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  "publishedAt": "2007-11-12T05:22:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending November 9, 2007.\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], [Gerv Markham][gerv], and [Zak Greant][zak].\n\n- Grants and related expenditures\n    - The Mozilla Foundation made a [grant to the Perl Foundation][tpf] to support Perl 6 and Parrot development.\n    - We’re funding some work by Eitan Isaacson to follow up from his project to migrate the [Orca][] screen reader for Linux to the [pyatspi][] library, including in particular improving the performance of Orca with Firefox.  This project also includes work covered by GNOME bugs [448848][], [446277][], and [491862][].\n    - We’re also funding [Codethink Ltd][] to do a study to evaluate the feasibility of porting the GNOME [AT-SPI][] accessibility interface from [ORBit][] to [D-Bus][]; we’re looking at this because ORBit is being deprecated, and we want to make sure that the accessibility infrastructure used by Firefox on Linux is as up to date as possible.\n    - [Dojo 1.0 was released last week][dojo] with lots of accessibility-related enhancements, including those developed by the University of Toronto [Adaptive Technology Resource Centre][atrc] with funding from the Mozilla Foundation; for more information see the [final report][] on the project.\n- CAs and related issues\n    - Last week I published version 1.1 of the [Mozilla CA certificate policy][policy]; this new version formalizes our policy for considering requests from CAs to have their certificates marked as capable of issuing [Extended Validation certificates][ev].  Note carefully: This does _not_ guarantee that you’ll see EV capability enabled in Firefox, particularly for every CA that claims to issue EV certificates; this is just a policy revision, and actual EV support will depend on the work of the NSS and Firefox developers.\n    - I did some work on CA applications from [SwissSign][] and [VeriSign][], and will continue working on other CA applications this week.\n- Other\n    - Gerv did some work on Mozilla community activities in the UK.\n    - Zak delivered a keynote address at the [International PHP Conference][].\n    - David was on vacation all week.\n\nUpcoming activities\n\n- I’m tentatively planning to be in Mountain View on December 11 and 12.\n\n[david]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/\n[gerv]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/\n[zak]: http://zak.greant.com/\n[tpf]: http://www.perlfoundation.org/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6_development_grant_as_a_joint_initiative_by_the_perl_foundation_and_mozilla_foundation\n[Orca]: http://live.gnome.org/Orca\n[pyatspi]: http://live.gnome.org/GAP/PythonATSPI\n[448848]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448848\n[446277]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446277\n[491862]: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491862\n[dojo]: http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/05/dojo-1-0\n[atrc]: http://atrc.utoronto.ca/\n[final report]: http://david.atrc.utoronto.ca/mozgrant/dojo-final-report.html\n[Codethink Ltd]: http://www.codethink.co.uk/\n[AT-SPI]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT-SPI\n[ORBit]: http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/\n[D-Bus]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus\n[policy]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/\n[ev]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate\n[SwissSign]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343756\n[VeriSign]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402947\n[International PHP Conference]: http://phpconference.com/\n[Mozilla]: http://www.mozillafoundation.org/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/11/09"
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