Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/02

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 2, 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

  • I approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last next week. Thanks to all who donated to the Mozilla Foundation in support of Bugzilla!

• CAs and related issues

  • I gave final approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357.

• Public communications and related issues

  • David checked in changes to the Community pages on www.mozilla.org (bugs 271655, 370222, and 426600).

  • David updated the Mozilla-Based Applications page and added Featured Apps for May (Joost and Second Life).

  • David and I participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program.

• Other

  • Gerv worked on Summer of Code and other activities.

  • Zak worked on various conference-related activities.

Upcoming events and activities

• The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation.

• I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me.

• Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest).

• The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible.