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Submitted by:	Deb Goodkin <deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org>
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
contains 26 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
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<description>Documentation</description>
</category>
<category>
<name>misc</name>
<description>Miscellaneous</description>
</category>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Chromium</title>
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<sponsor>Microsemi, Inc.</sponsor>
<sponsor>Semihalf sp.j</sponsor>
</project>
<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; 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 the first issue of the &os; Journal, our new on-line
&os; magazine. The positive feedback from both the &os; and
outside communities has been incredible. This quarter we began work
on articles and promotion for the second issue. We also started working
on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web
browsers including those that run on &os;.</p>
<p>This year we are earmarking more funding towards &os; advocacy
and education. You will see more literature, white papers,
articles, and so on to help promote &os;.</p>
<p>The Foundation held a board meeting in Berkeley, California, in
January. We discussed longer term strategy and planning for the
year. We put together our 2014 budget with a plan of raising at
least $1,000,000 and spending $900,000.</p>
<p>Two Foundation funded projects were completed. The first,
co-sponsored by Google, integrated the Casper daemon into &os;.
The second was <tt>auditdistd(8)</tt> improvements for the &os;
cluster.</p>
<p>Work continued on the following Foundation-sponsored projects:
Intel graphics driver update by &a.kib;, UEFI boot support for
<tt>amd64</tt> by &a.emaste;, autofs automounter and in-kernel
iSCSI stack enhancements, bug fixes by &a.trasz;, updated
<tt>vt(4)</tt> system console by &a.ray;. A more detailed
project update for each of the above projects can be found
within this quarterly status report.</p>
<p>We were a Gold Sponsor for NYCBSDCon&nbsp;2014 in New York,
February 8, which was attended by sSeveral board members. We
were represented at SCALE in Los Angeles, February 22-23, and
ICANN in Singapore, March 22-25.</p>
<p>We were a sponsor for AsiaBSDCon in Tokyo, March 15-16. Board
member &a.hrs; was the conference organizer. Board members
&a.mckusick; and &a.gnn; taught tutorials and Kirk gave a
keynote. Board member &a.dru; manned the foundation table and
spoke at one of the sessions.</p>
<p>We became a Gold+ sponsor for BSDCan&nbsp;2014, May 16-17 and
have started reaching out to vendors to attend the developer
summit that runs in the two days before BSDCan.</p>
<p>Board members George, Kirk, and &a.rwatson; pushed to finish
the final draft of the next edition of their book <q>The Design
and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System</q>.</p>
<p>ITWire editor Sam Varghese published an interview with Kirk and
Foundation technical manager &a.emaste; about the status of
secure boot on &os;.</p>
<p>The &os; Logo is now officially a registered trademark to
represent the &os; operating system. We are working to expand the
registration beyond just the &os; operating system, but
currently still have to use the <q>TM</q> symbol when using it
on apparel and other non-operating-system items. We continued
reviewing requests and granting permission to use &os;
trademarks.</p>
<p>After finishing the 10.0-RELEASE, Foundation system
administrator and release engineer &a.gjb; began work on adding
support for &os;/arm image builds as part of the release build
process. As result of this work, &os;/arm images are produced
as part of the weekly development snapshot builds, and available
from any of the &os; FTP mirrors. Supported kernel
configurations currently include <tt>BEAGLEBONE</tt>,
<tt>RPI-B</tt>, <tt>PANDABOARD</tt>, <tt>WANDBOARD-QUAD</tt>,
and <tt>ZEDBOARD</tt>.</p>
<p>George visited six large &os; users in the Bay Area in
February. These meetings are conducted to help facilitate
collaboration between &os; customers and the &os; Project. It
is an opportunity to exchange information on what the customers
are doing and what is being worked on in the Project. It is
also an opportunity to try to connect customers with the
appropriate &os; developers who may be working on areas of &os;
that interest these customers.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>