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Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Wed Oct 26 00:24:53 2016
New Revision: 49583
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49583
Log:
Add FreeBSD Foundation entry from deb
Markup errors are mine.
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running on &os; with patches in the ports tree.</p>
</body>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='team'>
+ <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Deb</given>
+ <common>Goodkin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</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 hardware to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure
+ and publishes &os; white papers and marketing material to
+ promote, educate, and advocate for the &os; Project. The
+ Foundation also 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. Our spending
+ budget for 2016 is $1,250,000 and we have raised $271,500 so
+ far. Our Q1-Q3 financial reports will be posted in early
+ November. As you can see, we need your donations in order to
+ continue supporting &os; at our current level. Please consider
+ making a donation at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>OS Improvements</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation improves &os; by funding software development
+ projects approved through our proposal submission process, and
+ our internal software developer staff members. Two
+ Foundation-funded projects continued last quarter; one project
+ is to port NetBSD's <tt>blacklistd</tt> daemon and related
+ elements to &os;, and the second is phase two of the &os;/arm64
+ port.</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes
+ over the quarter. Kostik Belousov accomplished the following
+ work last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Provided kernel support for EFI Runtime Services calls.</li>
+
+ <li>Implemented getttimeofday(2) purely in userspace for HPET
+ timers</li>
+
+ <li>Implemented fdatasync(2)</li>
+
+ <li>Improved the locking of the time keeping code</li>
+
+ <li>Made the sleepqueue code immune to rapid callout changes</li>
+
+ <li>Made many stability fixes, the most important of which
+ were UFS issues and an i386 bug</li>
+
+ <li>Improved the process management and ptrace code</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Ed Maste, our Project Development Director, accomplished the
+ following work last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Worked on &os;/arm64 issues and Cavium ThunderX
+ deployment (including RMAs)</li>
+
+ <li>Worked with upstream developers to test works in progress
+ and prepare LLD as the replacement linker in the &os; base
+ system</li>
+
+ <li>Switched to using LLVM's <tt>libunwind</tt> in the base system</li>
+
+ <li>Improved the reproducibility of builds in &os; base system
+ and ports</li>
+
+ <li>Reviewed the <tt>blacklistd</tt> work that is in
+ progress</li>
+
+ <li>Attended BSDCam 2016, with a primary focus on toolchain
+ discussions</li>
+
+ <li>Participated in ongoing Capsicum calls, and helped with the
+ Capsicumization of several base system utilities</li>
+
+ <li>Fixed a number of ELF Tool Chain issues, and integrated a new
+ upstream version into the &os; base system</li>
+
+ <li>Hosted biweekly graphics calls to coordinate work in
+ progress by funded and volunteer developers</li>
+
+ <li>Implemented fixes for security issues in some &os; update
+ tools, and coordinated their integration into the stable and
+ release branches</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>George Neville-Neil continued hosting a bi-weekly Transport
+ conference call (notes at <a
+ href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols</a>)
+ and the bi-weekly DTrace conference call (notes at <a
+ href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>Release Engineering</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation staff member Glen Barber worked with the Release
+ Engineering team to continue finalizing the 11.0-RELEASE cycle,
+ which was delayed to address several last-minute issues.</p>
+
+ <p>As part of the Cluster Administration team, Glen worked with
+ the amazing on-site staff at NYI to rack and install two Cavium
+ ThunderX machines, one of which is used for native package
+ builds for the &os;/aarch64 architecture, and the other of which
+ is targeted to be used as a reference machine in the &os;
+ infrastructure.</p>
+
+ <p>Getting Started with &os; Project</p>
+
+ <p>We hired a summer intern, with no experience on &os;, Linux,
+ or any command-line operating system, to figure out on his own
+ how to install and use &os;. He wrote easy-to-follow how-to
+ guides to help make the new-user experience straightforward and
+ positive. He submitted bug reports and reported issues through
+ the appropriate channels, and worked with Glen Barber and Brad
+ Davis to improve the new user information on FreeBSD.org to make
+ it easier for new people to get started with &os;. You can find
+ his how-to guides at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD/how-to-guides/</a>
+ and check out his interview on BSDNow at <a
+ href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience">http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_24-the_fresh_bsd_experience</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Supporting &os; Infrastructure</p>
+
+ <p>We provide hardware and support for &os; infrastructure.
