Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 05:16:41 +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: r48043 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201601170516.u0H5Gfst055820@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Jan 17 05:16:40 2016 New Revision: 48043 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48043 Log: Add FreeBSD Foundation entry from Anne Dickison Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 03:13:34 2016 (r48042) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sun Jan 17 05:16:40 2016 (r48043) @@ -2893,4 +2893,222 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='misc'> + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">Foundation Website</url> + <url href="http://FreeBSDJournal.com/">FreeBSD Journal</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 + development projects, conferences and developer summits, and + provide travel grants to &os; developers. 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>On the advocacy front, the Foundation attended and + sponsored EuroBSDcon, which took place Oct 1-4 (<a + href="https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/">https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/</a>; + )in Stockholm, Sweden. Two days prior, during the developer + summit, Deb Goodkin ran a session on Recruiting to &os;. The + Foundation was also very active during the event itself; in + addition to Deb, we had &a.dru;, &a.mckusick;, &a.erwin;, + &a.emaste;, &a.hrs;, and &a.trasz; attend the conference. Deb + and Ed gave a presentation on how the Foundation supports a + BSD project. Kirk gave a presentation on "a Brief + History of the BSD Fast File System," and he taught the + two-day tutorial "Introduction to the &os; Open-Source + Operating System."</p> + + <p>Deb then attended the 2015 Grace Hopper Conference + that was held in Houston, TX, October 14-16. The conference is + for women in computing and most of the attendees were female + computer science majors, female software developers, and + college professors. The Foundation was proud to be a Silver + Sponsor. The conference was very successful for us; our + presence allowed us to to raise awareness of the Project, help + recruit more women, and get more professors to include &os; + in their curriculum.</p> + + <p>&a.gnn; traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to present + talks on DTrace, &os;, and teaching with DTrace, at + Chulalongkorn University, which is the largest University in + Thailand with the largest engineering school. The first talk + he gave was his practitioner's introduction to DTrace in which + he explains the technology, history and usage, without diving + into all the kernel subsystems. The second was the sales + pitch for teaching with Dtrace and with &os;. The pitch + was well received and there was some very good points made by + the audience. The facts that the course materials are both + open source and hosted on github were also well received.</p> + + <p>&a.mckusick; completed a 10-hour tutorial about &os; + for Pearson Education in their "Live Lesson" + program. In particular, there is a great free snippet from + that course comparing &os; against Linux here: + <a href="http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a">http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a</a>; . + Find out more about the whole session at: + <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&subid=&offerid=163217.1&type=10&tmpid=3559&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-FreeBSD-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868">http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&subid=&offerid=163217.1&type=10&tmpid=3559&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-freebsd-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868</a>; .</p> + + <p>Anne Dickison resumed the Faces of &os; series + with interviews featuring Michael Dexter and Erin Clark. She + also continued to produce and distribute &os; materials for + conferences, as well as advocating for &os; over our social + channels.</p> + + <p>&a.gnn; headed up the latest Silicon Valley Vendor + and Developer Summit, November 2-3, at the NetApp campus in + Sunnyvale, California. Topics of discussion ranged over new + developments in persistent memory, the use of &os; by a + company that builds rackscale systems, developments in our + compiler and tool suite, as well as others. Additional + Foundation Board and Staff attending the summit included: Deb + Goodkin, &a.gjb;, &a.gibbs;, &a.mckusick;, &a.emaste;, and + &a.hrs;. The complete schedule, and some of the slides, are + available on the &os; Wiki + <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit</a>; .</p> + + <p>Notes from the always lively "Have/Need/Want + session" are available at + <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant</a>; .