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  "canonicalUrl": "https://frankhecker.com/2008/01/02/mozilla-foundation-activities-week-ending-20071228/",
  "path": "/2008/01/02/mozilla-foundation-activities-week-ending-20071228/",
  "publishedAt": "2008-01-02T21:21:16.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:77mn3ult3b72tpvtqqva6tat/site.standard.publication/3mpfmfpu4u72n",
  "tags": [
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the weeks ending December 14, December 21, and December 28, 2007.\n\nProjects for the week\n\nHere’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on in the last three weeks; 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  - A number of significant grant proposals were approved in December; I’ll make public announcements on these soon and will update the [2007 grants report][2007 gr] to reflect all 2007 activities.\n  - Eitan Isaacson completed work on a Mozilla Foundation-funded project to improve performance of the [Orca][] open source screen reader; for more information see GNOME bugs [446277][446277], [495077][495077], [502924][502924], and [491756][491756], as well as Marco Zehe’s report on the overall [improvements to Orca performance with Firefox 3][improve].  Eitan is now working on a new Foundation-funded project to enhance the Braille output of Orca, including adding support for [contracted Braille][contrac].\n- Licensing and legal\n  - I looked over the proposed [replacement for the CVS contributor form][replace] to determine what’s needed to complete the project.\n- CAs and related issues\n  - I went over the application for inclusion from [TÜRKTRUST][TÜRKTRU] and all the public comments prior to making a final decision on approval.\n- Web sites\n  - David Boswell worked more on proposed changes to www.mozilla.org.\n- Other\n  - Gerv had [surgery][] and is now back home [recovering][recover].\n  - Zak worked on Mozilla Foundation participation in various upcoming events.\n\nUpcoming trips and events\n\n- I’m planning to attend the [Freedom to Connect][Freedom] conference March 31 and April 1, 2008 in Silver Spring MD.\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[2007 gr]: /mozilla/foundation-grants-2007\n[Orca]: http://live.gnome.org/Orca\n[446277]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446277\n[495077]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495077\n[502924]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502924\n[491756]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491756\n[improve]: http://www.marcozehe.de/2007/12/21/orca-is-gearing-up-with-firefox/\n[contrac]: http://www.dotlessbraille.org/braillecontractions.htm\n[replace]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342029\n[TÜRKTRU]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380635\n[surgery]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/12/operation_date_confirmed.html\n[recover]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/12/out_of_hospital.html\n[Freedom]: http://freedom-to-connect.net/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/12/28"
}