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Mozilla Announces "Open Web Docs" Following Last Year's Layoffs
Last year during the big round of layoffs at Mozilla the entire Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) writers team was laid off. That was a particularly sad blow considering how valuable the MDN documentation has been to web developers as a very useful resource. Today the Mozilla folks are announced Open Web Docs in seemingly looking to have the community take over.
Following those unfortunate layoffs last summer, they exposed all of the Mozilla Developer Network documentation to GitHub. Now they are announcing the Open Web Docs organization.
"Open Web Docs (OWD) is an open collective, created in collaboration between several key MDN partner organizations to ensure the long-term health of open web platform documentation on de facto standard resources like MDN Web Docs, independently of any single vendor or organization. It will do this by collecting funding to finance writing staff and helping manage the communities and processes that will deliver on present and future documentation needs," was written on the Mozilla Hacks blog.
Previously: Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team
Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation
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Firefox 83 Released; Mozilla Kicks Rusty "Servo" Web Engine to the Linux Foundation
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Wednesday January 27 2021, @12:39AM (3 children)
come do the work for free we used to pay for or better yet fund it yourself, that massive endowment we have stashed away it is not enough to pay the bills. BTW we got some more shitty changes to the interface coming, we cannot be out Googled.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @12:50AM (1 child)
Morons indeed. Fortune favors the brave, [brave.com] afterall, we need more than de-platforming! [mozilla.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 27 2021, @02:56AM
And while they are busy digging:
Welcome to Pale Moon
https://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org]
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday January 28 2021, @12:16AM
In other news, today I'm announcing Open Back Yard in the hope that the community takes over. Any minute now I'm expecting hordes of eager people to turn up to mow the lawn, weed the garden, cut back the tree branches, and repaint the shed.