Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50237 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201705071858.v47IwO5E087841@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun May 7 18:58:24 2017 New Revision: 50237 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50237 Log: Add 2017Q1 Foundation entry from deb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Sun May 7 11:37:15 2017 (r50236) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Sun May 7 18:58:24 2017 (r50237) @@ -1338,4 +1338,175 @@ on the GlobalScale Dreamplug and some Chromebooks).</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url> + <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/&os;-Foundation-Q1-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201702StorageSummit">2017 Storage Summit</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization + dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project and + community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and + corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software + development projects, conferences and developer summits, and + provide travel grants to &os; contributors. The Foundation + purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain &os; + infrastructure; publishes marketing material to promote, + educate, and advocate for the &os; Project; facilitates + collaboration between commercial vendors and &os; + developers; and finally, represents the &os; Project in + executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal + arrangements that require a recognized legal entity.</p> + + <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We kicked off the + new year with some large contributions from Intel and NetApp, + to help us raise over $400,000 last quarter! We engaged in + discussions with new and old commercial users to help + facilitate collaboration, explain how the Project works, and + to ask for financial contributions to help us keep &os; the + innovative, secure, and reliable operating system they depend + on. Please consider making a donation today! <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>; + + <p>The Foundation improves the &os; operating system by + employing our technical staff to maintain and improve critical + kernel subsystems, add features and functionality, and fix + problems. This also includes funding separate project grants + like the arm64 port, <tt>blacklistd</tt> access control + daemon, and integration of <tt>VIMAGE</tt> support, to make + sure &os; remains a viable solution for research, education, + computing, products and more.</p> + + <p>This quarter's project development highlights include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>168 commits sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation in the src + tree (base system) development branch, across three staff + members and four grant recipients/other developers.</li> + + <li>Funded grants including the <tt>cfumass</tt> project, now + committed to &os;-HEAD, and improvements to the + <tt>blacklistd</tt> daemon and &os;/arm64 port.</li> + + <li>Staff contributions including improvements to tool chain + and build tool components, run time libraries, arm64, mips64 + and 32- and 64-bit x86 architectures, release image build + tooling, packaged base, and VM subsystem bug fixes.</li> + + <li>Significant progress on the 64-bit inode project, which + is nearly ready for commit.</li> + </ul> + + <p>&os; Advocacy and Education</p> + + <p>A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for + the Project. This includes promoting work being done by + others with &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach + people about &os; and help make the path to starting to use + &os; or contribute to the Project easier; and attending and + getting other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os; + events, staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.</p> + + <p>Some of the highlights of our advocacy and education work + over the last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Promoted &os; at: FOSDEM, SCALE, AsiaBSDcon, and + FOSSASIA</li> + + <li>Promoted BSDCan, SCALE, USENIX LISA, vBSDcon and + EuroBSDcon Calls for Participation</li> + + <li>Promoted Google Summer of Code participation on social + media and created a flyer for people to post at their + universities.</li> + + <li>Published a New Faces of &os; Story: Joseph Kong</li> + + <li>Set up a Marketing Partnership with the USENIX Association + and SNIA</li> + + <li>Published and Promoted the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of the &os; + Journal: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</li>; + + <li>Published monthly Development Projects Updates on our + blog</li> + + <li>Secured a &os; table at OSCON and promoted available + discounts.</li> + </ul> + + <p>Conferences and Events</p> + + <p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and + summits around the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open + source, or technology events geared towards underrepresented + groups.</p> + + <p>We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue + for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to + facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial + users; this all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support + the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness about &os;, + to increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to + recruit more contributors to the Project.</p> + + <p>We also sponsored and/or attended the following events last + quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>FOSDEM &os; developer summit (sponsor)</li> + + <li>AsiaBSDCon — Tokyo, Japan (sponsor)</li> + + <li>Organized and ran the &os; Storage Summit in Santa Clara, + CA</li> + + <li>Board member Philip Paeps gave a &os; presentation at + FOSSASIA</li> + + <li>Attended FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, and SCALE</li> + </ul> + + <p>Release Engineering</p> + + <p>The Foundation provides a full-time staff member to lead the + release engineering efforts. This has provided timely and + reliable releases over the last few years. Some highlights + from last quarter include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Continued the production of weekly development snapshots + for the 12-CURRENT, 11-STABLE, and 10-STABLE branches.</li> + + <li>Published the initial &os; 11.1-RELEASE schedule to the + Project website.</li> + </ul> + + <p>Legal/&os; IP</p> + + <p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We continued to review + requests and grant permission to use the trademarks.</p> + + + <p>Many more details about how we supported &os; last quarter + can be found in our Q1 newsletter!</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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