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<project cat='team'>
<title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Deb</given>
<common>Goodkin</common>
</name>
<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url>
<url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/&os;-Foundation-July-August-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</url>
</links>
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<p>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 software development projects, conferences and
developer summits, and provide travel grants to &os;
contributors. The Foundation purchases and supports hardware
to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure and provides
full-time Release Engineering support; publishes marketing
material to promote, educate, and advocate for the &os;
Project; facilitates collaboration between commercial
vendors and &os; developers; and finally, represents the
&os; Project in executing contracts, license agreements,
and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal
entity.</p>
<p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; last
quarter:</p>
<p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
<p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. This year we've
raised over $860,000 from 500+ donors. Our 2017 fundraising
goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet
and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to
help us continue and increase our support for &os;. <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
<p>We also have a new Partnership Program, to provide more benefits
for our larger commercial donors. Find out more information at
<a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/</a>
and share with your companies!</p>
<p>OS Improvements</p>
<p>The Foundation improves the &os; operating system by
employing our technical staff to maintain and improve critical
kernel subsystems, add features and functionality, and fix
problems. This also includes funding separate project grants
like the arm64 port, <tt>blacklistd</tt> access control
daemon, and the integration of VIMAGE support, to make sure
that &os; remains a viable solution for research,
education, computing, products and more.</p>
<p>We kicked off or continued the following projects last
quarter:</p>
<ul>
<li>OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion project</li>
<li>Broadcom Wi-Fi infrastructural improvements
(<tt>bhnd(4)</tt> driver)</li>
<li>Headless mode out of the box &mdash; Beaglebone Black</li>
<li>Extending bhyve-ARMv7 features</li>
<li>Porting <tt>bhyve-arm</tt> to an ARMv8 platform</li>
</ul>
<p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in
and work directly on projects to improve &os; like:</p>
<ul>
<li>ZFS improvements</li>
<li>New Intel server support</li>
<li><tt>kqueue(2)</tt> updates</li>
<li>64-bit inode support</li>
<li>Stack guard</li>
<li>Kernel Undefined Behavior sanitizer</li>
<li>Toolchain projects</li>
<li><tt>i915</tt> driver investigation</li>
<li>NVDIMM support in <tt>acpiconf(8)</tt></li>
<li>Continuous integration dashboard (web page and physical
hardware)</li>
<li>FAT filesystem support in makefs(8)</li>
</ul>
<p>Staff and board members continued hosting bi-weekly
conference calls to facilitate efforts for individuals to
collaborate on different technologies.</p>
<p>You can find out more about the support we provided by
reading individual updates from Ed Maste, Konstatin Belousov,
Landon Fuller, Matt Ahrens, and Edward Napierala in this
report.</p>
<p>Release Engineering</p>
<p>The Foundation provides a full-time staff member to lead the
release engineering efforts. This has provided timely and
reliable releases over the last few years.</p>
<p>Last quarter, our full-time staff member worked with the
&os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize
11.1-RELEASE. He also supported the 10.4 release effort, and
has continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT
development snapshot builds throughout the quarter. At the
vBSDCon Developer Summit, he gave a presentation on the state
of the release engineering team.</p>
<p>You can find out more about the support we provided to the
Release Engineering Team by reading their status update in
this report.</p>
<p>Supporting &os; Infrastructure</p>
<p>The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the
&os; infrastructure. Last quarter, we continued supporting
&os; hardware located around the world.</p>
<p>&os; Advocacy and Education</p>
<p>A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for
the Project. This includes promoting work being done by
others with &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach
people about &os; and help make the path to starting using
&os; or contributing to the Project easier; and attending
and getting other &os; contributors to volunteer to run
&os; events, staff &os; tables, and give &os;
presentations.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and
summits around the globe. These events can be BSD-related,
open source, or technology events geared towards
underrepresented groups.</p>
<p>We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue
for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to
facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial
users. This all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support
the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness of
&os;, to increase the use of &os; in different
applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
Project.</p>
<p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and
education work we did last quarter:</p>
<ul>
<li>Organized and ran the Essen &os; Hackathon in Essen
Germany</li>
<li>Sponsored and participated in the &os; Developer Summit
BSDCam, in Cambridge, England</li>
<li>Represented &os; at the ARM Partner Meeting</li>
<li>Presented and taught about &os; at SdNOG 4 in Khartoum,
Sudan</li>
<li>Sponsored and gave presentations and tutorials at
EuroBSDCon in Paris, France</li>
<li>Organized and ran the Paris &os; Developer Summit</li>
<li>Organized and ran the &os; Developer Summit at vBSDCon</li>
<li>Sponsored and attended vBSDCon</li>
<li>Proved travel grants to &os; contributors to attend the
above events.</li>
<li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in
Vancouver BC</li>
<li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li>
<li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Annual Technical
Conference in Santa Clara, CA</li>
</ul>
<p>We continued producing &os; advocacy material to help
people promote &os; around the world.</p>
<p>We help educate the world about &os; by publishing the
professionally produced &os; Journal. Last quarter we
published the July/August issue that you can find at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
<p>You can find out more about events we were at and upcoming
events at <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/</a>.</p>
<p>Legal/&os; IP</p>
<p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our
responsibility to protect them. We also provide legal support
for the core team to investigate questions that arise.</p>
<p>Go to <a
href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/">http://www.&os;foundation.org</a>
to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!</p>
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</project>
</report>