Introducing Open Web Docs
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Introducing Open Web Docs
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Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#2That is great news! Thank you Florian, Robert, and everybody involved.
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#3Had to click through a few links to get real info. From https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/updates/introducing...
> Questions and answers
> Q: Is this a new docs platform?
> A: No, we are working closely together with existing platforms, and our current priority is contributions to MDN Web Docs.
> Q: Is this a competitor/replacement for MDN Web Docs?
> A: No. Open Web Docs writers contribute to important developer documentation resources, including MDN. Mozilla is a part of Open Web Docs and a member of its Steering Committee.
> Q: How is Open Web Docs funded?
> A: Open Web Docs is funded by contributions from our founding sponsors Coil, Google and Microsoft, and contributors from the wider developer community such as Igalia. We welcome more backers who want to ensure support for long-term maintenance of web platform technology documentation.
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#4Wow, was checking out the transactions at https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/transactions?offset... and I see that Google and Microsoft have collectively contributed $500k.
Happy to see that there is corporate sponsorship for this. Gives me some hope that this will allow MDN to outlast any eventuality that might befall Mozilla.
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#5Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#6Wow, was checking out the transactions at https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/transactions?offset... and I see that Google and Microsoft have collectively contributed $500k. Happy to see that there is corporate sponsorship for this. Gives me some hope that this will allow MDN to outlast any eventuality that might befall Mozilla.
Or as The Reg called it: “Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive.
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone”
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#7Wow, was checking out the transactions at https://opencollective.com/open-web-docs/transactions?offset... and I see that Google and Microsoft have collectively contributed $500k. Happy to see that there is corporate sponsorship for this. Gives me some hope that this will allow MDN to outlast any eventuality that might befall Mozilla.
Or as The Reg called it: “Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive. Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone” https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/mozilla_web_docs/
Headline is correct: https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/mozilla_web_docs/
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#8Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
it's a separate legal entity, independent of Mozilla intended to document the web.
It seems like they're going to 'own' MDN from a funding perspective among other future proejcts
my short summary is: Mozilla is spinning-off MDN into a separate entity
that separate entity may attracting funding and donations that wouldn't normally contribute to Mozilla for various reasons in the same amounts
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#9Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
I didn’t get it either at first. But MDN Web Docs is Mozilla’s (very good, IMHO) web developer documentation site. Open Web Docs is apparently some kind of foundation/organization to collaborate on web documentation with other industry folks so it’s not held in just one company’s hands.
(Take this with a grain of salt. I’m still only half-sure I get it.)
ETA: hayksaakian succeeded in saying what I was trying but failing to say. :)
Re: Introducing Open Web Docs
#10Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
I didn’t get it either at first. But MDN Web Docs is Mozilla’s (very good, IMHO) web developer documentation site. Open Web Docs is apparently some kind of foundation/organization to collaborate on web documentation with other industry folks so it’s not held in just one company’s hands. (Take this with a grain of salt. I’m still only half-sure I get it.) ETA: hayksaakian succeeded in saying what I was trying but fail…
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