svn commit: r46201 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Ed Maste
emaste at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 14 19:14:42 UTC 2015
Author: emaste (src committer)
Date: Wed Jan 14 19:14:40 2015
New Revision: 46201
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46201
Log:
Add FreeBSD Foundation quarterly status entry
Approved by: bjk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1522
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml
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</task>
</help>
</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 ended the year exceeding our fundraising goal, by raising
+ over $2,372,132, from 1670 donors! Thank you to everyone who
+ made a donation in 2014.</p>
+
+ <p>We produced issues five and six of the &os; Journal,
+ ending the year with over 6300 subscribers, exceeding our
+ first-year goal of 5000 subscribers. We also added the
+ desktop/digital edition, so people can read the magazine from
+ their browsers. We also hosted a meeting with the Journal
+ Editorial Board and worked out the editorial calendar for the
+ next two years. This includes topics and articles for the
+ future issues.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a gold sponsor of EuroBSDCon 2014, and a sponsor of
+ the preceding Developer Summit. A few of our team members
+ attended, which allowed us to have an informal face-to-face
+ board meeting, with a focus on supporting the European region.
+ Kirk McKusick gave a two-day &os; tutorial and Erwin
+ Lansing helped run the Developer Summit. We sponsored 5
+ &os; contributors to attend the conference.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a sponsor of the
+ <a href="http://gracehopper.org/2014/">Grace Hopper
+ Conference</a>.
+ Dru Lavigne gave an introduction to &os; presentation, that
+ was well attended. We also sponsored Shteryana Shopova to
+ represent &os;, along with Dru, at our booth.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a sponsor of
+ <a href="https://www.meetbsd.com/">MeetBSD</a>.
+ Most of our team members attended this conference.
+ Kirk McKusick gave a talk on BSD history.
+ We also had a booth, and raised over $2,200 in donations.
+ We sponsored one person to attend this conference.</p>
+
+ <p>George organized and ran the two-day Silicon Valley Vendor
+ and Developer Summit following MeetBSD.
+ A lot of work gets started and accomplished at these summits,
+ for example, Kirk worked with various folks to get the ino64
+ (64-bit inode numbers) project moving.
+ It started in 2011 as a Summer of Code project and has
+ sputtered since getting pushed into the system.</p>
+
+ <p>Besides the above conferences, we helped promote &os; at
+ the following conferences:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://allthingsopen.org/2014/">All Things
+ Open</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://ohiolinux.org/">Ohio Linux
+ Fest</a></li>
+ <li><a
+ href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14">LISA</a></li>
+ LISA had a great turnout for Dru Lavigne's &os; BoF talk.
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>We visited a few large &os; users in the Bay Area to
+ discuss their use of &os;, plans, and needs, and help
+ facilitate collaboration between them and the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>Cheryl Blain joined our board, bringing a strong background
+ in business development and fundraising.</p>
+
+ <p>We received the largest donation in our history, and our
+ treasurer put together an endowment strategy for us to
+ follow.</p>
+
+ <p>We increased our &os; marketing efforts to help promote
+ and advocate for &os;, as well as educate people on
+ &os;. Some our &os; marketing highlights include:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Created the &os; 10 brochure</li>
+ <li>Created the Get Involved brochure for recruiting</li>
+ <li>Created a testimonial flyer to encourage more companies
+ to write &os; testimonials for us.</li>
+ </ul>
+ These flyers are available on the
+ <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/#marketing">&os;
+ Foundation site</a>
+ for &os; advocates to promote &os; at conferences around
+ the world.
+ We also put ads for the Foundation and &os; in the &os;
+ Journal and USENIX ;login: magazine.</p>
+
+ <p>We are producing a monthly newsletter to highlight what we
+ did the previous month to support the &os; Project.
+ We also produced our
+ <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">December
+ semi-annual newsletter</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We redesigned and launched phase 1 of our website.
+ It should be easier to navigate and find the information you
+ need to get help from or to help the Foundation.</p>
+
+ <p>Glen Barber visited the Microsoft main campus and worked with
+ Microsoft Hyper-V developers to resolve outstanding issues
+ with providing &os; images for the Microsoft Azure
+ platform.</p>
+
+ <p>Glen also visited the NYI colocation facility to install and
+ configure new servers purchased by the Foundation.</p>
+
+ <p>We finished the 10.1-RELEASE cycle.</p>
+
+ <p>Our project development staff and contractors have been
+ working on various projects to add features to and improve
+ &os;. Some of their reports are included in this overall
+ report. Some projects that were worked on this quarter were
+ adding support for 64-bit ARM architecture to &os;,
+ integration work on the vt(4) updated console and UEFI boot
+ support, Secure Boot, refining in-kernel iSCSI target and
+ initiator stack, autofs-based automount daemon, migrating to
+ the ELF Tool Chain, and implementing modern AES modes in
+ &os;'s cryptographic framework.</p>
+
+ <p>To read more about how we helped support the &os; Project
+ and community, read our
+ <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014dec-newsletter.html">semi-annual
+ newsletter</a>.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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