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on the GlobalScale Dreamplug and some Chromebooks).</task>
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</help>
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</project>
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<project cat='team'>
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<title>The FreeBSD 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="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url>
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<url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/&os;-Foundation-Q1-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url>
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<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201702StorageSummit">2017 Storage Summit</url>
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</links>
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<body>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
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dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project and
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community worldwide. Funding comes from individual and
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corporate donations and is used to fund and manage software
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development projects, conferences and developer summits, and
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provide travel grants to &os; contributors. The Foundation
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purchases and supports hardware to improve and maintain &os;
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infrastructure; publishes marketing material to promote,
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educate, and advocate for the &os; Project; facilitates
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collaboration between commercial vendors and &os;
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developers; and finally, represents the &os; Project in
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executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal
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arrangements that require a recognized legal entity.</p>
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<p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We kicked off the
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new year with some large contributions from Intel and NetApp,
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to help us raise over $400,000 last quarter! We engaged in
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discussions with new and old commercial users to help
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facilitate collaboration, explain how the Project works, and
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to ask for financial contributions to help us keep &os; the
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innovative, secure, and reliable operating system they depend
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on. Please consider making a donation today! <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
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<p>The Foundation improves the &os; operating system by
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employing our technical staff to maintain and improve critical
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kernel subsystems, add features and functionality, and fix
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problems. This also includes funding separate project grants
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like the arm64 port, <tt>blacklistd</tt> access control
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daemon, and integration of <tt>VIMAGE</tt> support, to make
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sure &os; remains a viable solution for research, education,
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computing, products and more.</p>
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<p>This quarter's project development highlights include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>168 commits sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation in the src
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tree (base system) development branch, across three staff
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members and four grant recipients/other developers.</li>
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<li>Funded grants including the <tt>cfumass</tt> project, now
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committed to &os;-HEAD, and improvements to the
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<tt>blacklistd</tt> daemon and &os;/arm64 port.</li>
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<li>Staff contributions including improvements to tool chain
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and build tool components, run time libraries, arm64, mips64
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and 32- and 64-bit x86 architectures, release image build
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tooling, packaged base, and VM subsystem bug fixes.</li>
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<li>Significant progress on the 64-bit inode project, which
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is nearly ready for commit.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>&os; Advocacy and Education</p>
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<p>A large part of our efforts are dedicated to advocating for
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the Project. This includes promoting work being done by
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others with &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach
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people about &os; and help make the path to starting to use
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&os; or contribute to the Project easier; and attending and
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getting other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os;
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events, staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.</p>
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<p>Some of the highlights of our advocacy and education work
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over the last quarter:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Promoted &os; at: FOSDEM, SCALE, AsiaBSDcon, and
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FOSSASIA</li>
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<li>Promoted BSDCan, SCALE, USENIX LISA, vBSDcon and
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EuroBSDcon Calls for Participation</li>
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<li>Promoted Google Summer of Code participation on social
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media and created a flyer for people to post at their
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universities.</li>
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<li>Published a New Faces of &os; Story: Joseph Kong</li>
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<li>Set up a Marketing Partnership with the USENIX Association
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and SNIA</li>
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<li>Published and Promoted the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of the &os;
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Journal: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</li>
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<li>Published monthly Development Projects Updates on our
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blog</li>
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<li>Secured a &os; table at OSCON and promoted available
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discounts.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Conferences and Events</p>
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<p>The FreeBSD Foundation sponsors many conferences, events, and
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summits around the globe. These events can be BSD-related, open
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source, or technology events geared towards underrepresented
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groups.</p>
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<p>We support the &os;-focused events to help provide a venue
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for sharing knowledge, to work together on projects, and to
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facilitate collaboration between developers and commercial
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users; this all helps provide a healthy ecosystem. We support
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the non-&os; events to promote and raise awareness about &os;,
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to increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to
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recruit more contributors to the Project.</p>
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<p>We also sponsored and/or attended the following events last
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quarter:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>FOSDEM &os; developer summit (sponsor)</li>
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<li>AsiaBSDCon — Tokyo, Japan (sponsor)</li>
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<li>Organized and ran the &os; Storage Summit in Santa Clara,
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CA</li>
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<li>Board member Philip Paeps gave a &os; presentation at
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FOSSASIA</li>
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<li>Attended FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, and SCALE</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Release Engineering</p>
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<p>The Foundation provides a full-time staff member to lead the
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release engineering efforts. This has provided timely and
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reliable releases over the last few years. Some highlights
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from last quarter include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Continued the production of weekly development snapshots
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for the 12-CURRENT, 11-STABLE, and 10-STABLE branches.</li>
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<li>Published the initial &os; 11.1-RELEASE schedule to the
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Project website.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Legal/&os; IP</p>
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<p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our
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responsibility to protect them. We continued to review
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requests and grant permission to use the trademarks.</p>
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<p>Many more details about how we supported &os; last quarter
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can be found in our Q1 newsletter!</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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