[Eg-oversight-board] Fwd: new Mozilla program to fund projects they rely on

[Ruth Frasur]

Should we direct Karen to learn more?  or pass right now?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> Though when Firefox is one of the two supported browsers for the web
> client there may be some opportunities to leverage that for further
> collaboration/funding.
> -grace
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Historically Evergreen uses Mozilla code not the other way around and
>> even that connection is going away with our move to the web based staff
>> client.  And while the modern Mozilla code base is a very different beast
>> then what we are using I think most of us will be glad to put a tombstone
>> up over xul 14 when the time comes.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Ruth Frasur <
>> director at hagerstownlibrary.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What say y'all?
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Karen Sandler <karen at sfconservancy.org>
>>> Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:36 PM
>>> Subject: new Mozilla program to fund projects they rely on
>>> To: project-reps at sfconservancy.org
>>> Cc: Staff <staff at sfconservancy.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi project reps!
>>>
>>> I want to point your attention to the fact that Mozilla has announced an
>>> "open source support program" where they have allocated $1 million that
>>> they will distribute to up to 10 projects that Mozilla relies on:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/10/23/mozilla-launches-open-source-support-program/
>>>
>>> The program is being finalized and is described in detail here:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS
>>>
>>> They have a list of projects that they already identify relying on,
>>> which already includes some Conservancy projects like bro, buildbot, git,
>>> mercurial and selenium:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Projects_in_use_by_Mozilla
>>>
>>> To apply you need to team up with someone within Mozilla, and it looks
>>> like you have to submit a formal grant request which we would be happy to
>>> assist with. Mozilla does state that they have a reasonably strong
>>> preference for funding legal organizations, which is good news for
>>> Conservancy's member projects. There is also a reference to "Other Tracks"
>>> where they will also consider security audit and remediation for key
>>> projects in the future (though no process is identified for this at the
>>> moment).
>>>
>>> The deadline for this grant process looks like it's in December, but I
>>> think the biggest component is getting a strong advocate within Mozilla to
>>> start working in your favor right away. Let me know if you'd like to
>>> discuss further!
>>>
>>> karen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Karen M. Sandler
>>> Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy
>>> __________
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Library
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