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  "publishedAt": "2008-06-16T22:06:46.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending June 13, 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 weekly status reports published by [David Boswell][David B], [Gerv Markham][Gerv Ma], and [Zak Greant][Zak Gre].\n\n- Grants and related expenditures\n  - I updated the list of [Mozilla Foundations grants and related expenditures for 2007][Mozilla02] to include all items approved in 2007.\n  - 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.\n- Legal issues\n  - Gerv published the new [Mozilla committer’s agreement][Mozilla03] and [related information][related] on the www.mozilla.org site.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - Kathleen Wilson updated the [pending CA request list][pending] to reflect current information received from CAs; she’s still waiting on information from several CAs.\n- Public communication\n  - David participated in a [planning meeting on www.mozilla.org changes][plannin].\n  - David also had a call with the evangelism team about community content ideas for www.mozilla.org.\n- Conferences\n  - Zak continued work on the proposed [FOSSCoach][FOSSCoa] event at OSCON.\n- Other\n  - 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.\n\nUpcoming events and activities\n\n- 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.\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[Mozilla02]: /2007/11/19/mozilla-foundation-grants-and-related-expenditures-for-2007/\n[atool]: http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/%7Egb/wp/blog/2008/06/12/atool-enables-ddr-pad-or-webcam-input/\n[Mozilla03]: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/committer/committers-agreement.pdf\n[related]: http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/committer/faq.html\n[pending]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/\n[plannin]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mozilla-org/browse_thread/thread/252eece4039d39b3[FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach\n[Persona]: http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/13"
}