- add a new entry covering MeetBSD 2010 in Poland [1]

- various language and grammar fixes [2] - add Misc category and move there BSDCan together with MeetBSD entries - some style fixes Submitted by: rafal@ [1] Submitted by: linimon@ [2]
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--- a/en/news/status/report-2010-04-2010-06.xml
+++ b/en/news/status/report-2010-04-2010-06.xml
@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!DOCTYPE report PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD FreeBSD XML Database for Status
 Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
-<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2010-04-2010-06.xml,v 1.2 2010/07/17 16:50:30 danger Exp $ -->
+<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/news/status/report-2010-04-2010-06.xml,v 1.3 2010/07/17 16:52:27 danger Exp $ -->
 <report>
  <date>
    <month>April-June</month>
@ -12,11 +12,10 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <p>This report covers &os; related projects between April and June
-      2010.  It is the second of the four reports planned for 2010,
-      containing 42 entries.  The progress of the &os; Project is keeping
-      up with the latest trends.  During this period, a lot of work has
+      2010.  It is the second of the four reports planned for 2010, and
+      contains 44 entries.   During this period, a lot of work has
      gone into the development of new minor version of &os;, 8.1-RELEASE,
-      which should be released real soon now.</p>
+      which should be released within days.</p>

    <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! We hope you
      enjoy reading.</p>
@ -70,7 +69,12 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    <description>Ports</description>
  </category>

-  <project cat='doc'>
+  <category>
+    <name>misc</name>
+    <description>Miscellaneous</description>
+  </category>
+
+  <project cat='docs'>
    <title>&os; German Documentation Project</title>

    <contact>
@ -260,7 +264,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    <body>
      <p>A portbuild test showed that grep is basically ready to enter
-	-HEAD, but there were a few number of failures that seems to be
+	-HEAD, but there were a few failures that seem to be
 	related.  These have to be investigated and fixed before
 	committing grep to 9-CURRENT.</p>
    </body>
@ -321,7 +325,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    </help>
  </project>

-  <project cat='doc'>
+  <project cat='docs'>
    <title>The &os; Spanish Documentation Project</title>

    <contact>
@ -350,7 +354,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    <body>
      <p>We need manpower.  Existing documentation set has not been
 	updated for quite some time because of lack of volunteers.  Current
-	members are busy with another projects and real life at the moment
+	members are busy with other projects and real life at the moment
 	and we have not received anything from outside contributors.  It is
 	a shame because there are lots of users in Spain and Latin-America,
 	as well.  Besides, the world's first Free Software Street has been
@ -382,8 +386,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	i8254, RTC, LAPIC and HPET.  First three are already supported by
 	&os;.  Depending on hardware and loader tunables, periodic
 	interrupts from them are used to trigger all time-based events in
-	kernel.  That code has a long history, that made it tangled and same
-	time limited and hardcoded.</p>
+	kernel.  That code has a long history, that made it tangled and
+	at the same time limited and hardcoded.</p>

      <p>New kernel event timers infrastructure was started to allow
 	different event timer hardware to be operated in uniform way and to
@ -395,16 +399,16 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
      <p>The new driver API provides unified support for both per-CPU
 	(independent for every CPU core) and global timers in periodic and
 	one-shot modes.  Management code at this moment uses only periodic
-	mode, while one-shot mode use planned by later tickless kernel
+	mode, while one-shot mode use is planned by later tickless kernel
 	work.</p>

      <p>Different kinds of timers have different capabilities and could
 	be present in hardware in different combinations.  In every
-	situation infrastructure automatically chooses two best event
+	situation the infrastructure automatically chooses two best event
 	timers to supply system with hardclock(), statclock() and
 	profclock() events.  If some timer is not functioning - it will be
 	replaced.  If there is no second timer - it will be emulated.
-	Administrator may affect that choice using loader tunables during
+	The administrator may affect that choice using loader tunables during
 	boot and sysctls in run-time (kern.eventtimer. ...).</p>

