svn commit: r49160 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk
bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 25 05:49:03 UTC 2016
Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jul 25 05:49:01 2016
New Revision: 49160
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49160
Log:
Add the FreeBSD Foundation entry from Deb Goodkin
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml
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<sponsor>ABT Systems Ltd</sponsor>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='team'>
+ <title>The FreeBSD Foundation</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Deb</given>
+ <common>Goodkin</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>deb at FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">FreeBSD Foundation Website</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>Fundraising Efforts</p>
+
+ <p>Our work is 100% funded by your donations. Our spending
+ budget for 2016 is $1,250,000 and we've raised $265,000 so far.
+ Our Q1-Q2 financial reports will be posted by August 1. As you can
+ see, we need your donations to continue supporting &os; at our
+ current level. Please consider making a donation here:
+ <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.org/donation">freebsdfoundation.org/donation</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>OS Improvements</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation improves &os; by funding software
+ development projects approved through our proposal submission
+ process, and our internal software developer staff members. Two
+ Foundation-funded projects continued last quarter; one project is
+ to improve the stability of the vnet network stack virtualization
+ infrastructure, and the second is phase two of the &os;/arm64
+ port project.</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation staff members were responsible for many changes
+ over the quarter. Kostik Belousov accomplished the following work
+ last quarter: implemented robust mutexes support, as part of
+ ongoing efforts to bring our threading library into POSIX
+ compliance and feature completeness; documented kernel interfaces
+ used by the threading library and produced almost 30 pages of
+ technical text; completed and committed the elimination of the
+ pvh_global_lock from the amd64 pmap, which removed a hot contested
+ lock, and fixed bugs that help keep &os; stable and
+ reliable.</p>
+
+ <p>Edward Napierala accomplished the following work last
+ quarter: added filesystem thoughput limits to RCTL; committed iSER
+ initiator support; added support for rerooting into NFS; and added
+ <tt>iscsictl -e</tt>, which makes it possible to enable and disable
+ sessions.</p>
+
+ <p>Ed Maste, our Project Development Director, accomplished
+ the following work last quarter: investigated the state of
+ reproducible builds in the ports tree, with some work in progress
+ to address issues; updated the ELF Tool Chain tools with bug fixes
+ and improved handling of malformed input; investigated using
+ <tt>lld</tt>, the linker from the LLVM family, to link the &os;
+ base system, and reported on and tested patches for issues found.
+ He also managed the <tt>arm64</tt> development project and
+ investigated and fixed a number of bugs. Lastly, he imported
+ LLVM's <tt>libunwind</tt> and prepared it for use in &os; 11, and
+ investigated and reviewed the <tt>blacklistd</tt> proposal and
+ patches.</p>
+
+ <p>George Neville-Neil continued hosting the bi-weekly Transport
+ conference call (notes at <a
+ href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/TransportProtocols</a>)
+ and the bi-weekly DTrace conference call (notes at <a
+ href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace">https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/DTrace</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Ed continued facilitating the bi-weekly graphics call to
+ coordinate efforts on the <tt>i915</tt> driver and other graphics
+ stack work.</p>
+
+ <p>Several of these projects are described elsewhere in this
+ quarterly report.</p>
+
+ <p>Release Engineering</p>
+
+ <p>Foundation employee and release engineer Glen Barber worked
+ closely with Marius Strobl on the 10.3-RELEASE, which was
+ completed in April. Glen also merged the release-pkg branch to
+ 11-CURRENT, though this will be a beta feature for 11.0-RELEASE.
