FreeBSD Foundation

From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Mon Aug 26 20:36:12 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14B3E4BD6; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46HP0r4DDFz3PTb; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@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 mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6F64EBCF2; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x7QKaCjf032874; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 GMT (envelope-from emaste@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from emaste@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x7QKaCG7032873; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 GMT (envelope-from emaste@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201908262036.x7QKaCG7032873@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: emaste set sender to emaste@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Ed Maste Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head X-SVN-Commit-Author: emaste X-SVN-Commit-Paths: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Commit-Revision: 53333 X-SVN-Commit-Repository: doc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees $except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" $" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:36:12 -0000 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 @@ + + FreeBSD Foundation + + + + Deb Goodkin + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + +

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.

+ +

Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD + last quarter:

+ +

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 + more + about the elections.

+ +

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.

+ +

+ Partnerships and Commercial User Support

+ 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.

+ +

+ Fundraising Efforts

+ 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!

+ +

Please consider making a donation to help us + continue and + increase our support for FreeBSD.

+ +

We also have the + Partnership + Program to provide more + benefits for our larger commercial donors. + Find out more information at the link and share with your + companies!

+ +

OS Improvements

+ 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.

+ +

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.

+ +

We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues + found by Syzkaller, Google’s + code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.

+ +

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.

+ +

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).

+ +

Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project + over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an alpha + preview 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.

+ +

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.

+ +

Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance

+ The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is + working on improving our automated testing, + continuous integration, and overall quality + assurance efforts.

+ +

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 freebsd-testing@ + mailing list.

+ +

See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more + information.

+ +

+ Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure

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

+ +

FreeBSD 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 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.

+ +

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.

+ +

Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did + last quarter:

+ +

Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham, + Washington
Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers + Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada
Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019
Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD + Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria
Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON
Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit
Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source + Conference
Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf + 2019 in Bangalore, India
Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open
Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area + Developers Summit
Provided FreeBSD advocacy material
Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend + many of the above events

+ +

+ We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help + people promote FreeBSD around the world.

+ +

Read more about our conference adventures in the + conference recaps and trip reports in our + monthly + newsletters.

+ +

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 + https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/.

+ +

You can find out more about + events + we attended and upcoming events.

+ +

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.

+ +

Legal/FreeBSD IP

+ 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.

+ +

Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we + support FreeBSD and how we can help you!

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