svn commit: r50237 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Sun May 7 18:58:24 2017
New Revision: 50237
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50237
Log:
Add 2017Q1 Foundation entry from deb
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml
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on the GlobalScale Dreamplug and some Chromebooks).</task>
</help>
</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>
+ <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/&os;-Foundation-Q1-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url>
+ <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201702StorageSummit">2017 Storage Summit</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>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We kicked off the
+ new year with some large contributions from Intel and NetApp,
+ to help us raise over $400,000 last quarter! We engaged in
+ discussions with new and old commercial users to help
+ facilitate collaboration, explain how the Project works, and
+ to ask for financial contributions to help us keep &os; the
+ innovative, secure, and reliable operating system they depend
+ on. Please consider making a donation today! <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/</a>.</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 <tt>VIMAGE</tt> support, to make
+ sure &os; remains a viable solution for research, education,
+ computing, products and more.</p>
+
+ <p>This quarter's project development highlights include:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>168 commits sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation in the src
+ tree (base system) development branch, across three staff
+ members and four grant recipients/other developers.</li>
+
+ <li>Funded grants including the <tt>cfumass</tt> project, now
+ committed to &os;-HEAD, and improvements to the
+ <tt>blacklistd</tt> daemon and &os;/arm64 port.</li>
+
+ <li>Staff contributions including improvements to tool chain
+ and build tool components, run time libraries, arm64, mips64
+ and 32- and 64-bit x86 architectures, release image build
+ tooling, packaged base, and VM subsystem bug fixes.</li>
+
+ <li>Significant progress on the 64-bit inode project, which
+ is nearly ready for commit.</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 to use
+ &os; or contribute 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>Some of the highlights of our advocacy and education work
+ over the last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Promoted &os; at: FOSDEM, SCALE, AsiaBSDcon, and
+ FOSSASIA</li>
+
+ <li>Promoted BSDCan, SCALE, USENIX LISA, vBSDcon and
+ EuroBSDcon Calls for Participation</li>
+
+ <li>Promoted Google Summer of Code participation on social
+ media and created a flyer for people to post at their
+ universities.</li>
+
+ <li>Published a New Faces of &os; Story: Joseph Kong</li>
+
+ <li>Set up a Marketing Partnership with the USENIX Association
+ and SNIA</li>
+
+ <li>Published and Promoted the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of the &os;
+ Journal: https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</li>
+
+ <li>Published monthly Development Projects Updates on our
+ blog</li>
+
+ <li>Secured a &os; table at OSCON and promoted available
+ discounts.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <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>FOSDEM &os; developer summit (sponsor)</li>
+
+ <li>AsiaBSDCon — Tokyo, Japan (sponsor)</li>
+
+ <li>Organized and ran the &os; Storage Summit in Santa Clara,
+ CA</li>
+
+ <li>Board member Philip Paeps gave a &os; presentation at
+ FOSSASIA</li>
+
+ <li>Attended FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, and SCALE</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <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. Some highlights
+ from last quarter include:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Continued the production of weekly development snapshots
+ for the 12-CURRENT, 11-STABLE, and 10-STABLE branches.</li>
+
+ <li>Published the initial &os; 11.1-RELEASE schedule to the
+ Project website.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <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>Many more details about how we supported &os; last quarter
+ can be found in our Q1 newsletter!</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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