</p> + + <p>While in the Bay Area, some Foundation members visited + commercial users of &os; to help understand their needs, update + them on the work the Foundation is doing, and facilitate + collaboration between them and the Project.</p> + + <p>We were a sponsor of the 2015 OpenZFS Developer + Summit, which took place October 19-20, in San Francisco, CA. + &a.gibbs; and &a.mckusick; attended the conference.</p> + + <p>&a.gibbs; continued his semester long class teaching + Intro to Computer Science using &os; at a middle + school.</p> + + <p>&a.emaste;, &a.trasz;, and &a.kib; continue to make + progress on Foundation funded development projects. More + specifically:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Ed Worked on a number of items relating to the + tool chain: LLD linker, ELF Tool Chain components, and LLDB + debugger, and tested, integrated, and merged outstanding UEFI + work.</li> + + <li>Edward finished work on the reroot project as well + spending some time on a certificate-transparency port. He also + implemented a prototype to support disk IO limit in RCTL.</li> + + <li>Konstantin rewrote the out of memory killer logic, + which, in particular, fixed &os; operation on systems + without swap, especially systems with verry little memory. The + later are becoming more and more common with popularity of + embedded ARM platforms were &os; runs, but it also affects + large systems which are usually configured without swap. He + also finalized and committed the shared page support for the + ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems. This allows for a non-executable + stack on ARMv7, and a much faster, userspace gettimeofday(2) + for both, similar to on x86.</li> + </ul> + + <p>&a.emaste; presented a &os;/arm64 talk and a hands-on + demo at ARM Techcon, which took place November 10-12, 2015, in + Santa Clara, CA.</p> + + <p>We continued publishing our monthly newsletters and + acquiring new company testimonials about using &os;, including + from Verisign and Nginx.</p> + + <p>Anne Dickison, &a.dru;, and &a.gjb; represented the + Foundation at USENIX LISA ’15, which took place November 3-8, + in Washington D.C.. The Foundation had a booth in the Expo + Hall and participated in a BoF. In addition to connecting with + current community members, we spoke with attendees who were + interested in getting involved with the Project, and helped + set them on the correct path. We also took the opportunity to + remind those who hadn’t used &os; in a while what they were + missing. Glen also attended the USENIX Release Engineering + Summit, which was co-located with LISA ’15.</p> + + <p>We published the Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec issues of the + &os; Journal.</p> + + <p>&a.gnn; and &a.rwatson; announced the release of + their TeachBSD initiative: + <a href="http://teachbsd.com/">http://teachbsd.com/</a>. + TeachBSD offers a set of reusable course materials designed to + allow others to teach both university students and software + practitioners &os; operating system fundamentals. The + Foundation is proud to have partly sponsored their efforts to + teach the initial graduate level course on operating systems + with tracing at the University of Cambridge.</p> + + <p>Deb Goodkin invited a representative from the + Outreachy program to talk at the Ottawa &os; Developer Summit + about the program and how we can get involved.</p> + + <p>Deb also started discussions with CS professors from + the University of Colorado, Boulder to offer some Intro to + &os; workshops.</p> + + <p>&a.gjb; continued wearing many hats to support to the Project. + For Release Engineering: + <ul> + <li>Added support for building <tt>BANANAPI</tt>, + <tt>CUBIEBOARD</tt>, and <tt>CUBIEBOARD2</tt> arm + images.</li> + + <li>Deprecated use of MD5 checksums used for + verifying installation media downloaded from the &os; Project + mirrors.</li> + + <li>Various miscellaneous updates and fixes to release + build code.</li> + + <li>Continued providing regular development snapshot + builds.</li> + </ul> + Under Systems Administration: + <ul> + <li>Assisted the Admins team with migrating various + services to two new colocation facilities near Sunnyvale, + generously provided by RootBSD and LimeLight Networks.</li> + + <li>Moved email services for the Foundation to a new + server.</li> + </ul> + </p> + + <p>&a.emaste; attended the Reproducible Builds World + Summit, which took place in Athens, Greece, December 1-3, + 2015.</p> + + <p>We wrapped up our 2015 fundraising efforts with our + End-of-Year fundraising campaign by participating in + #GivingTuesday, and continuing with weekly email and social + media requests for support of the Foundation. Final + fundraising numbers will be available in Q1 2016.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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