Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/18
July 21, 2008
This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 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 blogs published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.
- Future of the Foundation
- Mitchell Baker announced that Mark Surman is being considered for the Foundation executive director position.
- David posted a blog entry with ideas about how the Foundation might support the Mozilla community.
- Legal issues
- Gerv called for people to sign committer’s agreements at the Firefox Summit.
- Grants and related expenditures
- The Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring the 2009 Foundations of Open Media Software workshop.
- Wellington Fernando de Macedo has made further progress on his Foundation-funded server-sent DOM events project; see bug 338583 for more information.
- CAs and related issues
- I gave final approval for two requests from GlobalSign (bugs 406794 and 406796) and filed bug 446407 against NSS and bug 446409 against PSM for the actual code changes.
- I started the first public comment period for requests from Comodo (for a new ECC root, bug 421946), Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems (bug 378882), and Wells Fargo (bug 428390).
- I worked with Kathleen Wilson to select the next group of CAs for which to process requests and do information gathering.
- Public communication
- David arranged for printing copies of the Mozilla brochure for OSCON, and started work on a brochure page for www.mozilla.org.
- David prepared for a session on the www.mozilla.org site at the upcoming Firefox Summit.
- David updated the About page on www.mozilla.org to keep it in sync with the last round of changes to the text of the Mozilla brochure.
- Conferences
- Zak continued working on the proposed FOSSCoach event at OSCON and related activities, including drafting the schedule and helping to orient the event coaches and participants.
- Other
- Gerv met with various people about proposed Site Security Policy implementations.
Upcoming events and activities
- David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC).
- I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON, and then will be on vacation for most of the following week.
