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  "publishedAt": "2008-07-21T18:44:03.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending July 18, 2008.\n\nProjects for the week\n\nHere’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the blogs published by [David Boswell][David B], [Gerv Markham][Gerv Ma], and [Zak Greant][Zak Gre].\n\n- Future of the Foundation\n  - Mitchell Baker [announced][announc] that [Mark Surman][Mark Su] is being considered for the Foundation executive director position.\n  - David posted a [blog entry][blog en] with ideas about how the Foundation might support the Mozilla community.\n- Legal issues\n  - Gerv [called][] for people to sign committer’s agreements at the Firefox Summit.\n- Grants and related expenditures\n  - The Mozilla Foundation is sponsoring the [2009 Foundations of Open Media Software workshop][2009 Fo].\n  - Wellington Fernando de Macedo has made further progress on his Foundation-funded server-sent DOM events project; see bug [338583][338583] for more information.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I gave final approval for two requests from [GlobalSign][GlobalS] (bugs [406794][406794] and [406796][406796]) and filed bug [446407][446407] against NSS and bug [446409][446409] against PSM for the actual code changes.\n  - I started the first public comment period for requests from [Comodo][] (for a new ECC root, bug [421946][421946]), [Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems][Deutsch] (bug [378882][378882]), and [Wells Fargo][Wells F] (bug [428390][428390]).\n  - I worked with Kathleen Wilson to select the next group of CAs for which to process requests and do information gathering.\n- Public communication\n  - David arranged for printing copies of the [Mozilla brochure][Mozilla02] for OSCON, and started work on a brochure page for www.mozilla.org.\n  - David prepared for a [session on the www.mozilla.org site][session] at the upcoming Firefox Summit.\n  - David updated the [About page][About p] on www.mozilla.org to keep it in sync with the last round of changes to the text of the Mozilla brochure.\n- Conferences\n  - Zak continued working on the proposed [FOSSCoach][FOSSCoa] event at OSCON and related activities, including drafting the schedule and helping to orient the event coaches and participants.\n- Other\n  - Gerv met with various people about proposed Site Security Policy implementations.\n\nUpcoming events and activities\n\n- David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC).\n- I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON, and then will be on vacation for most of the following week.\n\n[Mozilla]: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/\n[David B]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/\n[Gerv Ma]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/\n[Zak Gre]: http://zak.greant.com/\n[announc]: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/17/mark-surman-and-the-mozilla-foundation/\n[Mark Su]: http://commonspace.typepad.com/commonspace/\n[blog en]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/supporting-the-mozilla-community/\n[called]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/07/signing_the_new_contributors_agreement.html\n[2009 Fo]: http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2009/\n[338583]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338583\n[GlobalS]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#GlobalSign\n[406794]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406794\n[406796]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406796\n[446407]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446407\n[446409]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446407\n[Comodo]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Comodo\n[421946]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421946\n[Deutsch]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#T-Systems\n[378882]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378882\n[Wells F]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Wells%20Fargo\n[428390]: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428390\n[Mozilla02]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/mozilla-brochure-10/\n[session]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Proposals/Mozilla.org_Site\n[About p]: http://www.mozilla.org/about\n[FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/18"
}