Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/11

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending July 11, 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 blogs published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Legal issues
  • Gerv worked on a variety of licensing issues involving software to be used in the context of the Mozilla project.
• Grants and related expenditures
  • Gerv contacted the various people involved in Google Summer of Code projects related to Mozilla in order to get current status reports.
  • The Mozilla Foundation is funding a new project by Eitan Isaacson to do comparison testing of accessibility support for Firefox and other browsers.
• CAs and related issues
  • I gave preliminary approval for two requests from GlobalSign (bugs 406794 and406796) and started the second (and last) public comment period.
• Public communication
  • David posted version 1.0 of the Mozilla brochure, and worked to get copies printed for OSCON.
  • David took part in a [discussion on the Mozilla governance list][discuss] about where policy documents should live and how they should be maintained.
• Conferences
  • 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.
• Other
  • Gerv continued a discussion on [how to to gather ISP configuration data for Thunderbird autoconfig][how to], and [created a Google Spreadsheet with proposed data to collect][created].
  • Gerv attended the [party for the presentation of the Firefox Guinness world record certificate][party f], where he can be seen trying to peer over Tristan’s left shoulder.

Upcoming events and activities

• David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

[discuss]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.governance/browse_thread/thread/c80ae5a9d622bc6a[FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach [how to]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/3ffeff561786e5fe/ [created]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/89c5a8a129f9af83/ [party f]: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/07/10/mozillas-guinness-world-record-certificate/