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</help>
</project>
<project cat='misc'>
<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="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">Foundation
website</url>
<url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; 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 &os;
developers. The Foundation purchases hardware to improve and
maintain &os; infrastructure and publishes &os; white papers
and marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for
the &os; Project.
The Foundation also represents the &os; 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 &os; last
quarter:</p>
<p>Anne Dickison and Deb Goodkin attended OSCON to promote
&os;.</p>
<p>Robert Watson organized and ran the Cambridge &os;
Developer Summit 2015 ("BSDCam").
We provided travel grants to two &os; developers to attend
the summit.
Three Foundation board/staff members attended too.</p>
<p>George Neville-Neil attended the ARM Partner Meeting where
he met with 15 silicon and systems vendors to present the
unique traits and qualities of &os; and work on setting up
partnerships with the companies building and deploying
ARM hardware.</p>
<p>George and Robert Watson collaborated in Cambridge on
developing further &os;-based teaching material at
undergraduate and masters levels.
Part of this project was funded by the Foundation.</p>
<p>George planned and ran the DevSummit at vBSDCon 2015.</p>
<p>We were proud to be a sponsor of
<url href="http://www.verisign.com/en_US/internet-technology-news/verisign-events/vbsdcon/index.xhtml">vBSDCon
2015</url>, Sept 11-13 in Washington DC.
George Neville-Neil and Ed Maste presented "Supporting a
BSD Project" at the conference.
Dru Lavigne, Glen Barber, George Neville-Neil, and Ed Maste
attended and represented the Foundation at both vBSDCon and
the &os; Developer Summit that preceded it.
We had many people stop by our table to make a donation,
and it was another great opportunity to talk and work with
people face-to-face.</p>
<p>Cheryl Blain and John Baldwin promoted the Foundation and
&os; at the SNIA 2015 Storage Developer Conference, in
Santa Clara, California, Sept 21-24.
The Foundation was also a sponsor.</p>
<p>We sponsored Andy Turner to attend Linaro Connect in
San Francisco, Sept 21-25.</p>
<p>Ed Maste, our project development director, attended the
X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC) in Toronto, Ontario.</p>
<p>We sponsored the 2015 nginx Conference and sent &os;
community member John Baldwin.</p>
<p>George Neville-Neil continued planning the
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit">2015
Silicon Valley Vendor Summit</url>, including securing
the venue.</p>
<p>Benedict Reuschling and Erwin Lansing helped plan and
organize the EuroBSDCon &os; Developer Summit.
This included setting up the working groups, securing the
venue, and getting the T-shirts made.</p>
<p>Benedict helped organize, and he and Dru Lavigne participated
in, the
<url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/201507DevSummit">&os;
Hackathon</url> in the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.
It was a successful weekend of fixing bugs and collaborating
with others.</p>
<p>Dru Lavigne taught a &os; class in Berlin, Germany
July 29-31.</p>
<p>We were a sponsor of
<url href="http://womencourage.acm.org/index.cfm">womENcourage
2015</url>, in Uppsala Sweden, Sept 24-26.
Dru was the moderator for a panel on
<url href="http://womencourage.acm.org/panel2.cfm">Open Source
as a Career Path</url>.
All the panelists were &os; contributors including
Dan Langille, Allan Jude, Benedict Reuschling,
and Deb Goodkin.
We also had a table at the job fair and talked to a lot of
students and professors about the benefits of working on &os;
as an alternative to an internship, teaching about &os; in
university classes, and hosting &os; events at their schools.
Dan taught a workshop on How to Contribute to an Open Source
project.
Deb participated in this workshop and started a discussion on
offering a similar workshop at BSD and non-BSD conferences.
The workshop would be titled "How to Contribute to &os;",
and participants would learn how to contribute documentation
to the Project.</p>
<p>We continued to publish our monthly newsletters keeping the
community informed on what we are doing including event
recaps, testimonials, project updates, and upcoming events.
We received testimonials from Microsoft, NYCBus, and
ScaleEngine.
We also continued to approach companies to provide us with
testimonials to help promote their use of &os;.</p>
<p>Anne Dickison rebooted the Faces of &os; series and is
working with &os; contributors on writing their stories.
She continued to produce more &os; Swag and literature to
promote &os;, as well as advocating for &os; over our social
channels and with new partnerships.</p>
<p>We reached our 2015 goal of 10,000 &os; Journal subscribers,
and we published a new Open Journal article on our website,
to help promote the Journal.
We also started offering a new subscription bundle, where you
can buy all the 2014 issues.
The July/August issue what published.</p>
<p>Justin Gibbs began a semester long &os; class at a middle
school in Boulder, Colorado.
We are using the BeagleBone Black (BBB) to run &os; connected
to Macs and PCs.
We’ve received a lot of support, both internally, and from
the Project, to get the &os; images to work on the BBB with
the Macs and PCs.
It’s been a great collaborative effort with community
members, and this will help future classes in being able
to support inexpensive platforms for teaching &os;.</p>
<p>Work continued on creating &os; curriculum for a half day
workshop.
Hopefully this will be available in late Spring.</p>
<p>We provided legal support for the Project including granting
trademark permission for some users and companies who
requested permission to put the &os; logo on their websites
and marketing literature.</p>
<p>We met with commercial users to get their input on what
they’d like to see supported in &os;.
We also do this to help connect &os; developers with
commercial users to help facilitate collaboration.</p>
<p>&os; Foundation employee and Release Engineer, Glen Barber,
was extremely busy during this quarter, working on a number
of exciting areas of the &os; Project.
Some of the highlights include:
<ul>
<li>Code cleanup and bug fixes to several parts of the
release build code, and finished adding support for
automatically uploading cloud provider images, which was
merged to the stable/10 branch before the code freeze.
The 10.2-RELEASE cycle spanned a 9-week timeframe overall,
from the start of the code slush.</li>
<li> With the &os; Release Engineering Team, released two
BETA builds and three RC builds for the 10.2-RELEASE
cycle, with the final release announced mid-August,
two weeks ahead of the original schedule.</li>
<li>With the &os; Cluster Administrators Team, assisted with
a number of general updates and enhancements to the &os;
infrastructure.</li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>