Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/11

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 11, 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 blogs published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Legal issues

  • Gerv worked on a variety of licensing issues involving software to be used in the context of the Mozilla project.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • Gerv contacted the various people involved in Google Summer of Code projects related to Mozilla in order to get current status reports.

  • The Mozilla Foundation is funding a new project by Eitan Isaacson to do comparison testing of accessibility support for Firefox and other browsers.

• CAs and related issues

  • I gave preliminary approval for two requests from GlobalSign (bugs 406794 and406796) and started the second (and last) public comment period.

• Public communication

  • David posted version 1.0 of the Mozilla brochure, and worked to get copies printed for OSCON.

  • David took part in a discussion on the Mozilla governance list about where policy documents should live and how they should be maintained.

• Conferences

  • Zak continued working on the proposed FOSSCoach event at OSCON and related activities, including drafting the schedule and helping to orient the event coaches and participants.

• Other

  • Gerv continued a discussion on how to to gather ISP configuration data for Thunderbird autoconfig, and created a Google Spreadsheet with proposed data to collect.

  • Gerv attended the party for the presentation of the Firefox Guinness world record certificate, where he can be seen trying to peer over Tristan’s left shoulder.

Upcoming events and activities

• David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.