Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:50:04 +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: r48655 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201604161950.u3GJo4dP006703@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sat Apr 16 19:50:04 2016 New Revision: 48655 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48655 Log: Add FreeBSD Foundation report from Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsdfoundation.org>. 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 Sat Apr 16 18:51:21 2016 (r48654) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Sat Apr 16 19:50:04 2016 (r48655) @@ -2296,4 +2296,199 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='misc'> + <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/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> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-sean-bruno/">Faces of FreeBSD: Sean Bruno</url> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-and-zfs/">The Longstanding Relationship Between FreeBSD and ZFS</url> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/initial-freebsd-risc-v-architecture-port-committed/">FreeBSD RISC-V Work</url> + <url href="http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=1688">Mellanox's Work with NetFlix</url> + <url href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2016/de/programm/beitrag/194">FreeBSD – The Power to Serve a Community</url> + <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/introducing-a-new-look-for-the-foundation/">The FreeBSD Foundation's New Look</url> + </links> + + <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 development + projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide + travel grants to FreeBSD developers. The Foundation purchases + hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and + publishes FreeBSD white papers and marketing material to + promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project. The + Foundation also 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>Fundraising Efforts</p> + + <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>; + + <p>OS Improvements</p> + + <p>The Foundation supports software development to improve + FreeBSD by funding projects approved through our proposal + submission process and our three software developer staff + 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> + + <p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes + over the quarter. Some notable items include process-shared + pthread locks, address mapping randomization, disk I/O + bandwidth limits, porting <tt>libunwind</tt> to FreeBSD/arm, + bug fixes in the <tt>autofs</tt> automount daemon, an updated + version of the ELF Tool Chain, investigation of the + <tt>lld</tt> linker, improved X86 hardware support, and VM + subsystem stability improvements. 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 + 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 + 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 + 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> + 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> + + <p>Last quarter, we continued our Faces of FreeBSD series by + publishing stories about + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-scott-long/">Scott Long</a> + 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 + contribute to FreeBSD.</p> + + <p>We started working 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 + using FreeBSD. Testimonials were received last quarter from + Chelsio and Acceleration Systems.</p> + + <p>ZFS was making some headlines, so we wrote a blog entry on + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-and-zfs/">the longstanding relationship between FreeBSD and ZFS</a>.</p> + + <p>We helped promote + <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 + <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 + 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 + booth.</p> + + <p>We kicked off the year by 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 + talk to developers from other projects based on FreeBSD, and + 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 + 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> + + <p>We planned and organized our first ever FreeBSD Storage + Summit, which was 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): + <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 + upcoming Hackathon/DevSummit in Essen, Germany in April.</p> + + <p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p> + + <p>The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We continued to review + requests for permission to use the trademarks.</p> + + <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 + Conduct to help make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming + community.</p> + + <p>We have been reaching out to other open source communities to + get help with our efforts of making this a diverse community + and help us achieve our goals mentioned above of making the + FreeBSD community safe, inclusive, and welcoming.</p> + + <p>Continuing with our diversity efforts, we have been + connecting with women in technology groups to work on how we + 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 + 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 + evolution of the Foundation identity and ability to better + serve the FreeBSD Project and community. Find our more about + our + <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/introducing-a-new-look-for-the-foundation/">new look</a>.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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