Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/13

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 13, 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 updated the list of Mozilla Foundations grants and related expenditures for 2007 to include all items approved in 2007.
  • Gary Bishop of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill published information on the atool project, a follow-on project to an earlier Mozilla Foundation-funded project to enable people with physical disabilities to do keyboard input using commodity webcam hardware.
• Legal issues
  • Gerv published the new Mozilla committer’s agreement and related information on the www.mozilla.org site.
• CAs and related issues
  • Kathleen Wilson updated the pending CA request list to reflect current information received from CAs; she’s still waiting on information from several CAs.
• Public communication
  • David participated in a [planning meeting on www.mozilla.org changes][plannin].
  • David also had a call with the evangelism team about community content ideas for www.mozilla.org.
• Conferences
  • Zak continued work on the proposed [FOSSCoach][FOSSCoa] event at OSCON.
• Other
  • Gerv continued work on a project to calculate what percentage of the world’s Internet users have a localized version of Firefox available in their native language.

Upcoming events and activities

• The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the [Personal Democracy Forum conference][Persona] (June 23-24 in New York NY). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking there, and I’m also planning to attend.
• 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.

[plannin]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mozilla-org/browse_thread/thread/252eece4039d39b3[FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach [Persona]: http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008