svn commit: r49885 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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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
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<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>[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 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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