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  "publishedAt": "2008-07-15T03:40:33.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending July 11, 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- Legal issues\n  - Gerv worked on a variety of licensing issues involving software to be used in the context of the Mozilla project.\n- Grants and related expenditures\n  - Gerv contacted the various people involved in Google Summer of Code projects related to Mozilla in order to get current status reports.\n  - The Mozilla Foundation is funding a new project by [Eitan Isaacson][Eitan I] to do comparison testing of accessibility support for Firefox and other browsers.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I gave preliminary approval for two requests from [GlobalSign][GlobalS] (bugs [406794][406794] and[406796][406796]) and started the second (and last) public comment period.\n- Public communication\n  - David posted version 1.0 of the [Mozilla brochure][Mozilla02], and worked to get copies printed for OSCON.\n  - David took part in a [discussion on the Mozilla governance list][discuss] about where policy documents should live and how they should be maintained.\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 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].\n  - 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.\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).  I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.\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[Eitan I]: http://monotonous.org/\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[Mozilla02]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/mozilla-brochure-10/\n[discuss]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.governance/browse_thread/thread/c80ae5a9d622bc6a[FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach\n[how to]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/3ffeff561786e5fe/\n[created]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/89c5a8a129f9af83/\n[party f]: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/07/10/mozillas-guinness-world-record-certificate/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/07/11"
}