svn commit: r46535 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Tue Apr 14 18:24:51 2015
New Revision: 46535
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46535
Log:
Add FreeBSD Foundation report
Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 18:14:06 2015 (r46534)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 18:24:51 2015 (r46535)
@@ -798,4 +798,110 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
</help>
</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/">Foundation website</url>
+ <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
+ <url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_03_11-the_pcbsd_tour_ii">BSDNow PC-BSD Tour</url>
+ <url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_02_25-from_the_foundation_2">BSDNow "From the Foundation"</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The Foundation turned 15 on March 15th! We kicked off
+ our anniversary celebration by launching a spring fundraising
+ campaign, to bring in 500 new community investors. In
+ conjunction with our anniversary, BSDNow interviewed Justin
+ Gibbs about our history and plans for the future as part of
+ the PC-BSD tour. BSDNow also interviewed Ed Maste about &os;
+ projects and processes in a "From the Foundation" episode.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a Platinum Sponsor of AsiaBSDCon and had five team
+ members attend the conference. Kirk McKusick taught a two-day
+ &os; kernel tutorial and gave a talk on Journaled Soft
+ Updates and George Neville-Neil gave a talk on network
+ performance in &os;; George also taught a two day tutorial
+ (A Look Inside FreeBSD with DTrace). This is from ongoing work
+ with Robert Watson in support of both academic and
+ practitioner educational material for &os;. Dru gave a talk
+ on Advanced OpenSource Storage with FreeNAS 9.3, and Ed Maste
+ gave a talk on the LLDB Debugger in FreeBSD.</p>
+
+ <p>We became a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan, and have approved six
+ travel grants to &os; contributors. We also sponsored
+ Michael Dexter to attend SCALE so he could give a talk on
+ virtualization.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition to the above conferences, we helped promote &os;
+ at the following conferences:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15">USENIX
+ FAST '15</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/">FOSDEM</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/">SCALE</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We received and published &os; testimonials from Xinuos,
+ Netgate, and Tarsnap.</p>
+
+ <p>We launched the "From the Trenches" series to provide stories
+ from &os; contributors on what they are doing with &os;.
+ Glen Barber wrote an article called ZFS and How to Make a Foot
+ Cannon. Glen also investigated a deadlock issue when rebooting
+ after upgrades (PR 195458), and he released weekly 11-CURRENT and
+ 10-STABLE snapshot builds.</p>
+
+ <p>The &os; Journal now has over 8300 subscribers and has a 98%
+ renewal rate. We are now publishing a few free <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/articles">&os;
+ Journal articles</a>. We also created landing pages for each
+ Journal issue for easier promotion.</p>
+
+ <p>We started work on the Ottawa Vendor and Developer Summits and
+ another one that has not yet been officially announced on the East
+ Coast in the fall.</p>
+
+ <p>Our development staff and project grant recipients were
+ responsible for a large number of feature improvements and bug
+ fixes over this past quarter. We have eight individual reports
+ in this quarterly update for Foundation-sponsored projects
+ that demonstrate a number of different ways the Foundation
+ supports the &os; project.</p>
+
+ <p>One project is the subject of a research master's
+ project at Swinburne University in Melbourne: the Multipath
+ TCP (MPTCP) implementation for &os;. The PCIe hot plug
+ project is an individual project grant. The FreeBSD/arm64
+ project represents a collaborative development effort, where
+ the Foundation facilitates a broader project with multiple
+ participants.</p>
+
+ <p>There are also a number of projects undertaken directly by
+ Foundation staff. In this quarterly report we have several
+ reports in this category: Secure Boot, the autofs-based
+ automount daemon, dynamically loadable libthr, Intel DMA
+ remapping, migration to the ELF Tool Chain project tools.</p>
+
+ <p>Additionally, one of the benefits of having long-term
+ permanent staff is the ability to continue to maintain
+ projects and contribute improvements beyond a fixed timeline.
+ Over the last quarter Foundation staff contributed
+ improvements to the UEFI boot process, vt(4) system console,
+ in-kernel iSCSI stack, the virtual memory subsystem, and many
+ others.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
+
</report>
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