Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:45:24 +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: r51229 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201711270545.vAR5jO0g059514@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Mon Nov 27 05:45:24 2017 New Revision: 51229 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51229 Log: Add 2017Q3 Foundation entry from deb Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 03:14:30 2017 (r51228) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml Mon Nov 27 05:45:24 2017 (r51229) @@ -843,4 +843,230 @@ bottleneck.</p> </body> </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> + <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/&os;-Foundation-July-August-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</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 and provides + full-time Release Engineering support; 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. This year we've + raised over $860,000 from 500+ donors. Our 2017 fundraising + goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet + and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to + help us continue and increase our support for &os;. <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>; + + <p>We also have a new Partnership Program, to provide more benefits + for our larger commercial donors. Find out more information at + <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/</a>; + and share with your companies!</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 the integration of VIMAGE support, to make sure + that &os; remains a viable solution for research, + education, computing, products and more.</p> + + <p>We kicked off or continued the following projects last + quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion project</li> + + <li>Broadcom Wi-Fi infrastructural improvements + (<tt>bhnd(4)</tt> driver)</li> + + <li>Headless mode out of the box — Beaglebone Black</li> + + <li>Extending bhyve-ARMv7 features</li> + + <li>Porting <tt>bhyve-arm</tt> to an ARMv8 platform</li> + </ul> + + <p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in + and work directly on projects to improve &os; like:</p> + + <ul> + <li>ZFS improvements</li> + + <li>New Intel server support</li> + + <li><tt>kqueue(2)</tt> updates</li> + + <li>64-bit inode support</li> + + <li>Stack guard</li> + + <li>Kernel Undefined Behavior sanitizer</li> + + <li>Toolchain projects</li> + + <li><tt>i915</tt> driver investigation</li> + + <li>NVDIMM support in <tt>acpiconf(8)</tt></li> + + <li>Continuous integration dashboard (web page and physical + hardware)</li> + + <li>FAT filesystem support in makefs(8)</li> + </ul> + + <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, + Landon Fuller, Matt Ahrens, 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 + 11.1-RELEASE. He also supported the 10.4 release effort, and + has continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT + development snapshot builds throughout the quarter. At the + vBSDCon Developer Summit, he gave a presentation on the state + of the release engineering team.</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. Last quarter, we continued supporting + &os; hardware located around the world.</p> + + <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>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 of + &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different + applications, and to recruit more contributors to the + Project.</p> + + <p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and + education work we did last quarter:</p> + + <ul> + <li>Organized and ran the Essen &os; Hackathon in Essen + Germany</li> + + <li>Sponsored and participated in the &os; Developer Summit + BSDCam, in Cambridge, England</li> + + <li>Represented &os; at the ARM Partner Meeting</li> + + <li>Presented and taught about &os; at SdNOG 4 in Khartoum, + Sudan</li> + + <li>Sponsored and gave presentations and tutorials at + EuroBSDCon in Paris, France</li> + + <li>Organized and ran the Paris &os; Developer Summit</li> + + <li>Organized and ran the &os; Developer Summit at vBSDCon</li> + + <li>Sponsored and attended vBSDCon</li> + + <li>Proved travel grants to &os; contributors to attend the + above events.</li> + + <li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in + Vancouver BC</li> + + <li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li> + + <li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Annual Technical + Conference in Santa Clara, CA</li> + </ul> + + <p>We continued producing &os; advocacy material to help + people promote &os; around the world.</p> + + <p>We help educate the world about &os; by publishing the + professionally produced &os; Journal. Last quarter we + published the July/August issue that you can find at <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>; + + <p>You can find out more about events we were at and upcoming + events at <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/</a>.</p>; + + <p>Legal/&os; IP</p> + + <p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our + responsibility to protect them. We also provide legal support + for the core team to investigate questions that arise.</p> + + <p>Go to <a + href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/">http://www.&os;foundation.org</a>; + to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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