Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/08/10

This is my report on my activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending August 10, 2007. Projects for the week Here’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]. - Grants and related activities. The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the 2008 [W4A conference][w4a] (renewing our sponsorship from this year). Henri Sivonen completed another milestone on his Foundation-funded [conformance checker][] work. Next action(s): Complete paperwork on a major new grant. Evaluate a funding request for sponsorship of a developer workshop (Mozilla-related but not Mozilla-specific). Work with the Foundation board to make a decision on other new proposals. - IP/legal issues. I’m responding to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation. I contacted a company about putting proper MPL, etc., notifications in the EULA and other material for their Mozilla-based product. Next action(s): Work with the SeaMonkey Council and others on appropriate policies for the SeaMonkey trademarks. Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward. - Web sites. David Boswell worked more on revising the [Foundation section of www.mozilla.org][wmo]. Next action(s): Continue this work. - Other. Zak Greant worked on tying up loose ends from the [Internet as a Public Good Symposium][ipg]. Gerv was on vacation. Next action(s): Do a blog post on the issues discussed at the IPG symposium. Upcoming activities - I’ll be in Mountain View on September 12 for a Mozilla Foundation board meeting. Random notes [Last week][] I mentioned the [Thummer][], a new musical instrument. It turns out that there are a number of people out there interested in creating new instruments (including Thummer-like devices) and in the general science of music; if you’re interested in this topic, be sure to check out the [MusicScienceGuy blog][]. [david]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/ [gerv]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/ [zak]: http://zak.greant.com/ [w4a]: http://www.w4a.info [conformance checker]: http://about.validator.nu/ [wmo]: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation [ipg]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipg [Last week]: /mozilla/foundation-activities-2007-08-03 [Thummer]: http://www.thummer.com/ [MusicScienceGuy blog]: http://musicscienceguy.vox.com/ [Mozilla]: http://www.mozillafoundation.org/