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Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jul 31 02:47:17 2017
New Revision: 50609
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50609
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is needed throughout the rest of the &os; 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>
+ <url href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/&os;-Foundation-Q2-2017-Update.pdf">Quarterly Newsletter</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>Last quarter the Foundation was busy supporting the &os;
+ Project in so many ways! We brought on two interns from the
+ University of Waterloo who were extremely productive, from
+ working on a continuous integration project, to adding MSDOS
+ FAT filesystem support to <tt>makefs</tt>. We continued
+ helping to accelerate OS changes with our internal staff of
+ software developers, as well as funding outside software
+ development projects, and continued promoting &os; by
+ participating in technology conferences around the world. To
+ encourage more commercial users to donate to the Foundation,
+ we launched a new partnership program. The &os; 11.1
+ release effort has been led by a full-time Foundation
+ employee, to continue keeping releases timely and reliable.
+ Finally, we led the effort to celebrate the newly declared
+ &os; Day, to help raise awareness of &os; around the
+ world!</p>
+
+ <p>Below, you can read some of the highlights from our Q2
+ newsletter and find writeups throughout this status report
+ from Foundation staff members including Ed Maste, Kostik
+ Belousov, and Glen Barber. Don't forget, we are 100%
+ funded by donations. Please take a moment to <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">donate
+ now</a>, so we can continue supporting the &os; Project and
+ community worldwide!</p>
+
+ <p>Q2 Development Projects Summary</p>
+
+ <p>The hard work continues into the 2nd quarter on 2017.
+ Please take a look at the highlights from our more recent
+ Development Projects summaries.</p>
+
+ <p>April: &os; USB Mass Storage Target Project Update</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation awarded a project grant to Edward Tomasz
+ Napierała to develop a USB mass storage target driver, using
+ the &os; CAM Target Layer (CTL) as a backend. This project
+ allows &os; on an embedded platform, such as a BeagleBone
+ Black or Raspberry Pi Zero, to emulate a USB mass storage
+ target, commonly known as a USB flash stick. Read more at
+ <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/april-2017-development-projects-update/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/april-2017-development-projects-update/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>May: Foundation Brings on Co-Op Students</p>
+
+ <p>At the beginning of May we embarked on a new path in the
+ &os; Foundation, with the hiring of co-operative education
+ (co-op) students from the University of Waterloo. The
+ University of Waterloo is a pioneer and leader in
+ co-operative education, with 100% of Engineering students
+ and a majority of Computer Science students participating in
+ co-op programs. Read more at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/may-2017-development-projects-update/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/may-2017-development-projects-update/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>June: FreeBSD Foundation 2017 Project Proposal
+ Solicitation (contributed by Ed Maste)</p>
+
+ <p>One of the ways the Foundation supports &os; is by
+ providing development grants for work on individual
+ projects. These allow developers to propose projects they
+ would like to undertake to improve &os;, and request funding
+ to perform that work. The Foundation is always willing to
+ receive proposals, but will occasionally issue a call for
+ proposals to highlight specific areas of focus and to be
+ able to collect and evaluate a group of proposals.</p>
+
+ <p>The proposal submission deadline was July 14, 2017, but as
+ mentioned above, people are welcome to submit proposals at
+ anytime.</p>
+
+ <p>Although proposals may address any &os; subsystem or
+ infrastructure, we are particularly interested in receiving
+ proposals related to:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Improvements to the security of &os; itself, or of
+ applications running on &os;.</li>
+
+ <li>New test cases, improved test infrastructure, and
+ quality assurance.</li>
+
+ <li>Improved software development tools.</li>
+
+ <li>Projects to improve community collaboration and
+ communication.</li>
+
+ <li>Improving the &os; "out of the box" experience
+ for new users on various hardware platforms.</li>
+
+ <li>Establishing &os; as a leader in advancing projects of
+ shared interest (such as ZFS, LLVM, or
+ <tt>libarchive</tt>).</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>More details can be found at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-2017-project-proposal-solicitation/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/FreeBSD-foundation-2017-project-proposal-solicitation/</a>.
