MDN Web Docs Community Call - Feedback on Ads and Two Exciting Announcements

[schalkneethling]

Join members of the MDN team for a community call on 30 March 2023.

During the call, we will discuss the ad experiment on MDN Web Docs and the future of this project.

We will also make an exciting announcement concerning two new initiatives we are launching during the second quarter of 2023.

We are excited to see you all there.

https://community.mozilla.org/en/events/mdn-web-docs-community-call/

[schalkneethling]

Hey all! Here is a summary of what we talked about in the community call. Thanks to those who could attend.

Hermina talked about the ads experiment. The ads experiment was a success, and ads will continue on MDN. Florian (Engineering team) demonstrated a new code playground that is being worked on. Dipika (Content team) provided some highlights of the work that the content team has been doing, such as the improvements to the RegExp pages, new guidelines for the “See also” section of our pages, and the addition of new examples to the CSS color function page.

We ended by announcing that the MDN Web Docs blog will be launched on 1 May this year. The blog will be used to publish articles that demonstrate how multiple open web technologies are used to build websites and apps. Through the blog, we will also provide regular updates on what the MDN Web Docs team has been working on, including updates from the engineering team., The Community Spotlight contributors will now be featured here. The blog will also be used to feature sponsored content. We have strict guidelines around sponsored content. It will be clearly identified as such, the content provided by the partner has to be valuable to our readers by itself, but also, the service promoted needs to make sense for our readers.

We also announced that we are working on a project called the MDN Web Docs sustainability initiative. This initiative is our way to support and give back to the maintainers and open-source projects that MDN Web Docs relies on. We will also support not-for-profit organizations focused on empowering underrepresented people in tech, such as Women Who Code, and educational projects like freeCodeCamp. What this support will look like is not decided as we need to speak with these people and organizations to understand how this initiative can be the most effective for them.