{"id":1646,"date":"2016-06-22T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2016-06-22T17:22:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:22:52","slug":"mozilla-gives-385000-to-open-source-projects-as-part-of-moss-mission-partners-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2016\/06\/22\/mozilla-gives-385000-to-open-source-projects-as-part-of-moss-mission-partners-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Gives $385,000 to Open Source Projects as part of  MOSS \u201cMission Partners\u201d Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leading software for screen readers costs well over $1,000. The high price is a considerable obstacle to keeping the Web open and accessible to all. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvaccess.org\/\">NVDA Project<\/a> has developed an open source screen reader that is free to download and to use, and which works well with Firefox. NVDA aligns with one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/manifesto\/\">Mozilla Manifesto\u2019s<\/a> principles: \u201cThe Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why, at Mozilla, we have elected to give the project $15,000 in the inaugural round of our Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MOSS\/Mission_Partners\">Mission Partners<\/a>\u201d awards. The award will help NVDA stay compatible with the Firefox browser and support a long-term relationship between our two organizations. NVDA is just one of eight grantees in a wide range of key disciplines and technology areas that we have chosen to support. Others are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/\">Tor<\/a> (a system for using a distributed network to communicate anonymously and without being tracked): $152,500. This award will be used to significantly enhance the Tor network\u2019s metrics infrastructure so that the performance and stability of the network can be monitored and improvements made as appropriate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tails.boum.org\/\">Tails<\/a> (a secure-by-default live operating system aimed at preserving user privacy): $77,000. This award will be used to implement reproducible builds, making it possible for third parties to independently verify that a Tails ISO image was built from the corresponding Tails source code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/caddyserver.com\/\">Caddy<\/a> (an HTTP\/2 web server): $50,000. This award will be used to add a REST API, web UI, and new documentation, all of which make it easier to deploy more services with TLS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/carllerche\/mio\">Mio<\/a> (an asynchronous I\/O library written in Rust): $30,000. This award will be used to make ergonomic improvements to the API and thereby make it easier to build high performance applications with Mio in Rust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getdnsapi.net\">DNSSEC\/DANE Chain Stapling<\/a> (standardizing and implementing a new TLS extension for transport of a serialized DNSSEC record set): $25,000. This award will be used to complete the standard in the IETF and build both a client-side and a server-side implementation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godotengine.org\/\">Godot Engine<\/a> (a high-performance multi-platform game engine that can deploy to HTML5): $20,000. This award will be used to add support for Web Sockets, WebAssembly and WebGL 2.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pearsearch.org\/\">PeARS<\/a> (Peer-to-peer Agent for Reciprocated Search): $15,500. This award will permit face-to-face collaboration among the remote team and bring the software to beta status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MOSS is a continuing program. The Mission Partners track has a budget for 2016 of around US$1.25 million. We look forward to supporting more projects in the coming months. Applications remain open both for <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MOSS\/Mission_Partners\">Mission Partners<\/a> and for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/MOSS\/Foundational_Technology\">Foundational Technology<\/a> track (for projects creating software that Mozilla already uses or deploys) on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leading software for screen readers costs &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/2016\/06\/22\/mozilla-gives-385000-to-open-source-projects-as-part-of-moss-mission-partners-program\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}