svn commit: r47013 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 18 18:54:35 UTC 2015
Author: wblock
Date: Sat Jul 18 18:54:33 2015
New Revision: 47013
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47013
Log:
Add Deb Goodkin <deb at freebsdfoundation.org>'s Foundation report.
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</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/">Foundation
+ website</url>
+ <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
+ dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; 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 &os; developers. The Foundation purchases
+ hardware to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure and
+ publishes &os; white papers and marketing material to promote,
+ educate, and advocate for the &os; Project. The Foundation
+ also represents the &os; 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 &os; during
+ the last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>We were a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan 2015 and the
+ sponsor for the Ottawa developer and vendor summits. We
+ were pleased to provide 12 travel grants for &os;
+ contributors to attend the conference and have
+ opportunities to meet face-to-face with other &os;
+ contributors. You can read some of their trip reports
+ <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015_06_01_archive.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>In celebration of our 15th anniversary we provided a
+ delicious &os; cake, which was happily devoured by
+ conference attendees.</p>
+
+ <p>Various Foundation team members gave talks, attended
+ talks, participated in doc sprints, worked on efforts to
+ improve &os;, worked at our booth, and spent time
+ talking to our constituents about areas where we can help
+ with &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation members gave these talks:</p>
+
+ <p><ul>
+ <li> Anne Dickison - "&os; Advocacy: How you can spread
+ the word"</li>
+
+ <li>Kirk McKusick -
+ <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/525.en.html">"An Introduction to the Implementation of ZFS"</a>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>George Neville-Neil -
+ <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/528.en.html">"Measure Twice, Code Once"</a>
+ and
+ <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/566.en.html">"Cambridge L41: Teaching Advanced Operating Systems with &os;"</a>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Ed Maste -
+ <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2015/schedule/events/567.en.html">"The LLDB Debugger in &os;"</a>
+ and Ed Maste also ran the Vendor Summit.
+ </li>
+ </ul></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa. We are
+ pleased to announce the addition of Benedict Reuschling to
+ our board of directors. Read his interview
+ <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/07/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board.html">here</a>.
+ The current board of directors and officers were all
+ re-elected. You can find out who is on our board
+ <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/board">here</a>.
+ We spent the day planning our 12-month goals, project
+ roadmapping, FreeBSD education offerings, fundraising, and
+ advocacy efforts.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Dru Lavigne promoted and gave a presentation on &os;
+ at
+ <a href="http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2015">LinuxFest
+ Northwest 2015</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>We have committed to sponsoring the upcoming conferences:
+ vBSDCon, womENcourage 2015, EuroBSDCon 2015, Grace Hopper
+ conference, BSDCon Brasil, Cambridge Developer Summit, and
+ OpenZFS. You?ll also find us at OSCON, July 21-23, and
+ SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Sept 21-24.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Fundraising</p>
+
+ <p>So far, we have raised $361,000 for 2015 from over 500
+ donors. Juniper became a Gold level donor. We are
+ actively approaching commercial &os; users for Silver plus
+ donations, and asking large tech companies for separate
+ women in tech funding, to help us recruit more women to
+ the &os; Project. We are also asking companies for
+ funding to help with our &os; education efforts.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>We had the pleasure of hosting Groff the BSD Goat here in
+ Colorado in April.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Infrastructure Support</p>
+
+ <p>We funded almost $50,000 of equipment to support &os;
+ infrastructure. Most of this went towards new and
+ upgraded servers at the NYI facility. We sent Glen Barber
+ there to install the new servers. You can read all about
+ <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2015/05/another-data-center-site-visit-nyi.html">his
+ trip</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Advocacy Work</p>
+
+ <p>The &os; Journal has over 9200 subscribers, with a 98%
+ renewal rate. Our marketing director, Anne Dickison, was
+ busy providing advocacy work for the Project. She helped
+ provide more &os; marketing literature and material. This
+ included the cool <i>I Choose &os;</i> sticker and very
+ popular <i>I Love FreeBSD</i> tattoos that are available
+ at conferences. We published April, May, and June
+ Foundation Newsletters to highlight the work being done by
+ the Foundation to support &os;. These newsletters also
+ include company &os; testimonials, upcoming events where
+ &os; will be promoted, and the new From the Trenches
+ articles from &os; contributor experiences working with
+ &os;.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>One of the Foundation's responsibilities is to protect
+ &os; intellectual property (IT). This includes protecting
+ the &os; trademarks. We granted trademark usage
+ permission to various companies who want to show their
+ support for &os;. To get permission to use the
+ trademarks, interested parties must agree to our
+ <a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/guidelines">Trademark
+ Usage Terms and Conditions</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p>Project Development Work</p>
+
+ <p>George Neville-Neil signed up new universities to look at
+ the &os; course including George Washington University,
+ Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz. He is working with
+ Verisign on the DevSummit that will be held at vBSDCon.
