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<project cat='misc'>
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<title>The &os; Foundation</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Deb</given>
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<common>Goodkin</common>
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</name>
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<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">Foundation website</url>
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<url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
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<url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_03_11-the_pcbsd_tour_ii">BSDNow PC-BSD Tour</url>
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<url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_02_25-from_the_foundation_2">BSDNow "From the Foundation"</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The Foundation turned 15 on March 15th! We kicked off
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our anniversary celebration by launching a spring fundraising
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campaign, to bring in 500 new community investors. In
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conjunction with our anniversary, BSDNow interviewed Justin
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Gibbs about our history and plans for the future as part of
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the PC-BSD tour. BSDNow also interviewed Ed Maste about &os;
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projects and processes in a "From the Foundation" episode.</p>
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<p>We were a Platinum Sponsor of AsiaBSDCon and had five team
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members attend the conference. Kirk McKusick taught a two-day
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&os; kernel tutorial and gave a talk on Journaled Soft
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Updates and George Neville-Neil gave a talk on network
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performance in &os;; George also taught a two day tutorial
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(A Look Inside FreeBSD with DTrace). This is from ongoing work
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with Robert Watson in support of both academic and
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practitioner educational material for &os;. Dru gave a talk
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on Advanced OpenSource Storage with FreeNAS 9.3, and Ed Maste
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gave a talk on the LLDB Debugger in FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>We became a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan, and have approved six
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travel grants to &os; contributors. We also sponsored
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Michael Dexter to attend SCALE so he could give a talk on
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virtualization.</p>
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<p>In addition to the above conferences, we helped promote &os;
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at the following conferences:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15">USENIX
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FAST '15</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/">FOSDEM</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/">SCALE</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>We received and published &os; testimonials from Xinuos,
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Netgate, and Tarsnap.</p>
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<p>We launched the "From the Trenches" series to provide stories
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from &os; contributors on what they are doing with &os;.
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Glen Barber wrote an article called ZFS and How to Make a Foot
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Cannon. Glen also investigated a deadlock issue when rebooting
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after upgrades (PR 195458), and he released weekly 11-CURRENT and
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10-STABLE snapshot builds.</p>
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<p>The &os; Journal now has over 8300 subscribers and has a 98%
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renewal rate. We are now publishing a few free <a
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href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/articles">&os;
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Journal articles</a>. We also created landing pages for each
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Journal issue for easier promotion.</p>
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<p>We started work on the Ottawa Vendor and Developer Summits and
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another one that has not yet been officially announced on the East
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Coast in the fall.</p>
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<p>Our development staff and project grant recipients were
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responsible for a large number of feature improvements and bug
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fixes over this past quarter. We have eight individual reports
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in this quarterly update for Foundation-sponsored projects
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that demonstrate a number of different ways the Foundation
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supports the &os; project.</p>
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<p>One project is the subject of a research master's
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project at Swinburne University in Melbourne: the Multipath
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TCP (MPTCP) implementation for &os;. The PCIe hot plug
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project is an individual project grant. The FreeBSD/arm64
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project represents a collaborative development effort, where
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the Foundation facilitates a broader project with multiple
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participants.</p>
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<p>There are also a number of projects undertaken directly by
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Foundation staff. In this quarterly report we have several
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reports in this category: Secure Boot, the autofs-based
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automount daemon, dynamically loadable libthr, Intel DMA
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remapping, migration to the ELF Tool Chain project tools.</p>
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<p>Additionally, one of the benefits of having long-term
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permanent staff is the ability to continue to maintain
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projects and contribute improvements beyond a fixed timeline.
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Over the last quarter Foundation staff contributed
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improvements to the UEFI boot process, vt(4) system console,
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in-kernel iSCSI stack, the virtual memory subsystem, and many
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others.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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