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= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
* Grants and related activities
** Eitan Isaacson published an [http://monotonous.org/2008/05/16/orca-doings/ update] on his Mozilla Foundation-funded work to improve the [http://live.gnome.org/Orca Orca open source screen reader for Linux].
** The [http://www.perlfoundation.org/ Perl Foundation] received a [http://www.perlfoundation.org/tpf_receives_large_donation_in_support_of_perl_6_development $200,000 donation to support Perl 6 development]. Among other things, this donation will be used for continuation of Patrick Michaud's Perl 6 work, for which the Mozilla Foundation made a $10,000 seed grant.
* Legal issues
** We got final legal signoff for the proposed new [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Committers_Agreement Mozilla committer's agreement]; Gerv is now working to get an official copy of this agreement and related information posted to www.mozilla.org.
* CAs and related issues
** Frank found someone to help clear the backlog of CA requests; more on this later.
* Public communication
** David continued work on the www.mozilla.org site.
* Conferences.
** We have more blog posts from the Mozilla accessibility team's attendance of [http://www.sightcity.net/index-e.html SightCity 2008], including [http://eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog/347641.html one from Steve Lee] and an almost minute-by-minute [http://projectcerbera.com/blog/2008/05#day10 account by Ben Millard].
** Zak prepared for upcoming conference appearances.
* Upcoming activities
** Zak will be doing a keynote at the [https://foundationwiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Events/2008/eLiberatica&action=edit eLiberatica 2008 conference] (May 30-31, 2008, in Bucharest).
** The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the [http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008 Personal Democracy Forum conference] (June 23-24 in New York). (Frank is planning to attend if possible.)
For more information please see the individual status reports from [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/ David], [http://blog.hecker.org/ Frank], [http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/gerv/ Gerv], and [http://zak.greant.com/ Zak].


= Roundtable =
= Roundtable =

Revision as of 18:42, 19 May 2008

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Friends of the Tree Friends of the Tree

Development Updates

TB 2.0.0.14 / Fx 2.0.0.15 / TB 2.0.0.15

The Thunderbird respin plans for 2.0.0.15 have been put on hold. The normal schedule will suffice.

The current schedule for Firefox 2.0.0.15 is:

  • Code freeze: June 6
  • Builds start: June 9
  • QA starts: June 10
  • Release to beta channel: June 17
  • Final Release: June 24

This may shift out slightly if issues come up but this is the plan of record for now.

Thunderbird 2.0.0.15 will be released two to three weeks following this but the schedule has not been finalized yet.

TB 3

Gecko 1.9

Firefox 3

Mobile

IT

Release Engineering

  • Firefox 3.0 RC1 built Monday, shipped Friday
  • Continued to build out machines for Firefox 3.next/Mozilla2

QA

Security

Marketing/PR

PR

Events

Support

Metrics

Evangelism

  • Received hopefully final new MDC skin over the weekend; should be installed on our test server shortly. Then we'll do another round of performance testing before opening things up for people to thump on.
  • Working on gathering information for a few more last-minute updates to the Firefox 3 developer docs.

Mozilla Labs

Webdev, Add-ons, AMO

Foundation Updates

  • Legal issues
    • We got final legal signoff for the proposed new Mozilla committer's agreement; Gerv is now working to get an official copy of this agreement and related information posted to www.mozilla.org.
  • CAs and related issues
    • Frank found someone to help clear the backlog of CA requests; more on this later.
  • Public communication
    • David continued work on the www.mozilla.org site.

For more information please see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.

Roundtable

Other Business

  • No meeting next week (May 26th) due to U.S. Holiday (Memorial Day).
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