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Mozilla is a large and difficult project to get started on because of its scale and scope. A number of issues stand in the way for new contributors:
# tools and documentation is often scattered across the web in wikis, blogs, forums, etc. This situation has improved greatly in recent years, with improvements to [http://developer.mozilla.org MDC]. However, MDC is not enough on it's its own, and suffers from a lack of top-level paths through the enormous amounts of content (i.e., reference vs. learning).
# often one needs more than just a tool or instructions on how to use it--examples, tutorials, etc. are also useful
# many developers, especially those in the east where bandwidth is lacking, struggle to use web-based resources. Having local access to Mozilla's large resources (mxr, mdc, source) would open this world to a new set of developers