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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>