      <p>Most of the code was recently committed to HEAD. Now it is used
@ -459,7 +463,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    <body>
      <p>Thanks to Katalin Konkoly, the first few chapters of the &os;
-	Handbook translation have been reviewed, therefore many typos,
+	Handbook translation have been reviewed, therefore many typos and
 	mistranslations were spotted and fixed.  Apart from this, we are
 	still keeping the existing documentation and web page translations
 	up to date, currently without plans on further work.  If you are
@ -659,8 +663,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    <body>
      <p>The ZFS file system has been updated to version 15 on -HEAD and
-	will be MFCed to 8-STABLE around September 13th, 2010.  Ongoing work
-	is undergoing on porting the recent ZFS version 26 with
+	will be MFCed to 8-STABLE around September 13th, 2010.  Wwork
+	is ongoing on porting the recent ZFS version 26 with
 	deduplication functionality.</p>
    </body>

@ -692,7 +696,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	the Flattened Device Tree (FDT) technology, a mechanism for
 	describing computer hardware resources, which cannot be probed or
 	self enumerated, in a uniform and portable way.  The primary
-	consumer of this technology are embedded &os; platforms (ARM, MIPS,
+	consumers of this technology are embedded &os; platforms (ARM, MIPS,
 	PowerPC), where a lot of designs are based on similar chips, but
 	have different assignment of pins, memory layout, addresses ranges,
 	interrupts routing and other resources.</p>
@ -862,9 +866,9 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	and to stable/8 and will be included in the upcoming 8.1
 	release.</p>

-      <p>A first major task was to generalize the virtualization
+      <p>The first major task was to generalize the virtualization
 	framework, so that virtualization of further subsystems would be
-	easier and could be achieved with lesles duplication.</p>
+	easier and could be achieved with less duplication.</p>

      <p>In addition some documentation on the virtual network stack
 	programming was written to help developers virtualizing their code.
@ -935,7 +939,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">

    <body>
      <p>A significant part of quarter two was spent coordinating efforts
-	for inclusion os Xorg 7.5, KDE4, Gnome2, plus preparation of ports
+	for inclusion of Xorg 7.5, KDE4, Gnome2, plus preparation of ports
 	for the 8.1 release process.  Due to the success of enforcing
 	Feature Safe ports commits during the 7.3-RELEASE, it was continued
 	for the recent src/ freeze.</p>
@ -944,7 +948,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	currently floats at about 1200 entries.</p>

      <p>Since the last report, we added four new committers, and had two
-	old committer rejoin us.</p>
+	old committers rejoin us.</p>

      <p>The Ports Management team is very grateful to the &os;
 	Foundation for sponsoring two new head nodes for the ports building
@ -959,8 +963,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	infrastructure improvements, the cluster scheduling code, and &os;
 	itself.  Over the last few weeks, Mark Linimon has been working hard
 	to get the first of the two new nodes online and has already
-	produced its first package.  This has involved a substantial rework
-	of our custom codebase.</p>
+	completed its first package build.  This has involved a substantial
+	rework of our custom codebase.</p>

      <p>The Ports Management team have been running -exp runs on an
 	ongoing basis, verifying how src code updates may affect the ports
@ -1059,7 +1063,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    </body>
  </project>

-  <project cat='vendor'>
+  <project cat='proj'>
    <title>OpenAFS port</title>

    <contact>
@ -1227,8 +1231,8 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	of CC to change ports compiler.  This allows user to change ports
 	compiler easily, while still respecting USE_GCC.</p>

-      <p>Sime patches were written to get ports to work with clang, and a
-	lot of old patches written prior to GSoC project were updated.
+      <p>Some patches were written to get ports to work with clang, and a
+	lot of old patches written prior to the GSoC project were updated.
 	There are still a lot of broken ports and some that cannot be built
 	because of clang/llvm bugs, but at this point, clang can build most
 	ports.</p>
@ -1375,7 +1379,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	moment I am trying to get it back into shape.  So far some problems
 	with toolchain on i386 host have been fixed.  buildkernel succeeds,
 	buildworld succeeds with some exceptions.  Next step would be fixing
-	pmap and bringing port back to singe user stage.</p>
+	pmap and bringing port back to single user stage.</p>
    </body>
  </project>

