Mozilla

By now many if not most of you reading this will have seen the news about the next version of Eudora being open source and based on Thunderbird’s technology. You may also seen some of the analysis of the announcement. I thought about writing up some analysis of my own, but rather than listen to me I think it’s better to let the Eudora developers speak for themselves. For my own part I’ll simply say that that’s it’s great to have the Eudora developers join the Mozilla community and the world of open source (in particular, I’m glad to see more developers with deep experience in the email space join the project), and I wish them the best of luck as they develop the next Eudora release. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 6, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: IP-related issues. I did some trademark-related work for SeaMonkey, plus various other items. Next action(s): Look at creating trademark policies for SeaMonkey, Sunbird, and other non-Corporation products. Grants and related activities. I finished up paperwork for funding some more accessibility-related work, and will announce it soon. There’s also another grant proposal we’ve received for an unrelated area, plus we’ve gotten expressions of interest from a number of other organizations regarding applying for grants. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 29, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: IP-related issues. I corresponded with Daniel Glazman about the naming of his proposed successor product to Mozilla Composer and Nvu, and agreed to help him with trademark-related issues as appropriate. I also got some paperwork completed relating to the trademark application for the SeaMonkey logo, and will be proceeding with that. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 22, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related topics. I concluded arrangements for a Foundation grant to Seneca College (of Toronto Canada) to support their Mozilla-related activities; you can read more about these activities on David Humphrey’s blog. Next action(s): Sort out administrative arrangements for one more project we’re planning to fund. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 15, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related topics. I concluded arrangements for the Foundation to fund Henri Sivonen to develop an HTML5 conformance checker prototype, based on existing work he’s done in this area. I also approved a grant to Knowbility Inc. for Mozilla accessibility developer travel expenses and general sponsorship of the Second 2006 California Web Accessibility Conference (CalWAC2) at the California State University at Long Beach on September 28–29. ...

I was on vacation for the week ending September 8, 2006, so there was very little to report; see my status report for the week ending September 15, 2006.

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 1, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants and related topics. The Mozilla Foundation will be supporting the Mozilla accessibility hackfest meeting in Cambridge MA October 10–12, including sponsoring travel costs for selected attendees. Next action(s): Work with attendees of accessibility hackfest to get travel arrangements sorted out. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending August 25, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Sunbird and SeaMonkey. I did some more work related to trademark issues for Sunbird and SeaMonkey (working with the respective teams), including creating a EULA for Sunbird similar to the Firefox EULA. Next action(s): As appropriate. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending August 18, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Karim Lakhani meeting. I took a day trip up to Boston MA for a meeting with Karim Lakhani. Karim helped start the opensource.mit.edu repository of academic research related to open source, free software, and related topics, and was one of the people involved in the “transition team” prior to the Mozilla Foundation reorganization. He and I had a wide-ranging discussion about Mozilla project issues, how to promote openness and innovation, and related topics. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending August 11, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: CA certificates. I approved a request from Geotrust to add to their current list of root certificates, as well as a request from Swisscom to add their root certificate. Next action(s): Resume looking at requests from KISA and others. ...