=Draft Proposal for front page=
* Temporarily remove the FAQ link. The purpose of that page is not clear. Probably a FAQ about getting involved is wanted. A FAQ about developing belongs somewhere else on the site.* Embed a google map of involved schools. (Need to file a bug to allow use of iframes?)* Replace the existing "What is Mozilla Education" section page with new text below:
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== What is Mozilla Education? ==
Open source projects help contributors learn incredibly useful skills: how to code, how to collaborate, and how to lead in a global community. Despite this, formal links between higher education and open source projects like Mozilla are rare. College and university students who want to take advantage of the resources and mentorship that come with open source development have had to do so on their own time. =Welcome=XXX
Mozilla =[[Education aims to change this. We want to build systematic links between Mozilla and the world of education. The goal is to provide content, mentorship and community infrastructure that makes it easier for students, professors and universities to contribute to and learn with Mozilla. This wiki serves as a hub to enable these activities./ComputerScience|Computer Science]]= XXX
Mozilla =[[Education is about more than teaching computer programming skills or even Mozilla specific technologies. Mozilla has a social mission to make openness, participation and distributed decision-making more common experiences in Internet life. Bringing web scale collaboration to the classroom is an extension of that mission. We hope that using open source methods to teach will help to drive '''a new wave of participatory, student-led learning in fields like computer science, design and business'''. /Design|Design]]=XXX
We can help educational institutions interested in becoming active in our community and having their students work on Mozilla related projects.=[[Education/Marketing|Marketing]]= XXX: hide category for now
See [[Foundation:Planning:Education|planning documents]] for more background, and the =[[Education/EventsBusiness|events pageBusiness]] =XXX: hide category for information about upcoming events.now
=Current projects=
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[[Image:Mozilla_in_classroom_map.png|frame|none|[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl= Mozilla in the classroom en&msa=0&msid= Open source development is a rich, participatory learning experience109565506490171378380. Students gain real world experience working on world class software alongside experienced developers while they are still undergraduates00046966d9042caa207e6&ll=4. But what actually happens depends on where students307816, educators and Mozillians decide to go12. Although Mozilla Education is working to develop the courseware and materials necessary for teaching, there is no one way to teach a Mozilla course201219&spn=169. There are projects in build and release engineering953166, unit testing, platform engineering and more. Mozilla presents a large surface area in terms 360&z=1 Interactive map of projects that are needed by the community. schools using Mozilla Education attempts to make the process of integrating open source development into the classroom easier by providing expertise and documentation. But what is important is that students work on projects that excite the community and invite collaboration. ]]]
Schools around the world are already using Mozilla in the classroom. =Status Meetings=[[Education/StatusMeetings|Status meetings]] take place every Monday at 8 AM PDT (See [http15://maps00 UTC until November).google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109565506490171378380.00046966d9042caa207e6&ll=4.307816The current state of Mozilla Education is discussed at the these meetings,12which are open to the public via telephone and IRC.201219&spn=169.953166,360&z=1 this map].)
[[Image:Mozilla_in_classroom_map.png|frame|none|= License =Unless otherwise indicated all Mozilla Education materials are available for reuse, redistribution, and remixing under the [http://mapscreativecommons.google.comorg/licenses/mapsby/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=3.0&msid=109565506490171378380/ Creative Commons 3.00046966d9042caa207e6&ll=4.307816,120 Attribution license] (CC-BY).201219&spn=169.953166,360&z=1 Interactive map of schools using Mozilla]]]
Students learn[[Category:Education]]
* What is open source and open source development?
* Open web communication tools (irc, wikis, blogs, etc.)
* Bugs, Bugzilla, patches, code review, version control
* How to work as a software engineer at the scale of Mozilla
* Large build systems
* Legacy type systems (XPCOM), dynamic languages (JS, Python)
* Web technologies (XML, JSON, XUL, CSS, etc.)
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