Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/16

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 16, 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

  • Eitan Isaacson published an update on his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to improve the Orca open source screen reader for Linux.

  • The Perl Foundation received a $200,000 donation to support Perl 6 development. Among other things, this donation will be used for continuation of Patrick Michaud’s Perl 6 work, for which the Mozilla Foundation made a $10,000 seed grant.

• Legal issues

  • We got final legal signoff for the proposed new Mozilla committer’s agreement; Gerv is now working to get an official copy of this agreement and related information posted to www.mozilla.org.

• CAs and related issues

  • I found someone to help clear the backlog of CA requests.

• Public communications and related issues

  • David continued work on the www.mozilla.org site.

• Conferences

  • We have more blog posts from the Mozilla accessibility team’s attendance of SightCity 2008, including one from Steve Lee and an almost minute-by-minute account by Ben Millard.

  • Zak prepared for upcoming conference appearances.

Upcoming events and activities

• 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.