Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 03:06:36 +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: r48662 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201604180306.u3I36aZp079146@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Mon Apr 18 03:06:35 2016 New Revision: 48662 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48662 Log: Editing pass to reduce redundancy and improve readability. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Sun Apr 17 21:45:16 2016 (r48661) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Mon Apr 18 03:06:35 2016 (r48662) @@ -2313,6 +2313,7 @@ </contact> <links> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Site</url> <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/">Donors</url>; <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/education-advocacy/">Education and Advocacy Materials</url> <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-scott-long/">Faces of FreeBSD: Scott Long</url> @@ -2345,15 +2346,16 @@ <p>We raised $204,000 last quarter from individual and corporate donors. Thank you to everyone who made a donation this year! - The list of donors is available here: - <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/</a>.</p>; + The + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/">list of donors</a> + is available.</p> <p>OS Improvements</p> - <p>The Foundation supports software development to improve - FreeBSD by funding projects approved through our proposal + <p>The Foundation improves + FreeBSD by funding software development projects approved through our proposal submission process and our three software developer staff - members. Two Foundation funded projects were started last + members. Two Foundation-funded projects were started last quarter, the first to improve stability of the vnet network stack virtualization infrastructure, and the second for phase two of the FreeBSD/arm64 port project.</p> @@ -2373,17 +2375,17 @@ <p>Foundation employee and release engineer Glen Barber worked on packaging the base system with <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, separating debug files from the default base system so they can be - selected/deselected during installation time, supporting + selected or deselected during an install, supporting preparations, testing for the on-time release of FreeBSD 10.3, and producing 11-CURRENT and 10-STABLE snapshot builds.</p> <p>FreeBSD Advocacy</p> - <p>Our Marketing Director, Anne Dickison, focused on creating + <p>Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, focused on creating and updating marketing material to promote and teach people - about FreeBSD. This material - <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/education-advocacy/">is available</a> + about FreeBSD. + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/education-advocacy/">This material is available</a> for FreeBSD advocates to hand out at conferences and events to promote FreeBSD. She also worked on promoting FreeBSD work being done over social media, blog posts, and articles.</p> @@ -2394,10 +2396,10 @@ and <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-sean-bruno/">Sean Bruno</a>. This is an opportunity to put a face to a name in the FreeBSD - community, and get to know more about the people who + community and get to know more about the people who contribute to FreeBSD.</p> - <p>We started working on updating the FreeBSD 10.X brochure to + <p>Work began on updating the FreeBSD 10.X brochure to include the new 10.3 features.</p> <p>We love getting stories from companies who are successfully @@ -2411,22 +2413,22 @@ <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/initial-freebsd-risc-v-architecture-port-committed/">the FreeBSD RISC-V</a> work being done.</p> - <p>We assisted Mellanox with their press release highlighting + <p>Assistance was provided to Mellanox for their press release highlighting <a href="http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=1688">their work with NetFlix</a>.</p> <p>Conferences and Events</p> - <p>We sponsor many conferences, events, and summits around the - globe. They may be BSD-related, open source, or technology + <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 provide financial support to the major BSD conferences like BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon, and EuroBSDCon, and give financial and/or other support for smaller events like BSDDays, FreeBSD Summits, and - FreeBSD workshops/camps/hackathons. For open source - conferences we will attend when we can get a free non-profit + FreeBSD workshops, camps, and hackathons. For open source + conferences, we will attend when we can get a free non-profit booth.</p> - <p>We kicked off the year by sending Ed Maste, Benedict + <p>The year kicked off with sending Ed Maste, Benedict Reuschling, and George Neville-Neil to promote and give talks on FreeBSD at FOSDEM, the largest open source conference in Europe. Ed, our Project Development Director, had a chance to @@ -2434,26 +2436,26 @@ various people about reproducible builds in FreeBSD.</p> <p>Dru Lavigne and Deb Goodkin promoted FreeBSD at SCALE in - Pasadena, CA and Dru gave a presentation called “Doc Like an - Egyptian.” We were a Gold Sponsor for AsiaBSDCon, and had five - Foundation members attend. Kirk McKusick taught a 2-day - FreeBSD Kernel tutorial and gave a 1-hour talk on the history + Pasadena, California. Dru gave a presentation called "Doc Like an + Egyptian." We were a Gold Sponsor for AsiaBSDCon in Tokyo, and five + Foundation members attended. Kirk McKusick taught a two-day + FreeBSD Kernel tutorial and gave a talk on the history of the BSD filesystem. Dru Lavigne and Benedict Reuschling gave a documentation tutorial. Board members Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil helped organize the conference. BSDnow.tv interviewed Benedict at AsiaBSDCon about his role as a new - Foundation board member and the work the Foundation does.</p> + Foundation board member and the Foundation's work.</p> - <p>We planned and organized our first ever FreeBSD Storage - Summit, which was in association with the USENIX FAST + <p>We planned and organized our first-ever FreeBSD Storage + Summit in association with the USENIX FAST Conference. Led by our President and Founder, Justin Gibbs, we had over 50 attendees participating and working together on - technically focussed topics. Benedict was busy promoting - FreeBSD in Europe, because he also attended Linuxtage in - Chemnitz, Germany, and gave a talk on FreeBSD (in German): + technically focused topics. Benedict was busy promoting + FreeBSD in Europe, where he also attended Linuxtage in + Chemnitz, Germany to give a talk on FreeBSD (in German): <a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2016/de/programm/beitrag/194">FreeBSD – The Power to Serve a Community</a>.</p> - <p>We committed to being a Gold Sponsor for BSDCan and the + <p>The Foundation committed to being a Gold Sponsor for BSDCan and the upcoming Hackathon/DevSummit in Essen, Germany in April.</p> <p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p> @@ -2465,7 +2467,7 @@ <p>FreeBSD Community Engagement</p> <p>Code of Conduct - Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, has - been overseeing the efforts to rewrite the Project’s Code of + been overseeing the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of Conduct to help make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community.</p> @@ -2479,14 +2481,14 @@ can recruit more women to FreeBSD and offer Intro to FreeBSD workshops.</p> - <p>We met with a number of commercial vendors to help facilitate + <p>Meetings were held with a number of commercial vendors to help facilitate collaboration with the Project. This included presenting how the Project is organized, and how companies can get help, contribute back to the Project, promote their use of FreeBSD, and for us to get their feedback on the work we are doing to help with our fundraising efforts.</p> - <p>We launched our new website and logo, signaling the ongoing + <p>The new Foundation website and logo was launched, signaling the ongoing evolution of the Foundation identity and ability to better serve the FreeBSD Project and community. Find our more about our
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