 Good morning, everyone and welcome to the program is that room so you're gonna start you know basically one minute so our first speaker is That good game. Yes. Yes on the previous the foundation and She will talk out how the previous definition change your work Okay, thank you So I'm Doug good Ken and I'm the executive director of the free BSE foundation and so What I want to do is talk about the foundation the work that we do and then And then close it with what we're doing to change the world and make it a better world So can everyone hear me? Okay. We don't have a mic. Okay. Great. Thank you So who all in this room? Likes or is interested in free BSE? Okay. Wow, there's a lot of hands that aren't up right now. So who's here for open BSE? Okay, a couple of people and then net BSE Okay, and then Just in other reasons that you might be here for and like and so what are some of those reasons? Like just Setting horizon extending. Oh extending right your horizon. Okay. Okay, and how about you? Okay Glad we could fill that for you Okay, so what I'm gonna do is so Starting with this is our mission. It's basically so the foundation is here to support the free BSE project in community worldwide Oh Okay, so how far we allowed to go It's and so okay, so if I want to see my slides I might want to be more over here, okay So I'm gonna start with a little bit about our history and So I'll kick it off with a short little story and it starts with It's back in about 1993 and a few decades ago and a young college student was at University of California at Berkeley and Was a computer science major and got a summer internship at a company called Walnut CD Walnut Walnut. No wind River this wind River back down should probably get my story straight and and so was introduced to free BSE and and and had some good role models who are actually working there at the time and And so some of the original starters or founders of free BSE were there and And so in and then in the same year 1993 who is actually asked to join the core team Which is the core team is sort of like the Top-level or they sort they sort of oversee the project they help with Developer relationships and and issues that might come up. So who's part of that team and and at the time So I think it was walnut Walnut CD-ROM is what the company was called and they wanted they owned the free BSE Trademark the logo and and the actual word free BSE And so they wanted to hand it off to the project and how let them own it and the project just was an organization made up of Volunteers and so they couldn't really take ownership of a legal property like that and so so this person his name is Justin Gibbs and He so he had been so this was Actually, so this was in 1999 So he had been with the project for seven years at that time And he was now he was graduated He was grown up and he was actually in a serious relationship and was considering marriage and looking In long term having children and not being able to volunteer as much as he was able to on the project And so so he started investigating How can we own this this IP this trademark and he started looking into nonprofits and came up with The idea of maybe I should you know the way I can give back to the project is to start this a not-profit that could actually own the IP and but and also continue and definitely to support the project as a legal entity and so he actually started the previous foundation and it was in 2000 and and the primary You know goal of it was was really to own the IP and so we were This is working right or oops So we were founded in March of 2000 so we're almost 18 years now if I could add correctly in my head and We're a 501c3 so you'll there's other foundations that support open source projects and There's in the BSD world you have the net BSD foundation the open BSD foundation but you also hear other ones like the Linux foundation and One way that we're different is that we I'm a good comparison would be the free BSD foundation and the Linux foundation and Because since we have similar names that people might think that we're run Very similarly and we are actually a public nonprofit and our whole purpose is to serve as a public charity in the support the free BSD project and Whereas the Linux foundation is a 501c6 and so it means that they're a Like a trade association and so their primary purpose is to support the industry the commercial users that the actual Corporations and that's why you'll see that they have members and the members pay Usually pay quite a bit of money to become part of that organization And so even though we the the only way that we're sustainable is by also taking we take donations And that's what allows us to to do the work that we do and we're in So we were Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado in the United States and we actually just moved to Longmont, which is the next town over So who are we and so we We have a board of directors that govern the organization when we first started back in 2000 We had three board members and it was basically just to that's what you needed in order to run a corporation and so So you may see some familiar faces here and so just to Justin Gibbs is the one who founded the foundation and he still Supports us. He's part of the board and a Benedict Russeling. He is that he's here He's actually helping run the free BSD stand downstairs And then we have board members who are located all around the world And then the people who actually do the work of the foundation is this is my team and so you see me up in the upper left-hand corner and and then many of you may be familiar with Ed Maast and he Overseas a lot of the software development that we do and more support and then a lot of the technical work that we do and And then a whole team of people that support different efforts that I'll talk about So as our purpose is really to help make free BSD, you know, the best platform for Any use that you may have from commercial users creating products to schools from universities doing research And also teaching with free BSD to people who you want to play with it on their computer and Play with it and use it really so So that's that's what we're here to do So what we support Keep forgetting