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= Foundation Updates = | = Foundation Updates = | ||
Since there was no Mozilla call last Monday, this update includes items from the past two weeks. | |||
* Grants and related activities | |||
** The Mozilla Foundation made a [http://www.perlfoundation.org/patrick_michaud_awarded_perl_6_development_grant_as_a_joint_initiative_by_the_perl_foundation_and_mozilla_foundation grant to the Perl Foundation] to support Perl 6 and Parrot development. | |||
** We're funding some work by Eitan Isaacson to follow up from his project to migrate the [http://live.gnome.org/Orca Orca] screen reader for Linux to the [http://live.gnome.org/GAP/PythonATSPI pyatspi] library, including in particular improving the performance of Orca with Firefox. This project also includes work covered by GNOME bugs [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448848 448848], [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446277 446277], and [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491862 491862]. | |||
** We're also funding [http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Codethink Ltd] to do a study to evaluate the feasibility of porting the GNOME [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT-SPI AT-SPI] accessibility interface from [http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/ ORBit] to [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus D-Bus], in order to ensure that the accessibility infrastructure used by Firefox on Linux is as up to date as possible. | |||
** [http://dojotoolkit.org/2007/11/05/dojo-1-0 Dojo 1.0 was released] with lots of accessibility-related enhancements, including those developed by the University of Toronto [http://atrc.utoronto.ca/ Adaptive Technology Resource Centre] with funding from the Mozilla Foundation; for more information see the [http://david.atrc.utoronto.ca/mozgrant/dojo-final-report.html final report] on the project. | |||
** Scott Haeger completed milestone 3 on his work to implement [http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox#details rich document browsing in Orca] with Firefox. | |||
** Frank wrote a [http://hecker.org/mozilla/seneca-college-and-open-source-education blog post about Seneca and open source education]. | |||
* CAs and related issues | |||
** Frank published version 1.1 of the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/ Mozilla CA certificate policy]. | |||
** Frank worked on the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343756 SwissSign] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380635 TÜRKTRUST] applications, announced his intent to approve SwissSign for inclusion, and started a public comment period on this issue. | |||
For more information see the status reports from [http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/ David], [http://hecker.org/mozilla/ Frank], [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/ Gerv], and [http://zak.greant.com/ Zak] as they're posted. | |||
=== Upcoming activities === | |||
* Frank will be in Mountain View for the December 12 Mozilla Foundation board meeting. | |||
= Roundtable = | = Roundtable = | ||
= Other Business = | = Other Business = | ||