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<sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor>
</project>
<project cat='team'>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</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>Fundraising Efforts</p>
<p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. Our spending
budget for 2016 is $1,250,000 and we've raised $265,000 so far.
Our Q1-Q2 financial reports will be posted by August 1. As you can
see, we need your donations to continue supporting &os; at our
current level. Please consider making a donation here:
<a href="http://freebsdfoundation.org/donation">freebsdfoundation.org/donation</a>.</p>
<p>OS Improvements</p>
<p>The Foundation improves &os; by funding software
development projects approved through our proposal submission
process, and our internal software developer staff members. Two
Foundation-funded projects continued last quarter; one project is
to improve the stability of the vnet network stack virtualization
infrastructure, and the second is phase two of the &os;/arm64
port project.</p>
<p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes
over the quarter. Kostik Belousov accomplished the following work
last quarter: implemented robust mutexes support, as part of
ongoing efforts to bring our threading library into POSIX
compliance and feature completeness; documented kernel interfaces
used by the threading library and produced almost 30 pages of
technical text; completed and committed the elimination of the
pvh_global_lock from the amd64 pmap, which removed a hot contested
lock, and fixed bugs that help keep &os; stable and
reliable.</p>
<p>Edward Napierala accomplished the following work last
quarter: added filesystem thoughput limits to RCTL; committed iSER
initiator support; added support for rerooting into NFS; and added
<tt>iscsictl -e</tt>, which makes it possible to enable and disable
sessions.</p>
<p>Ed Maste, our Project Development Director, accomplished
the following work last quarter: investigated the state of
reproducible builds in the ports tree, with some work in progress
to address issues; updated the ELF Tool Chain tools with bug fixes
and improved handling of malformed input; investigated using
<tt>lld</tt>, the linker from the LLVM family, to link the &os;
base system, and reported on and tested patches for issues found.
He also managed the <tt>arm64</tt> development project and
investigated and fixed a number of bugs. Lastly, he imported
LLVM's <tt>libunwind</tt> and prepared it for use in &os; 11, and
investigated and reviewed the <tt>blacklistd</tt> proposal and
patches.</p>
<p>George Neville-Neil continued hosting the bi-weekly Transport
conference call (notes at <a
href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols</a>)
and the bi-weekly DTrace conference call (notes at <a
href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace</a>.</p>
<p>Ed continued facilitating the bi-weekly graphics call to
coordinate efforts on the <tt>i915</tt> driver and other graphics
stack work.</p>
<p>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
closely with Marius Strobl on the 10.3-RELEASE, which was
completed in April. Glen also merged the release-pkg branch to
11-CURRENT, though this will be a beta feature for 11.0-RELEASE.
Lastly, with the Release Engineering Team, he started the
11.0-RELEASE cycle. Find out more in the Release Engineering Team
status entry in this report.</p>
<p>&quot;Getting Started with &os;&quot; Project</p>
<p>We hired a summer intern, with no &os;, Linux, or any
command line operating system experience, to figure out on his own
how to install and use &os;. He is writing easy-to-follow how-to
guides to help make the new user experience straightforward and
positive. He's also been submitting bug reports and problems
through the appropriate channels. You can check out his first
how-to guide at <a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/</a>.</p>
<p>&os; 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 &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach people about
&os; and help make the path to starting using &os; or
contributing to the Project easier; and attending and getting
other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os; events,
staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.</p>
<p>Some of the work we did last quarter to support &os;
advocacy included: Creating a &os; page on our website to promote
&os; derivative projects and showcase &os; users (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/</a>),
and promoting &os; research by creating a Research page on our
site and conference handout (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/</a>).</p>
<p>We created guidelines and a repository for using the Project and
Foundation logos (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/</a>).</p>
<p>To help showcase &os; contributors, we published two new Faces
of &os; stories, about Michael Lucas (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/</a>)
and Kris Moore <a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/</a>).</p>
<p>We published the March/April and May/June issues of the
&os; Journal and participated in editorial board work. Kirk
McKusick wrote a feature article on the Fast Filesystem for the
March/April issue, and other team members helped review and edit
Journal articles.</p>
<p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being
done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and provide
other information to keep you in the loop of what we're doing to
support the &os; Project and community.</p>
<p>George Neville-Neil and Robert Watson continued teaching
and developing open source &os; teaching materials at
<a href="http://teachbsd.org">teachbsd.org</a>.</p>
<p>We launched the first Hosting Partner Spotlight to showcase
the Project's partnership with NYI (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/</a>)</p>
<p>We worked with Microsoft to get &os; onto Azure (<a
href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/</a>).</p>
<p>The Foundation was quoted in Cavium's Thunder X2 press release
(<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html</a></p>
<p>George worked with ARM to coordinate the upcoming ARM Partner
Meeting in Cambridge.</p>
<p>Conferences and Events</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.</p>
<p>We support the &os;-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-&os; events to promote and raise awareness about &os;, to
increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to recruit
more contributors to the Project.</p>
<p>In April, Benedict Reuschling helped organize and run a
hackathon in Essen April 22-24. He then attended the Open Source
Datacenter conference in Berlin, with Allan Jude, to give a talk
about &quot;Interesting things you can do with ZFS,&quot; which highlighted
OpenZFS features and how well they work on &os;
(<a href="https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065">https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065</a>).</p>
<p>We promoted &os; at:</p>
<ul>
<li>Flourish &mdash; April 1-2 in Chicago
(<a href="http://flourishconf.com/2016/">http://flourishconf.com/2016/</a>)</li>
<li>LFNW &mdash; April 23-24 in Bellingham WA
(<a href="https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016">https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016</a>).</li>
<li>OSCON &mdash; May 18-19 in Austin, TX
(<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us">http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Deb Goodkin and Dru Lavigne attended the Community
Leadership Summit in Austin: May 14, 15
(<a href="http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/">http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/</a>)</p>
<p>Deb promoted &os; at USENIX ATC June 22-23 in Denver, CO.</p>
<p>Our team attended BSDCan and the Ottawa Developer Summit.
We held our annual board meeting to vote on officers, board
members, and work on our strategic planning. Most of us attended
the developer/vendor summits. Kirk McKusick presented &quot;A
Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem&quot; (<a
href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html">http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html</a>).
Ed Maste gave a presentation on &quot;Reproducible Builds in
&os;&quot;. George helped run the vendor summit.</p>
<p>We sponsored five &os; contributors to attend BSDCan.</p>
<p>Legal/&os; IP</p>
<p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our
responsibility to protect them. We continued to review requests
and grant permission to use the trademarks.</p>
<p>&os; Community Engagement</p>
<p>We launched our first Community Survey. The purpose was to get
input from the community on why they use &os;, what they'd like to
see the Foundation support, and other input to help us determine
our direction and how we should support the Project.</p>
<p>Code of Conduct &mdash; 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>Other Stuff We Did</p>
<p>Last quarter we purchased a server to reside at NYI to
improve the continuous integration tools within the Project.</p>
<p>We had two face-to-face board meetings last quarter to work
on strategic planning and identify areas in the project we should
support.</p>
<p>We also held our first ever staff retreat in Boulder,
Colorado to give our small team an opportunity to work together
in person.</p>
<p>We hired Sabine Percarpio as our Administration Manager.
She is helping us manage donations, accounting, travel grant
applications, handle questions that come in to the Foundation, and
run our organization smoothly.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>