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This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 23, 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 completed his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to improve the Orca open source screen reader for Linux. Thanks go to Eitan for all his work on this! The Mozilla Foundation is funding Ben Millard for an accessibility-related project to study how authors use HTML in practice, compare this with the semantics and accessibilty-related features in HTML5, identify any gaps, and help develop realistic ways to fill them. The Mozilla Foundation is funding Wellington Fernando de Macedo to help implement in the Mozilla code base server-sent DOM events functionality as specified in HTML5. This is a project originally proposed for the Google Summer of Code; we thought it was a project worth supporting but didn’t have enough SoC slots to include it as part of that program. CAs and related issues As I previously announced in the m.d.t.crypto newsgroup, Kathleen Wilson will be assisting me with the task of gathering information about Certificate Authorities that apply for inclusion of their root certificates into Mozilla. I’ve assigned a number of CA-related bugs to Kathleen, with a priority on getting EV-related requests processed. I updated the pending and included lists to reflect changes in Firefox 3 RC1. Conferences Zak prepared for his keynote at eLiberatica and for the FOSSCoach event at OSCON. 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). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking there, and I’m also planning to attend. Schorsch (Schorsch@invalid.com) - 2008-05-29 06:57 Well - it looks as if the T-Systems CA ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378882 ) pass this train? I’ve to wait until FF4.7, am I right? ...

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.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 9, 2008. Projects for the week Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 With support from people who’ve designated donations for Bugzilla, the Mozilla Foundation is funding a new project to be undertaken by Everything Solved, Inc. As a major Bugzilla contributor and customization expert, Everything Solved will survey large corporations and organizations already using Bugzilla in order to determine what the most desired enhancements and changes are. This will help guide the Bugzilla project for future development, and will also begin a standardized and organized list of feature ideas from the most visible users of Bugzilla. Legal issues We got a final round of legal review for the proposed new Mozilla committer’s agreement. CAs and related issues I held discussions with various parties about how to resolve issues with disabling email trust for certificates issued by DigiNotar. Public communications and related issues David participated in a planning meeting for www.mozilla.org changes and worked on related issues; for more information see his recent blog post. Conferences Various members of the Mozilla accessibility team attended SightCity 2008, with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation; Marco Zehe wrote a blog post with more details. Zak prepared for upcoming conference appearances already scheduled, and proposed some new conferences for our consideration. 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.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 2, 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 I approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last next week. Thanks to all who donated to the Mozilla Foundation in support of Bugzilla! CAs and related issues I gave final approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357. Public communications and related issues David checked in changes to the Community pages on www.mozilla.org (bugs 271655, 370222, and 426600). David updated the Mozilla-Based Applications page and added Featured Apps for May (Joost and Second Life). David and I participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. Other Gerv worked on Summer of Code and other activities. Zak worked on various conference-related activities. Upcoming events and activities The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation. I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me. 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. LpSolit - 2008-05-05 23:19 “I approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last week.” Last week? Or next week? ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 25, 2008. (Yes, I’m somewhat behind again on status reports, but will catch up again today.) Projects for the week Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 I worked on one grant approved but not yet finalized, and another larger accessibility-related grant not yet approved. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357. Public communications and related issues David and I participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. David made some additional changes to drafts of new Community pages for www.mozilla.org. Conferences The Mozilla Foundation was a sponsor of the W4A conference, more formally known as the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (April 21-22 in Beijing). Zak spoke at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference (April 24 in Munich). Steve Lee attended and spoke briefly at the Accessibility 2.0 conference (April 25 in London) on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation, and posted a conference report. Upcoming events and activities The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt, Germany), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation. I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me. Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest, Romania). 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.