From be75886e93198f4e16a5a3dce9bbcea66fe6e2fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 18:58:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add 2017Q1 Foundation entry from deb --- .../news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml | 171 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 171 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml index 8709c4138a..1bb623e3b6 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml @@ -1338,4 +1338,175 @@ on the GlobalScale Dreamplug and some Chromebooks). + + + The FreeBSD Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + FreeBSD Foundation Website + Quarterly Newsletter + 2017 Storage Summit + + + +

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; 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.

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Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We kicked off the + new year with some large contributions from Intel and NetApp, + to help us raise over $400,000 last quarter! We engaged in + discussions with new and old commercial users to help + facilitate collaboration, explain how the Project works, and + to ask for financial contributions to help us keep &os; the + innovative, secure, and reliable operating system they depend + on. Please consider making a donation today! https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/.

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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, blacklistd access control + daemon, and integration of VIMAGE support, to make + sure &os; remains a viable solution for research, education, + computing, products and more.

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This quarter's project development highlights include:

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&os; Advocacy and Education

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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 to use + &os; or contribute to the Project easier; and attending and + getting other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os; + events, staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.

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Some of the highlights of our advocacy and education work + over the last quarter:

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Conferences and Events

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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.

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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 about &os;, + to increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to + recruit more contributors to the Project.

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We also sponsored and/or attended the following events last + quarter:

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Release Engineering

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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. Some highlights + from last quarter include:

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Legal/&os; IP

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The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We continued to review + requests and grant permission to use the trademarks.

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Many more details about how we supported &os; last quarter + can be found in our Q1 newsletter!

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