svn commit: r44477 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Gabor Pali
pgj at FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 7 20:51:18 UTC 2014
Author: pgj
Date: Mon Apr 7 20:51:17 2014
New Revision: 44477
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44477
Log:
- Add 2014Q1 status report for the FreeBSD Foundation
Submitted by: Deb Goodkin <deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org>
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Mon Apr 7 20:38:16 2014 (r44476)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml Mon Apr 7 20:51:17 2014 (r44477)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
<!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
<p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report
- contains 26 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+ contains 27 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@
<description>Documentation</description>
</category>
+ <category>
+ <name>misc</name>
+
+ <description>Miscellaneous</description>
+ </category>
+
<project cat='ports'>
<title>Chromium</title>
@@ -1609,4 +1615,111 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
<sponsor>Microsemi, Inc.</sponsor>
<sponsor>Semihalf sp.j</sponsor>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='misc'>
+ <title>The &os; Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Deb</given>
+ <common>Goodkin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/"/>
+ <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
+ dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project and
+ community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to support
+ &os; development projects, conferences and developer summits,
+ purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os; infrastructure,
+ and provide legal support for the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>We published the first issue of the &os; Journal, our new on-line
+ &os; magazine. The positive feedback from both the &os; and
+ outside communities has been incredible. This quarter we began work
+ on articles and promotion for the second issue. We also started working
+ on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web
+ browsers including those that run on &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>This year we are earmarking more funding towards &os; advocacy
+ and education. You will see more literature, white papers,
+ articles, and so on to help promote &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation held a board meeting in Berkeley, California, in
+ January. We discussed longer term strategy and planning for the
+ year. We put together our 2014 budget with a plan of raising at
+ least $1,000,000 and spending $900,000.</p>
+
+ <p>Two Foundation funded projects were completed. The first,
+ co-sponsored by Google, integrated the Casper daemon into &os;.
+ The second was <tt>auditdistd(8)</tt> improvements for the &os;
+ cluster.</p>
+
+ <p>Work continued on the following Foundation-sponsored projects:
+ Intel graphics driver update by &a.kib;, UEFI boot support for
+ <tt>amd64</tt> by &a.emaste;, autofs automounter and in-kernel
+ iSCSI stack enhancements, bug fixes by &a.trasz;, updated
+ <tt>vt(4)</tt> system console by &a.ray;. A more detailed
+ project update for each of the above projects can be found
+ within this quarterly status report.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a Gold Sponsor for NYCBSDCon 2014 in New York,
+ February 8, which was attended by sSeveral board members. We
+ were represented at SCALE in Los Angeles, February 22-23, and
+ ICANN in Singapore, March 22-25.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a sponsor for AsiaBSDCon in Tokyo, March 15-16. Board
+ member &a.hrs; was the conference organizer. Board members
+ &a.mckusick; and &a.gnn; taught tutorials and Kirk gave a
+ keynote. Board member &a.dru; manned the foundation table and
+ spoke at one of the sessions.</p>
+
+ <p>We became a Gold+ sponsor for BSDCan 2014, May 16-17 and
+ have started reaching out to vendors to attend the developer
+ summit that runs in the two days before BSDCan.</p>
+
+ <p>Board members George, Kirk, and &a.rwatson; pushed to finish
+ the final draft of the next edition of their book <q>The Design
+ and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System</q>.</p>
+
+ <p>ITWire editor Sam Varghese published an interview with Kirk and
+ Foundation technical manager &a.emaste; about the status of
+ secure boot on &os;.</p>
+
+ <p>The &os; Logo is now officially a registered trademark to
+ represent the &os; operating system. We are working to expand the
+ registration beyond just the &os; operating system, but
+ currently still have to use the <q>TM</q> symbol when using it
+ on apparel and other non-operating-system items. We continued
+ reviewing requests and granting permission to use &os;
+ trademarks.</p>
+
+ <p>After finishing the 10.0-RELEASE, Foundation system
+ administrator and release engineer &a.gjb; began work on adding
+ support for &os;/arm image builds as part of the release build
+ process. As result of this work, &os;/arm images are produced
+ as part of the weekly development snapshot builds, and available
+ from any of the &os; FTP mirrors. Supported kernel
+ configurations currently include <tt>BEAGLEBONE</tt>,
+ <tt>RPI-B</tt>, <tt>PANDABOARD</tt>, <tt>WANDBOARD-QUAD</tt>,
+ and <tt>ZEDBOARD</tt>.</p>
+
+ <p>George visited six large &os; users in the Bay Area in
+ February. These meetings are conducted to help facilitate
+ collaboration between &os; customers and the &os; Project. It
+ is an opportunity to exchange information on what the customers
+ are doing and what is being worked on in the Project. It is
+ also an opportunity to try to connect customers with the
+ appropriate &os; developers who may be working on areas of &os;
+ that interest these customers.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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