svn commit: r53333 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Ed Maste
emaste at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 26 20:36:12 UTC 2019
Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Mon Aug 26 20:36:11 2019
New Revision: 53333
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53333
Log:
Regenerate 2019q2 report for missed Foundation entry
Reviewed by: allanjude (previous version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21419
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.xml
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</project>
+ <project cat='team'>
+ <title>FreeBSD Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>Deb Goodkin</name>
+ <email>deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <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 software
+ development projects, conferences and developer
+ summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD
+ contributors. The Foundation purchases and
+ supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD
+ infrastructure and provides resources to improve
+ security, quality assurance, and release
+ engineering efforts; publishes marketing material
+ to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD
+ Project; facilitates collaboration between
+ commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and
+ finally, 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>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa on May 14.
+ Board Director and Officer elections take place
+ each year at this meeting. Justin Gibbs was
+ elected as the new President of the Board of
+ Directors. The new FreeBSD Foundation Board of
+ Directors includes President and Founder Justin T.
+ Gibbs, Vice President Benedict Reuschling,
+ Secretary Philip Paeps, Treasurer Marshall Kirk
+ McKusick, and Directors Hiroki Sato, George
+ Neville-Neil and Robert N. M. Watson. You can read
+ <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-names-justin-gibbs-as-new-board-president/">more
+ about the elections</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>After the elections, our management team gave updates to
+ the board on their respective areas. We then
+ discussed the key areas of the Project that need
+ help, and where we can step in to fill those
+ holes. We reviewed and updated our 12 month goals,
+ and identified projects we should support. We then
+ discussed conferences we are likely to attend, and
+ went over the latest on our fundraising efforts.
+ We followed that up with a discussion on how to
+ get more users to contribute back to the Project.
+ While discussing how to increase the number of
+ users and contributors, we talked about methods
+ for making for more training material available.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Partnerships and Commercial User Support</p>
+ <p>
+ We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users
+ and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with
+ companies to discuss their needs and bring that
+ information back to the Project. In Q2, Ed Maste
+ and Deb Goodkin met with a few commercial users in
+ Germany. It’s not only beneficial for the above,
+ but it also helps us understand some of the
+ applications where FreeBSD is used. Because BSDCan
+ brings in a high number of commercial users, we
+ have an excellent opportunity to have similar
+ discussions about their needs during the four-day
+ FreeBSD Summit and BSDCan.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Fundraising Efforts</p>
+ <p>
+ Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are grateful
+ for the generous donations from Intel, NetApp,
+ VMware and Stormshield last quarter. We are
+ working hard to get more commercial users to give
+ back to help us continue our work supporting
+ FreeBSD. More importantly, we’d like to thank
+ our individual donors, for making $10-$1,000
+ donations last quarter, for a total of $16,000!</p>
+
+ <p>Please consider making a donation to help us
+ <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">continue and
+ increase our support for FreeBSD</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We also have the
+ <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">Partnership
+ Program</a> to provide more
+ benefits for our larger commercial donors.
