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  "textContent": "This is my report on my activities related to the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the weeks ending May 25 and June 1, 2007.\n\nProjects for the week\n\nHere’s a partial listing of what I and others did these past two weeks:\n\n- Grants and related activities.  I approved a Mozilla Foundation donation to the [NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund][ntif]; for more on NetSquared see [Seth Bindernagel’s post][seth].  Henri Sivonen posted his final [masters thesis][] describing his Mozilla Foundation-funded project to produce a prototype HTML conformance checker; the thesis and the [conformance checker code][code] are well worth checking out if you have an interest in this topic.  The Foundation is now funding some follow-on work by Henri to produce an HTML5 parser for Java.  I also approved matching funding from the Mozilla Foundation for a project sponsored by the Camino project to improve the scriptability of Camino.\n\n    Next action(s): Finish up with stuff left over from the Summer of Code submissions.  Do a blog post summarizing our accessibility-related efforts, as well as a brief meeting report on [CSUN][] and [G3ICT][].\n\n- IP/legal issues.  I worked on some internal legal matters.\n\n    Next action(s): Work more to get the contributors agreement moved forward.\n\n- Other.  I was in Boston on June 1 to attend the [Internet & Society Conference 2007][is2k7] and meet some folks from the [Berkman Center][bc] (with whom we’re planning an event for later this year).  Among the sessions I attended, perhaps the most interesting to me was that by Chris Mackie of the [Mellon Foundation][].  The Mellon Foundation mainly funds projects related to the arts and humanities, and as an offshoot of that now has a program funding [research in information technologies][it] of interest to educational institutions, including development of open source software.  In particular, Mellon funded creation of the [Zotero][] extension to Firefox, a tool for people doing academic research online.\n\nSee also the blogs by [Gerv][gerv] and [Zak][zak] for their own status reports.\n\nUpcoming activities\n\n- I’ll in Mountain View on June 12 and 13 at Mozilla HQ.\n- I’ll be in Atlanta on July 2 to speak at the annual meeting of the [National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science][nfbcs].\n- I’m considering attending at least part of [OSCON 2007][oscon] July 23--27.\n- I’ll tentatively be in Boston on July 30--31.\n\nRandom notes\n\nOn the flights up to Boston and back I read David Weinberger’s new book _[Everything is Miscellaneous][eim]_.  If I have time later I’ll post a brief review.  However in the meantime I noted in the [online errata][] that he wasn’t able to track down the exact source of a quote from Ted Nelson (”Everything is deeply intertwingled”).  As it happens, I have a copy of Nelson’s _[Computer Lib/Dream Machines][cldm]_ that apparently contains the original quote.  (Strictly speaking I have what purports to be a copy of the sixth printing of the first edition, although it may actually be the second edition instead.) I picked up this book for \\$7 sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s; it’s now out of print, and used copies are selling on Amazon for \\$150--200.  Sometimes I guess it’s a good thing to have lived a while!\n\n[ntif]: http://www.netsquared.org/2007/partner/netsquared-technology-innovation-fund\n[seth]: http://blog.mozilla.com/seth/2007/05/30/netsquared-conference/\n[masters thesis]: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/thesis/\n[code]: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/validator-about/#src\n[G3ICT]: http://www.g3ict.com/\n[CSUN]: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/\n[bc]: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/\n[is2k7]: http://www.is2k7.org/\n[Mellon Foundation]: http://www.mellon.org/\n[it]: http://www.mellon.org/grant_programs/programs/copy_of_research\n[Zotero]: http://www.zotero.org/\n[gerv]: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/\n[zak]: http://zak.greant.com/\n[nfbcs]: http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NFB_computer_science.asp\n[oscon]: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/oscon/\n[eim]: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/\n[online errata]: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/errata/\n[Ted Nelson]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson\n[cldm]: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/\n[Mozilla]: http://www.mozillafoundation.org/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/06/01"
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