Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 19:14:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46201 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501141914.t0EJEfhe058411@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Wed Jan 14 19:14:40 2015 New Revision: 46201 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46201 Log: Add FreeBSD Foundation quarterly status entry Approved by: bjk Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1522 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Wed Jan 14 18:02:37 2015 (r46200) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Wed Jan 14 19:14:40 2015 (r46201) @@ -2452,4 +2452,156 @@ </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://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</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 ended the year exceeding our fundraising goal, by raising + over $2,372,132, from 1670 donors! Thank you to everyone who + made a donation in 2014.</p> + + <p>We produced issues five and six of the &os; Journal, + ending the year with over 6300 subscribers, exceeding our + first-year goal of 5000 subscribers. We also added the + desktop/digital edition, so people can read the magazine from + their browsers. We also hosted a meeting with the Journal + Editorial Board and worked out the editorial calendar for the + next two years. This includes topics and articles for the + future issues.</p> + + <p>We were a gold sponsor of EuroBSDCon 2014, and a sponsor of + the preceding Developer Summit. A few of our team members + attended, which allowed us to have an informal face-to-face + board meeting, with a focus on supporting the European region. + Kirk McKusick gave a two-day &os; tutorial and Erwin + Lansing helped run the Developer Summit. We sponsored 5 + &os; contributors to attend the conference.</p> + + <p>We were a sponsor of the + <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2014/">Grace Hopper + Conference</a>. + Dru Lavigne gave an introduction to &os; presentation, that + was well attended. We also sponsored Shteryana Shopova to + represent &os;, along with Dru, at our booth.</p> + + <p>We were a sponsor of + <a href="https://www.meetbsd.com/">MeetBSD</a>. + Most of our team members attended this conference. + Kirk McKusick gave a talk on BSD history. + We also had a booth, and raised over $2,200 in donations. + We sponsored one person to attend this conference.</p> + + <p>George organized and ran the two-day Silicon Valley Vendor + and Developer Summit following MeetBSD. + A lot of work gets started and accomplished at these summits, + for example, Kirk worked with various folks to get the ino64 + (64-bit inode numbers) project moving. + It started in 2011 as a Summer of Code project and has + sputtered since getting pushed into the system.</p> + + <p>Besides the above conferences, we helped promote &os; at + the following conferences: + + <ul> + <li><a href="http://allthingsopen.org/2014/">All Things + Open</a></li> + <li><a href="https://ohiolinux.org/">Ohio Linux + Fest</a></li> + <li><a + href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14">LISA</a></li>; + LISA had a great turnout for Dru Lavigne's &os; BoF talk. + </ul> + </p> + + <p>We visited a few large &os; users in the Bay Area to + discuss their use of &os;, plans, and needs, and help + facilitate collaboration between them and the Project.</p> + + <p>Cheryl Blain joined our board, bringing a strong background + in business development and fundraising.</p> + + <p>We received the largest donation in our history, and our + treasurer put together an endowment strategy for us to + follow.</p> + + <p>We increased our &os; marketing efforts to help promote + and advocate for &os;, as well as educate people on + &os;. Some our &os; marketing highlights include: + <ul> + <li>Created the &os; 10 brochure</li> + <li>Created the Get Involved brochure for recruiting</li> + <li>Created a testimonial flyer to encourage more companies + to write &os; testimonials for us.</li> + </ul> + These flyers are available on the + <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/#marketing">&os; + Foundation site</a> + for &os; advocates to promote &os; at conferences around + the world. + We also put ads for the Foundation and &os; in the &os; + Journal and USENIX ;login: magazine.</p> + + <p>We are producing a monthly newsletter to highlight what we + did the previous month to support the &os; Project. + We also produced our + <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">December + semi-annual newsletter</a>.</p> + + <p>We redesigned and launched phase 1 of our website. + It should be easier to navigate and find the information you + need to get help from or to help the Foundation.</p> + + <p>Glen Barber visited the Microsoft main campus and worked with + Microsoft Hyper-V developers to resolve outstanding issues + with providing &os; images for the Microsoft Azure + platform.</p> + + <p>Glen also visited the NYI colocation facility to install and + configure new servers purchased by the Foundation.</p> + + <p>We finished the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.</p> + + <p>Our project development staff and contractors have been + working on various projects to add features to and improve + &os;. Some of their reports are included in this overall + report. Some projects that were worked on this quarter were + adding support for 64-bit ARM architecture to &os;, + integration work on the vt(4) updated console and UEFI boot + support, Secure Boot, refining in-kernel iSCSI target and + initiator stack, autofs-based automount daemon, migrating to + the ELF Tool Chain, and implementing modern AES modes in + &os;'s cryptographic framework.</p> + + <p>To read more about how we helped support the &os; Project + and community, read our + <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">semi-annual + newsletter</a>.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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