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