Mozilla

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 26. 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 I published a blog post on Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2006. Legal/IP issues I’m still waiting on more feedback on the proposed corporate contributors agreement. Other We posted the Mozilla Foundation 2006 Form 990 and 2006 consolidated financial statement to www.mozilla.org along with an accompanying FAQ, as noted in Mitchell’s blog post. I attended FSOSS 2007 and met with representatives from various Mozilla Foundation grantees, including Seneca College and the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto. (I’ll blog more about this soon.) Upcoming activities I’m not planning any out-of-town trips in the near future.

As noted in a blog post by Mitchell Baker, yesterday we posted various 2006 financial documents for the Mozilla Foundation, including our 2006 Form 990, a 2006 consolidated financial statement for the Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and a FAQ on 2006 finances. The 2006 financial FAQ in particular contains some figures on Mozilla Foundation grants and related expenditures for 2006. In this post I wanted to describe in a bit more detail what activities the Mozilla Foundation funded in 2006. ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending October 19. I spent almost all of my time working on internal projects and projects not yet ready for public announcement; some of these will be announced soon. 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 October 12. Last week we had a Foundation board meeting, and we’re working on some internal (for now) initiatives coming out of that. 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 October 5. As with last week, I spent a lot of the week preparing for an upcoming board meeting and working on other internal projects; some of these will be announced in due time. 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 September 28. I spent a lot of the week preparing for an upcoming board meeting and working on other internal projects; some of these will be announced in due time. 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 September 21. I spent a lot of the week handling internal administrivia. 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. Legal/IP issues I’m still waiting on more feedback on the proposed corporate contributors agreement. Grants and related activities Alexander Surkov completed the second milestone on his implementation in Mozilla of the IAccessible2 accessibility API for Windows (to be used by future versions of Firefox and Firefox-compatible screen readers on Windows). The IA2ToGecko project page has more information, including links to the relevant bugs. Ariel Rios completed the second milestone on his project to implement a new Collection interface for the GNOME AT-SPI accessibility API (to be used by future versions of Firefox and Firefox-compatible screen readers on Linux). For more information (and to track progress) see GNOME bug 326516. Steve Lee completed the final milestone for his project to create a prototype switch-activated on-screen keyboard for Firefox; he’ll be showing this at the Mozilla accessibility summit. Web sites David continued work on getting old www.mozilla.org content archived. Upcoming activities I’m considering attending the Mozilla accessibility summit on October 5 in Boston. I’m also considering attending one or both days of the Seneca College Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2007) in Toronto on October 25 and 26.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 14. The major activity of the week for me was a trip to California for the monthly Mozilla Foundation board meeting. 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. Legal/IP issues I posted a public draft for the proposed corporate contributors agreement. Gerv corrected the trademark list in the Mozilla trademark policy. Grants and related activities The Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring two representatives to participate in the CalConnect events in Boston September 17–21. The Foundation is sponsoring one person to participate in the Mozilla accessibility summit in Boston October 5. (The Mozilla Corporation is providing general sponsorship for the summit, including travel sponsorship for other attendees.) LWN did an article on Mozilla-related Summer of Code projects, including one mentored by Gerv. Web sites David continued work on getting old www.mozilla.org content archived. Other Zak gave a presentation for Mozilla 24. (I don’t think the presentation was recorded for later viewing, but Zak has put an earlier version online.) Upcoming activities I’m considering attending the Mozilla accessibility summit on October 5 in Boston. I’m also considering attending one or both days of the Seneca College Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS 2007) in Toronto on October 25 and 26.

Some time ago we started the process of drafting an agreement for use by corporations and other organizations whose employees contribute code and other material to the Mozilla project, and created bug 369879 to track this effort. After some delay (for which I apologize) we now have a draft of such an agreement ready for public comment. In this post I provide a little bit of background to the proposed agreement (formally known as the Mozilla Corporate Contributor License Agreement, or the Mozilla corporate CLA for short). ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending September 7. I spent most of my time in preparation for an upcoming board meeting, so there’s not much to report this week. 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. ...