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From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Sun May 7 18:58:26 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B5ED62CE1; Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D59A7E4C; Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v47IwOLT087842; Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:24 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v47IwO5E087841; Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:24 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201705071858.v47IwO5E087841@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:24 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees $except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" $" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 18:58:26 -0000 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). + + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + FreeBSD Foundation Website + Quarterly Newsletter + 2017 Storage Summit + + + +

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.

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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! https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/.

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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, blacklistd access control + daemon, and integration of VIMAGE support, to make + sure &os; remains a viable solution for research, education, + computing, products and more.

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This quarter's project development highlights include:

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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.
Funded grants including the cfumass project, now + committed to &os;-HEAD, and improvements to the + blacklistd daemon and &os;/arm64 port.
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.
Significant progress on the 64-bit inode project, which + is nearly ready for commit.

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&os; Advocacy and Education

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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.

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Some of the highlights of our advocacy and education work + over the last quarter:

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Promoted &os; at: FOSDEM, SCALE, AsiaBSDcon, and + FOSSASIA
Promoted BSDCan, SCALE, USENIX LISA, vBSDcon and + EuroBSDcon Calls for Participation
Promoted Google Summer of Code participation on social + media and created a flyer for people to post at their + universities.
Published a New Faces of &os; Story: Joseph Kong
Set up a Marketing Partnership with the USENIX Association + and SNIA
Published and Promoted the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of the &os; + Journal: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/
Published monthly Development Projects Updates on our + blog
Secured a &os; table at OSCON and promoted available + discounts.

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Conferences and Events

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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.

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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.

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We also sponsored and/or attended the following events last + quarter:

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FOSDEM &os; developer summit (sponsor)
AsiaBSDCon — Tokyo, Japan (sponsor)
Organized and ran the &os; Storage Summit in Santa Clara, + CA
Board member Philip Paeps gave a &os; presentation at + FOSSASIA
Attended FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, and SCALE

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Release Engineering

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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:

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Continued the production of weekly development snapshots + for the 12-CURRENT, 11-STABLE, and 10-STABLE branches.
Published the initial &os; 11.1-RELEASE schedule to the + Project website.

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Legal/&os; IP

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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.

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Many more details about how we supported &os; last quarter + can be found in our Q1 newsletter!

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