Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:46:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43543 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201401151946.s0FJkbvu093923@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Wed Jan 15 19:46:36 2014 New Revision: 43543 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43543 Log: - Add 2013Q4 report for the FreeBSD Foundation Submitted by: deb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 19:23:54 2014 (r43542) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Wed Jan 15 19:46:36 2014 (r43543) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 34 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 35 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p> @@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ <description>Ports</description> </category> + <category> + <name>misc</name> + + <description>Miscellaneous</description> + </category> + <project cat='proj'> <title>CBSD</title> @@ -1872,4 +1878,104 @@ device vt_vga</pre> planned.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='misc'> + <title>The &os; Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>; + <url href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Dec-newsletter">Semi-annual newsletter</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization + dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project and + community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to support + &os; development projects, conferences and developer summits, + purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os; infrastructure, + and provide legal support for the Project.</p> + + <p>We held our year-end fundraising campaign. We are still + processing donations and will post the final numbers by + mid-January. We are extremely grateful to all the individuals + and organizations that supported us and the Project by making a + donation in 2013. We already started our fundraising efforts + for 2014.</p> + + <p>Some of the highlights from this past quarter include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>We sponsored or are sponsoring the following projects: + + <ul> + <li>Projects completed last quarter: Capsicum, Casper daemon, and + Intel I/O Memory Management Unit driver.</li> + <li>Projects in progress: Native in-kernel iSCSI stack, + network stack layer 2 modernization, UEFI boot, updated + <tt>vt(9)</tt> system console.</li> + <li>Projects started last quarter: Automounter, Intel + graphics driver update.</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li>Continued work on the &os; Journal, our new online &os; magazine, + which debuts on January 27th.</li> + + <li>Sponsored, organized, and ran the Bay Area Developer Summit.</li> + + <li>Sponsored and attended the first ever vBSDCon, which had an + impressive attendance.</li> + + <li>Sponsored and attended the OpenZFS developer summit.</li> + + <li>Represented the foundation at the following conferences: All + Things Open in Raleigh, NC and LISA in DC.</li> + + <li>Sponsored the &os; 20th Birthday Party, held in San + Francisco.</li> + + <li>Attended the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires in November and + gave a short presentation on the change from BIND to unbound in + &os; 10.0 during the ccNSO Tech Day.</li> + + <li>Met with a few companies to discuss their &os; use, what + they would like to see supported in &os;, and assist with + collaboration between them and the Project.</li> + + <li>Purchased an 80-core server to reside at Sentex for the + Project to use for stability, scalability, and performance + improvements. It is a big step forwards for the Foundation in + providing this kind of hardware to the Project's developers. + It will let us test our scaling to 80 simultaneous cores and + 1 TB of RAM. It will also be used to do performance + analysis on large workloads, such as large databases etc.</li> + + <li>Acquired a second rack to use at Sentex.</li> + + <li>We received a commitment from VMware, Inc. for BSD-licensed + drivers. They also committed to a yearly silver level + donation.</li> + + <li>Signed up as a Google Compute trusted tester for the + Project.</li> + + <li>Funded a project to produce a white paper titled <q>Managed + Services Using &os; at NYI</q>.</li> + + <li>Finally, we published our semi-annual newsletter (see links) + highlighting what we did to support the &os; Project and + Community in 2013.</li> + </ul> + </body> + </project> </report>
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