Mozilla

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 22, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did this past week: Grants and related activities. Eitan Isaacson completed the intermediate milestone on a project we’re funding to complete development of the Accerciser accessibility test tool. (This work supports our efforts to improve accessibility for Firefox on Linux.) Next action(s): Evaluate a funding request for sponsorship of a developer workshop (Mozilla-related but not Mozilla-specific). Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. I worked more on internal legal issues. Next action(s): Work with the SeaMonkey Council and others on appropriate policies for the SeaMonkey trademarks. Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. While we were out in Mountain View last week David Boswell and I met with a number of different people; thanks to all who took time to talk with us. Topics discussed included the Foundation and Corporation grant programs, the various mozilla.org web sites, the Mozilla Store, and other areas the Foundation is involved in today or might be in the future. More on these in future. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 15, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did this past week: Grants and related activities. I’m pleased to annouce that the Mozilla Foundation will providing some additional funding for Henri Sivonen’s work on HTML5 conformance checking. (Note that the code for the original HTML5 conformance checker is now available for checkout and build.) We’re also funding Scott Haeger to improve Firefox support in the Orca Linux-based screen reader. I also completed paperwork for a project for Leo Spalteholz to improve keyboard navigation in Firefox. (This was originally one of the Google Summer of Code submissions that we thought were worthy but for which we didn’t have slots). Next action(s): Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. I worked more on internal legal issues. Next action(s): Work with the SeaMonkey Council and others on appropriate policies for the SeaMonkey trademarks. Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. As I previously posted, David Boswell will be starting work for the Mozilla Foundation on Monday, June 18. ...

As most of you know, the Mozilla Foundation (as distinct from the Mozilla Corporation) is a pretty small organization in terms of the number of people working for it. It’s therefore a big deal when we increase our numbers, and I’m quite pleased to tell you that David Boswell will soon be joining our ranks. David has been working with the Mozilla project for several years now, most notably as the president of the Mozdev Community Organization, the nonprofit organization behind the mozdev.org site for Mozilla-related development projects. He and others at the web design firm Alphanumerica were instrumental in organizing early Mozilla developer meetings and creating some of the first third-party Mozilla themes and add-ons. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 8, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did this past week: Grants and related activities. I just did administrative stuff this week for existing projects. Next action(s): Get paperwork completed for one remaining project left over from the Summer of Code submissions. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. I worked more on internal legal matters. In the meantime, as Robert Kaiser noted, the SeaMonkey trademarks are now formally registered in the US. Next action(s): Work with the SeaMonkey Council and others on appropriate policies for the SeaMonkey trademarks. Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. I worked on some other internal items, at least one of which I’ll be able to announce next week. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the weeks ending May 25 and June 1, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did these past two weeks: Grants and related activities. I approved a Mozilla Foundation donation to the NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund; for more on NetSquared see Seth Bindernagel’s post. Henri Sivonen posted his final masters thesis describing his Mozilla Foundation-funded project to produce a prototype HTML conformance checker; the thesis and the conformance checker code are well worth checking out if you have an interest in this topic. The Foundation is now funding some follow-on work by Henri to produce an HTML5 parser for Java. I also approved matching funding from the Mozilla Foundation for a project sponsored by the Camino project to improve the scriptability of Camino. Next action(s): Finish up with stuff left over from the Summer of Code submissions. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. I worked on some internal legal matters. Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. I was in Boston on June 1 to attend the Internet & Society Conference 2007 and meet some folks from the Berkman Center (with whom we’re planning an event for later this year). Among the sessions I attended, perhaps the most interesting to me was that by Chris Mackie of the Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Foundation mainly funds projects related to the arts and humanities, and as an offshoot of that now has a program funding research in information technologies of interest to educational institutions, including development of open source software. In particular, Mellon funded creation of the Zotero extension to Firefox, a tool for people doing academic research online. ...

Due to lack of time and taking off for the Memorial Day holiday, I didn’t do a public status report for this week; see the next status report for the week ending June 1, 2007.

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 18, 2007. Most of the stuff I worked on is not yet ready for public announcement, hence the skimpiness of the report. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did this past week: Grants and related activities. I completed paperwork on a new accessibility-related proposal, and worked on paperwork for a grant proposal originally submitted for Summer of Code. Next action(s): Finish paperwork on two other grant proposals resulting from the Summer of Code submissions for which we didn’t have slots. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. Not much new since last week. Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 11, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others did this past week: Grants and related activities. I worked on paperwork for a grant proposal originally submitted for Summer of Code. Charles Chen and Peter Theissen presented a paper “Ajax Live Regions: Chat as a Case Example” at the recent W4A conference featuring work funded by the Mozilla Foundation. Next action(s): Finish paperwork on two other grant proposals resulting from the Summer of Code submissions for which we didn’t have slots. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. Not much new since last week. Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. I worked with Zak and Gerv to try to resolve various open governance bugs. Next action(s): As needed. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 4, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I did this past week: Grants and related activities. I completed paperwork on two more accessibility-related proposals. Next action(s): Finish paperwork on the grant proposals resulting from the Summer of Code submissions for which we didn’t have slots. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. Not much new since last week. Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 27, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I did this past week: Grants and related activities. I completed paperwork on one of the new accessibility-related proposals. Henri Sivonen completed the second milestone on his HTML5 conformance checker prototype project. I took care of various items related to expenses for CSUN and the W4A conference. Next action(s): Finish paperwork for a second new accessibility-related proposal, and get resolution on the proposals resulting from the Summer of Code submissions. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. I reviewed an internal draft of the proposed corporate contributors agreement (bug 342029) and provided comments. Hopefully we’ll soon have a public draft of this available for comment. I also worked with Gerv to confirm how we should be marking public domain files (e.g., test case input). Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. CA-related. Along with Gerv I participated in a Mozilla project conference call to discuss the latest draft guidelines on Extended Validation certificates. Next action(s): As needed. ...