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= Foundation Updates =
= Foundation Updates =
=== Highlights ===
* Mark developed a Q4 2008 budget for the Mozilla Foundation, and discussed with Mitchell the Mozilla 2010 goals in relation to the Foundation.
* Zak continued research who is doing what in open source education, and created a [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project/Education/Pilot_Fish public wiki page] for this project.
* Silvia Pfeiffer was featured in a [http://www.linux.com/feature/149988 Linux.com story] about her Mozilla Foundation-funded work on video accessibility.
=== Program activities ===
* Education
** Mark met with Dave Humphrey to talk about future Seneca open source course programs and Mozilla education overall.
* Grants
** Thomas Logan completed the first milestone of his Foundation-funded project to produce a series of training videos on how to [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_1:_Getting_the_Developer_Environment_Setup  use] [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_2:_Introduction_to_Web_Application_to_be_Made_Accessible  ARIA][http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_3:_Building_Keyboard_Support_for_your_Web_Application to] [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_4:_Setting_Landmark_Roles_in_your_Application improve] [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_5:_Providing_Correct_Properties_for_each_Component_in_your_Application web] [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_6:_Working_With_Live_Regions_in_your_Applications application] [http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Outline_for_Video_7:_Review%2C_How_to_Plan_Accessibility_from_the_Beginning accessibility].
* CAs
** Frank decided to reschedule [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] for later this year, after getting machine translation of Microsec CPS documents and a final resolution on the Microsec OCSP issue.
=== Public communications and community outreach ===
* Powered by Mozilla
** David updated the [http://mozpad.org/doku.php?id=map_of_the_mozpad_universe Map of the Mozpad Universe] page to create a list of potential contacts.
* www.mozilla.org
** David continued with archiving, redirect and bug triage work.
** David had a call with Gandalf about [http://contribute.mozilla.org contribute.mozilla.org] and started helping to QA the site
* Other
** Gerv represented the Mozilla Foundation at the mySociety fifth birthday event (October 14, London).
=== Upcoming activities ===
* 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 =
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