+ The full project proposal submission guidelines can be found
+ at <a
+ href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FreeBSDFoundation/d364934d4d/TEST/1b229d9af7">http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FreeBSDFoundation/d364934d4d/TEST/1b229d9af7</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Please do not hesitate to contact
+ [email protected] with any questions.</p>
+
+ <p>Announcing New Partnership Program (contributed by Deb
+ Goodkin)</p>
+
+ <p>I'm excited to announce our new FreeBSD Foundation
+ Partnership Program! Our work is 100% supported by
+ donations from individuals and organizations. With a
+ spending budget of $1,500,000, we rely on large donations
+ from our commercial users to help us sustain and increase
+ our support. Recognizing the value of these donations, and
+ putting together a sustainable funding model, we wanted to
+ institute benefits that highlighted this support, and
+ recognize these donors in productive ways. Partnerships are
+ an avenue to assist commercial users by helping them get on
+ board more quickly with &os;, share their needs with the
+ community, and facilitate collaboration with &os;
+ developers. We believe that building these relationships
+ with commercial users will contribute to keeping &os;
+ relevant and help provide a sustainable and healthy
+ ecosystem.</p>
+
+ <p>You can check out our updated donor pages to see how we are
+ acknowledging our Partners at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donors/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donors/</a>.
+ You can also find out more about this new program at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>When I was in China last week, I had a chance to talk to a
+ few companies about our new partnership program, and it
+ definitely generated more interest in supporting our
+ efforts.</p>
+
+ <p>We are continuing to reach out to commercial users for help
+ that will enable us to provide more outreach and support for
+ &os;. This includes funding more projects to improve &os;,
+ providing &os; education and training, and recruiting more
+ contributors to the Project. We can only provide the above
+ support with your donations, and we need your help to
+ connect us with your companies. Please consider sharing our
+ new Partnership Program with your organization and helping
+ to connect us with the appropriate contacts at your
+ company.</p>
+
+ <p>Your donations will help us:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Accelerate improvements and add new features to
+ &os;</li>
+
+ <li>Support release engineering efforts full-time</li>
+
+ <li>Create and provide &os; educational and training
+ material</li>
+
+ <li>Provide face-to-face opportunities for developers to
+ work together</li>
+
+ <li>Improve and support &os; infrastructure</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We need your support to continue improving &os;. You can
+ help by donating today and sharing our new Partnership
+ Program with your company.</p>
+
+ <p>Q2 2017 Conference Recaps</p>
+
+ <p>From sponsoring events to attending conferences, the
+ Foundation continued its mission of advocacy in the second
+ quarter of 2017. Over the past few weeks, members of the
+ Foundation team represented the Project and the Foundation
+ at events around the world. Below are just a few of the
+ conference recaps.</p>
+
+ <p>FOSSASIA 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation kindly funded part of my travel from Tokyo to
+ Singapore to attend FOSSASIA. I gave the "&os; is not
+ a Linux Distribution" presentation that Foundation
+ board member George Neville-Neil wrote for Open Source China
+ in December. My presentation was well-attended, and I got a
+ lot of good questions from the primarily Linux-oriented
+ audience. Read more at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/fossasia-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/fossasia-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>OSCON 2017 (contributed by Ed Maste)</p>
+
+ <p>I represented the FreeBSD Foundation at OSCON 2017, which took place
+ May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. <a
+ href="https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx">https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation booth was also staffed by &os; committer
+ Brad Davis and Doug Mcintire from Netgate. We met up
+ Wednesday morning to set up the table. We were part of a
+ "nonprofit pavilion" which consisted of eight or
+ so tables, located between Open Camps and Operation
+ Code.</p>
+
+ <p>To help attract booth traffic, I brought a Raspberry Pi 3,
+ with a small LCD display attached. As a demo, the Raspberry
+ Pi showed a video of a Gource rendering of changes to the
+ &os; source tree over time (see example at <a
+ href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8Sspua0Ks">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8Sspua0Ks</a>).
+ Read more at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-oscon-2017/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>RootConf 2017 (contributed by Philip Paeps)</p>
+
+ <p>In mid-May I presented at Rootconf 2017 in Bangalore.
+ Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and
+ operations engineers share real world knowledge about
+ building reliable systems. <a
+ href="https://rootconf.in/2017/">https://rootconf.in/2017/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>As always, it was interesting to hear the difficulties
+ people face trying to run reliable systems on less reliable
+ platforms. While many of the presentations were very
+ Linux-specific and not very exciting to me, a couple of
+ talks did catch my eye.</p>
+
+ <p>I particularly enjoyed the talk by Aruna Sankaranarayanan
+ (<a
+ href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJ7YhVoSWI&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQJ7YhVoSWI&feature=youtu.be</a>)
+ explaining how Mapbox takes advantage of Amazon's "spot
+ pricing" mechanism by spawning and shutting down
+ machines at different price points to optimize for cost
+ without compromising availability. Their spotswap <a
+ href="https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/">https://github.com/mapbox/spotswap/</a>
+ software has been released under a BSD license. It sounds
+ like it should be possible to port this to &os; with minimal
+ effort. Read more at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/rootconf-2017-trip-report-philip-paeps/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>BSDCan 2017/&os; Developers Summit (contributed by Deb
+ Goodkin)</p>
+
+ <p>One of our initiatives is to assist in providing
+ face-to-face knowledge sharing and development opportunities
+ around the world. One way we do this is by sponsoring
+ BSD-related conferences and &os; Developer and Vendor
+ Summits. We recently sponsored both BSDCan 2017 and the
+ &os; Developer and Vendor Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
+ which took place June 7-10, 2017. Many of our board and
+ staff members attended the summit and conference to run
+ tutorials, give presentations, lead sessions, work with
+ developers, give demos, and share knowledge.</p>
+
+ <p>In addition, this year we were pleased to bring our new
+ University of Waterloo interns to the conference where they
+ had the opportunity to demonstrate some of their projects at
+ the Foundation table. Read more at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-bsdcan-2017FreeBSD-developers-summit/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/conference-recap-bsdcan-2017FreeBSD-developers-summit/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Open Travel Grant Applications</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation recognizes the importance of bringing
+ members of the &os; community face-to-face to both further
+ development of the Project and spread the word about &os;.
+ Travel grants are available to community members who need
+ assistance with travel expenses for attending conferences
+ related to &os; development and advocacy. Please note: the
+ travel grant policy has been recently updated. Please
+ carefully review before submitting your application.</p>
+
+ <p>More information about travel grants is available at: <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/what-we-do/grants/travel-grants/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/what-we-do/grants/travel-grants/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>&os; Day was June 19! (contributed by Anne Dickison)</p>
+
+ <p>June 19th was declared &os; Day! Thank you to everyone who
+ joined us in honoring the &os; Project's pioneering legacy
+ and continuing impact on technology. Find out more about
+ &os; Day and how we celebrated here at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/happy-FreeBSD-day/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/blog/happy-FreeBSD-day/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Upcoming Events</p>
+
+ <p>Find out about upcoming Foundation events at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/upcoming-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/upcoming-events/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>&os; Journal</p>
+
+ <p>The May/June 2017 Issue of the &os; Journal is now
+ available. Don't miss articles on &os;'s Firewall Feast,
+ CADETS: Blending Tracing and Security on &os;, Toward
+ Oblivious Sandboxing with Capsicum, and more. (<a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/security/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/security/</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Did you miss the March/April issue? Check out articles on
+ CFEngine, Puppet on &os;, Vagrant, and more! (<a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/configuration-management/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/past-issues/configuration-management/</a>)
+ As a recent addition of functionality, browser-based
+ subscribers now have the ability to download and share PDFs
+ of the articles!</p>
+
+ <p>Sample Issue! If you've ever wanted to read through an
+ entire issue of the &os; Journal, now's your chance.
+ Download the sample issue from <a
+ href="https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=296880#{"issue_id":296880,"numpages":1,"page":1}">https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=296880#{"issue_id":296880,"numpages":1,"page":1}</a>
+ and be sure to share with your friends and colleagues. Not
+ a subscriber? Sign up today at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>More information about the Foundation's doings and
+ goings-on can be found in our own quarterly newsletter, linked
+ above.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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