svn commit: r45287 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Glen Barber <[email protected]>
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Author: gjb
Date: Mon Jul 14 14:12:39 2014
New Revision: 45287
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45287
Log:
Add the FreeBSD Foundation status report.
Submitted by: deb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 13:45:00 2014 (r45286)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 14:12:39 2014 (r45287)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
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<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This
- report contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ report contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and
September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -792,4 +792,119 @@
<p>Work on this project is sponsored by Juniper Networks.</p>
</body>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='misc'>
+ <title>The &os; Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Deb</given>
+ <common>Goodkin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>
+ <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
+ dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project
+ and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to
+ support &os; development projects, conferences and developer
+ summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os;
+ infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>We published our third issue of the &os; Journal. We have
+ over 2700 subscriptions so far. We continued working on the
+ digital edition, that will allow subscribers to read the
+ magazine in different web browsers, including those than run
+ on &os;. This will be available for the July/August issue of
+ the Journal.</p>
+
+ <p>We hired Anne Dickison, on a freelance basis, as our new
+ marketing director, to help us promote the Foundation and
+ Project.</p>
+
+ <p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa, Canada, in May.
+ We elected directors and officers, and did some long term
+ planning. We worked on our vision, core values, project road
+ mapping, and our near term goals. We also met with the core
+ team to discuss roles and responsibilities, project
+ roadmapping, and what we can do to help the Project more.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a Gold+ sponsor for BSDCan, May 16-17 and provided
+ 7 travel grants for developers to attend the conference. We
+ also were the sponsor for both the developer and vendor
+ summits.</p>
+
+ <p>Justin Gibbs gave a &os; presentation at a &os; user's
+ internal technology summit. Company visits like this help
+ users understand the Project structure better and gives us
+ a chance to communicate what &os; people are working on as
+ well as learn what different companies are doing with &os;, as
+ well as what they'd like to see supported. We can then help
+ facilitate collaboration between the companies and &os;
+ developers.</p>
+
+ <p>We were represented at Great Wide Open, April 2-3
+ (greatwideopen.org), Texas LinuxFest, June 13-14
+ (texaslinuxfest.org), and SouthEast LinuxFest, June 20-22
+ (southeastlinuxfest.org).</p>
+
+ <p>We purchased hardware to support an upgrade at Sentex. A new,
+ high capacity, 1Gbps switch, was deployed to allow for more
+ systems to be added to the test lab. The main file server and
+ development box was upgraded to allow more users in the lab
+ simultaneously.</p>
+
+ <p>We purchased hardware, including package builders, and
+ a larger server to allow NYI to be a full replica of all
+ Project systems, comparable to what is in place at Yahoo Inc.
+ and ISC.</p>
+
+ <p>Worked with our lawyer to create an NDA between the
+ Foundation and individuals for third party NDAs. This allows
+ developers who need access to proprietary documents, to go
+ through the Foundation, via an NDA for access.</p>
+
+ <p>&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer,
+ Glen Barber, continued work on producing regularly-updated
+ &os;/arm snapshots for embedded devices, such as the
+ RaspberryPi, ZedBoard, and BeagleBone.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition to producing weekly development snapshots from
+ the head/ and stable/ branches, with feedback and help from Ed
+ Maste, Glen finished work to produce release images that will,
+ by default, provide debugging files for userland and kernel
+ available on the &os; Project FTP mirrors. Note, the
+ debugging files will not be included on the bootonly.iso,
+ disc1.iso, or dvd1.iso images due to the size of the resulting
+ images.</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov completed an
+ investigation into poor performance of PostgreSQL on &os;.
+ This uncovered scalability problems in the &os; kernel, and
+ changes to address these issues are in progress.</p>
+
+ <p>Some previously completed Foundation-sponsored projects
+ received some enhancements or additional work. The ARM
+ superpages project was completed last year, but is now enabled
+ by default in &os;-CURRENT. Many stability fixes and
+ enhancements have been committed to the in-kernel iSCSI stack.
+ The iSCSI project was released in &os; 10.0. Many
+ stability fixes and enhancements have been committed and will
+ be included in &os; 10.1.</p>
+
+ <p>Work continues on the Foundation-sponsored autofs automount
+ daemon, UEFI boot support, the updated vt(4) system video
+ console, virtual machine images, and the Intel graphics driver
+ update. Foundation-sponsored work resulted in
+ 226 commits to &os; over the April to June period.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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