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is needed throughout the rest of the &os; tree.</p>
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<title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
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<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
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<url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/&os;-Foundation-Q2-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url>
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<p>Last quarter the Foundation was busy supporting the &os;
Project in so many ways! We brought on two interns from the
University of Waterloo who were extremely productive, from
working on a continuous integration project, to adding MSDOS
FAT filesystem support to <tt>makefs</tt>. We continued
helping to accelerate OS changes with our internal staff of
software developers, as well as funding outside software
development projects, and continued promoting &os; by
participating in technology conferences around the world. To
encourage more commercial users to donate to the Foundation,
we launched a new partnership program. The &os; 11.1
release effort has been led by a full-time Foundation
employee, to continue keeping releases timely and reliable.
Finally, we led the effort to celebrate the newly declared
&os; Day, to help raise awareness of &os; around the
world!</p>
<p>Below, you can read some of the highlights from our Q2
newsletter and find writeups throughout this status report
from Foundation staff members including Ed Maste, Kostik
Belousov, and Glen Barber. Don't forget, we are 100%
funded by donations. Please take a moment to <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">donate
now</a>, so we can continue supporting the &os; Project and
community worldwide!</p>
<p>Q2 Development Projects Summary</p>
<p>The hard work continues into the 2nd quarter on 2017.
Please take a look at the highlights from our more recent
Development Projects summaries.</p>
<p>April: &os; USB Mass Storage Target Project Update</p>
<p>The Foundation awarded a project grant to Edward Tomasz
Napierała to develop a USB mass storage target driver, using
the &os; CAM Target Layer (CTL) as a backend. This project
allows &os; on an embedded platform, such as a BeagleBone
Black or Raspberry Pi Zero, to emulate a USB mass storage
target, commonly known as a USB flash stick. Read more at
<a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/april-2017-development-projects-update/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/april-2017-development-projects-update/</a>.</p>
<p>May: Foundation Brings on Co-Op Students</p>
<p>At the beginning of May we embarked on a new path in the
&os; Foundation, with the hiring of co-operative education
(co-op) students from the University of Waterloo. The
University of Waterloo is a pioneer and leader in
co-operative education, with 100% of Engineering students
and a majority of Computer Science students participating in
co-op programs. Read more at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/may-2017-development-projects-update/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/may-2017-development-projects-update/</a>.</p>
<p>June: FreeBSD Foundation 2017 Project Proposal
Solicitation (contributed by Ed Maste)</p>
<p>One of the ways the Foundation supports &os; is by
providing development grants for work on individual
projects. These allow developers to propose projects they
would like to undertake to improve &os;, and request funding
to perform that work. The Foundation is always willing to
receive proposals, but will occasionally issue a call for
proposals to highlight specific areas of focus and to be
able to collect and evaluate a group of proposals.</p>
<p>The proposal submission deadline was July 14, 2017, but as
mentioned above, people are welcome to submit proposals at
anytime.</p>
<p>Although proposals may address any &os; subsystem or
infrastructure, we are particularly interested in receiving
proposals related to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improvements to the security of &os; itself, or of
applications running on &os;.</li>
<li>New test cases, improved test infrastructure, and
quality assurance.</li>
<li>Improved software development tools.</li>
<li>Projects to improve community collaboration and
communication.</li>
<li>Improving the &os; &quot;out of the box&quot; experience
for new users on various hardware platforms.</li>
<li>Establishing &os; as a leader in advancing projects of
shared interest (such as ZFS, LLVM, or
<tt>libarchive</tt>).</li>
</ul>
<p>More details can be found at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-2017-project-proposal-solicitation/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-2017-project-proposal-solicitation/</a>.
The full project proposal submission guidelines can be found
at <a
href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FreeBSDFoundation/d364934d4d/TEST/1b229d9af7">http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FreeBSDFoundation/d364934d4d/TEST/1b229d9af7</a>.</p>
<p>Please do not hesitate to contact
proposals@FreeBSDfoundation.org with any questions.</p>
<p>Announcing New Partnership Program (contributed by Deb
Goodkin)</p>
<p>I'm excited to announce our new FreeBSD Foundation
Partnership Program! Our work is 100% supported by
donations from individuals and organizations. With a
spending budget of $1,500,000, we rely on large donations
from our commercial users to help us sustain and increase
our support. Recognizing the value of these donations, and
putting together a sustainable funding model, we wanted to
institute benefits that highlighted this support, and
recognize these donors in productive ways. Partnerships are
an avenue to assist commercial users by helping them get on
board more quickly with &os;, share their needs with the
community, and facilitate collaboration with &os;
developers. We believe that building these relationships
with commercial users will contribute to keeping &os;
relevant and help provide a sustainable and healthy
ecosystem.</p>
<p>You can check out our updated donor pages to see how we are
acknowledging our Partners at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donors/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donors/</a>.
