Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:03:29 +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: r42216 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307090903.r6993TYp024292@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jul 9 09:03:28 2013 New Revision: 42216 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42216 Log: - Add Q2 report for The FreeBSD Foundation Submitted by: Deb Goodkin <deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 08:48:08 2013 (r42215) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 09:03:28 2013 (r42216) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 29 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 30 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions --> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013 @@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ <description>Google Summer of Code</description> </category> + <category> + <name>misc</name> + + <description>Miscellaneous</description> + </category> + <project cat='proj'> <title>PC-BSD</title> @@ -1659,4 +1665,83 @@ functionality through <tt>pkg(8)</tt>.</ <task>Additional testing on busy servers.</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/"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>We started the quarter with our "Raise a Million — Spend + a Million" Spring Fundraiser. This was the first of three major + fundraisers scheduled for the year. We were pleased to have + raised $365,291 by the end of the campaign — May 31. Last + year, by the same time, we had raised only $56,196. We have + started this year off with a much better fundraising strategy. + We want to send a big thank you to everyone out there that has + made a donation in 2013. Your early donations have made a + significant impact on our fundraising endeavors so far this + year.</p> + + <p>Some things we accomplished this last quarter are:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Attended BSDCan in Ottawa, Texas LinuxFest in Austin, + SouthEast LinuxFest in Charlotte, and ICANN 46 meeting in + Beijing.</li> + + <li>We were a Gold Sponsor for BSDCan 2013 and sponsored 7 + developers to attend the conference.</li> + + <li>We signed up to be a Platinum Sponsor for EuroBSDCon + 2013.</li> + + <li>We sponsored 1 developer to attend OpenHelp.</li> + + <li>Recognized Mark Linimon, Simon L. B. Nielsen, Bjoern A. + Zeeb, and Ken Smith, at BSDCan, for their significant + contributions to &os;. We also recognized Dan Langille for + his tireless effort of putting on BSDCan for 10 years.</li> + + <li>We sponsored the developer and vendor summits at BSDCan, + with 100 and 30 attendees respectively.</li> + + <li>We sponsored BSD-Day 2013 that was held in Naples, Italy on + April 6.</li> + + <li>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa.</li> + + <li>We sponsored the following projects: Capsicum, ARM + Superpages, iSCSI, Page Queue Locking, Input/Output Memory + Management Unit, Documentation project infrastructure, and + writing white papers.</li> + + <li>We hired Edward Tomasz Napierała as the second member + of our technical staff to work on &os; projects + full-time.</li> + + <li>We hired Ed Maste as Director of Project Development.</li> + + <li>With our continued support of building out the &os; + infrastructure, we purchased high-end servers for the Sentex Lab + to be used with the latest 40 Gbps Ethernet cards from Chelsio + to do performance testing and analysis, smaller servers for + firewalls for NYI and ISC, and cables to connect our Juniper + switches together into a bigger Juniper switch we purchased + for NYI.</li> + </ul> + </body> + </project> </report>
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