From 97803fba971a8706e3bfceed5daeb9a83dcb9e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warren Block 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. Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; during
+ the last quarter: We were a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan 2015 and the
+ sponsor for the Ottawa developer and vendor summits. We
+ were pleased to provide 12 travel grants for &os;
+ contributors to attend the conference and have
+ opportunities to meet face-to-face with other &os;
+ contributors. You can read some of their trip reports
+ here. In celebration of our 15th anniversary we provided a
+ delicious &os; cake, which was happily devoured by
+ conference attendees. Various Foundation team members gave talks, attended
+ talks, participated in doc sprints, worked on efforts to
+ improve &os;, worked at our booth, and spent time
+ talking to our constituents about areas where we can help
+ with &os;. Foundation members gave these talks:
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We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa. We are + pleased to announce the addition of Benedict Reuschling to + our board of directors. Read his interview + here. + The current board of directors and officers were all + re-elected. You can find out who is on our board + here. + We spent the day planning our 12-month goals, project + roadmapping, FreeBSD education offerings, fundraising, and + advocacy efforts.
+Dru Lavigne promoted and gave a presentation on &os; + at + LinuxFest + Northwest 2015.
+We have committed to sponsoring the upcoming conferences: + vBSDCon, womENcourage 2015, EuroBSDCon 2015, Grace Hopper + conference, BSDCon Brasil, Cambridge Developer Summit, and + OpenZFS. You?ll also find us at OSCON, July 21-23, and + SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Sept 21-24.
+Fundraising
+ +So far, we have raised $361,000 for 2015 from over 500 + donors. Juniper became a Gold level donor. We are + actively approaching commercial &os; users for Silver plus + donations, and asking large tech companies for separate + women in tech funding, to help us recruit more women to + the &os; Project. We are also asking companies for + funding to help with our &os; education efforts.
+We had the pleasure of hosting Groff the BSD Goat here in + Colorado in April.
+Infrastructure Support
+ +We funded almost $50,000 of equipment to support &os; + infrastructure. Most of this went towards new and + upgraded servers at the NYI facility. We sent Glen Barber + there to install the new servers. You can read all about + his + trip.
+Advocacy Work
+ +The &os; Journal has over 9200 subscribers, with a 98% + renewal rate. Our marketing director, Anne Dickison, was + busy providing advocacy work for the Project. She helped + provide more &os; marketing literature and material. This + included the cool I Choose &os; sticker and very + popular I Love FreeBSD tattoos that are available + at conferences. We published April, May, and June + Foundation Newsletters to highlight the work being done by + the Foundation to support &os;. These newsletters also + include company &os; testimonials, upcoming events where + &os; will be promoted, and the new From the Trenches + articles from &os; contributor experiences working with + &os;.
+One of the Foundation's responsibilities is to protect + &os; intellectual property (IT). This includes protecting + the &os; trademarks. We granted trademark usage + permission to various companies who want to show their + support for &os;. To get permission to use the + trademarks, interested parties must agree to our + Trademark + Usage Terms and Conditions.
+Project Development Work
+ +George Neville-Neil signed up new universities to look at + the &os; course including George Washington University, + Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz. He is working with + Verisign on the DevSummit that will be held at vBSDCon. + He also worked with ARM to set up meeting with 18 hardware + and silicon vendors at the ARM Partner Meeting in + August.
+ +Ed Maste continued managing the &os;/arm64 porting + project. He also continued with updates to the ELF + Toolchain tools in the &os; base system and incorporated a + set of fixes from the upstream project to fix issues with + the strip tool. Ed investigated and fixed a set + of outstanding issues with the new vt(4) console + in the &os; installer.
+ +Staff member Edward Napierala committed a number of bug + fix merges to the stable/10 branch for inclusion in &os; + 10.2, and continued investigation of a project to support + runtime switching of the root file system. He merged a + large number of improvements to the autofs + automount daemon. He also supported &os; + developer Dmitry Chagin's work on 64-bit Linux binary + emulation support by reviewing the extensive patch set. + Those changes are now committed to FreeBSD's Subversion + tree, and will arrive in &os; 11.0.
+ +Staff member Konstantin Belousov continued development on + the Intel DMA remap (DMAR) and Process Context Identifier + (PCID) infrastructure projects. Kostik also contributed + an extensive set of changes to multiple aspects of &os;: + stability improvements in the virtual memory subsystem, + improved compatibility in options handling in the runtime + loader, thread library improvements, and GDB debugger + enhancements.
+ +Glen Barber, who is a Foundation employee, is also a + release engineer for the Project. Here are some + highlights of what he did to help the Project:
+ +