+ Lastly, with the Release Engineering Team, he started the
+ 11.0-RELEASE cycle. Find out more in the Release Engineering Team
+ status entry in this report.</p>
+
+ <p>"Getting Started with &os;" Project</p>
+
+ <p>We hired a summer intern, with no &os;, Linux, or any
+ command line operating system experience, to figure out on his own
+ how to install and use &os;. He is writing easy-to-follow how-to
+ guides to help make the new user experience straightforward and
+ positive. He's also been submitting bug reports and problems
+ through the appropriate channels. You can check out his first
+ how-to guide at <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/how-to-guides/</a>.</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>Some of the work we did last quarter to support &os;
+ advocacy included: Creating a &os; page on our website to promote
+ &os; derivative projects and showcase &os; users (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/</a>),
+ and promoting &os; research by creating a Research page on our
+ site and conference handout (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/what-we-do/research/</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>We created guidelines and a repository for using the Project and
+ Foundation logos (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/about/brand-assets/</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>To help showcase &os; contributors, we published two new Faces
+ of &os; stories, about Michael Lucas (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-michael-lucas/</a>)
+ and Kris Moore <a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-2016-kris-moore/</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>We published the March/April and May/June issues of the
+ &os; Journal and participated in editorial board work. Kirk
+ McKusick wrote a feature article on the Fast Filesystem for the
+ March/April issue, and other team members helped review and edit
+ Journal articles.</p>
+
+ <p>We also published monthly newsletters to highlight work being
+ done to support &os;, tell you about upcoming events, and provide
+ other information to keep you in the loop of what we're doing to
+ support the &os; Project and community.</p>
+
+ <p>George Neville-Neil and Robert Watson continued teaching
+ and developing open source &os; teaching materials at
+ <a href="http://teachbsd.org">teachbsd.org</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We launched the first Hosting Partner Spotlight to showcase
+ the Project's partnership with NYI (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/hosting-partner-spotlight-nyi-at-the-heart-of-freebsd/</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>We worked with Microsoft to get &os; onto Azure (<a
+ href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/more-from-the-freebsd-foundation-on-the-projects-partnership-with-microsoft/</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation was quoted in Cavium's Thunder X2 press release
+ (<a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-announces-thunderx2-300276536.html</a></p>
+
+ <p>George worked with ARM to coordinate the upcoming ARM Partner
+ Meeting in Cambridge.</p>
+
+ <p>Conferences and Events</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 about &os;, to
+ increase the use of &os; in different applications, and to recruit
+ more contributors to the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>In April, Benedict Reuschling helped organize and run a
+ hackathon in Essen April 22-24. He then attended the Open Source
+ Datacenter conference in Berlin, with Allan Jude, to give a talk
+ about "Interesting things you can do with ZFS," which highlighted
+ OpenZFS features and how well they work on &os;
+ (<a href="https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065">https://www.netways.de/index.php?id=3445#c44065</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>We promoted &os; at:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>Flourish — April 1-2 in Chicago
+ (<a href="http://flourishconf.com/2016/">http://flourishconf.com/2016/</a>)</li>
+
+ <li>LFNW — April 23-24 in Bellingham WA
+ (<a href="https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016">https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016</a>).</li>
+
+ <li>OSCON — May 18-19 in Austin, TX
+ (<a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us">http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-us</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Deb Goodkin and Dru Lavigne attended the Community
+ Leadership Summit in Austin: May 14, 15
+ (<a href="http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/">http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/schedule/</a>)</p>
+
+ <p>Deb promoted &os; at USENIX ATC June 22-23 in Denver, CO.</p>
+
+ <p>Our team attended BSDCan and the Ottawa Developer Summit.
+ We held our annual board meeting to vote on officers, board
+ members, and work on our strategic planning. Most of us attended
+ the developer/vendor summits. Kirk McKusick presented "A
+ Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem" (<a
+ href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html">http://www.bsdcan.org/2016/schedule/events/654.en.html</a>).
+ Ed Maste gave a presentation on "Reproducible Builds in
+ &os;". George helped run the vendor summit.</p>
+
+ <p>We sponsored five &os; contributors to attend BSDCan.</p>
+
+ <p>Legal/&os; IP</p>
+
+ <p>The Foundation owns the &os; trademarks, and it is our
+ responsibility to protect them. We continued to review requests
+ and grant permission to use the trademarks.</p>
+
+ <p>&os; Community Engagement</p>
+
+ <p>We launched our first Community Survey. The purpose was to get
+ input from the community on why they use &os;, what they'd like to
+ see the Foundation support, and other input to help us determine
+ our direction and how we should support the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>Code of Conduct — Anne Dickison, our Marketing Director,
+ has been overseeing the efforts to rewrite the Project's Code of
+ Conduct to help make this a safe, inclusive, and welcoming
+ community.</p>
+
+ <p>Other Stuff We Did</p>
+
+ <p>Last quarter we purchased a server to reside at NYI to
+ improve the continuous integration tools within the Project.</p>
+
+ <p>We had two face-to-face board meetings last quarter to work
+ on strategic planning and identify areas in the project we should
+ support.</p>
+
+ <p>We also held our first ever staff retreat in Boulder,
+ Colorado to give our small team an opportunity to work together
+ in person.</p>
+
+ <p>We hired Sabine Percarpio as our Administration Manager.
+ She is helping us manage donations, accounting, travel grant
+ applications, handle questions that come in to the Foundation, and
+ run our organization smoothly.</p>
+ </body>
+ </project>
</report>
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