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Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/02

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 2, 2008.

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
    • I approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last next week. Thanks to all who donated to the Mozilla Foundation in support of Bugzilla!
  • CAs and related issues
    • I gave final approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357.
  • Public communications and related issues
  • Other
    • Gerv worked on Summer of Code and other activities.
    • Zak worked on various conference-related activities.

Upcoming events and activities

  • The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation.
  • I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me.
  • Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest).
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible.

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/25

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 25, 2008. (Yes, I’m somewhat behind again on status reports, but will catch up again today.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

Upcoming events and activities

  • The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt, Germany), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation.
  • I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me.
  • Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest, Romania).
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible.

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/18

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 18, 2008.

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
    • The Mozilla Foundation will be funding Alexander Surkov to continue his work with the Mozilla accessibility code, and in particular to develop test cases and create fixes where necessary for the Gecko 1.9 accessibility infrastructure.
  • CAs and related issues
    • I gave preliminary approval to the request from Network Solutions to add a new root and enable it for EV.
    • I also worked on the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV.
  • Public communications and related issues
  • Conferences

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/11

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 11, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports.) Note that I was out almost all week taking care of family medical matters, so the report is somewhat skimpy.

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
    • The Mozilla Foundation will be sponsoring some Mozilla accessibility developers to attend the SightCity conference and meet with Marco Zehe and Aaron Leventhal.
    • Mozdev published its 2007 annual report.
  • CAs and related issues
    • I corresponded with some people who can potentially help with processing CA applications, and set up some calls to discuss next steps.
  • Public communications and related issues
  • Conferences
    • Zak attended the Go Open 2008 conference in Oslo, Norway, and spoke to a number of people about Mozilla-related issues.

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/04/04

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 4, 2008. (I’m still trying to catch up on status reports.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/28

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 28, 2008. (I’m again trying to catch up on status reports.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
  • CAs and related issues
    • I worked on the applications from Comodo and KISA.
    • I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied
  • Public communications and related issues

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/21

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 21, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports, thank goodness.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
    • I got paperwork done for another new grant, to be announced later.
  • CAs and related issues
  • Public communications and related issues
    • David worked on various items related to the Mozilla 10th anniversary celebrations.

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/14

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 14, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for last week should be up in the next couple of days.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

  • Grants and related expenditures
    • I worked on new grants (recently approved); no public announcements yet
  • CAs and related issues
    • I gave final approval to the request from VeriSign to add a new EV root (bug 402947).
    • I gave preliminary approval to the application from Comodo to mark three existing roots for EV use (bug 401587).
  • Public communication
    • David continued work on http://www.mozilla.org changes and the proposed new Mozilla T-shirt, as well as other internal (for now) projects.
  • Conferences and events
    • Zak did a keynote presentation at the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14.
    • I attended the CSUN conference for one day and worked at the Mozilla booth. Thanks go to David for helping to get stuff shipped to CSUN, and to all the people who did booth duty at CSUN: Mick Curran, Joanie Diggs, Eitan Isaacson, Steve Lee, Chris Leung, Jamie Teh, and (last not least) Marco Zehe.

Upcoming events and activities

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/07

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 7, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for last week should be up tomorrow.)

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

Upcoming events and activities

  • I’m planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.
  • Zak will be speaking at various open source events in 2008.

Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/02/29

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 29, 2008.

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

Upcoming events and activities

  • I’m planning to be in Mountain View on March 12 and at the CSUN conference on March 13 in Los Angeles CA. I’m also planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.
  • Zak will be speaking at the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14, and other events later in 2008.