A wide range of accomplishments as well as specific initiated and completed projects were undertaken during the first half of 2024. NTF resources, though limited, were leveraged and put to the greatest use possible making the following items all the more impressive. Accomplishments during the first six months include:

• Dave Mills-Springs Fund created
• SSD Appeal: $11,000 of $18,000 goal received as of July
• FMT1 Data Center visit
  • Memory added to infrastructure hypervisors
  • Drives added to NAS units
• Harlan Stenn - Spoke at Dave Mills Memorial
• SCaLE attendance - Harlan Stenn, Margaret Clark, and Steve Sobol
  • Harlan presented and spoke about updates to current projects
  • Harlan led a one hour BOF session
• Khronos received RFC status
• downloads.nwtime.org launched - Contains download archives for NTP, LinuxPTP, and libptpmgmt projects
• lists.ntp.org migrated to Sympa (same look/feel as lists.nwtime.org)
• Dave Barry attended PNT conference in Colorado Springs, CO
• Spring 2024 Newsletter published
• Grants applied for:
  • Start Small
  • ICANN
  • Golden Pear
• ARIN 53 presentation: video and transcript

Software/Protocol Releases:

• NTP 4.2.8p18 released
• LinuxPTP 4.3 released
• libptpmgmt 1.3 released

New NTF Institutional Members:

• Green Archer
• Hoptroff

NTF institutional member renewals in Q1 and Q2:

• Masterclock
• Safran
• Microchip

A number of exciting projects and events are scheduled for the second half of 2024! Stay tuned.