+ He also worked with ARM to set up meeting with 18 hardware
+ and silicon vendors at the ARM Partner Meeting in
+ August.</p>
+
+ <p>Ed Maste continued managing the &os;/arm64 porting
+ project. He also continued with updates to the ELF
+ Toolchain tools in the &os; base system and incorporated a
+ set of fixes from the upstream project to fix issues with
+ the <tt>strip</tt> tool. Ed investigated and fixed a set
+ of outstanding issues with the new <tt>vt(4)</tt> console
+ in the &os; installer.</p>
+
+ <p>Staff member Edward Napierala committed a number of bug
+ fix merges to the stable/10 branch for inclusion in &os;
+ 10.2, and continued investigation of a project to support
+ runtime switching of the root file system. He merged a
+ large number of improvements to the <tt>autofs</tt>
+ <tt>automount</tt> daemon. He also supported &os;
+ developer Dmitry Chagin's work on 64-bit Linux binary
+ emulation support by reviewing the extensive patch set.
+ Those changes are now committed to FreeBSD's Subversion
+ tree, and will arrive in &os; 11.0.</p>
+
+ <p>Staff member Konstantin Belousov continued development on
+ the Intel DMA remap (DMAR) and Process Context Identifier
+ (PCID) infrastructure projects. Kostik also contributed
+ an extensive set of changes to multiple aspects of &os;:
+ stability improvements in the virtual memory subsystem,
+ improved compatibility in options handling in the runtime
+ loader, thread library improvements, and GDB debugger
+ enhancements.</p>
+
+ <p>Glen Barber, who is a Foundation employee, is also a
+ release engineer for the Project. Here are some
+ highlights of what he did to help the Project:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support to the release build code in 11-CURRENT
+ for producing &os;/aarch64 (arm64) memory stick images
+ and virtual machine disk images for use within
+ Qemu.</li>
+
+ <li>Worked with Colin Percival on testing and refining the
+ release build code to support building Amazon EC2
+ images, including auto-publication of the final build
+ output.</li>
+
+ <li>Worked with Brad Davis on testing and refining the
+ release build code to support building Vagrant images
+ for publication on Hashicorp Atlas.</li>
+
+ <li>Reworked the &os;/arm build code, removing the
+ requirement for third-party utilities, providing a
+ fully-native build infrastructure for the existing
+ images (BEAGLEBONE, RPI-B, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD), and
+ added support for additional images (GUMSTIX,
+ CUBOX/HUMMINGBOARD).</li>
+
+ <li>Wrote several additional utilities to reduce human
+ error in several areas of Release Engineering, in
+ particular automating producing the filesystem hierarchy
+ used by the FTP mirrors, as well as enhancements to the
+ internal build scripts used by Release Engineering
+ (which is publicized in the source tree under
+ /user/gjb/thermite), and support for automatically
+ uploading and publishing virtual machine images for
+ Azure, Google Compute Engine (GCE support was added by
+ Steve Wills during the last quarter), and Vagrant.</li>
+
+ <li>While attending BSDCan 2015, Glen worked with several
+ developers and teams on various items, such as
+ discussing packaging the base system with
+ <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, migrating internal &os; servers to the
+ new machines the Foundation purchased for the NYI
+ facility, and discussing further possible future
+ enhancements to the &os; build infrastructure.</li>
+
+ <li>Started the 10.2-RELEASE cycle.</li>
+
+ <li>Continually updated the release notes for 11-CURRENT
+ and 10-STABLE, the latter of which will be the release
+ notes for the upcoming 10.2-RELEASE.</li>
+
+ <li>Assisted the Security Officer with reviewing
+ correctness of various Security Advisory and Errata
+ Notice texts.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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