Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:24:53 +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: r49583 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201610260024.u9Q0OrB5042247@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Wed Oct 26 00:24:53 2016 New Revision: 49583 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49583 Log: Add FreeBSD Foundation entry from deb Markup errors are mine. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Tue Oct 25 17:32:49 2016 (r49582) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml Wed Oct 26 00:24:53 2016 (r49583) @@ -1635,4 +1635,286 @@ running on &os; with patches in the ports tree.</p> </body> </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> + </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 hardware to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure + and publishes &os; white papers and marketing material to + promote, educate, and advocate for the &os; Project. The + Foundation also represents the &os; Project in executing + contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that + require a recognized legal entity.</p> + + <p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; last + quarter:</p> + + <p>Fundraising Efforts</p> + + <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. Our spending + budget for 2016 is $1,250,000 and we have raised $271,500 so + far. Our Q1-Q3 financial reports will be posted in early + November. As you can see, we need your donations in order to + continue supporting &os; at our current level. Please consider + making a donation at <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>; + + <p>OS Improvements</p> + + <p>The Foundation improves &os; by funding software development + projects approved through our proposal submission process, and + our internal software developer staff members. Two + Foundation-funded projects continued last quarter; one project + is to port NetBSD's <tt>blacklistd</tt> daemon and related + elements to &os;, and the second is phase two of the &os;/arm64 + port.</p> + + <p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes + over the quarter. Kostik Belousov accomplished the following + work last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Provided kernel support for EFI Runtime Services calls.</li> + + <li>Implemented getttimeofday(2) purely in userspace for HPET + timers</li> + + <li>Implemented fdatasync(2)</li> + + <li>Improved the locking of the time keeping code</li> + + <li>Made the sleepqueue code immune to rapid callout changes</li> + + <li>Made many stability fixes, the most important of which + were UFS issues and an i386 bug</li> + + <li>Improved the process management and ptrace code</li> + </ul> + + <p>Ed Maste, our Project Development Director, accomplished the + following work last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Worked on &os;/arm64 issues and Cavium ThunderX + deployment (including RMAs)</li> + + <li>Worked with upstream developers to test works in progress + and prepare LLD as the replacement linker in the &os; base + system</li> + + <li>Switched to using LLVM's <tt>libunwind</tt> in the base system</li> + + <li>Improved the reproducibility of builds in &os; base system + and ports</li> + + <li>Reviewed the <tt>blacklistd</tt> work that is in + progress</li> + + <li>Attended BSDCam 2016, with a primary focus on toolchain + discussions</li> + + <li>Participated in ongoing Capsicum calls, and helped with the + Capsicumization of several base system utilities</li> + + <li>Fixed a number of ELF Tool Chain issues, and integrated a new + upstream version into the &os; base system</li> + + <li>Hosted biweekly graphics calls to coordinate work in + progress by funded and volunteer developers</li> + + <li>Implemented fixes for security issues in some &os; update + tools, and coordinated their integration into the stable and + release branches</li> + </ul> + + <p>George Neville-Neil continued hosting a bi-weekly Transport + conference call (notes at <a + href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols</a>) + and the bi-weekly DTrace conference call (notes at <a + href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace</a>).</p>; + + <p>Release Engineering</p> + + <p>Foundation staff member Glen Barber worked with the Release + Engineering team to continue finalizing the 11.0-RELEASE cycle, + which was delayed to address several last-minute issues.</p> + + <p>As part of the Cluster Administration team, Glen worked with + the amazing on-site staff at NYI to rack and install two Cavium + ThunderX machines, one of which is used for native package + builds for the &os;/aarch64 architecture, and the other of which + is targeted to be used as a reference machine in the &os; + infrastructure.</p> + + <p>Getting Started with &os; Project</p> + + <p>We hired a summer intern, with no experience on &os;, Linux, + or any command-line operating system, to figure out on his own + how to install and use &os;. He wrote easy-to-follow how-to + guides to help make the new-user experience straightforward and + positive. He submitted bug reports and reported issues through + the appropriate channels, and worked with Glen Barber and Brad + Davis to improve the new user information on FreeBSD.org to make + it easier for new people to get started with &os;. You can find + his how-to guides at <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/</a>; + and check out his interview on BSDNow at <a + href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience">http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience</a>.