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  "publishedAt": "2008-05-21T04:13:56.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending May 16, 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  - Eitan Isaacson published an [update][] on his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to improve the [Orca open source screen reader for Linux][Orca op].\n  - The [Perl Foundation][Perl Fo] received a [\\$200,000 donation to support Perl 6 development][2000].  Among other things, this donation will be used for continuation of Patrick Michaud’s Perl 6 work, for which the Mozilla Foundation made a \\$10,000 seed grant.\n- Legal issues\n  - We got final legal signoff for the proposed new [Mozilla committer’s agreement][Mozilla02]; Gerv is now working to get an official copy of this agreement and related information posted to www.mozilla.org.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I found someone to help clear the backlog of CA requests.\n- Public communications and related issues\n  - David continued work on the www.mozilla.org site.\n- Conferences\n  - We have more blog posts from the Mozilla accessibility team’s attendance of [SightCity 2008][SightCi], including [one from Steve Lee][one fro] and an almost minute-by-minute [account by Ben Millard][account].\n  - Zak prepared for upcoming conference appearances.\n\nUpcoming events and activities\n\n- Zak will be doing a keynote at the [eLiberatica 2008 conference][eLibera] (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest).\n- The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the [Personal Democracy Forum conference][Persona] (June 23-24 in New York NY), which I’m planning to attend if possible.\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[update]: http://monotonous.org/2008/05/16/orca-doings/\n[Orca op]: http://live.gnome.org/Orca\n[Perl Fo]: http://www.perlfoundation.org/\n[2000]: http://www.perlfoundation.org/tpf_receives_large_donation_in_support_of_perl_6_development\n[Mozilla02]: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Committers_Agreement\n[SightCi]: http://www.sightcity.net/index-e.html\n[one fro]: http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/347641.html\n[account]: http://projectcerbera.com/blog/2008/05#day10\n[eLibera]: https://foundationwiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Events/2008/eLiberatica&action=edit\n[Persona]: http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/05/16"
}