diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml index 610f7a6428..e203db28fb 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml @@ -798,4 +798,110 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y + + The &os; Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + Foundation website + &os; Journal + BSDNow PC-BSD Tour + BSDNow "From the Foundation" + + + +

The Foundation turned 15 on March 15th! We kicked off + our anniversary celebration by launching a spring fundraising + campaign, to bring in 500 new community investors. In + conjunction with our anniversary, BSDNow interviewed Justin + Gibbs about our history and plans for the future as part of + the PC-BSD tour. BSDNow also interviewed Ed Maste about &os; + projects and processes in a "From the Foundation" episode.

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We were a Platinum Sponsor of AsiaBSDCon and had five team + members attend the conference. Kirk McKusick taught a two-day + &os; kernel tutorial and gave a talk on Journaled Soft + Updates and George Neville-Neil gave a talk on network + performance in &os;; George also taught a two day tutorial + (A Look Inside FreeBSD with DTrace). This is from ongoing work + with Robert Watson in support of both academic and + practitioner educational material for &os;. Dru gave a talk + on Advanced OpenSource Storage with FreeNAS 9.3, and Ed Maste + gave a talk on the LLDB Debugger in FreeBSD.

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We became a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan, and have approved six + travel grants to &os; contributors. We also sponsored + Michael Dexter to attend SCALE so he could give a talk on + virtualization.

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In addition to the above conferences, we helped promote &os; + at the following conferences:

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We received and published &os; testimonials from Xinuos, + Netgate, and Tarsnap.

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We launched the "From the Trenches" series to provide stories + from &os; contributors on what they are doing with &os;. + Glen Barber wrote an article called ZFS and How to Make a Foot + Cannon. Glen also investigated a deadlock issue when rebooting + after upgrades (PR 195458), and he released weekly 11-CURRENT and + 10-STABLE snapshot builds.

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The &os; Journal now has over 8300 subscribers and has a 98% + renewal rate. We are now publishing a few free &os; + Journal articles. We also created landing pages for each + Journal issue for easier promotion.

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We started work on the Ottawa Vendor and Developer Summits and + another one that has not yet been officially announced on the East + Coast in the fall.

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Our development staff and project grant recipients were + responsible for a large number of feature improvements and bug + fixes over this past quarter. We have eight individual reports + in this quarterly update for Foundation-sponsored projects + that demonstrate a number of different ways the Foundation + supports the &os; project.

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One project is the subject of a research master's + project at Swinburne University in Melbourne: the Multipath + TCP (MPTCP) implementation for &os;. The PCIe hot plug + project is an individual project grant. The FreeBSD/arm64 + project represents a collaborative development effort, where + the Foundation facilitates a broader project with multiple + participants.

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There are also a number of projects undertaken directly by + Foundation staff. In this quarterly report we have several + reports in this category: Secure Boot, the autofs-based + automount daemon, dynamically loadable libthr, Intel DMA + remapping, migration to the ELF Tool Chain project tools.

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Additionally, one of the benefits of having long-term + permanent staff is the ability to continue to maintain + projects and contribute improvements beyond a fixed timeline. + Over the last quarter Foundation staff contributed + improvements to the UEFI boot process, vt(4) system console, + in-kernel iSCSI stack, the virtual memory subsystem, and many + others.

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