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  "publishedAt": "2008-03-19T03:40:29.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending March 7, 2008.  (I’m running a bit behind on status reports; the one for last week should be up tomorrow.)\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  - [Seneca College announced a \\$100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation][Seneca] to support Seneca’s ongoing work with the Mozilla project and its creation of a curriculum for educating Mozilla and open source developers.\n  - The GNOME Foundation announced that the [Mozilla Foundation will be joining the GNOME Foundation advisory board][Mozilla02].\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I gave preliminary approval to the applications from [GeoTrust][GeoTrus] and [thawte][] to add new EV-capable roots (bugs [407168][407168] and [407163][407163] respectively).\n  - I also worked on EV-related applications from [Comodo][] and [VeriSign][VeriSig].\n- Public communication\n  - David continued work on various www.mozilla.org-related tasks.\n  - David also posted a proposed new Mozilla T-shirt design.\n- Conferences and events\n  - Zak published a number of blog posts from his attendance at SCALE; see the [latest post][latest] for links.\n  - I continued work on arrangements for [CSUN][].\n\nUpcoming events and activities\n\n- I’m planning to attend the [Freedom to Connect][Freedom] conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD, and (if possible) the [Berkman@10][Berkman] conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.\n- Zak will be speaking at various open source events in 2008.\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[Seneca]: http://www.senecac.on.ca/cms/media/newsdetail.jsp?mediaID=136\n[Mozilla02]: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-03-mofojoins.html\n[GeoTrus]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#GeoTrust\n[thawte]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#thawte\n[407168]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407168\n[407163]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407163\n[Comodo]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Comodo\n[VeriSig]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#VeriSign\n[latest]: http://zak.greant.com/scale-6x-hello-can-anyone-hear-me/\n[CSUN]: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/\n[Freedom]: http://freedom-to-connect.net/\n[Berkman]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/berkat10/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/03/07"
}