As you might’ve read on my About page, I’m currently a summer intern at Mozilla. My contract with Mozilla runs from June 21, 2010 to September 17, 2010. The following is a (relatively high-level) timeline of my three-month odyssey.
Week 1
- Met with my mentor, Jay Patel, to discuss high-level goals for the summer
- Got acquainted with the rest of the Mozilla interns
- Started “Development Un-Arrested” blog
- Started blog post summarizing findings of 03/2010 developer survey
- Met with Joan Green (consultant) to discussindustry-wide developer survey
Week 2
- Published blog post on Mozilla Hacks with Jay Patel
- Constructed slides for 06/30 brown bag presentation
- Co-delivered brown bag talk about redesigning the Mozilla Developer Network
- Began designing internal survey for Mozillian developers
Week 3
- Attended Mozilla Summit 2010 in Whistler, BC
Week 4
- Met with Koski Research to discuss survey distribution
- Met with Mozilla web developers to fine-tune internal survey
- Discussed goals for MDN with engagement executives
- Began analysis of MDN static landing pages
Week 5
- Presented analysis of MDN static landing pages
- Filed several waves of bugs to fine-tune MDN design and content
- Continued design of industry-wide developer survey
- Discussed final details with market research consultants to consolidate bid
- Developed timeline of survey with Jay, established need for infographic
- Began contacting infographic artists
Week 6
- Wrote RFP to be sent out to infographic artists
- Began bidding process for infographic artists
- Finalized decision to hire market research consultant Joan Green for survey
- Discussed potential consolidation of surveys with John Slater
- Filed wave of bugs for MDN redesign
- Went to Giants game where Giants beat Marlins 10-9 in the 10th!
Week 7
- Continued bidding process for infographic artists
- Filed bugs for MDN redesign
- Started sketching mockups for infographic
- Kicked off survey design with Joan Green
- Got destroyed by full-timers at basketball despite leading the intern team
Week 8
- Filled in for Jay, who was on PTO for the week doing family stuff
- Triaged bugs for MDN staging pages, stumbled on some blockers
- Closed bidding process for infographic artists
- Almost finished survey design with Joan Green
- Drafted launch plan for new MDN pages
Week 9
- Submitted more MDN bugs to get ready for Week 10 launch
- Selected Mike Wirth as infographic artist
- Cleaned up developer survey draft
- Wrote blog post for MDN launch
Week 10
- Launched MDN!
- Released MDN launch blog post on Mozilla Hacks
- Began localization efforts for industry-wide developer survey
- Completed final English draft of developer survey
- Continued discussion with Mike Wirth regarding infographic
Week 11
- Launched all non-English versions of survey
- Made minor tweaks to survey logic
- Drew up concept mockups for infographic
- Began orchestrating social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) marketing for survey
Week 12
- Fielded non-English, personal distributions of survey
- Performed outreach for survey
- Iterated through drafts of infographic comp
