Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:54:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47013 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201507181854.t6IIsY7O021414@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sat Jul 18 18:54:33 2015 New Revision: 47013 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47013 Log: Add Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsdfoundation.org>'s Foundation report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sat Jul 18 17:50:13 2015 (r47012) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml Sat Jul 18 18:54:33 2015 (r47013) @@ -2328,4 +2328,267 @@ </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/">Foundation + website</url> + <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; 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; during + the last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li> + <p>We were a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan 2015 and the + sponsor for the Ottawa developer and vendor summits. We + were pleased to provide 12 travel grants for &os; + contributors to attend the conference and have + opportunities to meet face-to-face with other &os; + contributors. You can read some of their trip reports + <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html">here</a>.</p>; + + <p>In celebration of our 15th anniversary we provided a + delicious &os; cake, which was happily devoured by + conference attendees.</p> + + <p>Various Foundation team members gave talks, attended + talks, participated in doc sprints, worked on efforts to + improve &os;, worked at our booth, and spent time + talking to our constituents about areas where we can help + with &os;.</p> + + <p>Foundation members gave these talks:</p> + + <p><ul> + <li> Anne Dickison - "&os; Advocacy: How you can spread + the word"</li> + + <li>Kirk McKusick - + <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/525.en.html">"An Introduction to the Implementation of ZFS"</a> + </li> + + <li>George Neville-Neil - + <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/528.en.html">"Measure Twice, Code Once"</a> + and + <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/566.en.html">"Cambridge L41: Teaching Advanced Operating Systems with &os;"</a> + </li> + + <li>Ed Maste - + <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/567.en.html">"The LLDB Debugger in &os;"</a> + and Ed Maste also ran the Vendor Summit. + </li> + </ul></p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa. We are + pleased to announce the addition of Benedict Reuschling to + our board of directors. Read his interview + <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/07/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board.html">here</a>. + The current board of directors and officers were all + re-elected. You can find out who is on our board + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/board">here</a>. + We spent the day planning our 12-month goals, project + roadmapping, FreeBSD education offerings, fundraising, and + advocacy efforts.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>Dru Lavigne promoted and gave a presentation on &os; + at + <a href="http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2015">LinuxFest + Northwest 2015</a>.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>We have committed to sponsoring the upcoming conferences: + vBSDCon, womENcourage 2015, EuroBSDCon 2015, Grace Hopper + conference, BSDCon Brasil, Cambridge Developer Summit, and + OpenZFS. You?ll also find us at OSCON, July 21-23, and + SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Sept 21-24.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>Fundraising</p> + + <p>So far, we have raised $361,000 for 2015 from over 500 + donors. Juniper became a Gold level donor. We are + actively approaching commercial &os; users for Silver plus + donations, and asking large tech companies for separate + women in tech funding, to help us recruit more women to + the &os; Project. We are also asking companies for + funding to help with our &os; education efforts.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>We had the pleasure of hosting Groff the BSD Goat here in + Colorado in April.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>Infrastructure Support</p> + + <p>We funded almost $50,000 of equipment to support &os; + infrastructure. Most of this went towards new and + upgraded servers at the NYI facility. We sent Glen Barber + there to install the new servers. You can read all about + <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/05/another-data-center-site-visit-nyi.html">his + trip</a>.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>Advocacy Work</p> + + <p>The &os; Journal has over 9200 subscribers, with a 98% + renewal rate. Our marketing director, Anne Dickison, was + busy providing advocacy work for the Project. She helped + provide more &os; marketing literature and material. This + included the cool <i>I Choose &os;</i> sticker and very + popular <i>I Love FreeBSD</i> tattoos that are available + at conferences. We published April, May, and June + Foundation Newsletters to highlight the work being done by + the Foundation to support &os;. These newsletters also + include company &os; testimonials, upcoming events where + &os; will be promoted, and the new From the Trenches + articles from &os; contributor experiences working with + &os;.