@ -1487,7 +1491,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	page.</p>

      <p>The aim of ext4 read-only mode is to make it can read ext4 file
-	system in read-only mode when hard disk is formatted with default
+	system in read-only mode when the hard disk is formatted with default
 	features.  Now it can support some features, such as extents,
 	huge_file.  Others features will be supported, such as dir_index,
 	uninit_bg, dir_nlink, flex_bg and extra_isize.  My work resides in
@ -1527,7 +1531,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
      <task>Implement SSL in network communication.</task>

      <task>Perform security improvements/bug fixing, strlxxx functions,
-	memcpy instead strcpy when using non char variables.</task>
+	memcpy instead of strcpy when using non char variables.</task>

      <task>Integrate with current Audit subsystem.</task>
    </help>
@ -1640,7 +1644,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    <body>
      <p>&os; Services Control is a mix of binaries which integrate into
 	the rc.d system and provide for service (daemon) monitoring.  It
-	knows about signals, pidfiles, and uses very little resources.</p>
+	knows about signals, pidfiles, and uses very few resources.</p>

      <p>The fsc daemon (fscd) runs in the background once the system has
 	started.  Services are then added to this daemon via the fscadm
@ -1780,7 +1784,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    </contact>

    <body>
-      <p>Since the last status report some issue with cas(4) have been
+      <p>Since the last status report some issues with cas(4) have been
 	fixed, allowing it to work with Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 MMF
 	cards (Cassini Kuheen, part no. 501-5524) as well as the on-board
 	interfaces of Sun Fire B100s server blades (for the Sun Fire
@ -1916,9 +1920,9 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	with DAHDI folks at Digium.</p>

      <p>The project is nearing its completion: DAHDI framework and HW
-	drivers telephony cards has been ported and tested.  There is a
-	number of success stories from early adopters who use E1/T1 and
-	FXO/FXS cards on &os; for several months.</p>
+	drivers telephony cards have been ported and tested.  There are a
+	number of success stories from early adopters who have been using
+	E1/T1 and FXO/FXS cards on &os; for several months.</p>
    </body>
  </project>

@ -2146,7 +2150,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    </help>
  </project>

-  <project cat='proj'>
+  <project cat='misc'>
    <title>BSDCan</title>

    <contact>
@ -2160,7 +2164,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
    </contact>

    <links>
-      <url href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/">BSDCan 2010</url>
+      <url href="http://www.BSDCan.org/2010/">BSDCan 2010</url>
    </links>

    <body>
@ -2173,7 +2177,7 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	projects.</p>

      <p>The talks during the Dev Summit are beginning to attract a wider
-	audience, and we've been talking about opening this up to the
+	audience, and we have been talking about opening this up to the
 	general audience by creating a fourth track at BSDCan 2011.</p>

      <p>As impossible as it sounds, each year has seen an increase in
@ -2185,4 +2189,48 @@ Report//EN" "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/www/share/sgml/statusreport.dtd">
 	website updates, booking travel, etc.</task>
    </help>
  </project>
+
+  <project cat='misc'>
+    <title>meetBSD 2010 -- The BSD Conference</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>meetBSD</given>
+	  <common>Information</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>info@meetbsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://www.meetbsd.org" />
+      <url href="http://picasaweb.google.com/meetbsd/MeetBSD2010Day1#" />
+      <url href="http://picasaweb.google.com/meetbsd/MeetBSD2010Day2#" />
+      <url href="http://picasaweb.google.com/meetbsd/MeetBSD2010SocialEvent#" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>meetBSD 2010 took place on July 2-3 in Krakow, Poland at the
+	Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science building of the
+	Jagiellonian University.</p>
+
+      <p>The gathering was a much successful event which brought together
+	developers, contributors and users of the BSD systems from around the
+	world.  We had many interesting presentations, of various character and
+	appeal for the diversified audience.</p>
+
+      <p>Attendees had a chance for taking the BSD Certification exam during
+	the conference, as well as the advantage of face to face side
+	conversations and discussions, which continued long during the social
+	event on Friday night!</p>
+
+      <p>The conference presentation slides are already available for
+	download.  Video recordings edition is being finalized, and their
+	publication is expected shortly.</p>
+
+      <p>We hope you enjoyed the event and had great time in Krakow.  See you
+	again soon!</p>
+    </body>
+  </project>
 </report>