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  "textContent": "This is my report on activities of the [Mozilla Foundation][Mozilla] for the week ending February 9, 2007.\n\nProjects for the week\n\nHere’s a partial listing of what I and others at the Foundation did this past week:\n\n- Grants and related activities.  Same as last week: I worked on grant proposals already received, and also prepared for our Mozilla Foundation presence at the [2007 CSUN conference][csun].\n\n    Next action(s): Have the board consider a new accessibility-related grant proposal.\n\n- CA certificates.  Gerv Markham continued working on processing CA requests.  We also had a [public discussion][] in the mozilla.dev.l10n newsgroup on the merits of including CAs for regional government CAs (i.e., below the country level).\n\n    Next action(s): I need to help Gerv out with publishing an expended set of information on CAs ([bug 333272][]).\n\n- Legal issues.  We’re looking at the possibility of creating a standard contributors agreement for use by corporations interested in contributing code to the Mozilla project ([bug 369879][]).  Separately Gerv Markham has proposed revisions to the existing CVS contributors form to bring it up to date and make it more general (e.g., remove CVS-specific references) ([bug 342029][]).\n\n    Next actions: Decide on the preferred approach to creating a corporate contributors agreement and revising the CVS form.\n\nUpcoming activities\n\n- I’ll be in New York City on February 23.\n- Gerv will be attending Mozilla-related activities at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels February 24--25.\n- I’ll be at the Mozilla offices in Mountain View on March 13 and 14.\n- I’ll be attending the CSUN accessibility conference in Los Angeles on March 21 and 22.\n- Along with Aaron Leventhal I’ll be attending a United Nations event in New York City on March 26 to discuss Mozilla accessibility-related topics; this is in association with the [Global Initiative on Inclusive Information and Communications Technologies][g3ict] (G3ICT).\n\nRandom notes\n\nAs I’ve previously mentioned, I have an interesting in science writing.  I recently subscribed to [Seed magazine][], sort of an attempt to do for science what the original Wired magazine did for technology.  It’s interesting enough, but even more interesting is Seed’s [ScienceBlogs][] collections of science-related blogs; definitely recommended for those with a scientific bent, although it’s too much material to do anything but dip into occasionally.\n\n[csun]: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/\n[public discussion]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/browse_frm/thread/7ed60b1c316e9ae8\n[bug 333272]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333272\n[bug 342029]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342029\n[bug 369879]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369879\n[g3ict]: http://www.g3ict.com/\n[Seed magazine]: http://www.seedmagazine.com/\n[ScienceBlogs]: http://www.scienceblogs.com/\n[Mozilla]: http://www.mozillafoundation.org/",
  "title": "Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2007/02/09"
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