Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 05:49:02 +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: r49160 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201607250549.u6P5n2R4052645@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Jul 25 05:49:01 2016 New Revision: 49160 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49160 Log: Add the FreeBSD Foundation entry from Deb Goodkin Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Sun Jul 24 14:35:55 2016 (r49159) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Mon Jul 25 05:49:01 2016 (r49160) @@ -1990,4 +1990,267 @@ <sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</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>Fundraising Efforts</p> + + <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. Our spending + budget for 2016 is $1,250,000 and we've raised $265,000 so far. + Our Q1-Q2 financial reports will be posted by August 1. As you can + see, we need your donations to continue supporting &os; at our + current level. Please consider making a donation here: + <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.org/donation">freebsdfoundation.org/donation</a>.</p> + + <p>OS Improvements</p> + + <p>The Foundation improves &os; by funding software + development projects approved through our proposal submission + process, and our internal software developer staff members. Two + Foundation-funded projects continued last quarter; one project is + to improve the stability of the vnet network stack virtualization + infrastructure, and the second is phase two of the &os;/arm64 + port project.</p> + + <p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes + over the quarter. Kostik Belousov accomplished the following work + last quarter: implemented robust mutexes support, as part of + ongoing efforts to bring our threading library into POSIX + compliance and feature completeness; documented kernel interfaces + used by the threading library and produced almost 30 pages of + technical text; completed and committed the elimination of the + pvh_global_lock from the amd64 pmap, which removed a hot contested + lock, and fixed bugs that help keep &os; stable and + reliable.</p> + + <p>Edward Napierala accomplished the following work last + quarter: added filesystem thoughput limits to RCTL; committed iSER + initiator support; added support for rerooting into NFS; and added + <tt>iscsictl -e</tt>, which makes it possible to enable and disable + sessions.</p> + + <p>Ed Maste, our Project Development Director, accomplished + the following work last quarter: investigated the state of + reproducible builds in the ports tree, with some work in progress + to address issues; updated the ELF Tool Chain tools with bug fixes + and improved handling of malformed input; investigated using + <tt>lld</tt>, the linker from the LLVM family, to link the &os; + base system, and reported on and tested patches for issues found. + He also managed the <tt>arm64</tt> development project and + investigated and fixed a number of bugs. Lastly, he imported + LLVM's <tt>libunwind</tt> and prepared it for use in &os; 11, and + investigated and reviewed the <tt>blacklistd</tt> proposal and + patches.</p> + + <p>George Neville-Neil continued hosting the bi-weekly Transport + conference call (notes at <a + href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols</a>) + and the bi-weekly DTrace conference call (notes at <a + href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace</a>.</p> + + <p>Ed continued facilitating the bi-weekly graphics call to + coordinate efforts on the <tt>i915</tt> driver and other graphics + stack work.</p> + + <p>Several of these projects are described elsewhere in this + quarterly report.</p> + + <p>Release Engineering</p> + + <p>Foundation employee and release engineer Glen Barber worked + closely with Marius Strobl on the 10.3-RELEASE, which was + completed in April. Glen also merged the release-pkg branch to + 11-CURRENT, though this will be a beta feature for 11.0-RELEASE. + Lastly, with the Release Engineering Team, he started the + 11.0-RELEASE cycle. Find out more in the Release Engineering Team + status entry in this report.</p> + + <p>"Getting Started with &os;" Project</p> + + <p>We hired a summer intern, with no &os;, Linux, or any + command line operating system experience, to figure out on his own + how to install and use &os;. He is writing easy-to-follow how-to + guides to help make the new user experience straightforward and + positive. He's also been submitting bug reports and problems + through the appropriate channels. You can check out his first + how-to guide at <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/</a>.</p> + + <p>&os; 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 &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.</p> + + <p>Some of the work we did last quarter to support &os; + advocacy included: Creating a &os; page on our website to promote + &os; derivative projects and showcase &os; users (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/</a>), + and promoting &os; research by creating a Research page on our + site and conference handout (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/</a>).