156551 - Move Mozilla Evangelism Site into www.mozilla.org

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I started mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com last year since there was not a place on
www.mozilla.org to place evangelism oriented content. It has been somewhat
useful and currently receives approximately 100 visitors per day from a wide
variety of countries. 

The site however does not really achieve the purpose of enlisting new
evangelists or effectively promoting Mozilla. I have not been able to devote as
much time as I should to Mozilla Evangelism and in particular to the updating of
the site. In addition, due to the setup, only a few people have access to the
site and are able to update the content. 

I think that such content has a place on www.mozilla.org. By making the Tech
Evangelism pages available from www.mozilla.org, more people would have the
ability to contribute new documents and to update existing documents thereby
increasing their usefulness. 

The current content is built in a very similar fashion to that used on
www.mozilla.org. It uses template files with the corresponding NOWRAP, NOMENU
cotnrol files etc and could easily be ported to be able to be hosted on
www.mozilla.org if that was desired. Any, all or none of the current site can be
reused if desired.

I would like to ask:

1) is it possible for Tech Evangelism to have a subdirectory somewhere on
www.mozilla.org where community oriented material and tools can be published?

2) who would like the job of owning the Tech Evangelism content?

Another related issue is the updating of the links on www.mozilla.org which
currently point into mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com. 

Once the content is moved, I will keep the domain available as long as there is
significant traffic and point people to the Tech Evangelism pages on
www.mozilla.org.

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

There would also be the issues of the mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com links on
other sites and in the search engines.  I could probably get those changed when
necessary, but beyond that, I feel that I am still too new to do much of the
rest here.  If necessary, I could help keep the content updated (own the
content), but porting the content to mozilla.org with all the CVS stuff would be
out of my range still.  I can port the documents to moz.zope.org and keep them
updated there, but that is a different issue with its own debate.  I'll help in
whatever ways I can.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Any word on if keeping evangelism related materials on www.mozilla.org is
reasonable or does mozilla.org wish to keep the evangelism related materials off
 of www.mozilla.org? If mozilla.org does not wish to have evangelism related
materials on www.mozilla.org, then please mark this WONTFIX so I can make other
arrangements.

Once we know if it is possible for evangelism to have an area on
www.mozilla.org, we can attempt to recruit an owner with the necessary CVS
skills/permissions.

Unfortunately, Brant may not have the required experience with CVS and I am not
clear how to arrange for his training and vouching. Any guidance on how we
should handle this would be appreciated. 

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

fixed now. site at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/

complaints, comments in bug 175014 please.

thanks dawn.

Comment 4

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified