Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/18

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 18, 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.

• Future of the Foundation

  • Mitchell Baker announced that Mark Surman is being considered for the Foundation executive director position.

  • David posted a blog entry with ideas about how the Foundation might support the Mozilla community.

• Legal issues

  • Gerv called for people to sign committer’s agreements at the Firefox Summit.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • The Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring the 2009 Foundations of Open Media Software workshop.

  • Wellington Fernando de Macedo has made further progress on his Foundation-funded server-sent DOM events project; see bug 338583 for more information.

• CAs and related issues

  • I gave final approval for two requests from GlobalSign (bugs 406794 and 406796) and filed bug 446407 against NSS and bug 446409 against PSM for the actual code changes.

  • I started the first public comment period for requests from Comodo (for a new ECC root, bug 421946), Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems (bug 378882), and Wells Fargo (bug 428390).

  • I worked with Kathleen Wilson to select the next group of CAs for which to process requests and do information gathering.

• Public communication

  • David arranged for printing copies of the Mozilla brochure for OSCON, and started work on a brochure page for www.mozilla.org.

  • David prepared for a session on the www.mozilla.org site at the upcoming Firefox Summit.

  • David updated the About page on www.mozilla.org to keep it in sync with the last round of changes to the text of the Mozilla brochure.

• 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 met with various people about proposed Site Security Policy implementations.

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, and then will be on vacation for most of the following week.