svn commit: r48043 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jan 17 05:16:42 UTC 2016
Author: bjk
Date: Sun Jan 17 05:16:40 2016
New Revision: 48043
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48043
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Add FreeBSD Foundation entry from Anne Dickison
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head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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+ <project cat='misc'>
+ <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/">Foundation Website</url>
+ <url href="http://FreeBSDJournal.com/">FreeBSD Journal</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
+ development projects, conferences and developer summits, and
+ provide travel grants to &os; developers. The Foundation
+ purchases hardware to improve and maintain &os; infrastructure
+ and publishes &os; white papers and marketing material to
+ promote, educate, and advocate for the &os; Project. The
+ Foundation also 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>On the advocacy front, the Foundation attended and
+ sponsored EuroBSDcon, which took place Oct 1-4 (<a
+ href="https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/">https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/</a>
+ )in Stockholm, Sweden. Two days prior, during the developer
+ summit, Deb Goodkin ran a session on Recruiting to &os;. The
+ Foundation was also very active during the event itself; in
+ addition to Deb, we had &a.dru;, &a.mckusick;, &a.erwin;,
+ &a.emaste;, &a.hrs;, and &a.trasz; attend the conference. Deb
+ and Ed gave a presentation on how the Foundation supports a
+ BSD project. Kirk gave a presentation on "a Brief
+ History of the BSD Fast File System," and he taught the
+ two-day tutorial "Introduction to the &os; Open-Source
+ Operating System."</p>
+
+ <p>Deb then attended the 2015 Grace Hopper Conference
+ that was held in Houston, TX, October 14-16. The conference is
+ for women in computing and most of the attendees were female
+ computer science majors, female software developers, and
+ college professors. The Foundation was proud to be a Silver
+ Sponsor. The conference was very successful for us; our
+ presence allowed us to to raise awareness of the Project, help
+ recruit more women, and get more professors to include &os;
+ in their curriculum.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.gnn; traveled to Bangkok, Thailand to present
+ talks on DTrace, &os;, and teaching with DTrace, at
+ Chulalongkorn University, which is the largest University in
+ Thailand with the largest engineering school. The first talk
+ he gave was his practitioner's introduction to DTrace in which
+ he explains the technology, history and usage, without diving
+ into all the kernel subsystems. The second was the sales
+ pitch for teaching with Dtrace and with &os;. The pitch
+ was well received and there was some very good points made by
+ the audience. The facts that the course materials are both
+ open source and hosted on github were also well received.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.mckusick; completed a 10-hour tutorial about &os;
+ for Pearson Education in their "Live Lesson"
+ program. In particular, there is a great free snippet from
+ that course comparing &os; against Linux here:
+ <a href="http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a">http://youtu.be/dTpqALCwQ1Y?a</a> .
+ Find out more about the whole session at:
+ <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&subid=&offerid=163217.1&type=10&tmpid=3559&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-FreeBSD-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868">http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=NZS3W7D*uS0&subid=&offerid=163217.1&type=10&tmpid=3559&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.informit.com%252Fstore%252Fintroduction-to-the-freebsd-open-source-operating-system-9780134305868</a> .</p>
+
+ <p>Anne Dickison resumed the Faces of &os; series
+ with interviews featuring Michael Dexter and Erin Clark. She
+ also continued to produce and distribute &os; materials for
+ conferences, as well as advocating for &os; over our social
+ channels.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.gnn; headed up the latest Silicon Valley Vendor
+ and Developer Summit, November 2-3, at the NetApp campus in
+ Sunnyvale, California. Topics of discussion ranged over new
+ developments in persistent memory, the use of &os; by a
+ company that builds rackscale systems, developments in our
+ compiler and tool suite, as well as others. Additional
+ Foundation Board and Staff attending the summit included: Deb
+ Goodkin, &a.gjb;, &a.gibbs;, &a.mckusick;, &a.emaste;, and
+ &a.hrs;. The complete schedule, and some of the slides, are
+ available on the &os; Wiki
+ <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit</a> .</p>
+
+ <p>Notes from the always lively "Have/Need/Want
+ session" are available at
+ <a href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant">https://wiki.freebsd.org/201511VendorDevSummit/HaveNeedWant</a> .</p>
+
+ <p>While in the Bay Area, some Foundation members visited
+ commercial users of &os; to help understand their needs, update
+ them on the work the Foundation is doing, and facilitate
+ collaboration between them and the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>We were a sponsor of the 2015 OpenZFS Developer
+ Summit, which took place October 19-20, in San Francisco, CA.
