Statusreport

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending May 2, 2008. 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 approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last next week. Thanks to all who donated to the Mozilla Foundation in support of Bugzilla! CAs and related issues I gave final approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357. Public communications and related issues David checked in changes to the Community pages on www.mozilla.org (bugs 271655, 370222, and 426600). David updated the Mozilla-Based Applications page and added Featured Apps for May (Joost and Second Life). David and I participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. Other Gerv worked on Summer of Code and other activities. Zak worked on various conference-related activities. Upcoming events and activities The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation. I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me. Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest). The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible. LpSolit - 2008-05-05 23:19 “I approved funding for a new Bugzilla-related project; more details last week.” Last week? Or next week? ...

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 25, 2008. (Yes, I’m somewhat behind again on status reports, but will catch up again today.) Projects for the week Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 worked on one grant approved but not yet finalized, and another larger accessibility-related grant not yet approved. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug 369357. Public communications and related issues David and I participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. David made some additional changes to drafts of new Community pages for www.mozilla.org. Conferences The Mozilla Foundation was a sponsor of the W4A conference, more formally known as the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (April 21-22 in Beijing). Zak spoke at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference (April 24 in Munich). Steve Lee attended and spoke briefly at the Accessibility 2.0 conference (April 25 in London) on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation, and posted a conference report. Upcoming events and activities The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference (May 7-9 in Frankfurt, Germany), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation. I will not be able to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me. Zak will be doing a keynote at the eLiberatica 2008 conference (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest, Romania). The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 18, 2008. 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 The Mozilla Foundation will be funding Alexander Surkov to continue his work with the Mozilla accessibility code, and in particular to develop test cases and create fixes where necessary for the Gecko 1.9 accessibility infrastructure. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the request from Network Solutions to add a new root and enable it for EV. I also worked on the request from DigiNotar to add a new root and enable it for EV. Public communications and related issues David participated in activities related to the Powered by Mozilla program. Conferences The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the SightCity conference May 7-9 in Frankfurt. The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA) and the Personal Democracy Forum conference (June 23-24 in New York NY) if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference (April 24 in Munich), and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending April 11, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports.) Note that I was out almost all week taking care of family medical matters, so the report is somewhat skimpy. 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 April 4, 2008. (I’m still trying to catch up on status reports.) Projects for the week Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the NetSquared 2008 conference. CAs and related issues I gave final approval to the application from Comodo to add a new EV root and EV-enable three existing roots; for more information see bugs 401587, 426568, 426572, and 426575. I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied Public communications and related issues David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including updating the featured applications page and participating in a planning meeting for proposed site changes. Conferences Zak worked on a proposal to hold a session at OSCON on coaching open source developers and other FOSS community members. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 28, 2008. (I’m again trying to catch up on status reports.) Projects for the week Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 Eitan Isaacson completed the intermediate milestone for his Orca contracted Braille project. CAs and related issues I worked on the applications from Comodo and KISA. I also tried to address general questions about the Mozilla CA policy and how it should be applied Public communications and related issues David did more work on revising the www.mozilla.org site, including helping with a 10th anniversary page and a proposed new About page. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA and the Personal Democracy Forum conference June 23-24 in New York NY if possible. Zak will be speaking at the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 21, 2008. (I’m now caught up on status reports, thank goodness.) 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 got paperwork done for another new grant, to be announced later. CAs and related issues I gave final approval to the applications from GeoTrust (bug 407168) and thawte (bug 407163) and filed bugs against NSS/PSM for the changes. Public communications and related issues David worked on various items related to the Mozilla 10th anniversary celebrations. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA. I’ll be out for a few days the week of April 7 to handle a family medical issue. Zak will be speaking at the Go Open conference April 8 and 9, 2008, in Oslo, the Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference April 24 in Munich, and other events later in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending March 14, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for last week should be up in the next couple of days.) 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 March 7, 2008. (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for last week should be up tomorrow.) 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 Seneca College announced a $100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to support Seneca’s ongoing work with the Mozilla project and its creation of a curriculum for educating Mozilla and open source developers. The GNOME Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation will be joining the GNOME Foundation advisory board. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the applications from GeoTrust and thawte to add new EV-capable roots (bugs 407168 and 407163 respectively). I also worked on EV-related applications from Comodo and VeriSign. Public communication David continued work on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks. David also posted a proposed new Mozilla T-shirt design. Conferences and events Zak published a number of blog posts from his attendance at SCALE; see the latest post for links. I continued work on arrangements for CSUN. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA. Zak will be speaking at various open source events in 2008.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 29, 2008. 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 The GNOME Foundation announced the GNOME outreach program for accessibility, which the Mozilla Foundation helped fund. CAs and related issues I gave preliminary approval to the application from VeriSign to add a new EV-capable root (bug 402947). I also worked on EV-related applications from Comodo (bug 401587), GeoTrust (bug 407168), and thawte (bug 407163). Public communication David continued work on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks. Conferences and events Zak spoke at a number of Norwegian universities February 25-27 on open source and Mozilla-related topics. Gerv attended FOSDEM. I continued work on arrangements for CSUN. Other Gerv worked on a script to assist with the proposed Bugzilla product/component reorganization. Upcoming events and activities I’m planning to be in Mountain View on March 12 and at the CSUN conference on March 13 in Los Angeles CA. I’m also planning to attend the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA. Zak will be speaking at the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14, and other events later in 2008.