Enterprise Working Group
CHARTER
The mission of the Enterprise WG is to bring clarity to feature and other gaps that limit enterprise (e.g. business or end user) adoption of FreeBSD as a general-purpose server platform and provide a supportive group to help developers close these gaps. For our purposes, we are defining general purpose enterprise server as servers used by businesses and other organizations to support business applications and end users. Typical applications include Active Directory, Samba, kerberos, ERP and other apps often written in Java, and increasingly AI workloads and cloud native apps.
The Scope of the WG is: The WG will focus on the set of features identified initially and refined during the WG’s first meetings. The WG will also concern itself with onboarding a semi-permanent group of developers and users to look after the ongoing utility of FreeBSD for general purpose enterprise server workloads.
Our success metrics are:
- Staffed development plans for high priority projects
- Steady to growing number of WG participants who perform a growing diversity of tasks
- Feature updates in priority projects
- Greater utility by current enterprise users
- Increased adoption of FreeBSD as a general purpose enterprise server platform
More support for FreeBSD by “critical” enterprise tech & resources, such as XDR vendors, CIS benchmarks
The deliverables are:
- Improved satisfaction among enterprise users
- Documentation of WG progress and deployment/use best practices
- WG community growth
- Growing support for FreeBSD by critical enterprise tech vendors
We operate according to the FreeBSD Code of Conduct.
Participation
This group is open to anyone who would like to contribute in support of its charter. We previously used Google Groups to communicate but as of 12/04/2023 we have switched to an official FreeBSD mailing list.
To join the mailing list, please go to the signup form to subscribe. Only registered subscribers can send to the mailing list.
We need all kinds of perspectives and expertise - developers, end users, project managers, testers. Questions please email Gwallace at netactuate dot com
Our Next Workgroup Call
FreeBSD Enterprise WG Monthly from 12pm to 1pm on the third Wednesday US Eastern Time
Join Zoom Meeting https://netactuate.zoom.us/j/88278562014?pwd=JjjBTIKJoxfypmo1F5V4ENxEnsscxs.1
Meeting ID: 882 7856 2014 Passcode: 649551
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Meeting ID: 882 7856 2014
Recordings
The most recent recordings are announced on the mailing list (i.e. the December 2024 one)
Workstreams
Please note that the most recent updates are available in the workstreams tracker, and this can be found, along with all meeting notes and slides can be found in this Google Drive folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nL4NWc28geDpmoOVKkxOhR3nPEHGeQ6R?usp=sharing
Archived information
See EnterpriseWorkingGroup/Archive