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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did the week ending March 17; as I did previously, I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...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did the week ending March 10; as I did previously, I’ ve omitted the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...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: ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 17, 2006. (My apologies, I got behind on posting these.) Significant topics for the week included FOSDEM, “intellectual property,” and press releases. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did the week of 17 February; note that I removed the “next action(s)” comments because they were out of date: ...

This is the first in a series of reports describing activities of the Mozilla Foundation; I hope to be able to post these weekly as I have time. These reports are revised versions of the reports that I prepare for the Foundation board, and are intended to supplement other blog postings that I, Gerv Markham, or Zak Greant might make about Mozilla-related activities. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did last week: ...

Chris Blizzard recently posted an interesting article “open source is a side effect” in which he discussed the problem of encouraging the growth of open source developer communities in India, and by implication in other countries outside the so-called “developed” world. This is a subject of interest to me in my Mozilla Foundation role, because I think one of the Foundation’s goals should be to help grow the Mozilla community, especially in countries where there aren’t currently a lot of Mozilla contributors. In general I think Chris comments are spot on, but I wanted to add a few comments of my own. ...

Back in August 2005, when the Mozilla Corporation was created, I began working for the Mozilla Foundation in a part-time capacity. I’m pleased to note that today is my first day working full-time for the Foundation. In my previous post on the reorganization I very briefly discussed my past involvement with the Mozilla project. I really don’t have much to add to those comments, except to say that I’m happy to be able to take on a more extensive role as executive director of the Mozilla Foundation and do what I can to help support the Mozilla project as it evolves. I have my own personal opinions on where and how the Foundation can make a difference, and in the future I’ll be blogging more concerning my own thoughts on this topic. However in the end what really matters is not what I think but rather what’s best for the Mozilla project and the people participating in it and affected by it; I’m in a key sense just serving as an intermediary between the Mozilla community and the Mozilla Foundation board of directors, trying to bring various perspectives to the board’s attention and helping to implement the board’s chosen strategies. ...