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.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • Seneca College announced a $100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to support Seneca’s ongoing work with the Mozilla project and its creation of a curriculum for educating Mozilla and open source developers.

  • The GNOME Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation will be joining the GNOME Foundation advisory board.

• CAs and related issues

  • I gave preliminary approval to the applications from GeoTrust and thawte to add new EV-capable roots (bugs 407168 and 407163 respectively).

  • I also worked on EV-related applications from Comodo and VeriSign.

• Public communication

  • David continued work on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks.

  • David also posted a proposed new Mozilla T-shirt design.

• Conferences and events

  • Zak published a number of blog posts from his attendance at SCALE; see the latest post for links.

  • I continued work on arrangements for CSUN.

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.