the thing is down here so software development we I have software developers on my staff and And then we actually do a lot of advocacy and education. I'll go into more detail on each of these We also have people that are part of the security team We have the release engineering responsibility We have the lead release engineer on our staff and then also we support the free BSD Infrastructure which that actually means that we buy the servers that are located around the world And we also maintain help maintain them and we'll upgrade and Then we provide technical leadership and in different aspects from it might be ad Who facilitates a lot of different calls, which it might be storage It might be graphics and and just different areas of the operating system support and community as well as helping with like coming up with better improved methods of maybe release engineering or some of the different Different teams that are part of the free BSD project and Then we and then our beginnings is legal So not only do we own the free BSD IP, but if the core team Needs any legal help and usually that might be in Questions on patents. It might be NDAs Just questions that they may have then we will provide legal Guidance for them. So we don't have any lawyers on staff, but but we do have some lawyers that we work with and And then the last thing or face-to-face meetings that we support So this would be one of them were so well yesterday We actually had a free BSD developer summit and we had 22 people who attended that and We started at 9 and we went till 530 and it was a long day and we actually got a lot done We basically sat in a circle and had many discussions and I felt they're really productive And so it's a great way to get people developers and contributors and or and people who are just interested in learning about the BSD is in free BSD to work face-to-face to talk and to Come up with ideas and I think that's where you get that passion that energy and then you carry that back to wherever You're working or located so and then it also includes meeting with commercial users and finding out what What their needs are and also what we bring some of those Those needs back to the community on these are things like maybe features that they would like to see in free BSD So we bring that information back so going to more detail so some of the OS the software the operating system improvements that we were currently working on we have so like I said earlier we have internal software developers on staff and So that's on the bottom part of This chart and then the we also do outside projects outside funded projects that we might Project manage or they actually may be Have a like a technical facilitator who's outside of my staff and who's managing those projects and so right now we have Open CFS project that's currently going on Some Wi-Fi work. That's laying the foundations for some continued work and And and so anyway, so I'm not going to go through each project here It's but it's to give you an idea of the work that we're doing internally as well as Funding outside of our internal staff since we are pretty small on the bottom though That's having the team of people and we have Well, we have two full-time software engineers and then we have other people that can jump in And and so some of the things that we're working on right now is like the current security issue that everyone's aware of that having a team They're able to actually quickly jump on this and And help mitigate and put in some chain, you know fix those workarounds, whatever we need to get The changes out and and keep free BSD secure and stable. So it's really helpful having people on staff that you can actually Say, you know, please go work on this as well as providing technical guidance to People who are also helping from the project Well, one thing that I didn't include in the initial slide of my staff is we actually have interns on staff And so I don't keep their pictures because we rotate through interns every four months And so they change and this is up in our we actually have a Canadian office And so we keep two interns on staff there and every four months we get to knew from the university there And we're really and we're looking at growing that program like in Boulder We have a local university and I'd like to bring in some interns from from our our local school and But it's really nice because when we're working on something we may be talking about how do we implement? How do we support this feature and there will be various ways that you can implement this and So it might involve maybe doing some initial testing and so it's great because as we sort of processes So we'll be on calls since we're all remote and And so I have some ideas and instead of just like putting in a you know a hack Which isn't really the the free BSD philosophy We'll actually put the interns on to run the test and so they're they're learning and they're actually contributing and It's it's great It's really a benefit to us in the project to have these people on on our staff to be able to go jump in and do this work for us As far as free BSE advocacy The so the free BSE project had a market like a they had a marketing committee to have many different committees and And what we found was that yeah, they weren't able to really respond very in a timely matter plus You know most people want to develop and contribute and either software and or documentation or just different areas and So I had brought on a marketing person to help not only us but actually mostly help the project And so she's full-time and she really looks at I mean almost all her work She does is for free BSE and it's and so From the list that I have here Areas that we've really expanded is is getting out to more like conferences and events So this is a great example that we have more people here. We help So even though we're the foundation did not well, we got the stand that's downstairs and please make sure that you stop by it And but we try to get local like free BSD contributors and volunteers to come and help promote free BSD and and the whole purpose is really it's to Recruit people to the project so people who are like who are coming in and they might be