Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/30

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending November 30, 2007.

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

  • Steve Lee provided a report on his participation in the RAatE conference. (Steve’s Jambu project has received funding from the Foundation.)

  • I received some new grant proposals for the board’s consideration.

• CAs and related issues

  • I worked on the applications for inclusion from SwissSign and TÜRKTRUST, as well as on the EV applications from VeriSign and QuoVadis.

  • I made updates to the pending list to reflect the current status of CA applications.

  • I created a wiki page to track recommended practices relating to CA applications.

• Web sites

  • David Boswell posted a proposed new Mozilla Foundation page mockup for comment.

Upcoming trips and events

• I’m planning to be in Mountain View on December 11 (afternoon only) and 12.