+ &a.gibbs; and &a.mckusick; attended the conference.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.gibbs; continued his semester long class teaching
+ Intro to Computer Science using &os; at a middle
+ school.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.emaste;, &a.trasz;, and &a.kib; continue to make
+ progress on Foundation funded development projects. More
+ specifically:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Ed Worked on a number of items relating to the
+ tool chain: LLD linker, ELF Tool Chain components, and LLDB
+ debugger, and tested, integrated, and merged outstanding UEFI
+ work.</li>
+
+ <li>Edward finished work on the reroot project as well
+ spending some time on a certificate-transparency port. He also
+ implemented a prototype to support disk IO limit in RCTL.</li>
+
+ <li>Konstantin rewrote the out of memory killer logic,
+ which, in particular, fixed &os; operation on systems
+ without swap, especially systems with verry little memory. The
+ later are becoming more and more common with popularity of
+ embedded ARM platforms were &os; runs, but it also affects
+ large systems which are usually configured without swap. He
+ also finalized and committed the shared page support for the
+ ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems. This allows for a non-executable
+ stack on ARMv7, and a much faster, userspace gettimeofday(2)
+ for both, similar to on x86.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>&a.emaste; presented a &os;/arm64 talk and a hands-on
+ demo at ARM Techcon, which took place November 10-12, 2015, in
+ Santa Clara, CA.</p>
+
+ <p>We continued publishing our monthly newsletters and
+ acquiring new company testimonials about using &os;, including
+ from Verisign and Nginx.</p>
+
+ <p>Anne Dickison, &a.dru;, and &a.gjb; represented the
+ Foundation at USENIX LISA ’15, which took place November 3-8,
+ in Washington D.C.. The Foundation had a booth in the Expo
+ Hall and participated in a BoF. In addition to connecting with
+ current community members, we spoke with attendees who were
+ interested in getting involved with the Project, and helped
+ set them on the correct path. We also took the opportunity to
+ remind those who hadn’t used &os; in a while what they were
+ missing. Glen also attended the USENIX Release Engineering
+ Summit, which was co-located with LISA ’15.</p>
+
+ <p>We published the Sept/Oct and Nov/Dec issues of the
+ &os; Journal.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.gnn; and &a.rwatson; announced the release of
+ their TeachBSD initiative:
+ <a href="http://teachbsd.com/">http://teachbsd.com/</a>.
+ TeachBSD offers a set of reusable course materials designed to
+ allow others to teach both university students and software
+ practitioners &os; operating system fundamentals. The
+ Foundation is proud to have partly sponsored their efforts to
+ teach the initial graduate level course on operating systems
+ with tracing at the University of Cambridge.</p>
+
+ <p>Deb Goodkin invited a representative from the
+ Outreachy program to talk at the Ottawa &os; Developer Summit
+ about the program and how we can get involved.</p>
+
+ <p>Deb also started discussions with CS professors from
+ the University of Colorado, Boulder to offer some Intro to
+ &os; workshops.</p>
+
+ <p>&a.gjb; continued wearing many hats to support to the Project.
+ For Release Engineering:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Added support for building <tt>BANANAPI</tt>,
+ <tt>CUBIEBOARD</tt>, and <tt>CUBIEBOARD2</tt> arm
+ images.</li>
+
+ <li>Deprecated use of MD5 checksums used for
+ verifying installation media downloaded from the &os; Project
+ mirrors.</li>
+
+ <li>Various miscellaneous updates and fixes to release
+ build code.</li>
+
+ <li>Continued providing regular development snapshot
+ builds.</li>
+ </ul>
+ Under Systems Administration:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Assisted the Admins team with migrating various
+ services to two new colocation facilities near Sunnyvale,
+ generously provided by RootBSD and LimeLight Networks.</li>
+
+ <li>Moved email services for the Foundation to a new
+ server.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>&a.emaste; attended the Reproducible Builds World
+ Summit, which took place in Athens, Greece, December 1-3,
+ 2015.</p>
+
+ <p>We wrapped up our 2015 fundraising efforts with our
+ End-of-Year fundraising campaign by participating in
+ #GivingTuesday, and continuing with weekly email and social
+ media requests for support of the Foundation. Final
+ fundraising numbers will be available in Q1 2016.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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