interested in learning something What is free BSD? What are the BSD's which one would I even want to be involved with if I was interested and And what's the community like to you? so so So I always see it as like two main purposes one would be recruit new users and contributors and and the second would be to Get more users of free BSD and so it may be just an individual who's gonna try free BSD and play around with it Or it may be a corporation who is gonna use it in either a product or product development or even in their data center so So anyway, I so as far as conferences we've We've stepped into some new regions. I went to China last year. It was pretty amazing as For as what the use is there. We we never know as a project and because they have their own Forums and mirrors and everything and so so it was really interesting to find and then India and Africa and Singapore that we've been reaching into and that's Giving presentations on free BSD and it's also giving workshops on free BSD and we're and we're trying to get more volunteers more free BSD contributors to give these workshops and presentations and then Another thing that we do is we publish The this is the free BSD journal and so so we always print hard copies when we come out with a major release So when we have 11.0 then we print so actually it's a great magazine that's it's professionally produced and It's it's actually a great way. It's to get information about Yeah, eunuchs like type of operating systems as well as writing articles yourself and contributing and so it's we have a Professional editor for it and so it's very well done Magazine so please make sure that you take one if you don't have one and and but otherwise it's a digital digital copy So does anyone here in this room actually get the journal? Because I see one. Okay, if you have few hands, okay, I hope like maybe eventually like everyone in the room will Raise their hands so and so but please make sure that you take one from downstairs and well we have a few up here too and and then just creating more advocacy material and that's from just handouts on What is free BSD and why you should get involved with the project and if and then how you get involved with the project And so we have this material that's available for anyone to either print off of our website We will ship things to people too We have stickers and and pens and things that we need to meet ups Or maybe a hackathon or user groups that we will we're happy to provide that type of material to people and Lasting is training education We're trying to help grow the amount of curriculum out there and working internally on Workshops and one thing one reason I want to bring it in turn Locally is to put together some introduction workshops to free BSD So it may be for technical people and it may be for people who aren't technical and just to expose them and educate them About free BSD or even just use as a platform So there are people out there they may teach like I don't know website sign and it's but it's running on free BSD And so it's a great way to you're teaching something else, but it's running on this platform that it's it works and and so hopefully People will be curious about what free BSD going forward on that We do have a demo of downstairs on our on our table. It's a Raspberry Pi 3 running free BSD I set that up And it's a fun little toy to play with and And so I always encourage people who like to do that type of thing I like hardware and so I love playing with with things like that. So so anyway, go go check that out Some of the upcoming events. I just I Included this slide just so people would see some things that are coming up that to go to to some of these are ones that maybe you won't go to but they're like scales a great one and The West Coast of the US but like apricot in Nepal We will be there and But in India rootconf is a great conference These are ones more for it regional that we really try to get the people in that area expose on teach them about free BSD but other ones like The actual BSD conferences like meet BSD and you're a BSD con which will be these are actual dates in Romania And we have we have this information on our website, too and then and then another area that we support is the the security team release engineering and the infrastructure and these are some of the things that That we're supporting. I think the biggest thing is it with release engineering is having someone full-time on the releases and aware of what's going on and and is available to either fix issues if You know come out with new release if there is an issue and and trying to keep on top of When the next release should be out and we are working on trying to prove that process, too And then the security team actually Ed Mast who is on my staff. He just joined the security team He's the deputy security officer and so So now we have someone who's actually paid who's assisting the security team and so that's going to be very beneficial to the project So I'm going to try to speed up a little bit more So we have more time at the end but and then like I spoke about earlier the face-to-face Opportunities and it's from those conferences like your OBSD con which I would encourage people to go to But we also have travel grants that you go to apply for and so if you want to attend one of these conferences But your strap for for money. You can't afford to travel there Your company is not sending you then you can apply for a travel grant through us and And if you're approved, then we'll help you with your expenses So some of our plans For this year is to help with the testing and quality assurance more automated testing And we're hoping to bring someone on staff to help with that We're gonna have a university ambassador program So we're gonna identify few universities especially this year to get started and we'll have Representatives at those universities that will run meetups and we'll also provide that material for them and so just to get previously and more universities and then and then If you work for a company here And we have a partnership benefit program and so what we're working on is is getting more Corporate donors and working on partnerships with them and so it means that