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  "publishedAt": "2008-05-05T18:19:53.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending April 25, 2008.  (Yes, I’m somewhat behind again on status reports, but will catch up again today.)\n\nProjects for the week\n\nHere’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on that 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 worked on one grant approved but not yet finalized, and another larger accessibility-related grant not yet approved.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I gave preliminary approval to the request from [DigiNotar][DigiNot] to add a new root and enable it for EV; for more information see bug [369357][369357].\n- Public communications and related issues\n  - David and I participated in activities related to the [Powered by Mozilla program][Powered].\n  - David made some additional changes to drafts of new Community pages for www.mozilla.org.\n- Conferences\n  - The Mozilla Foundation was a sponsor of the [W4A conference][W4A con], more formally known as the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (April 21-22 in Beijing).\n  - Zak spoke at the [Leadership by (Open) Innovation in the Telecom, IT and Media Industries conference][Leaders] (April 24 in Munich).\n  - Steve Lee attended and spoke briefly at the [Accessibility 2.0 conference][Accessi] (April 25 in London) on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation, and posted a [conference report][confere].\n\nUpcoming events and activities\n\n- The Mozilla accessibility team will be attending and staffing a Mozilla booth at the [SightCity conference][SightCi] (May 7-9 in Frankfurt, Germany), with sponsorship by the Mozilla Foundation.\n- I will _not_ be able to attend the [Berkman@10][Berkman] conference (May 15-16 in Boston MA); if any Boston-area Mozilla people are interested in attending, please contact me.\n- Zak will be doing a keynote at the [eLiberatica 2008 conference][eLibera] (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest, Romania).\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[DigiNot]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#DigiNotar\n[369357]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369357\n[Powered]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/moving-forward-with-powered-by-mozilla/\n[W4A con]: http://www.w4a.info/\n[Leaders]: http://zak.greant.com/session-abstract-open-innovation-and-open-source/\n[Accessi]: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2/\n[confere]: http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/329891.html\n[SightCi]: http://www.sightcity.net/index-e.html\n[Berkman]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/berkat10/\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 2008/04/25"
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