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>One of the Foundation's responsibilities is to protect + &os; intellectual property (IT). This includes protecting + the &os; trademarks. We granted trademark usage + permission to various companies who want to show their + support for &os;. To get permission to use the + trademarks, interested parties must agree to our + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/guidelines">Trademark + Usage Terms and Conditions</a>.</p> + </li> + + <li> + <p>Project Development Work</p> + + <p>George Neville-Neil signed up new universities to look at + the &os; course including George Washington University, + Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz. He is working with + Verisign on the DevSummit that will be held at vBSDCon. + He also worked with ARM to set up meeting with 18 hardware + and silicon vendors at the ARM Partner Meeting in + August.</p> + + <p>Ed Maste continued managing the &os;/arm64 porting + project. He also continued with updates to the ELF + Toolchain tools in the &os; base system and incorporated a + set of fixes from the upstream project to fix issues with + the <tt>strip</tt> tool. Ed investigated and fixed a set + of outstanding issues with the new <tt>vt(4)</tt> console + in the &os; installer.</p> + + <p>Staff member Edward Napierala committed a number of bug + fix merges to the stable/10 branch for inclusion in &os; + 10.2, and continued investigation of a project to support + runtime switching of the root file system. He merged a + large number of improvements to the <tt>autofs</tt> + <tt>automount</tt> daemon. He also supported &os; + developer Dmitry Chagin's work on 64-bit Linux binary + emulation support by reviewing the extensive patch set. + Those changes are now committed to FreeBSD's Subversion + tree, and will arrive in &os; 11.0.</p> + + <p>Staff member Konstantin Belousov continued development on + the Intel DMA remap (DMAR) and Process Context Identifier + (PCID) infrastructure projects. Kostik also contributed + an extensive set of changes to multiple aspects of &os;: + stability improvements in the virtual memory subsystem, + improved compatibility in options handling in the runtime + loader, thread library improvements, and GDB debugger + enhancements.</p> + + <p>Glen Barber, who is a Foundation employee, is also a + release engineer for the Project. Here are some + highlights of what he did to help the Project:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Added support to the release build code in 11-CURRENT + for producing &os;/aarch64 (arm64) memory stick images + and virtual machine disk images for use within + Qemu.</li> + + <li>Worked with Colin Percival on testing and refining the + release build code to support building Amazon EC2 + images, including auto-publication of the final build + output.</li> + + <li>Worked with Brad Davis on testing and refining the + release build code to support building Vagrant images + for publication on Hashicorp Atlas.</li> + + <li>Reworked the &os;/arm build code, removing the + requirement for third-party utilities, providing a + fully-native build infrastructure for the existing + images (BEAGLEBONE, RPI-B, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD), and + added support for additional images (GUMSTIX, + CUBOX/HUMMINGBOARD).</li> + + <li>Wrote several additional utilities to reduce human + error in several areas of Release Engineering, in + particular automating producing the filesystem hierarchy + used by the FTP mirrors, as well as enhancements to the + internal build scripts used by Release Engineering + (which is publicized in the source tree under + /user/gjb/thermite), and support for automatically + uploading and publishing virtual machine images for + Azure, Google Compute Engine (GCE support was added by + Steve Wills during the last quarter), and Vagrant.</li> + + <li>While attending BSDCan 2015, Glen worked with several + developers and teams on various items, such as + discussing packaging the base system with + <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, migrating internal &os; servers to the + new machines the Foundation purchased for the NYI + facility, and discussing further possible future + enhancements to the &os; build infrastructure.</li> + + <li>Started the 10.2-RELEASE cycle.</li> + + <li>Continually updated the release notes for 11-CURRENT + and 10-STABLE, the latter of which will be the release + notes for the upcoming 10.2-RELEASE.</li> + + <li>Assisted the Security Officer with reviewing + correctness of various Security Advisory and Errata + Notice texts.</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + </body> + </project> </report>
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