From a492bc41a275ee49eea0e43ee177211488a87dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Warren Block Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:52:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add Foundation report. --- .../news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml | 116 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml index b1c92559db..4453c84c39 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml @@ -2264,4 +2264,120 @@ The &os; Foundation + + + The &os; Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + + &os; Journal + + + +

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.

+ +

We published our fourth issue of the FreeBSD Journal. We + have over 4500 subscriptions to date. Work continued on + adding support for the Dynamic Edition and will be available + soon. The fifth issue is due out soon.

+ +

Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov wrapped up the + PostgreSQL performance investigation project. Kostik reran + the benchmarks as a configuration error may have affected + earlier results. Improvements arising from the investigation + are merged to the &os; 10 development branch and will be in + the 10.1 release. Kostik also committed a variety of virtual + memory and file system bug fixes and improvements.

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Over the quarter, Foundation staff member Edward Napiera?a + refined the new autofs-based automounter and incorporated + feedback from testers in enterprise and university contexts. + The automounter is available in the development branch of + FreeBSD and will be included in FreeBSD 10.1. Edward also + supported engineers at Chelsio in preparing iSCSI offload + support for Chelsio's 10- and 40-gigabit per second Ethernet + adapters.

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Ed Maste, our project manager, tested and integrated UEFI + system boot and new vt(4) console work into the release branch + for the upcoming FreeBSD 10.1 release. He committed a number + of small toolchain and build infrastructure improvements. He + also wrote an article on LLDB for the FreeBSD Journal and + presented the LLDB work at EuroBSDCon.

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&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer + Glen Barber continued work on finalizing the 9.3-RELEASE + process, followed by starting the 10.1-RELEASE process.

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Work has continued on producing regularly-updated &os; + development snapshot builds for the various supported + architectures, which include amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, + powerpc64, sparc64, and arm.

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In addition, work has been committed to a project branch + which allows &os; virtual machine disk images to be produced + by default as part of the release process.

+ +

Put a plan together for the upcoming Secure Boot work.

+ +

Purchased more hardware to support &os; infrastructure at NYI + and Sentex.

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Announced a collaboration between Foundation and Cavium to + deliver a &os; ARMv8 based implementation.

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Signed a license agreement with Oracle to get access to the + TCKs for Java 7 and 8.

+ +

Robert Watson ran and organized the Cambridge Developer + Summit. We provided a travel grant to a Google Summer of Code + student to attend the summit.

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Provided a travel grant to a developer who organized and ran + BSDDay in Argentina.

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We were a Gold Sponsor for EuroBSDCon 2014 and sponsored the + Developer Summit. We provided 4 travel grants to assist &os; + contributors with their travel expenses to attend the + conference. We also had 6 board/staff members attend the + conference and some gave talks, tutorials, and chaired some + sessions. We held our Fall Fundraising campaign there and + raised over $2,000 in donations from attendees.

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Organized the Silicon Valley Vendor/Developer Summit that is + happening November 3 and 4.

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Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil + published the second edition of "The Design and Implementation + of the FreeBSD Operating System."

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Kirk McKusick presented a 2-day tutorial on the &os; kernel + and gave a talk on implementation of ZFS at EuroBSDCon.

+ +

Dru Lavigne attended Fossetcon: September 11-13 + (fossetcon.org).

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We created new recruiting fliers for upcoming events, + including the Grace Hopper conference.

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Started sending out Foundation monthly update emails to keep + the &os; community informed on some of the activities we did + the previous month to support &os;.

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