Regenerate 2019q2 report for missed Foundation entry
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>FreeBSD Foundation</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>Deb Goodkin</name>
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<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<body>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
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organization dedicated to supporting and promoting
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the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide.
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Funding comes from individual and corporate
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donations and is used to fund and manage software
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development projects, conferences and developer
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summits, and provide travel grants to FreeBSD
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contributors. The Foundation purchases and
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supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD
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infrastructure and provides resources to improve
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security, quality assurance, and release
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engineering efforts; publishes marketing material
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to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD
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Project; facilitates collaboration between
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commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and
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finally, represents the FreeBSD Project in
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executing contracts, license agreements, and other
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legal arrangements that require a recognized legal
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entity.</p>
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<p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help FreeBSD
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last quarter:</p>
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<p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa on May 14.
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Board Director and Officer elections take place
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each year at this meeting. Justin Gibbs was
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elected as the new President of the Board of
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Directors. The new FreeBSD Foundation Board of
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Directors includes President and Founder Justin T.
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Gibbs, Vice President Benedict Reuschling,
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Secretary Philip Paeps, Treasurer Marshall Kirk
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McKusick, and Directors Hiroki Sato, George
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Neville-Neil and Robert N. M. Watson. You can read
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<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-names-justin-gibbs-as-new-board-president/">more
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about the elections</a>.</p>
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<p>After the elections, our management team gave updates to
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the board on their respective areas. We then
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discussed the key areas of the Project that need
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help, and where we can step in to fill those
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holes. We reviewed and updated our 12 month goals,
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and identified projects we should support. We then
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discussed conferences we are likely to attend, and
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went over the latest on our fundraising efforts.
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We followed that up with a discussion on how to
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get more users to contribute back to the Project.
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While discussing how to increase the number of
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users and contributors, we talked about methods
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for making for more training material available.</p>
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<p>
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Partnerships and Commercial User Support</p>
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<p>
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We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users
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and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with
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companies to discuss their needs and bring that
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information back to the Project. In Q2, Ed Maste
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and Deb Goodkin met with a few commercial users in
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Germany. It’s not only beneficial for the above,
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but it also helps us understand some of the
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applications where FreeBSD is used. Because BSDCan
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brings in a high number of commercial users, we
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have an excellent opportunity to have similar
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discussions about their needs during the four-day
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FreeBSD Summit and BSDCan.</p>
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<p>
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Fundraising Efforts</p>
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<p>
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Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are grateful
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for the generous donations from Intel, NetApp,
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VMware and Stormshield last quarter. We are
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working hard to get more commercial users to give
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back to help us continue our work supporting
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FreeBSD. More importantly, we’d like to thank
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our individual donors, for making $10-$1,000
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donations last quarter, for a total of $16,000!</p>
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<p>Please consider making a donation to help us
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<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">continue and
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increase our support for FreeBSD</a>.</p>
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<p>We also have the
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<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">Partnership
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Program</a> to provide more
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benefits for our larger commercial donors.
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Find out more information at the link and share with your
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companies!</p>
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<p>OS Improvements</p>
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<p>
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The Foundation improves the FreeBSD operating system by
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employing our technical staff to maintain and
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improve critical kernel subsystems, add features
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and functionality, and fix problems. The
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Foundation also provides grants to fund individual
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projects.</p>
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<p>There were 243 commits to the FreeBSD base system
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repository sponsored by the Foundation during the
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quarter. These include improvements to the tmpfs
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in-memory, MSDOS, and UFS filesystems, device
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driver and hardware compatibility fixes, virtual
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memory (VM), tool chain, documentation, and
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testing and continuous integration improvements.</p>
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<p>We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues
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found by Syzkaller, Google’s
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code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.</p>
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<p>Alan Somers’ work on updating FreeBSD’s support for
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FUSE (userspace filesystems) continued during the
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quarter; the full details are elsewhere in this
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quarterly report. At this point most of the work
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has been committed to the project branch but some
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bug fixes and improvements have been committed
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directly to the FreeBSD development branch.</p>
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<p>Edward Napierala’s Linuxulator project continued through
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the quarter, resulting in a number of improvements
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to the Linuxulator and linux-specific
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functionality such as linsysfs. This work is part
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of the path to supporting the Linux strace
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debugging tool in order to facilitate debugging
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failures of other Linux binaries under the
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Linuxulator. Mateusz Guzik continued with
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scalability and performance improvements during
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the quarter, and Bjoern Zeeb integrated the SDIO
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stack (with details elsewhere in the quarterly
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report).</p>
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<p>Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project
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over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an <a
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href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853">alpha
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preview</a> of the feature for further
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experimentation and review, and the FreeBSD
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Foundation will make an alpha release image
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available for testing in the near future.</p>
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<p>Foundation staff contributed to nine FreeBSD security
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advisories and errata updates over the quarter,
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including CPU vulnerability workarounds. Related
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work included improving Intel microcode update
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loading.</p>
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<p>Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance</p>
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<p>
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The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is
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working on improving our automated testing,
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continuous integration, and overall quality
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assurance efforts.</p>
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<p>During the second quarter of 2019, Foundation staff
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continued to improve the project's CI
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infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix
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the failing build and test cases, and worked with
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other teams in the Project for their testing
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needs. We hosted a CI-focused working group at
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BSDcan and continue to publish the CI weekly
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report at <a
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href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing@</a>
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mailing list.</p>
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<p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more
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information.</p>
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<p>
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Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</p>
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<p>
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The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve
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the FreeBSD infrastructure. Last quarter, we
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continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located
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around the world.</p>
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<p>FreeBSD Advocacy and Education</p>
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<p>
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A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating
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for the Project. This includes promoting work
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being done by others with FreeBSD; producing
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advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD
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and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD
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or contributing to the Project easier; and
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attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors
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to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD
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tables, and give FreeBSD presentations.</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events,
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and summits around the globe. These events can be
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BSD-related, open source, or technology events
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geared towards underrepresented groups. We support
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the FreeBSD-focused events to help provide a venue
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for sharing knowledge, to work together on
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projects, and to facilitate collaboration between
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developers and commercial users. This all helps
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provide a healthy ecosystem. We support the
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non-FreeBSD events to promote and raise awareness
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of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in
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different applications, and to recruit more
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contributors to the Project.</p>
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<p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did
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last quarter:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham,
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Washington</li>
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<li>Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers
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Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada</li>
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<li>Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019</li>
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<li>Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD
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Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria</li>
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<li>Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON</li>
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<li>Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit</li>
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<li>Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source
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Conference</li>
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<li>Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf
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2019 in Bangalore, India</li>
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<li>Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open</li>
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<li>Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area
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Developers Summit</li>
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<li>Provided FreeBSD advocacy material</li>
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<li>Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend
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many of the above events</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help
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people promote FreeBSD around the world.</p>
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<p>Read more about our conference adventures in the
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conference recaps and trip reports in our
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<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">monthly
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newsletters</a>.</p>
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<p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the
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professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we
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mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is now a
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free publication. Find out more and access the
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latest issues at
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<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
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<p>You can find out more about
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<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">events
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we attended and upcoming events</a>.</p>
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<p>We have continued our work with a new website developer to
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help us improve our website. Work has begun to
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make it easier for community members to find
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information more easily and to make the site more
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efficient.</p>
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<p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p>
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<p>
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The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our
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responsibility to protect them. We also provide
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legal support for the core team to investigate
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questions that arise.</p>
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<p>Go to http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we
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support FreeBSD and how we can help you!</p>
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