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<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">Foundation Website</url>
<url href="http://FreeBSDJournal.com/">FreeBSD 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;
last quarter:</p>
<p>On the advocacy front, the Foundation attended and
sponsored EuroBSDcon, which took place Oct 1-4 (<a
href="https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/">https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/</a>
)in Stockholm, Sweden. Two days prior, during the developer
summit, Deb Goodkin ran a session on Recruiting to &os;. The
Foundation was also very active during the event itself; in
addition to Deb, we had &a.dru;, &a.mckusick;, &a.erwin;,
&a.emaste;, &a.hrs;, and &a.trasz; attend the conference. Deb
and Ed gave a presentation on how the Foundation supports a
BSD project. Kirk gave a presentation on &quot;a Brief
History of the BSD Fast File System,&quot; and he taught the
two-day tutorial &quot;Introduction to the &os; Open-Source
Operating System.&quot;</p>
<p>Deb then attended the 2015 Grace Hopper Conference
that was held in Houston, TX, October 14-16. The conference is
for women in computing and most of the attendees were female
computer science majors, female software developers, and
college professors. The Foundation was proud to be a Silver
Sponsor. The conference was very successful for us; our
presence allowed us to to raise awareness of the Project, help
recruit more women, and get more professors to include &os;
in their curriculum.</p>
<p>&a.gnn; traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to present
talks on DTrace, &os;, and teaching with DTrace, at
Chulalongkorn University, which is the largest University in
Thailand with the largest engineering school. The first talk
he gave was his practitioner's introduction to DTrace in which
he explains the technology, history and usage, without diving
into all the kernel subsystems. The second was the sales
pitch for teaching with Dtrace and with &os;. The pitch
was well received and there was some very good points made by
the audience. The facts that the course materials are both
open source and hosted on github were also well received.</p>
<p>&a.mckusick; completed a 10-hour tutorial about &os;
for Pearson Education in their &quot;Live Lesson&quot;
program. In particular, there is a great free snippet from
that course comparing &os; against Linux here:
<a href="http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a">http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a</a> .
Find out more about the whole session at:
<a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&amp;subid=&amp;offerid=163217.1&amp;type=10&amp;tmpid=3559&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-FreeBSD-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868">http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&amp;subid=&amp;offerid=163217.1&amp;type=10&amp;tmpid=3559&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-freebsd-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868</a> .</p>
<p>Anne Dickison resumed the Faces of &os; series
with interviews featuring Michael Dexter and Erin Clark. She
also continued to produce and distribute &os; materials for
conferences, as well as advocating for &os; over our social
channels.</p>
<p>&a.gnn; headed up the latest Silicon Valley Vendor
and Developer Summit, November 2-3, at the NetApp campus in
Sunnyvale, California. Topics of discussion ranged over new
developments in persistent memory, the use of &os; by a
company that builds rackscale systems, developments in our
compiler and tool suite, as well as others. Additional
Foundation Board and Staff attending the summit included: Deb
Goodkin, &a.gjb;, &a.gibbs;, &a.mckusick;, &a.emaste;, and
&a.hrs;. The complete schedule, and some of the slides, are
available on the &os; Wiki
<a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit</a> .</p>
<p>Notes from the always lively &quot;Have/Need/Want
session&quot; are available at
<a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant</a> .</p>
<p>While in the Bay Area, some Foundation members visited
commercial users of &os; to help understand their needs, update
them on the work the Foundation is doing, and facilitate
collaboration between them and the Project.</p>
<p>We were a sponsor of the 2015 OpenZFS Developer
Summit, which took place October 19-20, in San Francisco, CA.
&a.gibbs; and &a.mckusick; attended the conference.</p>
<p>&a.gibbs; continued his semester long class teaching
Intro to Computer Science using &os; at a middle
school.</p>
<p>&a.emaste;, &a.trasz;, and &a.kib; continue to make
progress on Foundation funded development projects. More
specifically:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ed Worked on a number of items relating to the
tool chain: LLD linker, ELF Tool Chain components, and LLDB
debugger, and tested, integrated, and merged outstanding UEFI
work.</li>
<li>Edward finished work on the reroot project as well
spending some time on a certificate-transparency port. He also
implemented a prototype to support disk IO limit in RCTL.</li>
<li>Konstantin rewrote the out of memory killer logic,
which, in particular, fixed &os; operation on systems
without swap, especially systems with verry little memory. The
later are becoming more and more common with popularity of
embedded ARM platforms were &os; runs, but it also affects
large systems which are usually configured without swap. He
also finalized and committed the shared page support for the
ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems. This allows for a non-executable
stack on ARMv7, and a much faster, userspace gettimeofday(2)
for both, similar to on x86.</li>
</ul>
<p>&a.emaste; presented a &os;/arm64 talk and a hands-on
demo at ARM Techcon, which took place November 10-12, 2015, in
Santa Clara, CA.</p>
<p>We continued publishing our monthly newsletters and
acquiring new company testimonials about using &os;, including
from Verisign and Nginx.</p>
<p>Anne Dickison, &a.dru;, and &a.gjb; represented the
Foundation at USENIX LISA ’15, which took place November 3-8,
in Washington D.C.. The Foundation had a booth in the Expo
Hall and participated in a BoF. In addition to connecting with
current community members, we spoke with attendees who were
interested in getting involved with the Project, and helped
set them on the correct path. We also took the opportunity to
remind those who hadn’t used &os; in a while what they were
missing. Glen also attended the USENIX Release Engineering
Summit, which was co-located with LISA ’15.</p>
<p>We published the Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec issues of the
&os; Journal.</p>
<p>&a.gnn; and &a.rwatson; announced the release of
their TeachBSD initiative:
<a href="http://teachbsd.com/">http://teachbsd.com/</a>.
TeachBSD offers a set of reusable course materials designed to
allow others to teach both university students and software
practitioners &os; operating system fundamentals. The
Foundation is proud to have partly sponsored their efforts to
teach the initial graduate level course on operating systems
with tracing at the University of Cambridge.</p>
<p>Deb Goodkin invited a representative from the
Outreachy program to talk at the Ottawa &os; Developer Summit
about the program and how we can get involved.</p>
<p>Deb also started discussions with CS professors from
the University of Colorado, Boulder to offer some Intro to
&os; workshops.</p>
<p>&a.gjb; continued wearing many hats to support to the Project.
For Release Engineering:
<ul>
<li>Added support for building <tt>BANANAPI</tt>,
<tt>CUBIEBOARD</tt>, and <tt>CUBIEBOARD2</tt> arm
images.</li>
<li>Deprecated use of MD5 checksums used for
verifying installation media downloaded from the &os; Project
mirrors.</li>
<li>Various miscellaneous updates and fixes to release
build code.</li>
<li>Continued providing regular development snapshot
builds.</li>
</ul>
Under Systems Administration:
<ul>
<li>Assisted the Admins team with migrating various
services to two new colocation facilities near Sunnyvale,
generously provided by RootBSD and LimeLight Networks.</li>
<li>Moved email services for the Foundation to a new
server.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>&a.emaste; attended the Reproducible Builds World
Summit, which took place in Athens, Greece, December 1-3,
2015.</p>
<p>We wrapped up our 2015 fundraising efforts with our
End-of-Year fundraising campaign by participating in
#GivingTuesday, and continuing with weekly email and social
media requests for support of the Foundation. Final
fundraising numbers will be available in Q1 2016.</p>
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