Mozilla

Paul Graham (of Y Combinator fame) recently posted an interesting article “Be Good” (which I found via John Gruber’s Daring Fireball site) about the connections between startups and nonprofits: About a month after we started Y Combinator we came up with the phrase that became our motto: Make something people want. . . . Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much about the business model, at least at first. . . . A couple weeks ago I realized that if you put those two ideas together, you get something surprising. Make something people want. Don’t worry too much about making money. What you’ve got is a description of a charity. ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 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 weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant. Grants and related expenditures The Mozilla Foundation will be funding Alexander Surkov to continue his work with the Mozilla accessibility code, and in particular to develop test cases and create fixes where necessary for the Gecko 1.9 accessibility infrastructure. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the request from Network Solutions to add a new root and enable it for EV. I also worked on the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV. Public communications and related issues David participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. Conferences The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference May 7-9 in Frankfurt. The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA) and the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY) if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference (April 24 in Munich), and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 11, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports.) Note that I was out almost all week taking care of family medical matters, so the report is somewhat skimpy. 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. ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 4, 2008. (I’m still trying to catch up on status reports.) 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 The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the NetSquared 2008 conference. CAs and related issues I gave final approval to the application from Comodo to add a new EV root and EV-enable three existing roots; for more information see bugs 401587, 426568, 426572, and 426575. I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied Public communications and related issues David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including updating the featured applications page and participating in a planning meeting for proposed site changes. Conferences Zak worked on a proposal to hold a session at OSCON on coaching open source developers and other FOSS community members. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 28, 2008. (I’m again trying to catch up on status reports.) 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 Eitan Isaacson completed the intermediate milestone for his Orca contracted Braille project. CAs and related issues I worked on the applications from Comodo and KISA. I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied Public communications and related issues David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including helping with a 10th anniversary page and a proposed new About page. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.