+ Find out more information at the link and share with your
+ companies!</p>
+
+ <p>OS Improvements</p>
+ <p>
+ The Foundation improves the FreeBSD operating system by
+ employing our technical staff to maintain and
+ improve critical kernel subsystems, add features
+ and functionality, and fix problems. The
+ Foundation also provides grants to fund individual
+ projects.</p>
+
+ <p>There were 243 commits to the FreeBSD base system
+ repository sponsored by the Foundation during the
+ quarter. These include improvements to the tmpfs
+ in-memory, MSDOS, and UFS filesystems, device
+ driver and hardware compatibility fixes, virtual
+ memory (VM), tool chain, documentation, and
+ testing and continuous integration improvements.</p>
+
+ <p>We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues
+ found by Syzkaller, Google’s
+ code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.</p>
+
+ <p>Alan Somers’ work on updating FreeBSD’s support for
+ FUSE (userspace filesystems) continued during the
+ quarter; the full details are elsewhere in this
+ quarterly report. At this point most of the work
+ has been committed to the project branch but some
+ bug fixes and improvements have been committed
+ directly to the FreeBSD development branch.</p>
+
+ <p>Edward Napierala’s Linuxulator project continued through
+ the quarter, resulting in a number of improvements
+ to the Linuxulator and linux-specific
+ functionality such as linsysfs. This work is part
+ of the path to supporting the Linux strace
+ debugging tool in order to facilitate debugging
+ failures of other Linux binaries under the
+ Linuxulator. Mateusz Guzik continued with
+ scalability and performance improvements during
+ the quarter, and Bjoern Zeeb integrated the SDIO
+ stack (with details elsewhere in the quarterly
+ report).</p>
+
+ <p>Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project
+ over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an <a
+ href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853">alpha
+ preview</a> of the feature for further
+ experimentation and review, and the FreeBSD
+ Foundation will make an alpha release image
+ available for testing in the near future.</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation staff contributed to nine FreeBSD security
+ advisories and errata updates over the quarter,
+ including CPU vulnerability workarounds. Related
+ work included improving Intel microcode update
+ loading.</p>
+
+ <p>Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance</p>
+ <p>
+ The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is
+ working on improving our automated testing,
+ continuous integration, and overall quality
+ assurance efforts.</p>
+
+ <p>During the second quarter of 2019, Foundation staff
+ continued to improve the project's CI
+ infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix
+ the failing build and test cases, and worked with
+ other teams in the Project for their testing
+ needs. We hosted a CI-focused working group at
+ BSDcan and continue to publish the CI weekly
+ report at <a
+ href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing@</a>
+ mailing list.</p>
+
+ <p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more
+ information.</p>
+
+ <p>
+ Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</p>
+ <p>
+ The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve
+ the FreeBSD infrastructure. Last quarter, we
+ continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located
+ around the world.</p>
+
+ <p>FreeBSD Advocacy and Education</p>
+ <p>
+ A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating
+ for the Project. This includes promoting work
+ being done by others with FreeBSD; producing
+ advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD
+ and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD
+ or contributing to the Project easier; and
+ attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors
+ to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD
+ tables, and give FreeBSD presentations.</p>
+
+ <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 support
+ the FreeBSD-focused events to help provide a venue
+ for sharing knowledge, to work together on
+ projects, and to facilitate collaboration between
+ developers and commercial users. This all helps
+ provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the
+ non-FreeBSD events to promote and raise awareness
+ of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in
+ different applications, and to recruit more
+ contributors to the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did
+ last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham,
+ Washington</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers
+ Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019</li>
+
+ <li>Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD
+ Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria</li>
+
+ <li>Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON</li>
+
+ <li>Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit</li>
+
+ <li>Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source
+ Conference</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf
+ 2019 in Bangalore, India</li>
+
+ <li>Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open</li>
+
+ <li>Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area
+ Developers Summit</li>
+
+ <li>Provided FreeBSD advocacy material</li>
+
+ <li>Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend
+ many of the above events</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help
+ people promote FreeBSD around the world.</p>
+
+ <p>Read more about our conference adventures in the
+ conference recaps and trip reports in our
+ <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">monthly
+ newsletters</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the
+ professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we
+ mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is now a
+ free publication. Find out more and access the
+ latest issues at
+ <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>You can find out more about
+ <a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">events
+ we attended and upcoming events</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We have continued our work with a new website developer to
+ help us improve our website. Work has begun to
+ make it easier for community members to find
+ information more easily and to make the site more
+ efficient.</p>
+
+ <p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p>
+ <p>
+ The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our
+ responsibility to protect them. We also provide
+ legal support for the core team to investigate
+ questions that arise.</p>
+
+ <p>Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we
+ support FreeBSD and how we can help you!</p>
+ </body>
+
+ </project>
+
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