This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 21, 2006. The major news for this week is that we’re continuing to fund work to support improved accessibility of Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending April 21: Accessibility implementation plan for OS X. The Mozilla Foundation is making a small grant to fund creation of an implementation plan for improving the accessibility of Firefox and other Mozilla-based products on Mac OS X. Next action(s): Work with Aaron Leventhal to monitor the progress of the work. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 14, 2006. The major news for this week is the mozdev.org grant. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending April 14: mozdev.org. The Mozilla Foundation board approved a $60K grant ($30K/year for two years) to the Mozdev Community Organization to support their efforts to improve the mozdev.org site for third-party developers of Firefox extensions and other Mozilla-related software. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 7, 2006. A lot of what went on last week won’t be announced until subsequent weeks; of the other stuff the most notable activities related to the Mozilla Foundation web site and a PKI conference I attended. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending April 7: ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 31, 2006. Besides the usual internal administrivia and related matters, the big activities for the week related to the Mozilla relicensing project, the National Federation of the Blind, and the OpenBSD project. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending March 31: CSUN conference. I posted a full CSUN 2006 conference report. We also had some follow-on activities from CSUN, as noted below. ...

Last week on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation I attended the 21st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, sponsored by the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge, better known to all and sundry as the CSUN 2006 conference or just plain “CSUN”. The CSUN conference is the premier conference for people interested in the topic of software accessibility and “assistive technologies” in general. This was the first year that the Mozilla project had a formal presence at the conference, and it turned out to be a “coming out party” for the Mozilla project’s accessibility activities in general and for accessibility support in Firefox in particular. This post provides an in-depth report on our CSUN experience. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 24, 2006. Besides the usual internal administrivia and related matters, the big activity for the week was the CSUN conference. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending March 24: CSUN conference. I’ll post a more in-depth report separately, but the bottom line is that being at the conference was an “over-the-top success” for us (to use Aaron Leventhal’s words), with lots of interest in Firefox, its current accessibility features, and new initiatives like accessible DHTML. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 17, 2006. Much of the activity this week was related to internal administrivia and related matters; other than preparing for the CSUN conference, significant topics were Mozilla project governance and discussions with CAs. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending March 17; as I did previously, I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 10, 2006 (almost caught up now! ). Significant topics for the week included the Mozilla Foundation board meeting and a post mortem on Mozilla projects done as part of Google’s “Summer of Code.” Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending March 10; as I did previously, I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 3, 2006 (still catching up). Significant topics for the week included FOSDEM, CSUN, and an interesting possible new project to record Mozilla and Firefox history. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week ending March 3; as I did previously, I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 24, 2006. (I’m still catching up after a delay.) Significant topics for the week included FOSDEM, CSUN, and relicensing. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week of 24 February; note that I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...