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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
report contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
report contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
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<p>Work on this project is sponsored by Juniper Networks.</p>
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<project cat='misc'>
<title>The &os; Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>
<url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os;&nbsp;Project
and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to
support &os; development projects, conferences and developer
summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os;
infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.</p>
<p>We published our third issue of the &os; Journal. We have
over 2700 subscriptions so far. We continued working on the
digital edition, that will allow subscribers to read the
magazine in different web browsers, including those than run
on &os;. This will be available for the July/August issue of
the Journal.</p>
<p>We hired Anne Dickison, on a freelance basis, as our new
marketing director, to help us promote the Foundation and
Project.</p>
<p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa, Canada, in May.
We elected directors and officers, and did some long term
planning. We worked on our vision, core values, project road
mapping, and our near term goals. We also met with the core
team to discuss roles and responsibilities, project
roadmapping, and what we can do to help the Project more.</p>
<p>We were a Gold+ sponsor for BSDCan, May 16-17 and provided
7 travel grants for developers to attend the conference. We
also were the sponsor for both the developer and vendor
summits.</p>
<p>Justin Gibbs gave a &os; presentation at a &os; user's
internal technology summit. Company visits like this help
users understand the Project structure better and gives us
a chance to communicate what &os; people are working on as
well as learn what different companies are doing with &os;, as
well as what they'd like to see supported. We can then help
facilitate collaboration between the companies and &os;
developers.</p>
<p>We were represented at Great Wide Open, April 2-3
(greatwideopen.org), Texas LinuxFest, June 13-14
(texaslinuxfest.org), and SouthEast LinuxFest, June 20-22
(southeastlinuxfest.org).</p>
<p>We purchased hardware to support an upgrade at Sentex. A new,
high capacity, 1Gbps switch, was deployed to allow for more
systems to be added to the test lab. The main file server and
development box was upgraded to allow more users in the lab
simultaneously.</p>
<p>We purchased hardware, including package builders, and
a larger server to allow NYI to be a full replica of all
Project systems, comparable to what is in place at Yahoo Inc.
and ISC.</p>
<p>Worked with our lawyer to create an NDA between the
Foundation and individuals for third party NDAs. This allows
developers who need access to proprietary documents, to go
through the Foundation, via an NDA for access.</p>
<p>&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer,
Glen Barber, continued work on producing regularly-updated
&os;/arm snapshots for embedded devices, such as the
RaspberryPi, ZedBoard, and BeagleBone.</p>
<p>In addition to producing weekly development snapshots from
the head/ and stable/ branches, with feedback and help from Ed
Maste, Glen finished work to produce release images that will,
by default, provide debugging files for userland and kernel
available on the &os;&nbsp;Project FTP mirrors. Note, the
debugging files will not be included on the bootonly.iso,
disc1.iso, or dvd1.iso images due to the size of the resulting
images.</p>
<p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov completed an
investigation into poor performance of PostgreSQL on &os;.
This uncovered scalability problems in the &os; kernel, and
changes to address these issues are in progress.</p>
<p>Some previously completed Foundation-sponsored projects
received some enhancements or additional work. The ARM
superpages project was completed last year, but is now enabled
by default in &os;-CURRENT. Many stability fixes and
enhancements have been committed to the in-kernel iSCSI stack.
The iSCSI project was released in &os;&nbsp;10.0. Many
stability fixes and enhancements have been committed and will
be included in &os;&nbsp;10.1.</p>
<p>Work continues on the Foundation-sponsored autofs automount
daemon, UEFI boot support, the updated vt(4) system video
console, virtual machine images, and the Intel graphics driver
update. Foundation-sponsored work resulted in
226 commits to &os; over the April to June period.</p>
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</project>
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