</p>; + + <p>Supporting &os; Infrastructure</p> + + <p>We provide hardware and support for &os; infrastructure. + Last quarter we purchased and brought up two 48-core Cavium + ThunderX machines to build &os; package sets for the arm64 + platform. We also purchased more servers to help with + continuous integration efforts.</p> + + <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 + using &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach people about + &os; and easing the path to starting out with &os; and contributing + to the Project; and attending and getting other &os; + contributors to volunteer to run &os; events, staff &os; tables, + and give &os; presentations.</p> + + <p>We created new handouts to promote TeachBSD.org (<a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf</a>) + and the Google Summer of Code program (<a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf</a>).</p>; + + <p>We published the July/August issue of the &os; Journal: <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/</a>.</p>; + + <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being + done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and other + information to keep you in the loop of what we’re doing to + support the &os; Project and community <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/</a>.</p>; + + <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 + 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>This quarter, we sponsored and/or attended the following events:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Texas Linux Fest, July 8-9, 2016, Austin, TX + (<a href="http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/">http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/</a>)</li>; + + <li>The Eleventh HOPE, July 22-24, 2016, New York, NY + (<a href="https://hope.net/index.html">https://hope.net/index.html</a>)</li>; + + <li>BSDCam 2016, August 15-17, 2016, Cambridge, UK (sponsor, + organizer, and participated) (<a + href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201608DevSummit">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201608DevSummit</a>)</li>; + + <li>FOSSCON 2016, August 20, 2016, Philadelphia, PA + (<a href="https://fosscon.us/">https://fosscon.us/</a>)</li>; + + <li>womENcourage 2016, September 12-13, 2016, Linz, Austria + (Silver Sponsor) (<a + href="http://womencourage.acm.org">http://womencourage.acm.org</a>)</li>; + + <li>SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016, September 19-22, + 2016, Santa Clara, CA (Industry Partner Sponsor) (<a + href="http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer">http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer</a>)</li>; + + <li><p>EuroBSDcon 2016 and &os; Developer Summit, September + 22-25, 2016, Belgrade, Serbia (Silver Sponsor) (<a + href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/</a>)</p>; + + <p>Our EuroBSDCon involvement included:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Held a Women in Tech BoF in partnership with ACM-W + Europe</li> + <li>Bennedict organized the EuroBSDCon Developer + Summit</li> + + <li>Deb gave a Foundation Update talk and Hiroki Sato and + Benedict Reuschling joined her for a Q&A session.</li> + + <li>Kirk McKusick taught his two-day &os; tutorial (<a + href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#kirkmckusick">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#kirkmckusick</a>)</li>; + + <li>George Neville-Neil taught a tutorial on Tracing &os; + for DevOps and Developers (<a + href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#georgenevilleneil">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#georgenevilleneil</a>)</li>; + + <li>George also gave the Keynote talk, titled The Coming + Decades of BSD</li> + + <li>Phillip Paeps was one of the primary organizers for + this conference.</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li><p>OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016, September 26-27, 2016, + San Francisco, CA (Silver) (<a + href="http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit">http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit</a>)</p>; + + <ul> + <li>Justin Gibbs gave a talk on Fault Management (<a + href="http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Fault_Management">http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Fault_Management</a>)</li>; + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + + <p>We sponsored three &os; contributors to attend EuroBSDCon.</p> + + <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>&os; Community Engagement</p> + + <p>Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, has been overseeing + the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of Conduct to help + make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community.</p> + + <p>Other Stuff We Did</p> + + <p>We welcomed Kylie Liange and Philip Paeps to the Board of + Directors. More information and interviews can be found at: <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/</a>.</p>; + + <p>George attended the ARM Partner Meeting in Cambridge.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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