Frequently Asked Questions (Portal Edition) - FAQ

Heya :wave:

Do you have any specific resources in mind you’d like to access / modify through an API? The general idea of this project is consolation and having a clear point of entry into contributing. Which is not to say that we won’t miss use cases and that we’re anticipating every future idea. Hence we’re curious to hear your thoughts to find out if & how we can accomodate.

Hello, will the portal be available in Spanish from the beginning?

Hey Gery!

Unfortunately the portal will launch as a V1 in English but our goal is to have the platform localizable (in pontoon) in V2.

Lucy

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Thank you very much for your response Lucy.
Do you have any tentative dates for V2?

Regards! :grinning: :beers:

Probably launch a V2 in Q2 (summer), 2020.

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I understand again thank you very much,
Regards!! :grinning: :beers:

Hey @ComputerWhiz so one thing is Mozillians is definitely going to be updated and will contain anyone whose ever engaged with Mozilla. But it will be more of a directory of people profiles from all around Mozilla. From there, you’ll be able to opt into where there profile shows up I.e. Common Voice contributors might not want to be on the Community Portal but might want to be able to use their profile to access discourse.

Meanwhile the Community Portal will be a place for people who want to do many things to support Mozilla can find events, groups, and people.

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Hello Lucy! :wave:

Will the API be available and open for all? If no, why not?

Currently we don’t have an API, I’ll point to a previous question about this

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We were actually planning to release a Reps App but since the Community is now moving to a common Community Portal; we are inclined to make an app in Flutter from the Community, by the Community.

Which is why I asked the following question:

Thank you. :slight_smile:

Can you elaborate about this “app”?

It would be great if there is place to read more so we can understand your need.

Thanks!

Sure, yeah!

MozFam has created a Reps Mobile Application. An app that uses API from the Reps App to pull the data and anyone will be check if there are any events around them or if there is a Rep around them to help them organize an event.

Once the internal work was done, we were to open the process of Contributing and downloading for all and it almost done when the Community Portal was announced. We hadn’t seen it coming but this was something the Community Members had put a lot of effort into. We were looking forward to using the same layout of the App and access the Portal data through the API.

Here are a few screenshots:

This is what we were planning, and the initiative was by @obitodarky and Ayush Bherwani. These are our Flutter Heads, who had the idea of building this App and make it all more accessible. We all chipped in our bits to help our beloved Community members out.

If you have a list of requirements we can check with what we are planning to deliver in v1 and v2 of the portal. The mobile version of the site might solve some of your current needs.

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Suggestions: “Foxed”, “Foxified”, “Mozilla-fied”, “Activated”

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@leo @lucyeoh can the community portal use existing discourse categories which was used by the community or group before, instead of creating a new sub category in the community portal section

We are looking into the technical details with @leo and playground devs to solve that scenario, we are aware some communities already had a category.

Hey, how are we supposed to get our group verified?

Even though members are getting added to the group it only displays 6 members. Why so?

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