svn commit: r48655 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 16 19:50:06 UTC 2016
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 at freebsdfoundation.org>.
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head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
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</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='misc'>
+ <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Deb</given>
+ <common>Goodkin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>deb at 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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