You can also find out more about this new program at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/</a>.</p>
<p>When I was in China last week, I had a chance to talk to a
few companies about our new partnership program, and it
definitely generated more interest in supporting our
efforts.</p>
<p>We are continuing to reach out to commercial users for help
that will enable us to provide more outreach and support for
&os;. This includes funding more projects to improve &os;,
providing &os; education and training, and recruiting more
contributors to the Project. We can only provide the above
support with your donations, and we need your help to
connect us with your companies. Please consider sharing our
new Partnership Program with your organization and helping
to connect us with the appropriate contacts at your
company.</p>
<p>Your donations will help us:</p>
<ul>
<li>Accelerate improvements and add new features to
&os;</li>
<li>Support release engineering efforts full-time</li>
<li>Create and provide &os; educational and training
material</li>
<li>Provide face-to-face opportunities for developers to
work together</li>
<li>Improve and support &os; infrastructure</li>
</ul>
<p>We need your support to continue improving &os;. You can
help by donating today and sharing our new Partnership
Program with your company.</p>
<p>Q2 2017 Conference Recaps</p>
<p>From sponsoring events to attending conferences, the
Foundation continued its mission of advocacy in the second
quarter of 2017. Over the past few weeks, members of the
Foundation team represented the Project and the Foundation
at events around the world. Below are just a few of the
conference recaps.</p>
<p>FOSSASIA 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p>
<p>The Foundation kindly funded part of my travel from Tokyo to
Singapore to attend FOSSASIA. I gave the &quot;&os; is not
a Linux Distribution&quot; presentation that Foundation
board member George Neville-Neil wrote for Open Source China
in December. My presentation was well-attended, and I got a
lot of good questions from the primarily Linux-oriented
audience. Read more at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/fossasia-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/fossasia-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/</a>.</p>
<p>OSCON 2017 (contributed by Ed Maste)</p>
<p>I represented the FreeBSD Foundation at OSCON 2017, which took place
May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. <a
href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx">https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx</a>.</p>
<p>The Foundation booth was also staffed by &os; committer
Brad Davis and Doug Mcintire from Netgate. We met up
Wednesday morning to set up the table. We were part of a
&quot;nonprofit pavilion&quot; which consisted of eight or
so tables, located between Open Camps and Operation
Code.</p>
<p>To help attract booth traffic, I brought a Raspberry Pi 3,
with a small LCD display attached. As a demo, the Raspberry
Pi showed a video of a Gource rendering of changes to the
&os; source tree over time (see example at <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8Sspua0Ks">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8Sspua0Ks</a>).
Read more at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/</a>.</p>
<p>RootConf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p>
<p>In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore.
Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and
operations engineers share real world knowledge about
building reliable systems. <a
href="https://rootconf.in/2017/">https://rootconf.in/2017/</a>.</p>
<p>As always, it was interesting to hear the difficulties
people face trying to run reliable systems on less reliable
platforms. While many of the presentations were very
Linux-specific and not very exciting to me, a couple of
talks did catch my eye.</p>
<p>I particularly enjoyed the talk by Aruna Sankaranarayanan
(<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJ7YhVoSWI&amp;feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJ7YhVoSWI&amp;feature=youtu.be</a>)
explaining how Mapbox takes advantage of Amazon's &quot;spot
pricing&quot; mechanism by spawning and shutting down
machines at different price points to optimize for cost
without compromising availability. Their spotswap <a
href="https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/">https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/</a>
software has been released under a BSD license. It sounds
like it should be possible to port this to &os; with minimal
effort. Read more at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/</a>.</p>
<p>BSDCan 2017/&os; Developers Summit (contributed by Deb
Goodkin)</p>
<p>One of our initiatives is to assist in providing
face-to-face knowledge sharing and development opportunities
around the world. One way we do this is by sponsoring
BSD-related conferences and &os; Developer and Vendor
Summits. We recently sponsored both BSDCan 2017 and the
&os; Developer and Vendor Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
which took place June 7-10, 2017. Many of our board and
staff members attended the summit and conference to run
tutorials, give presentations, lead sessions, work with
developers, give demos, and share knowledge.</p>
<p>In addition, this year we were pleased to bring our new
University of Waterloo interns to the conference where they
had the opportunity to demonstrate some of their projects at
the Foundation table. Read more at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-bsdcan-2017FreeBSD-developers-summit/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-bsdcan-2017FreeBSD-developers-summit/</a>.</p>
<p>Open Travel Grant Applications</p>
<p>The Foundation recognizes the importance of bringing
members of the &os; community face-to-face to both further
development of the Project and spread the word about &os;.
Travel grants are available to community members who need
assistance with travel expenses for attending conferences
related to &os; development and advocacy. Please note: the
travel grant policy has been recently updated. Please
carefully review before submitting your application.</p>
<p>More information about travel grants is available at: <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/what-we-do/grants/travel-grants/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/what-we-do/grants/travel-grants/</a>.</p>
<p>&os; Day was June 19! (contributed by Anne Dickison)</p>
<p>June 19th was declared &os; Day! Thank you to everyone who
joined us in honoring the &os; Project's pioneering legacy
and continuing impact on technology. Find out more about
&os; Day and how we celebrated here at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/happy-FreeBSD-day/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/happy-FreeBSD-day/</a>.</p>
<p>Upcoming Events</p>
<p>Find out about upcoming Foundation events at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/upcoming-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/upcoming-events/</a>.</p>
<p>&os; Journal</p>
<p>The May/June 2017 Issue of the &os; Journal is now
available. Don't miss articles on &os;'s Firewall Feast,
CADETS: Blending Tracing and Security on &os;, Toward
Oblivious Sandboxing with Capsicum, and more. (<a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/security/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/security/</a>)</p>
<p>Did you miss the March/April issue? Check out articles on
CFEngine, Puppet on &os;, Vagrant, and more! (<a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/configuration-management/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/configuration-management/</a>)
As a recent addition of functionality, browser-based
subscribers now have the ability to download and share PDFs
of the articles!</p>
<p>Sample Issue! If you've ever wanted to read through an
entire issue of the &os; Journal, now's your chance.
Download the sample issue from <a
href="https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=296880#{&quot;issue_id&quot;:296880,&quot;numpages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1}">https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=296880#{"issue_id":296880,"numpages":1,"page":1}</a>
and be sure to share with your friends and colleagues. Not
a subscriber? Sign up today at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
<p>More information about the Foundation's doings and
goings-on can be found in our own quarterly newsletter, linked
above.</p>
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