</p> + + <p>We created guidelines and a repository for using the Project and + Foundation logos (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/</a>).</p> + + <p>To help showcase &os; contributors, we published two new Faces + of &os; stories, about Michael Lucas (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/</a>) + and Kris Moore <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/</a>).</p> + + <p>We published the March/April and May/June issues of the + &os; Journal and participated in editorial board work. Kirk + McKusick wrote a feature article on the Fast Filesystem for the + March/April issue, and other team members helped review and edit + Journal articles.</p> + + <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being + done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and provide + other information to keep you in the loop of what we're doing to + support the &os; Project and community.</p> + + <p>George Neville-Neil and Robert Watson continued teaching + and developing open source &os; teaching materials at + <a href="http://teachbsd.org">teachbsd.org</a>.</p> + + <p>We launched the first Hosting Partner Spotlight to showcase + the Project's partnership with NYI (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/</a>)</p> + + <p>We worked with Microsoft to get &os; onto Azure (<a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/</a>).</p> + + <p>The Foundation was quoted in Cavium's Thunder X2 press release + (<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html</a></p> + + <p>George worked with ARM to coordinate the upcoming ARM Partner + Meeting in Cambridge.</p> + + <p>Conferences and Events</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.</p> + + <p>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 about &os;, to + increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to recruit + more contributors to the Project.</p> + + <p>In April, Benedict Reuschling helped organize and run a + hackathon in Essen April 22-24. He then attended the Open Source + Datacenter conference in Berlin, with Allan Jude, to give a talk + about "Interesting things you can do with ZFS," which highlighted + OpenZFS features and how well they work on &os; + (<a href="https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065">https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065</a>).</p> + + <p>We promoted &os; at:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Flourish — April 1-2 in Chicago + (<a href="http://flourishconf.com/2016/">http://flourishconf.com/2016/</a>)</li> + + <li>LFNW — April 23-24 in Bellingham WA + (<a href="https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016">https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016</a>).</li> + + <li>OSCON — May 18-19 in Austin, TX + (<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us">http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us</a></li> + </ul> + + <p>Deb Goodkin and Dru Lavigne attended the Community + Leadership Summit in Austin: May 14, 15 + (<a href="http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/">http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/</a>)</p> + + <p>Deb promoted &os; at USENIX ATC June 22-23 in Denver, CO.</p> + + <p>Our team attended BSDCan and the Ottawa Developer Summit. + We held our annual board meeting to vote on officers, board + members, and work on our strategic planning. Most of us attended + the developer/vendor summits. Kirk McKusick presented "A + Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem" (<a + href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html">http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html</a>). + Ed Maste gave a presentation on "Reproducible Builds in + &os;". George helped run the vendor summit.</p> + + <p>We sponsored five &os; contributors to attend BSDCan.</p> + + <p>Legal/&os; IP</p> + + <p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We continued to review requests + and grant permission to use the trademarks.</p> + + <p>&os; Community Engagement</p> + + <p>We launched our first Community Survey. The purpose was to get + input from the community on why they use &os;, what they'd like to + see the Foundation support, and other input to help us determine + our direction and how we should support the Project.</p> + + <p>Code of Conduct — Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, + has been overseeing the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of + Conduct to help make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming + community.</p> + + <p>Other Stuff We Did</p> + + <p>Last quarter we purchased a server to reside at NYI to + improve the continuous integration tools within the Project.</p> + + <p>We had two face-to-face board meetings last quarter to work + on strategic planning and identify areas in the project we should + support.</p> + + <p>We also held our first ever staff retreat in Boulder, + Colorado to give our small team an opportunity to work together + in person.</p> + + <p>We hired Sabine Percarpio as our Administration Manager. + She is helping us manage donations, accounting, travel grant + applications, handle questions that come in to the Foundation, and + run our organization smoothly.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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