Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53333 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201908262036.x7QKaCG7032873@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: emaste (src committer) Date: Mon Aug 26 20:36:11 2019 New Revision: 53333 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53333 Log: Regenerate 2019q2 report for missed Foundation entry Reviewed by: allanjude (previous version) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21419 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml Mon Aug 26 15:37:54 2019 (r53332) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml Mon Aug 26 20:36:11 2019 (r53333) @@ -620,6 +620,292 @@ </project> + <project cat='team'> + <title>FreeBSD Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>Deb Goodkin</name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <body> + <p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit + organization dedicated to supporting and promoting + the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD + contributors. The Foundation purchases and + supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD + infrastructure and provides resources to improve + security, quality assurance, and release + engineering efforts; publishes marketing material + to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD + Project; facilitates collaboration between + commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and + finally, represents the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD + last quarter:</p> + + <p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa on May 14. + Board Director and Officer elections take place + each year at this meeting. Justin Gibbs was + elected as the new President of the Board of + Directors. The new FreeBSD Foundation Board of + Directors includes President and Founder Justin T. + Gibbs, Vice President Benedict Reuschling, + Secretary Philip Paeps, Treasurer Marshall Kirk + McKusick, and Directors Hiroki Sato, George + Neville-Neil and Robert N. M. Watson. You can read + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-names-justin-gibbs-as-new-board-president/">more + about the elections</a>.</p> + + <p>After the elections, our management team gave updates to + the board on their respective areas. We then + discussed the key areas of the Project that need + help, and where we can step in to fill those + holes. We reviewed and updated our 12 month goals, + and identified projects we should support. We then + discussed conferences we are likely to attend, and + went over the latest on our fundraising efforts. + We followed that up with a discussion on how to + get more users to contribute back to the Project. + While discussing how to increase the number of + users and contributors, we talked about methods + for making for more training material available.</p> + + <p> + Partnerships and Commercial User Support</p> + <p> + We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users + and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with + companies to discuss their needs and bring that + information back to the Project. In Q2, Ed Maste + and Deb Goodkin met with a few commercial users in + Germany. It’s not only beneficial for the above, + but it also helps us understand some of the + applications where FreeBSD is used. Because BSDCan + brings in a high number of commercial users, we + have an excellent opportunity to have similar + discussions about their needs during the four-day + FreeBSD Summit and BSDCan.</p> + + <p> + Fundraising Efforts</p> + <p> + Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are grateful + for the generous donations from Intel, NetApp, + VMware and Stormshield last quarter. We are + working hard to get more commercial users to give + back to help us continue our work supporting + FreeBSD. More importantly, we’d like to thank + our individual donors, for making $10-$1,000 + donations last quarter, for a total of $16,000!</p> + + <p>Please consider making a donation to help us + <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">continue and + increase our support for FreeBSD</a>.</p> + + <p>We also have the + <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">Partnership + Program</a> to provide more + benefits for our larger commercial donors. + Find out more information at the link and share with your + companies!</p> + + <p>OS Improvements</p> + <p> + The Foundation improves the FreeBSD operating system by + employing our technical staff to maintain and + improve critical kernel subsystems, add features + and functionality, and fix problems. The + Foundation also provides grants to fund individual + projects.</p> + + <p>There were 243 commits to the FreeBSD base system + repository sponsored by the Foundation during the + quarter. These include improvements to the tmpfs + in-memory, MSDOS, and UFS filesystems, device + driver and hardware compatibility fixes, virtual + memory (VM), tool chain, documentation, and + testing and continuous integration improvements.</p> + + <p>We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues + found by Syzkaller, Google’s + code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.</p> + + <p>Alan Somers’ work on updating FreeBSD’s support for + FUSE (userspace filesystems) continued during the + quarter; the full details are elsewhere in this + quarterly report. At this point most of the work + has been committed to the project branch but some + bug fixes and improvements have been committed + directly to the FreeBSD development branch.</p> + + <p>Edward Napierala’s Linuxulator project continued through + the quarter, resulting in a number of improvements + to the Linuxulator and linux-specific + functionality such as linsysfs. This work is part + of the path to supporting the Linux strace + debugging tool in order to facilitate debugging + failures of other Linux binaries under the + Linuxulator. Mateusz Guzik continued with + scalability and performance improvements during + the quarter, and Bjoern Zeeb integrated the SDIO + stack (with details elsewhere in the quarterly + report).</p> + + <p>Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project + over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an <a + href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853">alpha + preview</a> of the feature for further + experimentation and review, and the FreeBSD + Foundation will make an alpha release image + available for testing in the near future.</p> + + <p>Foundation staff contributed to nine FreeBSD security + advisories and errata updates over the quarter, + including CPU vulnerability workarounds. Related + work included improving Intel microcode update + loading.</p> + + <p>Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance</p> + <p> + The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is + working on improving our automated testing, + continuous integration, and overall quality + assurance efforts.</p> + + <p>During the second quarter of 2019, Foundation staff + continued to improve the project's CI + infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix + the failing build and test cases, and worked with + other teams in the Project for their testing + needs. We hosted a CI-focused working group at + BSDcan and continue to publish the CI weekly + report at <a + href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing@</a>; + mailing list.</p> + + <p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more + information.</p> + + <p> + Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</p> + <p> + The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve + the FreeBSD infrastructure. Last quarter, we + continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located + around the world.</p> + + <p>FreeBSD 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 with FreeBSD; producing + advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD + and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD + or contributing to the Project easier; and + attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors + to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD + tables, and give FreeBSD presentations.</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. We support + the FreeBSD-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-FreeBSD events to promote and raise awareness + of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in + different applications, and to recruit more + contributors to the Project.</p> + + <p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did + last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham, + Washington</li> + + <li>Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers + Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada</li> + + <li>Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019</li> + + <li>Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD + Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria</li> + + <li>Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON</li> + + <li>Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit</li> + + <li>Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source + Conference</li> + + <li>Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf + 2019 in Bangalore, India</li> + + <li>Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open</li> + + <li>Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area + Developers Summit</li> + + <li>Provided FreeBSD advocacy material</li> + + <li>Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend + many of the above events</li> + </ul> + + <p> + We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help + people promote FreeBSD around the world.</p> + + <p>Read more about our conference adventures in the + conference recaps and trip reports in our + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">monthly + newsletters</a>.</p> + + <p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the + professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we + mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is now a + free publication. Find out more and access the + latest issues at + <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>; + + <p>You can find out more about + <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">events + we attended and upcoming events</a>.</p> + + <p>We have continued our work with a new website developer to + help us improve our website. Work has begun to + make it easier for community members to find + information more easily and to make the site more + efficient.</p> + + <p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p> + <p> + The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We also provide + legal support for the core team to investigate + questions that arise.</p> + + <p>Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we + support FreeBSD and how we can help you!</p> + </body> + + </project> + <project cat='proj'> <title>bhyve - Live Migration</title>
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