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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. OSCON. I didn’t report this before (because I missed Gerv Markham’s blog post, because it wasn’t picked up by Planet Mozilla, and because Gerv didn’t tell me): Gerv won the 2006 Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award for Best Community Activist. Please join me in extending congratulations to Gerv! ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending August 4, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants. I approved a grant for enhancements to the DOM Inspector UI (this was originally submitted for the Google Summer of Code) and submitted a separate grant proposal to the Foundation board. Next action(s): Get DOM Inspector work under way, take action on other grant proposals as appropriate. Feed icon. I published the final versions of the feed icon guidelines and FAQ to the www.mozilla.org web site. (These are linked to from the trademarks page. The feed icon is not a trademark, but I thought that that page was the most appropriate of the existing pages on www.mozilla.org. People should feel free to link to the feed icon documents from the Mozilla wiki as well.) Next action(s): None at this time. CA certificates. I worked on a request from Geotrust to add to their current list of root certificates. Next action(s): Take final action on Geotrust’s request. Resume looking at requests from KISA and others. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 28, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Security. I dealt with a mistaken report of security problems associated with the file NSSCKBI.DLL, which holds the pre-loaded root CA certificates for Firefox and other Mozilla-based products; for more information see my post to the mozilla.dev.security newsgroup. Next action(s): None needed. OSCON. Gerv Markham and Zak Greant attended OSCON 2006; Zak wrote up some of his experiences on his blog. Next action(s): None at this time. Grants. I did some more work related to proposed Mozilla-related grants, but there’s nothing to announce yet. Next action(s): Get grant proposals completed and take action on them. Trademarks. I did more work on trademarks for other Mozilla projects besides Firefox and Thunderbird. Next action(s): Continue with this work as appropriate. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 21, 2006. Note that I was out of the office on vacation for most of the week. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: OSCON. Zak Greant coordinated with Brian Behlendorf re a brief “lightning” presentation on the Mozilla Foundation at OSCON 2006, but this apparently got dropped due to lack of time in the schedule. Next action(s): Zak to coordinate with other Mozilla folks attending OSCON and schedule a Mozilla BOF. RSS feed icon. I published a final draft of the feed icon usage guidelines and the accompanying feed icon FAQ. Next action(s): If there are no further changes, publish these to some place on www.mozilla.org. Trademarks. I did some work on trademarks for other Mozilla projects besides Firefox and Thunderbird. Next action(s): Continue with this work as appropriate. ...

This FAQ attempts to answer a variety of questions that might be asked about the usage guidelines that we’ve proposed for the “feed icon” (also known as the “RSS icon”) that the Mozilla Foundation is promoting for use in association with open web syndication formats such as RSS and Atom. Feed icon basics What is the feed icon? The feed icon was created originally for use with the Live Bookmarks feature of the Mozilla Firefox browser. In that context the presence of the icon in association with a displayed web page indicates that information contained in the page is also available in the form of a web feed using the RSS or Atom web syndication formats. We subsequently proposed having the icon be used universally in connection with feed-enabled applications or online services, blogs, news sites, and in general any web site offering information via open web syndication formats. Where can I get versions of the feed icon? The original icon used with Firefox The “canonical” icon is available in a 14x14-pixel version and a 28x28-pixel version. (We don’t currently publish these on the mozilla.org site, but will do so soon.) You can also get high-resolution and variant versions through the feedicons.com web site. [However note that some of the versions of the icon hosted on that site don’t fully conform to the proposed visual guidelines. (For example, some versions are smaller than the lower size limit we propose.) Am I required to follow the proposed feed icon usage guidelines? No. The proposed usage guidelines are not legally binding in any way. However we hope that users of the icon will honor the guidelines in the spirit in which they were intended. What’s the role of the wider community in all of this? As noted above the proposed usage guidelines for the feed icon are not legally binding, and in general we don’t think that use of the icon should be regulated using trademark law and related mechanisms. Instead we propose relying on community oversight and enforcement of the guidelines using non-legal means. Community members are also invited to assist in determining the proper interpretation of the guidelines in particular situations, and evolving the guidelines and the icon itself to accomodate future uses not yet envisioned. ...

Earlier I posted about a proposed Mozilla Foundation approach to promoting use of the “feed icon” (also known as the “RSS icon”): As part of that approach I proposed having the Foundation (or some other organization) publish a set of usage guidelines for the feed icon as used in association with open web syndication formats such as RSS and Atom. This document contains a first draft of such proposed guidelines the (hopefully final) draft of the guidelines. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 14, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week; most of my time was taken up with travel and the board meeting, so not much else went on from my point of view: Certification Authorities. I approved the application from Wells Fargo for inclusion of its root CA certificate in Mozilla-based products. Next action(s): Evaluate new information on KISA and Trustis. Continue processing applications from more CAs waiting in the queue. Look at adding more root CA certificates from Geotrust. OSCON. Zak Greant and others are working to help put together a brief presentation on the Mozilla Foundation at OSCON 2006. Next action(s): Zak to coordinate with other Mozilla folks attending OSCON, also look at the possibility of a Mozilla BOF. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 7, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Grants. I did a blog post about the Mozilla Foundation’s grant activities. Next action(s): Follow up on accessibility grants, and see what other grant opportunities surface in other areas. Certification Authorities. I worked on CA applications from Firmaprofesional, the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), SwissSign, Trustis, and Wells Fargo, and approved Firmaprofesional’s application for inclusion in Mozilla-based products. Next action(s): Take final action on Wells Fargo. Evaluate new information on KISA and Trustis. Continue processing applications from more CAs waiting in the queue. ...

In past blog posts I’ve mentioned Mozilla Foundation grants that we’ve made for various purposes; in this post I go into more detail about what kind of grants we’re making, why we’re making them, and how you can be a part of it all. Foundation != Corporation First, though, let me make a critical distinction: some time ago Mitchell Baker blogged about the possibility of the Mozilla Corporation making grants and donations and more recently added more details about Mozilla Corporation plans for grants and donations. What I’m discussing here is separate from that, and involves grants by the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation. ...

This is my report on activities of the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 30, 2006. Projects for the week Here’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week: Accessibility grants. Still working on another accessibility grant. Next action(s): Do a blog post to update folks on grant-related activities. Certification Authorities. I worked on CA applications from Firmaprofesional, the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA), and Wells Fargo. Next action(s): Final action on Firmaprofesional. Get answers to remaining questions on Swisscom and KISA. Continue processing applications from more CAs waiting in the queue. Other. Gerv Markham had to go back into the hospital to correct a problem with fluid in his lungs. ...