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.

• Grants and related expenditures
  • The GNOME Foundation announced the GNOME outreach program for accessibility, which the Mozilla Foundation helped fund.
• CAs and related issues
  • I gave preliminary approval to the application from VeriSign to add a new EV-capable root (bug 402947).
  • I also worked on EV-related applications from Comodo (bug 401587), GeoTrust (bug 407168), and thawte (bug 407163).
• Public communication
  • David continued work on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks.
• Conferences and events
  • Zak spoke at a number of Norwegian universities February 25-27 on open source and Mozilla-related topics.
  • Gerv attended FOSDEM.
  • I continued work on arrangements for CSUN.
• Other
  • Gerv worked on a script to assist with the proposed Bugzilla product/component reorganization.

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.