svn commit: r43543 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Wed Jan 15 19:46:37 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Wed Jan 15 19:46:36 2014
New Revision: 43543
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43543

Log:
  - Add 2013Q4 report for the FreeBSD Foundation
  
  Submitted by:	deb

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 19:23:54 2014	(r43542)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Wed Jan 15 19:46:36 2014	(r43543)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 34 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 35 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@
     <description>Ports</description>
   </category>
 
+  <category>
+    <name>misc</name>
+
+    <description>Miscellaneous</description>
+  </category>
+
   <project cat='proj'>
     <title>CBSD</title>
 
@@ -1872,4 +1878,104 @@ device vt_vga</pre>
 	planned.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>The &os; Foundation</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Deb</given>
+	  <common>Goodkin</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>
+      <url href="http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Dec-newsletter">Semi-annual newsletter</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 held our year-end fundraising campaign.  We are still
+	processing donations and will post the final numbers by
+	mid-January.  We are extremely grateful to all the individuals
+	and organizations that supported us and the Project by making a
+	donation in 2013.  We already started our fundraising efforts
+	for 2014.</p>
+
+      <p>Some of the highlights from this past quarter include:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>We sponsored or are sponsoring the following projects:
+
+	  <ul>
+	    <li>Projects completed last quarter: Capsicum, Casper daemon, and
+	      Intel I/O Memory Management Unit driver.</li>
+	    <li>Projects in progress: Native in-kernel iSCSI stack,
+	      network stack layer 2 modernization, UEFI boot, updated
+	      <tt>vt(9)</tt> system console.</li>
+	    <li>Projects started last quarter: Automounter, Intel
+	      graphics driver update.</li>
+	  </ul>
+	</li>
+
+	<li>Continued work on the &os; Journal, our new online &os; magazine,
+	  which debuts on January 27th.</li>
+
+	<li>Sponsored, organized, and ran the Bay Area Developer Summit.</li>
+
+	<li>Sponsored and attended the first ever vBSDCon, which had an
+	  impressive attendance.</li>
+
+	<li>Sponsored and attended the OpenZFS developer summit.</li>
+
+	<li>Represented the foundation at the following conferences: All
+	  Things Open in Raleigh, NC and LISA in DC.</li>
+
+	<li>Sponsored the &os; 20th Birthday Party, held in San
+	  Francisco.</li>
+
+	<li>Attended the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires in November and
+	  gave a short presentation on the change from BIND to unbound in
+	  &os; 10.0 during the ccNSO Tech Day.</li>
+
+	<li>Met with a few companies to discuss their &os; use, what
+	  they would like to see supported in &os;, and assist with
+	  collaboration between them and the Project.</li>
+
+	<li>Purchased an 80-core server to reside at Sentex for the
+	  Project to use for stability, scalability, and performance
+	  improvements.  It is a big step forwards for the Foundation in
+	  providing this kind of hardware to the Project's developers.
+	  It will let us test our scaling to 80 simultaneous cores and
+	  1 TB of RAM.  It will also be used to do performance
+	  analysis on large workloads, such as large databases etc.</li>
+
+	<li>Acquired a second rack to use at Sentex.</li>
+
+	<li>We received a commitment from VMware, Inc. for BSD-licensed
+	  drivers.  They also committed to a yearly silver level
+	  donation.</li>
+
+	<li>Signed up as a Google Compute trusted tester for the
+	  Project.</li>
+
+	<li>Funded a project to produce a white paper titled <q>Managed
+	  Services Using &os; at NYI</q>.</li>
+
+	<li>Finally, we published our semi-annual newsletter (see links)
+	  highlighting what we did to support the &os; Project and
+	  Community in 2013.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>