we just provide more support for those those corporations And the producing more of material and that's that's one thing that I'm personally involved with so anyway, so how are we changed in the world and when I first started with The foundation and I'm running a nonprofit and you always think of a nonprofit as something that's feeding the world or You know, we're a nonprofit's doing doing something. That's good for the world making a positive difference And so I'm so I'm running this this corporation and I'm thinking, you know We're supporting Netflix and you think of these large corporations who are using free BSD and benefiting from free BSD too and And and I knew that well, you know, our purpose as a nonprofit isn't to make Netflix more money But I also saw that by helping make free BSD the best operating system It's and by these companies using it actually shows it sort of validates the work that people are doing That's very important and it's sustained for you the you know, the product the operating system so but Going even further than that. I was really just thinking like what what are we doing? That's making this world a better place and why you know as a non-profit How are we giving back to the world? And so I so I listed a few things here and and so I Think that like the biggest Area I see and everyone's gonna see something differently But really having this free operating system that anyone can use and so if you're interested in systems programming Or you're interested in understanding operating systems that you can just get the source code and you look at it When I was in college, which was quite a few years ago, you know, I I did not have that Ability I mean it was for open source was available and we couldn't we didn't look at source code And those we're developing it ourselves and my first few jobs were with corporations that we I mean well, I didn't I wasn't a software develop Developer as a firmware developer. So anyway, but it was all proprietary stuff So anyway, so you can actually you're taking an operating systems class and and you can actually look at well How is free BSE designed and if they really thought it was such a great sign why you know Why and you go look at it and then you could you can implement your own code And you could try it out and say there's a cool feature you want to implement You could do it and so you're not at a corporation where they're telling you exactly what you have to do You could try something and maybe no one else is interested in that but you could try it You and you know and you can commit it So anyway, there's a lot of opportunity for learning for growth and you get really real-world job skills by doing this so So not only from working as a team member collaborating with people That was one thing that we were doing yesterday was collaboration another example was someone who who was interested in the area of previous D and Decided no one was really leading this effort and so he said he decided he was going to take this effort on and So it meant that he was going to be the project manager for this Team this group and he didn't he didn't have that experience of being Like a project manager and so he was actually asking for guidance in our meeting yesterday And I thought it was actually a great example of someone if you're at a corporation, especially a large corporation You wouldn't have that opportunity. You would really have to Grow into that you're you become a leader at first Not as the actual like leader you grow into that with having those skills and so you could you have this opportunity to step into roles that you see are available and take that on because Because most people are volunteers and so and so everyone embraces like thank God so and so is taking this over and let's help him And you know and maybe he'll fail, but even if he does he'll learn from that experience So so it's a great way to really you know work on things that you're interested in to take on leadership roles and to grow into becoming a leader in the project or in a particular area and And that's when and so that's our free BSE offers and the foundation helps by we're supporting all these different areas that I talked about earlier so And and then the last thing really is just the fact that just like the Raspberry Pi. I have downstairs We grow on on these really expensive. They're basically can computers and we can go into impoverished areas and People could they get the operating system free. They get a very inexpensive Computer it's something that maybe we could even provide for them and we get to each computing skills and people could get those skills and so so it's Provides this this free this free product. You don't have to buy you know Windows you don't have to buy You know a proprietary type of operating system. So I know I don't have much time But I was gonna have a Q&A session and so I have like a minute and have I have like a minute But but also I was just gonna say that you know I'll be here for the two days and so please come up to me if you have any questions I'm here to actually support the project and so anything that we could do that's I'm here to find out But I do have a question in the back What is the view of the foundation So what is our view of the like commercial support for free BSD and do we want to change the direction? Oh the challenge it well, so We would love to see So we would love to see a company out there or people consultants out there who provide support for free BSD Because that's what you're talking about like a red hat type of yeah the foundation we have thought about we We meet all the time we talk about what we could do first to get more income to help us and But also how we could support the project better and that's something that we do discuss and that would We would have to change in order to do that But anyway, it's we would love to see people or a company Support free BSD companies do ask for it and so it's I see it as an opportunity and so but my time's up And so but I want to thank everyone for being patient sitting through my talk and And I think having the opportunity to do this, but please approach me with any type of questions or anything you'd like to talk about Thank you