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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 = | ||