Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:52:48 +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: r45805 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410122152.s9CLqmVv001184@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 21:52:47 2014 New Revision: 45805 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45805 Log: Add Foundation report. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:35:13 2014 (r45804) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:52:47 2014 (r45805) @@ -2264,4 +2264,120 @@ The &os; Foundation </sponsor> </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/"/> + <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization + dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project + and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to + support &os; development projects, conferences, and developer + summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os; + infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.</p> + + <p>We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We + have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on + adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available + soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.</p> + + <p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the + PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran + the benchmarks as a configuration error may have affected + earlier results. Improvements arising from the investigation + are merged to the &os; 10 development branch and will be in + the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual + memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.</p> + + <p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a + refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated + feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts. + The automounter is available in the development branch of + FreeBSD and will be included in FreeBSD 10.1. Edward also + supported engineers at Chelsio in preparing iSCSI offload + support for Chelsio's 10- and 40-gigabit per second Ethernet + adapters.</p> + + <p>Ed Maste, our project manager, tested and integrated UEFI + system boot and new vt(4) console work into the release branch + for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release. He committed a number + of small toolchain and build infrastructure improvements. He + also wrote an article on LLDB for the FreeBSD Journal and + presented the LLDB work at EuroBSDCon.</p> + + <p>&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer + Glen Barber continued work on finalizing the 9.3-RELEASE + process, followed by starting the 10.1-RELEASE process.</p> + + <p>Work has continued on producing regularly-updated &os; + development snapshot builds for the various supported + architectures, which include amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, + powerpc64, sparc64, and arm.</p> + + <p>In addition, work has been committed to a project branch + which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced + by default as part of the release process.</p> + + <p>Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p> + + <p>Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI + and Sentex.</p> + + <p>Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to + deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.</p> + + <p>Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the + TCKs for Java 7 and 8.</p> + + <p>Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer + Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code + student to attend the summit.</p> + + <p>Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran + BSDDay in Argentina.</p> + + <p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the + Developer Summit. We provided 4 travel grants to assist &os; + contributors with their travel expenses to attend the + conference. We also had 6 board/staff members attend the + conference and some gave talks, tutorials, and chaired some + sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and + raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.</p> + + <p>Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is + happening November 3 and 4.</p> + + <p>Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil + published the second edition of "The Design and Implementation + of the FreeBSD Operating System."</p> + + <p>Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel + and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p> + + <p>Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13 + (fossetcon.org).</p> + + <p>We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events, + including the Grace Hopper conference.</p> + + <p>Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep + the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did + the previous month to support &os;.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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