+ Last quarter we purchased and brought up two 48-core Cavium
+ ThunderX machines to build &os; package sets for the arm64
+ platform. We also purchased more servers to help with
+ continuous integration efforts.</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
+ using &os;; producing advocacy literature to teach people about
+ &os; and easing the path to starting out with &os; and contributing
+ to the Project; and attending and getting other &os;
+ contributors to volunteer to run &os; events, staff &os; tables,
+ and give &os; presentations.</p>
+
+ <p>We created new handouts to promote TeachBSD.org (<a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TeachBSD_half_final.pdf</a>)
+ and the Google Summer of Code program (<a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC-flyerv2.pdf</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>We published the July/August issue of the &os; Journal: <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/FreeBSD-and-rtems/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being
+ done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and other
+ information to keep you in the loop of what we’re 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
+ 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>This quarter, we sponsored and/or attended the following events:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Texas Linux Fest, July 8-9, 2016, Austin, TX
+ (<a href="http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/">http://2016.texaslinuxfest.org/</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>The Eleventh HOPE, July 22-24, 2016, New York, NY
+ (<a href="https://hope.net/index.html">https://hope.net/index.html</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>BSDCam 2016, August 15-17, 2016, Cambridge, UK (sponsor,
+ organizer, and participated) (<a
+ href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201608DevSummit">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201608DevSummit</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>FOSSCON 2016, August 20, 2016, Philadelphia, PA
+ (<a href="https://fosscon.us/">https://fosscon.us/</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>womENcourage 2016, September 12-13, 2016, Linz, Austria
+ (Silver Sponsor) (<a
+ href="http://womencourage.acm.org">http://womencourage.acm.org</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2016, September 19-22,
+ 2016, Santa Clara, CA (Industry Partner Sponsor) (<a
+ href="http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer">http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer</a>)</li>
+
+ <li><p>EuroBSDcon 2016 and &os; Developer Summit, September
+ 22-25, 2016, Belgrade, Serbia (Silver Sponsor) (<a
+ href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Our EuroBSDCon involvement included:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Held a Women in Tech BoF in partnership with ACM-W
+ Europe</li>
+ <li>Bennedict organized the EuroBSDCon Developer
+ Summit</li>
+
+ <li>Deb gave a Foundation Update talk and Hiroki Sato and
+ Benedict Reuschling joined her for a Q&A session.</li>
+
+ <li>Kirk McKusick taught his two-day &os; tutorial (<a
+ href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#kirkmckusick">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#kirkmckusick</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>George Neville-Neil taught a tutorial on Tracing &os;
+ for DevOps and Developers (<a
+ href="https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#georgenevilleneil">https://2016.eurobsdcon.org/speakers/#georgenevilleneil</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>George also gave the Keynote talk, titled The Coming
+ Decades of BSD</li>
+
+ <li>Phillip Paeps was one of the primary organizers for
+ this conference.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li><p>OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016, September 26-27, 2016,
+ San Francisco, CA (Silver) (<a
+ href="http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit">http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit</a>)</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Justin Gibbs gave a talk on Fault Management (<a
+ href="http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Fault_Management">http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Fault_Management</a>)</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We sponsored three &os; contributors to attend EuroBSDCon.</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.</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.</p>
+
+ <p>Other Stuff We Did</p>
+
+ <p>We welcomed Kylie Liange and Philip Paeps to the Board of
+ Directors. More information and interviews can be found at: <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-welcomes-new-board-members/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>George attended the ARM Partner Meeting in Cambridge.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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