From 97803fba971a8706e3bfceed5daeb9a83dcb9e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Block Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 18:54:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add Deb Goodkin 's Foundation report. --- .../news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml | 263 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 263 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml index 4d478aa5c8..a6b8d7902f 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.xml @@ -2328,4 +2328,267 @@ + + + The &os; Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + Foundation + website + &os; Journal + + + +

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.

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Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; during + the last quarter:

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    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.

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    In celebration of our 15th anniversary we provided a + delicious &os; cake, which was happily devoured by + conference attendees.

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    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;.

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    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.

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    Dru Lavigne promoted and gave a presentation on &os; + at + LinuxFest + Northwest 2015.

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    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.

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    Fundraising

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    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.

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    We had the pleasure of hosting Groff the BSD Goat here in + Colorado in April.

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    Infrastructure Support

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    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.

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    Advocacy Work

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    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;.

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    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.

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    Project Development Work

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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:

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    • Added support to the release build code in 11-CURRENT + for producing &os;/aarch64 (arm64) memory stick images + and virtual machine disk images for use within + Qemu.
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    • Worked with Colin Percival on testing and refining the + release build code to support building Amazon EC2 + images, including auto-publication of the final build + output.
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    • Worked with Brad Davis on testing and refining the + release build code to support building Vagrant images + for publication on Hashicorp Atlas.
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    • Reworked the &os;/arm build code, removing the + requirement for third-party utilities, providing a + fully-native build infrastructure for the existing + images (BEAGLEBONE, RPI-B, PANDABOARD, WANDBOARD), and + added support for additional images (GUMSTIX, + CUBOX/HUMMINGBOARD).
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    • Wrote several additional utilities to reduce human + error in several areas of Release Engineering, in + particular automating producing the filesystem hierarchy + used by the FTP mirrors, as well as enhancements to the + internal build scripts used by Release Engineering + (which is publicized in the source tree under + /user/gjb/thermite), and support for automatically + uploading and publishing virtual machine images for + Azure, Google Compute Engine (GCE support was added by + Steve Wills during the last quarter), and Vagrant.
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    • While attending BSDCan 2015, Glen worked with several + developers and teams on various items, such as + discussing packaging the base system with + pkg(8), migrating internal &os; servers to the + new machines the Foundation purchased for the NYI + facility, and discussing further possible future + enhancements to the &os; build infrastructure.
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    • Started the 10.2-RELEASE cycle.
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    • Continually updated the release notes for 11-CURRENT + and 10-STABLE, the latter of which will be the release + notes for the upcoming 10.2-RELEASE.
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    • Assisted the Security Officer with reviewing + correctness of various Security Advisory and Errata + Notice texts.
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