I'm moving my personal blog to http://blog.hecker.org/; this is the last post in the Mozilla category of this blog (http://hecker.org/mozilla/). My future Mozilla-related blog posts will be published at http://blog.hecker.org/category/mozilla/. If you use a feed reader (which I recommend) please subscribe to http://blog.hecker.org/category/mozilla/feed/ instead of the previous feed URL (http://hecker.org/mozilla/index.atom).

I'll keep the old blog online for the foreseeable future, so that old posts will still be available; over time I hope to migrate that old content to the new blog and set redirects from the old URLs. However I cannot guarantee that I'll keep old content available forever or that old links will always work.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending February 1, 2008.

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, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• CAs and related issues

  • I worked on CA applications from GlobalSign, Digicert, SECOM Trust, and S-TRUST.

• Public communications

  • Among other things, David worked on improvements to www.mozilla.org, including updating the Projects page with two new Featured Mozilla-Based Applications, submitting a patch to replace the Products section with Projects (bug 325485), and coordinating with fantasai concerning the About page content (bug 231131 and bug 414439).

• Conferences and events

  • Zak worked on preparations for several upcoming events in which the Mozilla Foundation might participate, including OSCON.

Upcoming trips and events

• I'll be attending (at least part of) the CSUN conference March 10-15 in Los Angeles CA, the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1 in Silver Spring MD, and the Berkman@10 conference May 15-16 in Boston MA.

• Zak will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo February 8-10 in Los Angeles, the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14 in Montreal, and other events later in 2008.

A reminder: We're still accepting donations to the Mozilla Foundation through our directed giving program. Help support Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and the Mozilla accessibility project, as well as general Foundation activities for the coming year.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 25, 2008.

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, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• CAs and related issues

  • I reviewed the applications from QuoVadis, Digicert, and Trustwave, tentatively approved them, and started the public comment periods prior to final approval. For more information see bugs 403665, 403644, and 409837/409838/409840 respectively.

• Public communications

  • David Boswell participated in a planning meeting for improvements to www.mozilla.org.

• Other

  • David is now in California and will be working out of the Mozilla office in Mountain View (once he gets settled).

Upcoming trips and events

• I'll be attending (at least part of) the CSUN conference March 10-15 in Los Angeles CA, and the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1 in Silver Spring MD.

• Zak will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo February 8-10 in Los Angeles, the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14 in Montreal, and other events later in 2008.

A reminder: We're still accepting donations to the Mozilla Foundation through our directed giving program. Help support Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and the Mozilla accessibility project, as well as general Foundation activities for the coming year.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 18, 2008.

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, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • I'm happy to announce a major new grant from the Mozilla Foundation to NV Access to support development of the NVDA open source screen reader for Windows; the NVDA developers blog has all the details.

  • Scott Haeger completed the final milestone on his project to improve rich document browsing in the Orca screen reader for Linux. For more information see the GNOME wiki pages for Firefox 3.0 ARIA widget support in Orca, Firefox 3.0 Live Region support in Orca, and integrating the Collection interface into Orca.

  • Codethink Ltd completed its Foundation-funded study on the feasibility of migrating the AT-SPI accessibility API to use D-Bus.

  • I got a grant agreement in place for another major new grant to be announced later.

• CAs and related issues

  • I reviewed the applications from KISA and WISeKey, tentatively approved them, and started the two-week public comment periods prior to final approval. For more information see bugs 335197 and 371362 respectively.

• Other

  • Gerv is recovering well from his recent surgery.

  • David moved out to California (not without some excitement).

  • I completed my migration to Google Apps, as discussed in my last status report. (However I've postponed my blog migration for a week or two until I have more spare time.)

Upcoming trips and events

• I'll be attending (at least part of) the CSUN conference March 10-15 in Los Angeles CA, and the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1 in Silver Spring MD.

• Zak will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo February 8-10 in Los Angeles, the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14 in Montreal, and other events later in 2008.

A reminder: We're still accepting donations to the Mozilla Foundation through our directed giving program. Help support Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and the Mozilla accessibility project, as well as general Foundation activities for the coming year.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending January 11, 2008.

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, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • I worked on more paperwork for new Foundation grants (to be announced).

  • Steve Lee published a report on his Foundation-funded Jambu on-screen keyboard project.

  • I got grant agreements in place for two new grants (to be announced later), finished a grant agreement for one more, and received proposals for more grants.

• CAs and related issues

  • I started going through the EV-related CA applications to see which were most ready for approval.

• Public communications

  • David Boswell worked on more changes to www.mozilla.org, including changes to the Timeline and Projects pages and a new Mozilla-Based Applications page.

• Other

  • I was out part of the week on family business, and also lost some time dealing with system problems affecting email.

Upcoming trips and events

• David Boswell will be moving out to California Real Soon Now.

• I'll be attending at least part of the CSUN conference March 10-15 in Los Angeles CA, and the Freedom to Connect conference March 31 and April 1 in Silver Spring MD.

• Zak will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo February 8-10 in Los Angeles, the PHP Quebec Conference March 12-14 in Montreal, and other events later in 2008.

Random notes

Due to intermittent but annoying problems, I'm about to make two major changes to my current system setup. First, several months ago I started using Gmail as my preferred mail interface, using address aliases and mail forwarding to avoid having to change my canonical email address, and running my old IMAP server configuration in parallel. I've now decided to stop trying to run my own mail server, and as of this week I'm switching to Google Apps to provide email and other services for my hecker.org domain. All of my existing email addresses will continue to work, so this should be a transparent switch unless something goes wrong.

Second, I'm also getting tired of maintaining my own blogging infrastructure using custom software. In the near future I'll be retiring this blog and starting a new blog on wordpress.com. Unfortunately I can't make this switch transparent; I'll be using a new domain (blog.hecker.org) and new feed URLs. More on this in my next report, which will hopefully be the last report using this system. However note that I'll continue to keep this blog around for historical purposes, and will do my utmost to ensure that all current URLs will continue to link to the proper content.

A final note: We're still accepting donations to the Mozilla Foundation through our directed giving program. Help support Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and the Mozilla accessibility project, as well as general Foundation activities for the coming year.

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending December 7, 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, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Grants and related expenditures

  • Ariel Rios completed his Foundation-funded project to add the Accessibility::Collection interface to the AT-SPI accessibility API for GNOME; for more information see GNOME bug 326516.

  • Patrick Michaud produced a progress report on the Perl 6 work jointly funded by the Mozilla Foundation and the Perl Foundation.

  • Zak and I worked on some new grant proposals.

• Licensing and legal

  • Gerv worked on revising and updating the Mozilla license policy, to bring the document in line with current practice.

• CAs and related issues

  • I approved the application for inclusion from SwissSign and filed bug 407396 to have the SwissSign CA certificates added to NSS.

• Web sites

  • David Boswell worked on various changes to www.mozilla.org, including a new Mozilla Foundation home page and a new "Featured Projects" page (bug 393447).

• Miscellaneous

  • We have a new #foundation IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org for anyone wishing to contact us real-time.

Upcoming trips and events

• I'm planning to be in Mountain View on December 11 (afternoon only) and 12.

A final note: We have just over two weeks left in 2007 for you to donate to the Mozilla Foundation through our directed giving program and support Bugzilla, Camino, SeaMonkey, and the Mozilla accessibility project.