644775 - End of Life for Firefox Live

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Mike Alexis [:malexis]]

The Firefox live campaign is coming to an end soon and we need to shutdown the website on 4/14.

One thing to consider: are we saving any data from the db or wiping it?

Comment 1

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #0)
> One thing to consider: are we saving any data from the db or wiping it?

Thanks Mike. So I know, what kind of info is on the db now? I would assume we'd just wipe it, but want to make sure I have the full context.

Comment 2

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

I know this is a Wordpress site.  Did we outsource the development to an external contractor, or did we do this in-house?

Have we done a post-mortem to analyze metrics/goals on the campaign?

Comment 3

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I know this is a Wordpress site.  Did we outsource the development to an
> external contractor, or did we do this in-house?

It was done by Zemoga (external).
 
> Have we done a post-mortem to analyze metrics/goals on the campaign?

We've been analyzing metrics along the way and long ago blew away our original goals for the campaign (it's been a big success). Would be glad to set up a specific post mortem if you want.

Comment 4

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Thanks John.  Sometime I'd love to hear about the success of the campaign, what we learned from it, and what we'd like to repeat in the future.  I saw some of my non-technical friends post this on their Facebook wall, which I was surprised by (very cool!).  

It'd be nice to have an official post-mortem.  But it could also just be included in the retirement blog post for this site on website-archive.mozilla.org.

I've added the site to the nominated sites list:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Taskforce/Proposals/Abandoned_Sites/2011#Nominated_Sites

Comment 5

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

John:  It doesn't look like we're collecting any data on the site.  Do you know of any forms where we are asking for someone's email address or any personal information?

Comment 6

[John Slater]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks John.  Sometime I'd love to hear about the success of the campaign, what
> we learned from it, and what we'd like to repeat in the future.  I saw some of
> my non-technical friends post this on their Facebook wall, which I was
> surprised by (very cool!).  
> 
> It'd be nice to have an official post-mortem.  But it could also just be
> included in the retirement blog post for this site on
> website-archive.mozilla.org.

Sounds good. I'll work with Mayumi to pull some stats we can include. Not to sound flip, but the key learning is this: you really can't go wrong featuring super cute baby red pandas on your website.

(In reply to comment #5)
> John:  It doesn't look like we're collecting any data on the site.  Do you know
> of any forms where we are asking for someone's email address or any personal
> information?

Nope. There were a couple of times where we asked people to upload content to YouTube, but those projects always took place outside the site.

Thanks Ryan!

Comment 7

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Ha! Yes, it's definitely hard to go wrong with cute live pandas.

In that case, I doubt we are collecting any information that needs to be expunged.  I will assign this ticket to myself and prepare for site retirement.

Can you create a blog post with the screen shot for Firefox Live in website-archive.mozilla.org?  Basic guidelines:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Taskforce/Proposals/Abandoned_Sites/Retire#Blog_Post

Comment 8

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Hey John - Can you get the blog post put together for this site?  We can add that to the Website Archive at https://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/category/retired/ when you're ready.

Comment 9

[John Slater]

Hey Ryan. I'm in the process of writing a blog post about the end of the site for blog.mozilla.com. Think we could repurpose that, or should this be more a general overview of what the site was?

Comment 10

[My]

Also, should I file a bug for a redirect?  If someone goes to firefoxlive.org should we point to mozilla.org?  Or give a 404?  Thanks

Comment 11

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I'd point the redirect to the end of life blog post.

Comment 12

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

Yep, firefoxlive.com will be redirected to:
http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/12/firefox-live-trekking-with-pandas-and-new-adventures-for-spark-and-ember/

There's also a separate blog post covering historical information about the site at:
https://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/2011/04/12/firefox-live/

I'll file a separate ticket to have the site shutdown on the 14th.

Mike Alexis will be sending out a meeting request for the campaign retrospective.