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.

• Grants and related expenditures
  • The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the NetSquared 2008 conference.
• CAs and related issues
  • I gave final approval to the application from Comodo to add a new EV root and EV-enable three existing roots; for more information see bugs 401587, 426568, 426572, and 426575.
  • I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied
• Public communications and related issues
  • David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including updating the featured applications page and participating in a planning meeting for proposed site changes.
• Conferences
  • Zak worked on a proposal to hold a session at OSCON on coaching open source developers and other FOSS community members.

Upcoming events and activities

• I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible.
• Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.