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= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
=== Highlights === | |||
* Mark was in Mountain View for the Mozilla Foundation board meeting and various other meetings with Foundation and Corporation folks, including discussions on Foundation plans and budgets for 2008Q4 and 2009, possible new Foundation initiatives, Foundation/Corporation interactions, the Mozilla Store, and other topics. | |||
* The Mozilla Foundation is making a $5K grant to the [http://www.tug.org/ TeX Users Group] to support the [http://www.openfontlibrary.org/ Open Font Library] initiative to make high-quality free fonts available for use with the [http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/ @font-face font downloading feature] implemented in Firefox 3.1 (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70132 70132]) and other browsers. | |||
=== Program activities === | |||
* Education | |||
** Zak worked to research who is doing what in open source education, to help in planning and making decisions about our own program efforts. | |||
* CAs | |||
** [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/416427a350db11a9/ Public discussion] of the CA inclusion request from [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Microsec Microsec Ltd] is ongoing, but Frank wasn't able to do the preliminary decision on schedule, so now will need to push the overall CA schedule out. | |||
** Frank worked with Kathleen Wilson to get her CVS access so that she can update the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/ CA pending list] herself. | |||
=== Public communications and community outreach === | |||
* Powered by Mozilla | |||
** David worked on the "Powered by Mozilla" design guidelines page with John Slater and Tara, and worked on a Bugzilla template for "Powered by Mozilla" logo requests | |||
* www.mozilla.org | |||
** David continued with archiving, redirect and bug triage work, posted new [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/technologies.html Mozilla Technologies] and [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/specifications.html Mozilla Specifications] pages, and archived the [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/list.html old Projects page]. | |||
=== Upcoming activities === | |||
* Gerv will be representing the Mozilla Foundation at the mySociety fifth birthday event (October 14, London). | |||
* Mark and Frank will attend and participate in the [http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/ FSOSS 2008 conference] at Seneca College (October 23-24, Toronto). | |||
* Mark will attend [https://wiki.mozilla.org/EU_MozCamp_2008 EU Mozilla Camp] (October 25-26, Barcelona). | |||
* We have a Mozilla Foundation staff retreat planned for late October (October 28-30, Mountain View). | |||
* Zak will deliver the opening keynote for the [http://afup.org AFUP] (French PHP User Group) [http://afup.org/pages/forumphp2008/sessions.php Forum PHP conference] (December 8, Paris) | |||
= Roundtable = | = Roundtable = | ||
= Other Business = | = Other Business = | ||