svn commit: r51229 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Mon Nov 27 05:45:24 2017
New Revision: 51229
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51229
Log:
Add 2017Q3 Foundation entry from deb
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head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-07-2017-09.xml
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bottleneck.</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/2017/08/&os;-Foundation-July-August-2017-Update.pdf">FreeBSD Foundation Quarterly Newsletter</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 and provides
+ full-time Release Engineering support; 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. This year we've
+ raised over $860,000 from 500+ donors. Our 2017 fundraising
+ goal is $1,250,00 and we are continuing to work hard to meet
+ and exceed this goal! Please consider making a donation to
+ help us continue and increase our support for &os;. <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/donate/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We also have a new Partnership Program, to provide more benefits
+ for our larger commercial donors. Find out more information at
+ <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/</a>
+ and share with your companies!</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 the integration of VIMAGE support, to make sure
+ that &os; remains a viable solution for research,
+ education, computing, products and more.</p>
+
+ <p>We kicked off or continued the following projects last
+ quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion project</li>
+
+ <li>Broadcom Wi-Fi infrastructural improvements
+ (<tt>bhnd(4)</tt> driver)</li>
+
+ <li>Headless mode out of the box — Beaglebone Black</li>
+
+ <li>Extending bhyve-ARMv7 features</li>
+
+ <li>Porting <tt>bhyve-arm</tt> to an ARMv8 platform</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Having software developers on staff has allowed us to jump in
+ and work directly on projects to improve &os; like:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>ZFS improvements</li>
+
+ <li>New Intel server support</li>
+
+ <li><tt>kqueue(2)</tt> updates</li>
+
+ <li>64-bit inode support</li>
+
+ <li>Stack guard</li>
+
+ <li>Kernel Undefined Behavior sanitizer</li>
+
+ <li>Toolchain projects</li>
+
+ <li><tt>i915</tt> driver investigation</li>
+
+ <li>NVDIMM support in <tt>acpiconf(8)</tt></li>
+
+ <li>Continuous integration dashboard (web page and physical
+ hardware)</li>
+
+ <li>FAT filesystem support in makefs(8)</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <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,
+ Landon Fuller, Matt Ahrens, 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
+ 11.1-RELEASE. He also supported the 10.4 release effort, and
+ has continued producing 10-STABLE, 11-STABLE, and 12-CURRENT
+ development snapshot builds throughout the quarter. At the
+ vBSDCon Developer Summit, he gave a presentation on the state
+ of the release engineering team.</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. Last quarter, we continued supporting
+ &os; hardware located around the world.</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 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>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 of
+ &os;, to increase the use of &os; in different
+ applications, and to recruit more contributors to the
+ Project.</p>
+
+ <p>Here is a list highlighting some of the advocacy and
+ education work we did last quarter:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Organized and ran the Essen &os; Hackathon in Essen
+ Germany</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored and participated in the &os; Developer Summit
+ BSDCam, in Cambridge, England</li>
+
+ <li>Represented &os; at the ARM Partner Meeting</li>
+
+ <li>Presented and taught about &os; at SdNOG 4 in Khartoum,
+ Sudan</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored and gave presentations and tutorials at
+ EuroBSDCon in Paris, France</li>
+
+ <li>Organized and ran the Paris &os; Developer Summit</li>
+
+ <li>Organized and ran the &os; Developer Summit at vBSDCon</li>
+
+ <li>Sponsored and attended vBSDCon</li>
+
+ <li>Proved travel grants to &os; contributors to attend the
+ above events.</li>
+
+ <li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Security Symposium in
+ Vancouver BC</li>
+
+ <li>Provided &os; advocacy material</li>
+
+ <li>Industry Partner for 2017 USENIX Annual Technical
+ Conference in Santa Clara, CA</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We continued producing &os; advocacy material to help
+ people promote &os; around the world.</p>
+
+ <p>We help educate the world about &os; by publishing the
+ professionally produced &os; Journal. Last quarter we
+ published the July/August issue that you can find at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.&os;foundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>You can find out more about events we were at and upcoming
+ events at <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Legal/&os; IP</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our
+ responsibility to protect them. We also provide legal support
+ for the core team to investigate questions that arise.</p>
+
+ <p>Go to <a
+ href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/">http://www.&os;foundation.org</a>
+ to find out how we support &os; and how we can help you!</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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