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<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/donors/">Donors</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/education-advocacy/">Education and Advocacy Materials</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-scott-long/">Faces of FreeBSD: Scott Long</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-sean-bruno/">Faces of FreeBSD: Sean Bruno</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-and-zfs/">The Longstanding Relationship Between FreeBSD and ZFS</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/initial-freebsd-risc-v-architecture-port-committed/">FreeBSD RISC-V Work</url>
<url href="http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=1688">Mellanox's Work with NetFlix</url>
<url href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2016/de/programm/beitrag/194">FreeBSD – The Power to Serve a Community</url>
<url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/introducing-a-new-look-for-the-foundation/">The FreeBSD Foundation's New Look</url>
</links>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting and promoting the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD developers. The Foundation purchases
hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure and
publishes FreeBSD white papers and marketing material to
promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project. The
Foundation also represents the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD last
quarter:</p>
<p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
<p>We raised $204,000 last quarter from individual and corporate
donors. Thank you to everyone who made a donation this year!
The list of donors is available here:
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donors/</a>.</p>
<p>OS Improvements</p>
<p>The Foundation supports software development to improve
FreeBSD by funding projects approved through our proposal
submission process and our three software developer staff
members. Two Foundation funded projects were started last
quarter, the first to improve stability of the vnet network
stack virtualization infrastructure, and the second for phase
two of the FreeBSD/arm64 port project.</p>
<p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes
over the quarter. Some notable items include process-shared
pthread locks, address mapping randomization, disk I/O
bandwidth limits, porting <tt>libunwind</tt> to FreeBSD/arm,
bug fixes in the <tt>autofs</tt> automount daemon, an updated
version of the ELF Tool Chain, investigation of the
<tt>lld</tt> linker, improved X86 hardware support, and VM
subsystem stability improvements. 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
on packaging the base system with <tt>pkg(8)</tt>, separating
debug files from the default base system so they can be
selected/deselected during installation time, supporting
preparations, testing for the on-time release of FreeBSD
10.3, and producing 11-CURRENT and 10-STABLE snapshot
builds.</p>
<p>FreeBSD Advocacy</p>
<p>Our Marketing Director, Anne Dickison, focused on creating
and updating marketing material to promote and teach people
about FreeBSD. This material
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/education-advocacy/">is available</a>
for FreeBSD advocates to hand out at conferences and events to
promote FreeBSD. She also worked on promoting FreeBSD work
being done over social media, blog posts, and articles.</p>
<p>Last quarter, we continued our Faces of FreeBSD series by
publishing stories about
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-scott-long/">Scott Long</a>
and
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-sean-bruno/">Sean Bruno</a>.
This is an opportunity to put a face to a name in the FreeBSD
community, and get to know more about the people who
contribute to FreeBSD.</p>
<p>We started working on updating the FreeBSD 10.X brochure to
include the new 10.3 features.</p>
<p>We love getting stories from companies who are successfully
using FreeBSD. Testimonials were received last quarter from
Chelsio and Acceleration Systems.</p>
<p>ZFS was making some headlines, so we wrote a blog entry on
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-and-zfs/">the longstanding relationship between FreeBSD and ZFS</a>.</p>
<p>We helped promote
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/initial-freebsd-risc-v-architecture-port-committed/">the FreeBSD RISC-V</a>
work being done.</p>
<p>We assisted Mellanox with their press release highlighting
<a href="http://www.mellanox.com/page/press_release_item?id=1688">their work with NetFlix</a>.</p>
<p>Conferences and Events</p>
<p>We sponsor many conferences, events, and summits around the
globe.  They may be BSD-related, open source, or technology
events geared towards underrepresented groups. We provide
financial support to the major BSD conferences like BSDCan,
AsiaBSDCon, and EuroBSDCon, and give financial and/or other
support for smaller events like BSDDays, FreeBSD Summits, and
FreeBSD workshops/camps/hackathons. For open source
conferences we will attend when we can get a free non-profit
booth.</p>
<p>We kicked off the year by sending Ed Maste, Benedict
Reuschling, and George Neville-Neil to promote and give talks
on FreeBSD at FOSDEM, the largest open source conference in
Europe. Ed, our Project Development Director, had a chance to
talk to developers from other projects based on FreeBSD, and
various people about reproducible builds in FreeBSD.</p>
<p>Dru Lavigne and Deb Goodkin promoted FreeBSD at SCALE in
Pasadena, CA and Dru gave a presentation called “Doc Like an
Egyptian.” We were a Gold Sponsor for AsiaBSDCon, and had five
Foundation members attend. Kirk McKusick taught a 2-day
FreeBSD Kernel tutorial and gave a 1-hour talk on the history
of the BSD filesystem. Dru Lavigne and Benedict Reuschling
gave a documentation tutorial. Board members Hiroki Sato and
George Neville-Neil helped organize the conference. BSDnow.tv
interviewed Benedict at AsiaBSDCon about his role as a new
Foundation board member and the work the Foundation does.</p>
<p>We planned and organized our first ever FreeBSD Storage
Summit, which was in association with the USENIX FAST
Conference. Led by our President and Founder, Justin Gibbs,
we had over 50 attendees participating and working together on
technically focussed topics.  Benedict was busy promoting
FreeBSD in Europe, because he also attended Linuxtage in
Chemnitz, Germany, and gave a talk on FreeBSD (in German):
<a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2016/de/programm/beitrag/194">FreeBSD – The Power to Serve a Community</a>.</p>
<p>We committed to being a Gold Sponsor for BSDCan and the
upcoming Hackathon/DevSummit in Essen, Germany in April.</p>
<p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p>
<p>The Foundation owns the FreeBSD trademarks, and it is our
responsibility to protect them. We continued to review
requests for permission to use the trademarks.</p>
<p>FreeBSD Community Engagement</p>
<p>Code of Conduct - 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>We have been reaching out to other open source communities to
get help with our efforts of making this a diverse community
and help us achieve our goals mentioned above of making the
FreeBSD community safe, inclusive, and welcoming.</p>
<p>Continuing with our diversity efforts, we have been
connecting with women in technology groups to work on how we
can recruit more women to FreeBSD and offer Intro to FreeBSD
workshops.</p>
<p>We met with a number of commercial vendors to help facilitate
collaboration with the Project. This included presenting how
the Project is organized, and how companies can get help,
contribute back to the Project, promote their use of FreeBSD,
and for us to get their feedback on the work we are doing to
help with our fundraising efforts.</p>
<p>We launched our new website and logo, signaling the ongoing
evolution of the Foundation identity and ability to better
serve the FreeBSD Project and community. Find our more about
our
<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/introducing-a-new-look-for-the-foundation/">new look</a>.</p>
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