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This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 20, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I did this past week: Grants and related activities. I approved two new accessibility-related proposals, and send another to the Mozilla Foundation board for consideration; more information to come later as things progress.. Next action(s): Finish paperwork for new work being funded. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. IP/legal issues. Due to competing priorities, I again didn’t make any progress on the proposed corporate contributors agreement (bug 342029). Next action(s): Spend more time on getting the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. I published a blog post discussing my intention to step down as executive director of the Foundation. I published the Mozilla Manifesto and the current Mozilla Foundation statement of direction to www.mozilla.org. Next action(s): Help put together a plan for community involvement in the search for a new executive director. ...

It’s been just over a year since I started working full-time for the Mozilla Foundation, and about a year and a half since the Foundation spun off the Mozilla Corporation as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Since that time we’ve engaged in a number of useful amount of activities at the Foundation; however I think it’s fair to say that the Foundation has barely scratched the surface of what it can do. ...

This is my report on my activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 13, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I did this past week: Grants and related activities. I committed to speak at the July 2 meeting of the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science group in Atlanta; thanks to Curtis Chong for inviting the Mozilla Foundation to be represented there. I also attended a dinner with members of the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (the folks working on WAI-ARIA and related initiatives); thanks to Aaron Leventhal for inviting me and to Tom Wlodkowski of AOL for hosting the dinner. Finally, I worked on some stuff related to the upcoming W4A meeting sponsored by the Foundation. Next action(s): Make more progress on the action items arising from CSUN and G3ICT. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. CA certificates. I cleared out my inbox and sent Gerv Markham all remaining correspondence I could find relating to pending CA requests. Gerv has basically taken over this effort now. Next action(s): None at this time. IP/legal issues. Due to competing priorities, I again didn’t make any progress on the proposed corporate contributors agreement (bug 342029). Next action(s): Spend more time on getting the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. See also the status reports for last week from Gerv and Zak. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 6, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. The Mozilla Foundation is making a grant to Knowbility to support three of their accessibility-related events this spring: the two-part Designation/Codeathon 2.0 and Access U 2007. Next action(s): Make more progress on the action items arising from CSUN and G3ICT. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. CA certificates. For continuing coverage of CA-related issues the best place to turn to is now Gerv Markham’s status reports as posted on Gerv’s blog. Next action(s): None at this time. IP/legal issues. I didn’t make much progress on the proposed corporate contributors agreement (bug 342029). However I did get an update on the status of various Mozilla Foundation trademark applications. The short version: applications have been submitted for the SeaMonkey word mark and logo (in Europe and Japan) and the Sunbird word mark and logo (in Europe). (Japanese filings for Sunbird had already been made last year.) Next action(s): Spend more time on getting the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. See also Gerv’s report for the week. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 30, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I attended and spoke at the G3ICT meeting on Monday, March 26, at the United Nations building in New York. I also considered some new requests for conference and travel sponsorships. Next action(s): Make more progress on the action items arising from CSUN and G3ICT. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on CSUN and G3ICT. CA certificates. For continuing coverage of CA-related issues the best place to turn to is now Gerv Markham’s status reports as posted on Gerv’s blog. (However I did work some with Gerv last week now that he’s turned from gathering data about CAs to evaluating their applications.) Next action(s): None at this time. IP/legal issues. I didn’t make much progress on the proposed corporate contributors agreement (bug 342029). Next action(s): Spend more time on getting the contributors agreement moved forward. Other. See also Gerv’s report for the week ending March 30. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 23, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. My main activity for the week was attending the CSUN conference. The Mozilla Foundation had a booth in the CSUN exhibit area and also a separate room where we hosted meetings of developers working on Mozilla-related accessibility issues. Aaron Leventhal and others did a conference presentation on the “Mozilla accessibility ecosystem,” and we talked to lots of other people about Mozilla Foundation-sponsored work to support accessibility of dynamic web applications and related matters. It was great being able to talk to a number of people whose work we’ve funded; many thanks to those folks who helped out with the booth. Next action(s): Figure out all the action items arising from CSUN. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts. CA certificates. For continuing coverage of CA-related issues the best place to turn to is now Gerv Markham’s status reports as posted on Gerv’s blog. Next action(s): None at this time. IP/legal issues. Got another draft of the proposed corporate contributors agreement (as requested per bug 342029). Next action(s): Review the contributors agreement draft and get it published (schedule TBD). Other. See also Gerv’s report for the week ending March 23. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the weeks ending March 9 and March 16, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did these past two weeks: Grants and related activities. I continued preparations for the CSUN conference. I also presented to the Mozilla Foundation board an overview of the Foundation’s strategy on funding accessibility-related projects, along with a wish list for future funding. Next action(s): Attend CSUN, which I’m sure will generate lots of action items. Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts. CA certificates. Gerv Markham has for the most part finished collecting information on CAs, and has published a list of pending CA requests; he’s now turned to evaluating the actual requests. Next action(s): Pretty much up to Gerv at this point. IP/legal issues. Gerv and I worked internally to review and make comments on counsel-generated drafts for a proposed corporate contributors agreement (as requested per bug 342029). Next action(s): Complete work on the contributors agreement draft and get it published. (Note that I don’t have a good estimate yet for when this will be done, as there are still some outstanding issues we need to work through). Other. Gerv is now publishing his own status reports; for more information see his report for the week ending March 16. ...

Due to lack of time I didn’t do a status report for this week; see the next status report for the week ending March 16, 2007.

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 2, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I continued preparations for the CSUN conference, including making sure we have booth banners and signs, handouts, etc. Next action(s): Finish up CSUN stuff. CA certificates. Gerv Markham continued work on processing bugs for including CA certificates. Gerv and I also provided some feedback to the Mozilla Corporation on possible approaches to dealing with Extended Validation certificates. Next action(s): I need to work with Gerv to make sure we have bugs filed for all current requests from CAs. IP/legal issues. I worked on putting together a draft Mozilla corporate contributors agreement suitable for public review (bug 342029). Next action(s): Complete work on the contributors agreement draft and get it published. Other. Gerv is now publishing his own status reports; for more information see his report for the week ending March 2. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 23, 2007. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related activities. I’m working with Aaron Leventhal to prepare an overall plan for Mozilla-related accessibility work in 2007 and 2008. Regardless of how this plan gets funded (and some work may not get funded at all), I think this will be a useful exercise to pull together all of the accessibility-related Mozilla activities into one vision and connect them with the wider world of open source accessibility. Next action(s): More preparations for the CSUN conference. CA certificates. Gerv Markham has been working away on updating the status of the various bugs for including CA certificates. Next action(s): I need to work with Gerv to make sure we have bugs filed for all current requests from CAs. Other. I met with David Boswell to discuss the Mozdev Community Organization and how we could work together in future activities to support the Mozilla project. I also talked with some folks working to build a XUL-based application and discussed how the Mozilla Foundation might support the community of people working with XUL. ...