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on how the FreeBSD Project can improve the service and		on how the FreeBSD Project can improve the service and
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it provides to the community on IRC.</p>		it provides to the community on IRC.</p>

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		<title>FreeBSD Foundation</title>

		<contact>
		<person>
		<name>Deb Goodkin</name>
		<email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email>
		</person>
		</contact>

		<body>
		<p>The FreeBSD Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
		organization dedicated to supporting and promoting
		the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD
		contributors. The Foundation purchases and
		supports hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD
		infrastructure and provides resources to improve
		security, quality assurance, and release
		engineering efforts; publishes marketing material
		to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD
		Project; facilitates collaboration between
		commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers; and
		finally, represents the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD
		last quarter:</p>

		<p>We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa on May 14.
		Board Director and Officer elections take place
		each year at this meeting. Justin Gibbs was
		elected as the new President of the Board of
		Directors. The new FreeBSD Foundation Board of
		Directors includes President and Founder Justin T.
		Gibbs, Vice President Benedict Reuschling,
		Secretary Philip Paeps, Treasurer Marshall Kirk
		McKusick, and Directors Hiroki Sato, George
		Neville-Neil and Robert N. M. Watson. You can read
		<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-names-justin-gibbs-as-new-board-president/">more
		about the elections</a>.</p>

		<p>After the elections, our management team gave updates to
		the board on their respective areas. We then
		discussed the key areas of the Project that need
		help, and where we can step in to fill those
		holes. We reviewed and updated our 12 month goals,
		and identified projects we should support. We then
		discussed conferences we are likely to attend, and
		went over the latest on our fundraising efforts.
		We followed that up with a discussion on how to
		get more users to contribute back to the Project.
		While discussing how to increase the number of
		users and contributors, we talked about methods
		for making for more training material available.</p>

		<p>
		Partnerships and Commercial User Support</p>
		<p>
		We help facilitate collaboration between commercial users
		and FreeBSD developers. We also meet with
		companies to discuss their needs and bring that
		information back to the Project. In Q2, Ed Maste
		and Deb Goodkin met with a few commercial users in
		Germany. It’s not only beneficial for the above,
		but it also helps us understand some of the
		applications where FreeBSD is used. Because BSDCan
		brings in a high number of commercial users, we
		have an excellent opportunity to have similar
		discussions about their needs during the four-day
		FreeBSD Summit and BSDCan.</p>

		<p>
		Fundraising Efforts</p>
		<p>
		Our work is 100% funded by your donations. We are grateful
		for the generous donations from Intel, NetApp,
		VMware and Stormshield last quarter. We are
		working hard to get more commercial users to give
		back to help us continue our work supporting
		FreeBSD. More importantly, we’d like to thank
		our individual donors, for making $10-$1,000
		donations last quarter, for a total of $16,000!</p>

		<p>Please consider making a donation to help us
		<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/donate/">continue and
		increase our support for FreeBSD</a>.</p>

		<p>We also have the
		<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/FreeBSD-foundation-partnership-program/">Partnership
		Program</a> to provide more
		benefits for our larger commercial donors.
		Find out more information at the link and share with your
		companies!</p>

		<p>OS Improvements</p>
		<p>
		The Foundation improves the FreeBSD operating system by
		employing our technical staff to maintain and
		improve critical kernel subsystems, add features
		and functionality, and fix problems. The
		Foundation also provides grants to fund individual
		projects.</p>

		<p>There were 243 commits to the FreeBSD base system
		repository sponsored by the Foundation during the
		quarter. These include improvements to the tmpfs
		in-memory, MSDOS, and UFS filesystems, device
		driver and hardware compatibility fixes, virtual
		memory (VM), tool chain, documentation, and
		testing and continuous integration improvements.</p>

		<p>We fixed a number of race conditions and security issues
		found by Syzkaller, Google’s
		code-coverage-guided system call fuzzer.</p>

		<p>Alan Somers’ work on updating FreeBSD’s support for
		FUSE (userspace filesystems) continued during the
		quarter; the full details are elsewhere in this
		quarterly report. At this point most of the work
		has been committed to the project branch but some
		bug fixes and improvements have been committed
		directly to the FreeBSD development branch.</p>

		<p>Edward Napierala’s Linuxulator project continued through
		the quarter, resulting in a number of improvements
		to the Linuxulator and linux-specific
		functionality such as linsysfs. This work is part
		of the path to supporting the Linux strace
		debugging tool in order to facilitate debugging
		failures of other Linux binaries under the
		Linuxulator. Mateusz Guzik continued with
		scalability and performance improvements during
		the quarter, and Bjoern Zeeb integrated the SDIO
		stack (with details elsewhere in the quarterly
		report).</p>

