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<sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor>
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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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</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 corporate
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donations and is used to fund and manage software development
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projects, conferences and developer summits, and provide travel
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grants to &os; contributors. The Foundation purchases and
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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>Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; last
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quarter:</p>
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<p>Fundraising Efforts</p>
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<p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We raised
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$1,527,540 in 2016 from 1471 donors! Thank you to everyone who
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made a donation to help us continue our efforts in 2017 to
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support the &os; Project and community worldwide! You can
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make a donation here to our 2017 fundraising campaign: <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
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<p>OS Improvements</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 VIMAGE support, to make sure &os;
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remains a viable solution for research, education, computing,
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products and more.</p>
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<p>Large projects supported last year include:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>arm64 port</li>
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<li>VIMAGE Integration</li>
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<li>Toolchain work</li>
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<li><tt>lacklistd</tt> access control daemon</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Foundation team worked on a technology roadmap for
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2017–2018 during our board meeting in November.</p>
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<p>Staff and board members continued hosting bi-weekly
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conference calls to facilitate efforts for individuals to
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collaborate on different technologies.</p>
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<p>You can find out more about the support we provided by
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reading individual updates from Ed Maste, Konstatin Belousov,
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and Edward Napierala in this report.</p>
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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.</p>
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<p>Last quarter, our full-time staff member worked with the
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&os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize the
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11.0-RELEASE. He also added support for the powerpcspe
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architecture to the 12-CURRENT snapshot builds, and continued
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work on packaging the base system with <tt>pkg(8)</tt>. He
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also continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT
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development snapshot builds throughout the quarter.</p>
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<p>You can find out more about the support we provided to the
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Release Engineering Team by reading their status update in this
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report.</p>
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<p>Supporting &os; Infrastructure</p>
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<p>The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the
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&os; infrastructure. This year, we purchased the following
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hardware to improve the build, continuous integration, and
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platform processes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>A server to reduce the build time from over an hour to 20
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minutes for the continuous integration process. You can find
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out more information here: <a
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href="https://jenkins.FreeBSD.org/">https://jenkins.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</li>
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<li>Two ThunderX servers for native package builds for the
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&os;/arm64 architecture.</li>
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<li>Two servers to improve release engineering builds.</li>
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<li>Four servers to improve package builds.</li>
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<li>Four servers as build slaves to increase the number of
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builds in the continuous integration process.</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 others
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with &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach people
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about &os; and help make the path to starting using &os; or
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contributing to the Project easier; and attending and getting
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other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os; events,
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staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.</p>
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<p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and
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education work we did last year:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Attended and/or sponsored 24 events around the world</li>
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<li>Provided 15 Travel Grants to developers</li>
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<li>Created new and updated marketing literature including:
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<ul>
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<li>Updated &os; 10 Brochure</li>
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<li>New TeachBSD postcard to spread the word about the
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program</li>
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<li>Google Summer of Code flyer</li>
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<li>&os; 11 Brochure</li>
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<li>Updated Recruiting Flyer</li>
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<li>Updated Get Involved Flyer</li>
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<li>&os; as a Platform for Research Flyer</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Created a series of &os; How-to Guides:
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<ul>
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<li>Installing &os; with VirtualBox (Mac/Windows)</li>
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<li>Installing a Desktop Environment on &os;</li>
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<li>Installing &os; for Raspberry Pi</li>
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<li>Installing PC-BSD as a Primary Operating System</li>
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<li>&os; Setup Tips</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Acquired New Testimonials:
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<ul>
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<li>Accelerations Systems</li>
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<li>NeoSmart Technologies</li>
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<li>Chelsio Communications</li>
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<li>Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association</li>
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<li>IXC</li>
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<li>Stormshield</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Updated the &os; Project and Foundation Branding:
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<ul>
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<li>New FreeBSD Foundation website and logo</li>
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<li>Updated Brand Assets page to include more information
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about the &os; Project and FreeBSD Foundation
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logos.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>We published our September/October and November/December
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Journal issues at <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
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<p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being
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done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and
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provide other information to keep you in the loop of what we
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are doing to support the &os; Project and community: <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/</a>.</p>
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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
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to 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
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&os;, to increase the use of &os; in different
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applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
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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>Ohio LinuxFest October, Columbus, Ohio</li>
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<li>Grace Hopper 2016, October, Houston, TX</li>
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<li>COSC 2016, October, Beijing, China</li>
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<li>Bay Area &os; Vendor and Devoloper’s Summit and MeetBSD
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2016, November, Berkely, CA</li>
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<li>USENIX LISA ’16, December 2016, Boston, MA</li>
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<li>OSC 2016, December 2016, Beijing, China</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Get the whole list of conferences we supported in 2016 at: <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-2016-advocacy-efforts/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-2016-advocacy-efforts/</a>.</p>
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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 requests
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and grant permission to use the trademarks. We also provided
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legal support for the core team, to investigate the status of
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certain patents.</p>
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<p>&os; Community Engagement</p>
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<p>Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, has been overseeing
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the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of Conduct to help
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make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community. The
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updated Code of Conduct and Report Guidelines are going through
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the final review process, and will be handed off to the Core
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Team for approval in Q1 2017.</p>
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<p>Go to <a
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href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org">http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org</a>
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to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!</p>
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</body>
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</project>
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</report>
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