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The &os; Foundation
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<project cat='misc'>
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<title>The &os; Foundation</title>
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<contact>
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<person>
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<name>
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<given>Deb</given>
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<common>Goodkin</common>
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</name>
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<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
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</person>
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</contact>
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<links>
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<url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>
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<url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
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dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project
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and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to
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support &os; development projects, conferences, and developer
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summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os;
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infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.</p>
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<p>We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We
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have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on
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adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available
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soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.</p>
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<p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the
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PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran
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the benchmarks as a configuration error may have affected
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earlier results. Improvements arising from the investigation
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are merged to the &os; 10 development branch and will be in
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the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual
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memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.</p>
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<p>Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a
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refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated
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feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts.
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The automounter is available in the development branch of
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FreeBSD and will be included in FreeBSD 10.1. Edward also
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supported engineers at Chelsio in preparing iSCSI offload
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support for Chelsio's 10- and 40-gigabit per second Ethernet
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adapters.</p>
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<p>Ed Maste, our project manager, tested and integrated UEFI
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system boot and new vt(4) console work into the release branch
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for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release. He committed a number
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of small toolchain and build infrastructure improvements. He
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also wrote an article on LLDB for the FreeBSD Journal and
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presented the LLDB work at EuroBSDCon.</p>
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<p>&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer
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Glen Barber continued work on finalizing the 9.3-RELEASE
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process, followed by starting the 10.1-RELEASE process.</p>
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<p>Work has continued on producing regularly-updated &os;
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development snapshot builds for the various supported
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architectures, which include amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
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powerpc64, sparc64, and arm.</p>
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<p>In addition, work has been committed to a project branch
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which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced
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by default as part of the release process.</p>
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<p>Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.</p>
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<p>Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI
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and Sentex.</p>
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<p>Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to
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deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.</p>
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<p>Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the
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TCKs for Java 7 and 8.</p>
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<p>Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer
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Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code
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student to attend the summit.</p>
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<p>Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran
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BSDDay in Argentina.</p>
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<p>We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the
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Developer Summit. We provided 4 travel grants to assist &os;
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contributors with their travel expenses to attend the
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conference. We also had 6 board/staff members attend the
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conference and some gave talks, tutorials, and chaired some
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sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and
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raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.</p>
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<p>Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is
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happening November 3 and 4.</p>
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<p>Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil
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published the second edition of "The Design and Implementation
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of the FreeBSD Operating System."</p>
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<p>Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel
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and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.</p>
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<p>Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13
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(fossetcon.org).</p>
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<p>We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events,
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including the Grace Hopper conference.</p>
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<p>Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep
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the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did
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the previous month to support &os;.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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