		<p>Progress was made on the online RAID-Z expansion project
		over the quarter. Matt Ahrens posted an <a
		href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853">alpha
		preview</a> of the feature for further
		experimentation and review, and the FreeBSD
		Foundation will make an alpha release image
		available for testing in the near future.</p>

		<p>Foundation staff contributed to nine FreeBSD security
		advisories and errata updates over the quarter,
		including CPU vulnerability workarounds. Related
		work included improving Intel microcode update
		loading.</p>

		<p>Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance</p>
		<p>
		The Foundation provides a full-time staff member who is
		working on improving our automated testing,
		continuous integration, and overall quality
		assurance efforts.</p>

		<p>During the second quarter of 2019, Foundation staff
		continued to improve the project's CI
		infrastructure, worked with contributors to fix
		the failing build and test cases, and worked with
		other teams in the Project for their testing
		needs. We hosted a CI-focused working group at
		BSDcan and continue to publish the CI weekly
		report at <a
		href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-testing">freebsd-testing@</a>
		mailing list.</p>

		<p>See the FreeBSD CI section of this report for more
		information.</p>

		<p>
		Supporting FreeBSD Infrastructure</p>
		<p>
		The Foundation provides hardware and support to improve
		the FreeBSD infrastructure. Last quarter, we
		continued supporting FreeBSD hardware located
		around the world.</p>

		<p>FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD; producing
		advocacy literature to teach people about FreeBSD
		and help make the path to starting using FreeBSD
		or contributing to the Project easier; and
		attending and getting other FreeBSD contributors
		to volunteer to run FreeBSD events, staff FreeBSD
		tables, and give FreeBSD 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. We support
		the FreeBSD-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-FreeBSD events to promote and raise awareness
		of FreeBSD, to increase the use of FreeBSD in
		different applications, and to recruit more
		contributors to the Project.</p>

		<p>Check out some of the advocacy and education work we did
		last quarter:</p>

		<ul>
		<li>Represented FreeBSD at LinuxFest Northwest In Bellingham,
		Washington</li>

		<li>Sponsored and helped organize the FreeBSD Developers
		Summit at BSDCan, in Ottawa, Canada</li>

		<li>Sponsored and attended BSDCan 2019</li>

		<li>Set up registration and attended the Vienna FreeBSD
		Security Hackathon in Vienna, Austria</li>

		<li>Represented FreeBSD at HKOSCON</li>

		<li>Attended the Berlin FreeBSD Developers Summit</li>

		<li>Presented at 2019 Comcast Labs Connect Open Source
		Conference</li>

		<li>Sponsored, presented and represented FreeBSD at RootConf
		2019 in Bangalore, India</li>

		<li>Committed to attend OSCON, and All Things Open</li>

		<li>Committed to sponsor and help organize a Bay Area
		Developers Summit</li>

		<li>Provided FreeBSD advocacy material</li>

		<li>Provided travel grants to FreeBSD contributors to attend
		many of the above events</li>
		</ul>

		<p>
		We continued producing FreeBSD advocacy material to help
		people promote FreeBSD around the world.</p>

		<p>Read more about our conference adventures in the
		conference recaps and trip reports in our
		<a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/">monthly
		newsletters</a>.</p>

		<p>We help educate the world about FreeBSD by publishing the
		professionally produced FreeBSD Journal. As we
		mentioned previously, the FreeBSD Journal is now a
		free publication. Find out more and access the
		latest issues at
		<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/">https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/journal/</a>.</p>

		<p>You can find out more about
		<a href="https://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org/news-and-events/">events
		we attended and upcoming events</a>.</p>

		<p>We have continued our work with a new website developer to
		help us improve our website. Work has begun to
		make it easier for community members to find
		information more easily and to make the site more
		efficient.</p>

		<p>Legal/FreeBSD IP</p>
		<p>
		The Foundation owns the FreeBSD 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 http://www.FreeBSDfoundation.org to find out how we
		support FreeBSD and how we can help you!</p>
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<title>bhyve - Live Migration</title>		<title>bhyve - Live Migration</title>

<contact>		<contact>
<person>		<person>
<name>Elena Mihailescu</name>		<name>Elena Mihailescu</name>
<email>elenamihailescu22@gmail.com</email>		<email>elenamihailescu22@gmail.com</email>
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