Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 23:37:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49885 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201701222337.v0MNbB25089582@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Sun Jan 22 23:37:11 2017 New Revision: 49885 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49885 Log: Add 2016Q4 Foundation entry from emaste Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sun Jan 22 19:04:51 2017 (r49884) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml Sun Jan 22 23:37:11 2017 (r49885) @@ -1599,4 +1599,272 @@ <sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor> </project> + + <project cat='team'> + <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Here are some highlights of what we did to help &os; last + quarter:</p> + + <p>Fundraising Efforts</p> + + <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We raised + $1,527,540 in 2016 from 1471 donors! Thank you to everyone who + made a donation to help us continue our efforts in 2017 to + support the &os; Project and community worldwide! You can + make a donation here to our 2017 fundraising campaign: <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>; + + <p>OS Improvements</p> + + <p>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, <tt>blacklistd</tt> access control + daemon, and integration of VIMAGE support, to make sure &os; + remains a viable solution for research, education, computing, + products and more.</p> + + <p>Large projects supported last year include:</p> + + <ul> + <li>arm64 port</li> + + <li>VIMAGE Integration</li> + + <li>Toolchain work</li> + + <li><tt>lacklistd</tt> access control daemon</li> + </ul> + + <p>The Foundation team worked on a technology roadmap for + 2017–2018 during our board meeting in November.</p> + + <p>Staff and board members continued hosting bi-weekly + conference calls to facilitate efforts for individuals to + collaborate on different technologies.</p> + + <p>You can find out more about the support we provided by + reading individual updates from Ed Maste, Konstatin Belousov, + and Edward Napierala in this report.</p> + + <p>Release Engineering</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>Last quarter, our full-time staff member worked with the + &os; Release Engineering and Security Teams to finalize the + 11.0-RELEASE. He also added support for the powerpcspe + architecture to the 12-CURRENT snapshot builds, and continued + work on packaging the base system with <tt>pkg(8)</tt>. He + also continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT + development snapshot builds throughout the quarter.</p> + + <p>You can find out more about the support we provided to the + Release Engineering Team by reading their status update in this + report.</p> + + <p>Supporting &os; Infrastructure</p> + + <p>The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve the + &os; infrastructure. This year, we purchased the following + hardware to improve the build, continuous integration, and + platform processes:</p> + + <ul> + <li>A server to reduce the build time from over an hour to 20 + minutes for the continuous integration process. You can find + out more information here: <a + href="https://jenkins.FreeBSD.org/">https://jenkins.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</li>; + + <li>Two ThunderX servers for native package builds for the + &os;/arm64 architecture.</li> + + <li>Two servers to improve release engineering builds.</li> + + <li>Four servers to improve package builds.</li> + + <li>Four servers as build slaves to increase the number of + builds in the continuous integration process.</li> + </ul> + + <p>&os; Advocacy and Education</p> + + <p>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 using &os; or + contributing to the Project easier; and attending and getting + other &os; contributors to volunteer to run &os; events, + staff &os; tables, and give &os; presentations.</p> + + <p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and + education work we did last year:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Attended and/or sponsored 24 events around the world</li> + + <li>Provided 15 Travel Grants to developers</li> + + <li>Created new and updated marketing literature including: + <ul> + <li>Updated &os; 10 Brochure</li> + + <li>New TeachBSD postcard to spread the word about the + program</li> + + <li>Google Summer of Code flyer</li> + + <li>&os; 11 Brochure</li> + + <li>Updated Recruiting Flyer</li> + + <li>Updated Get Involved Flyer</li> + + <li>&os; as a Platform for Research Flyer</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li>Created a series of &os; How-to Guides: + <ul> + <li>Installing &os; with VirtualBox (Mac/Windows)</li> + + <li>Installing a Desktop Environment on &os;</li> + + <li>Installing &os; for Raspberry Pi</li> + + <li>Installing PC-BSD as a Primary Operating System</li> + + <li>&os; Setup Tips</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li>Acquired New Testimonials: + <ul> + <li>Accelerations Systems</li> + + <li>NeoSmart Technologies</li> + + <li>Chelsio Communications</li> + + <li>Crescent River Port Pilots’ Association</li> + + <li>IXC</li> + + <li>Stormshield</li> + </ul> + </li> + + <li>Updated the &os; Project and Foundation Branding: + <ul> + <li>New FreeBSD Foundation website and logo</li> + + <li>Updated Brand Assets page to include more information + about the &os; Project and FreeBSD Foundation + logos.</li> + </ul> + </li> + </ul> + + <p>We published our September/October and November/December + Journal issues at <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>; + + <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being + done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and + provide other information to keep you in the loop of what we + are doing to support the &os; Project and community: <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/</a>.</p>; + + <p>Conferences and Events</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>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.</p> + + <p>We also sponsored and/or attended the following events last + quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Ohio LinuxFest October, Columbus, Ohio</li> + + <li>Grace Hopper 2016, October, Houston, TX</li> + + <li>COSC 2016, October, Beijing, China</li> + + <li>Bay Area &os; Vendor and Devoloper’s Summit and MeetBSD + 2016, November, Berkely, CA</li> + + <li>USENIX LISA ’16, December 2016, Boston, MA</li> + + <li>OSC 2016, December 2016, Beijing, China</li> + </ul> + + <p>Get the whole list of conferences we supported in 2016 at: <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-2016-advocacy-efforts/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-2016-advocacy-efforts/</a>.</p>; + + <p>Legal/&os; IP</p> + + <p>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. We also provided + legal support for the core team, to investigate the status of + certain patents.</p> + + <p>&os; Community Engagement</p> + + <p>Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director, has been overseeing + the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of Conduct to help + make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming community. The + updated Code of Conduct and Report Guidelines are going through + the final review process, and will be handed off to the Core + Team for approval in Q1 2017.</p> + + <p>Go to <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org">http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org</a>; + to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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