Add FreeBSD Foundation quarterly status entry
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</help>
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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 ended the year exceeding our fundraising goal, by raising
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over $2,372,132, from 1670 donors! Thank you to everyone who
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made a donation in 2014.</p>
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<p>We produced issues five and six of the &os; Journal,
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ending the year with over 6300 subscribers, exceeding our
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first-year goal of 5000 subscribers. We also added the
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desktop/digital edition, so people can read the magazine from
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their browsers. We also hosted a meeting with the Journal
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Editorial Board and worked out the editorial calendar for the
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next two years. This includes topics and articles for the
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future issues.</p>
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<p>We were a gold sponsor of EuroBSDCon 2014, and a sponsor of
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the preceding Developer Summit. A few of our team members
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attended, which allowed us to have an informal face-to-face
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board meeting, with a focus on supporting the European region.
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Kirk McKusick gave a two-day &os; tutorial and Erwin
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Lansing helped run the Developer Summit. We sponsored 5
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&os; contributors to attend the conference.</p>
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<p>We were a sponsor of the
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<a href="http://gracehopper.org/2014/">Grace Hopper
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Conference</a>.
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Dru Lavigne gave an introduction to &os; presentation, that
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was well attended. We also sponsored Shteryana Shopova to
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represent &os;, along with Dru, at our booth.</p>
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<p>We were a sponsor of
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<a href="https://www.meetbsd.com/">MeetBSD</a>.
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Most of our team members attended this conference.
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Kirk McKusick gave a talk on BSD history.
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We also had a booth, and raised over $2,200 in donations.
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We sponsored one person to attend this conference.</p>
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<p>George organized and ran the two-day Silicon Valley Vendor
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and Developer Summit following MeetBSD.
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A lot of work gets started and accomplished at these summits,
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for example, Kirk worked with various folks to get the ino64
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(64-bit inode numbers) project moving.
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It started in 2011 as a Summer of Code project and has
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sputtered since getting pushed into the system.</p>
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<p>Besides the above conferences, we helped promote &os; at
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the following conferences:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://allthingsopen.org/2014/">All Things
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Open</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://ohiolinux.org/">Ohio Linux
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Fest</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14">LISA</a></li>
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LISA had a great turnout for Dru Lavigne's &os; BoF talk.
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>We visited a few large &os; users in the Bay Area to
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discuss their use of &os;, plans, and needs, and help
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facilitate collaboration between them and the Project.</p>
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<p>Cheryl Blain joined our board, bringing a strong background
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in business development and fundraising.</p>
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<p>We received the largest donation in our history, and our
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treasurer put together an endowment strategy for us to
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follow.</p>
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<p>We increased our &os; marketing efforts to help promote
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and advocate for &os;, as well as educate people on
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&os;. Some our &os; marketing highlights include:
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<ul>
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<li>Created the &os; 10 brochure</li>
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<li>Created the Get Involved brochure for recruiting</li>
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<li>Created a testimonial flyer to encourage more companies
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to write &os; testimonials for us.</li>
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</ul>
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These flyers are available on the
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<a
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href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/#marketing">&os;
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Foundation site</a>
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for &os; advocates to promote &os; at conferences around
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the world.
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We also put ads for the Foundation and &os; in the &os;
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Journal and USENIX ;login: magazine.</p>
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<p>We are producing a monthly newsletter to highlight what we
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did the previous month to support the &os; Project.
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We also produced our
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<a
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href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">December
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semi-annual newsletter</a>.</p>
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<p>We redesigned and launched phase 1 of our website.
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It should be easier to navigate and find the information you
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need to get help from or to help the Foundation.</p>
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<p>Glen Barber visited the Microsoft main campus and worked with
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Microsoft Hyper-V developers to resolve outstanding issues
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with providing &os; images for the Microsoft Azure
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platform.</p>
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<p>Glen also visited the NYI colocation facility to install and
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configure new servers purchased by the Foundation.</p>
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<p>We finished the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.</p>
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<p>Our project development staff and contractors have been
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working on various projects to add features to and improve
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&os;. Some of their reports are included in this overall
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report. Some projects that were worked on this quarter were
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adding support for 64-bit ARM architecture to &os;,
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integration work on the vt(4) updated console and UEFI boot
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support, Secure Boot, refining in-kernel iSCSI target and
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initiator stack, autofs-based automount daemon, migrating to
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the ELF Tool Chain, and implementing modern AES modes in
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&os;'s cryptographic framework.</p>
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<p>To read more about how we helped support the &os; Project
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and community, read our
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<a
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href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">semi-annual
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newsletter</a>.</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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