The FreeBSD Foundation

From owner-svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Mon Nov 27 05:45:25 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E65DF9AF1; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3111E64D3F; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id vAR5jO9v059515; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:24 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id vAR5jO0g059514; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:24 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201711270545.vAR5jO0g059514@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:24 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r51229 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head X-SVN-Commit-Author: bjk X-SVN-Commit-Paths: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 51229 X-SVN-Commit-Repository: doc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:25 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Mon Nov 27 05:45:24 2017 New Revision: 51229 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51229 Log: Add 2017Q3 Foundation entry from deb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 03:14:30 2017 (r51228) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 05:45:24 2017 (r51229) @@ -843,4 +843,230 @@ bottleneck.

+ + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + FreeBSD Foundation Website + FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter + + + +

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 and supports hardware + to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure and provides + full-time Release Engineering support; publishes marketing + material to promote, educate, and advocate for the &os; + Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial + vendors and &os; developers; and finally, represents the + &os; Project in executing contracts, license agreements, + and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal + entity.

+ +

Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; last + quarter:

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Fundraising Efforts

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Our work is 100% funded by your donations. This year we've + raised over $860,000 from 500+ donors. Our 2017 fundraising + goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet + and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to + help us continue and increase our support for &os;. https://www.&os;foundation.org/donate/.

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We also have a new Partnership Program, to provide more benefits + for our larger commercial donors. Find out more information at + https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/ + and share with your companies!

+ +

OS Improvements

+ +

The Foundation improves the &os; operating system by + employing our technical staff to maintain and improve critical + kernel subsystems, add features and functionality, and fix + problems. This also includes funding separate project grants + like the arm64 port, blacklistd access control + daemon, and the integration of VIMAGE support, to make sure + that &os; remains a viable solution for research, + education, computing, products and more.

+ +

We kicked off or continued the following projects last + quarter:

+ +

OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion project
Broadcom Wi-Fi infrastructural improvements + (bhnd(4) driver)
Headless mode out of the box — Beaglebone Black
Extending bhyve-ARMv7 features
Porting bhyve-arm to an ARMv8 platform

+ +

Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in + and work directly on projects to improve &os; like:

+ +

ZFS improvements
New Intel server support
kqueue(2) updates
64-bit inode support
Stack guard
Kernel Undefined Behavior sanitizer
Toolchain projects
i915 driver investigation
NVDIMM support in acpiconf(8)
Continuous integration dashboard (web page and physical + hardware)
FAT filesystem support in makefs(8)

+ +

Staff and board members continued hosting bi-weekly + conference calls to facilitate efforts for individuals to + collaborate on different technologies.

+ +

You can find out more about the support we provided by + reading individual updates from Ed Maste, Konstatin Belousov, + Landon Fuller, Matt Ahrens, and Edward Napierala in this + report.

+ +

Release Engineering

+ +

The Foundation provides a full-time staff member to lead the + release engineering efforts. This has provided timely and + reliable releases over the last few years.

+ +

Last quarter, our full-time staff member worked with the + &os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize + 11.1-RELEASE. He also supported the 10.4 release effort, and + has continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT + development snapshot builds throughout the quarter. At the + vBSDCon Developer Summit, he gave a presentation on the state + of the release engineering team.

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You can find out more about the support we provided to the + Release Engineering Team by reading their status update in + this report.

+ +

Supporting &os; Infrastructure

+ +

The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the + &os; infrastructure. Last quarter, we continued supporting + &os; hardware located around the world.

+ +

&os; Advocacy and Education

+ +

A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for + the Project. This includes promoting work being done by + others with &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach + people about &os; and help make the path to starting using + &os; or contributing to the Project easier; and attending + and getting other &os; contributors to volunteer to run + &os; events, staff &os; tables, and give &os; + presentations.

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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.

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We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue + for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to + 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 of + &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different + applications, and to recruit more contributors to the + Project.

+ +

Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and + education work we did last quarter:

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Organized and ran the Essen &os; Hackathon in Essen + Germany
Sponsored and participated in the &os; Developer Summit + BSDCam, in Cambridge, England
Represented &os; at the ARM Partner Meeting
Presented and taught about &os; at SdNOG 4 in Khartoum, + Sudan
Sponsored and gave presentations and tutorials at + EuroBSDCon in Paris, France
Organized and ran the Paris &os; Developer Summit
Organized and ran the &os; Developer Summit at vBSDCon
Sponsored and attended vBSDCon
Proved travel grants to &os; contributors to attend the + above events.
Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in + Vancouver BC
Provided &os; advocacy material
Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Annual Technical + Conference in Santa Clara, CA

+ +

We continued producing &os; advocacy material to help + people promote &os; around the world.

+ +

We help educate the world about &os; by publishing the + professionally produced &os; Journal. Last quarter we + published the July/August issue that you can find at https://www.&os;foundation.org/journal/.

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You can find out more about events we were at and upcoming + events at https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/.

+ +

Legal/&os; IP

+ +

The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We also provide legal support + for the core team to investigate questions that arise.

+ +

Go to http://www.&os;foundation.org + to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!

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