Firstly, thank you to all our generous members and donors. Because of your continued support Network Time Foundation was able to accomplish great things in the first quarter of 2017. As a non-profit organization, it is all of you who help NTF produce and maintain open-source network time software vital to the infrastructure of our modern world. We look forward to sharing, even more, accomplishments with you next quarter.

Technical Milestones

• NTF published ntp-4.2.8p10, a security update of NTP, on March 21st. ntp-4.2.8p10 includes 6 medium and 4 low-severity security fixes, along with 15 minor bug fixes and some small improvements.

• Significant progress has been made with new Extension Field processing, which will allow NTF to integrate the work done on NTS (Network Time Security - the replacement for Autokey).

Company

• In March NTF began preparing for our third annual financial audit with Richard Brewster, CPA.

• Volunteers brought several switches and servers online at ServerCentral in Chicago.

• NTF added one part-time contractor, Koni Burrow (Social Media Manager).

• Several new volunteers joined the organization.

• Mark Graff joined our Board of Directors.

• NTF conducted a survey to encourage input from members about improving NTF services and communications.

Revenues

• New and renewed Institutional memberships received from Meinberg, Microsemi, Facebook, Cox Communications & Nimbus/Alibaba Group.

• NTF had fifteen new and renewal individual members and donors.

• NTF applied to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign for a second year.

In the News/Events

• 23 December 2016: Martin Burnicki of Meinberg published the technical paper, Leap Smearing Test Results.

• 30 January 2017: A talk about NTP and time synchronization by Paul Gear at LinuxCon called The School for Sysadmins Who Can’t Timesync Good and Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too.

• 8 February 2017: An article on LWN.net by Bruce Byfield entitled A Rift in the NTP World.

• 15 March 2017: Harlan was accepted to present a poster session at the Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS) in San Jose, CA.

Becoming a Member of one or more Network Time Foundation consortia helps us better address your network time-related needs. Donations above and beyond membership, such as full and partial project sponsorships are also appreciated. All funding supports NTF-sponsored projects, such as NTP. As a result, you can rest assured that the world’s clocks are on time - all the time - ensuring you can trust your time and your data! After all, knowing the correct time isn’t always important - until it is! Learn all the ways you can support Network Time Foundation!