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* Develop a '''Mozilla Education program''', including an effort to expand the impact of the Seneca / Mozilla course model. <span style="color: green">''green''</span> | * Develop a '''Mozilla Education program''', including an effort to expand the impact of the Seneca / Mozilla course model. <span style="color: green">''green''</span> | ||
** Besides the original Seneca courses, there are also official Mozilla-related courses being taught in Europe and Asia, including the [http://mozilla.libresoft.es/ Madrid Mozilla Technology Course] at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the [http://comete.info.univ-evry.fr/ Course on Mozilla Education and Technology] at the University of Evry in France, and an upcoming class at [http://www.sjce.ac.in/ Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering] in India. Overall there are over a dozen professors on four continents who have incorporated Mozilla-related topics in their courses or are contemplating doing so. | |||
** The [[Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb|Processing for the Web]] initiative is proving to be very successful as a low-cost high-impact approach to organizing and promoting a set of Mozilla-related development and other activities across multiple educational institutions. It may serve as a model for similar Mozilla Education initiatives in future. | |||
** We tried to revamp and upgrade the [[Education|Mozilla Education web site]] during the summer of 2009; this effort produced several improvements but did not meet all of the original goals we had for the project. | |||
** We have another significant Mozilla Education initiative in the works but yet unannounced. | |||
* Refine Mozilla's '''accessibility strategy''' to focus on ubiquitous zero-cost accessibility for Firefox and Thunderbird, accessible innovation and design in Mozilla, integration of accessibility into standard web development tools. <span style="color: green">''green''</span> | * Refine Mozilla's '''accessibility strategy''' to focus on ubiquitous zero-cost accessibility for Firefox and Thunderbird, accessible innovation and design in Mozilla, integration of accessibility into standard web development tools. <span style="color: green">''green''</span> | ||
** We now have a clearly defined [[Accessibility/Strategy|accessibility strategy]] by which to judge future grant requests. | |||
** However our overall level of accessibility-related activities at the Foundation has fallen off in 2009. This is due at least partly to our having achieved many of the original goals of the program, and also due to many accessibility-related activities being brought "in-house" as a result of the hiring of an accessibility team at the Mozilla Corporation. | |||
* Pilot a small scale '''research program''' that builds networks of researchers who want to work on specific issues of broad interest to Mozilla and the Open Internet (e.g. security). <span style="color: orange">''orange''</span> | * Pilot a small scale '''research program''' that builds networks of researchers who want to work on specific issues of broad interest to Mozilla and the Open Internet (e.g. security). <span style="color: orange">''orange''</span> | ||
** This idea has not progressed much further than the discussion stage, and is currently in limbo. | |||
=== Organization === | === Organization === | ||