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BSDCan Trip Report: Eitan Adler
The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored 7 attendees of BSDCan 2013. The first trip report is from Eitan Adler, a doc committer, who attended the BSDCan Developers Summit. Eitan writes:I arrived Tuesday night and met Colin Percival at the airport. After dropping off luggage at the university, I met up with some of the other developers.The first [...]
New Funded Project: Capsicum Framewor...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a development grant to further improve the Capsicum framework. The grant is jointly funded by Google\'s Open Source Programs Office.The project includes the integration of previous work, implementation of new programmer-friendly capability system calls, im [...]
Foundation Interview on BSDTalk
FreeBSD Foundation Directors Marshall Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil were recently interviewed by BSDTalk. This 34 minute podcast discusses the work of the FreeBSD Foundation. It is available in mp3 and ogg formats.
Accepting Travel Grant Applications f...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2013.The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travel grants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submit the Travel Grant Request Application by April 17, 2013 to apply for this grant.This program is open to [...]
Foundation Announces New Technical St...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation\'s investment in staff for 2013.Konstantin has been a FreeBSD committer since 2006, and he recently implemented support for current-generation Intel graphics controllers unde [...]
Foundation at AsiaBSDCon and NorthEas...
Foundation representatives will be at two events this weekend (March 16-17). Drop by and say hi if you\'re near either event. Donations to the Foundation can be made at either event.AsiaBSDCon is being held at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan.NorthEast LinuxFest is being held at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
New Funded Project: UEFI Support
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Benno Rice has been awarded a grant to implement the ability to boot FreeBSD in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot environment.The work to be done includes a new version of the loader, kernel modifications to support starting from a UEFI environment and the ability to cr [...]
New Funded Project: FreeBSD/ARM Archi...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to develop transparent superpages support for the FreeBSD/ARM architecture. Semihalf is co-sponsoring the project with the Foundation.The ARM architecture is already common in the mobile and embedded markets, and is becoming mo [...]
Foundation at SCALE
There will be a FreeBSD booth in the exhibition area of SCALE, to be held at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition hours are Saturday, February 23 from 10:00–17:30 p.m and Sunday, February 24 from 10:00–16:00. Registration is required for this event, with a nominal fee for the expo area and a slightly higher fee for the (Read more... [...]
Foundation at Ottawa User Group Conne...
User Group Connect is a relaxed one day unconference for meeting and interacting with the many technical User Groups in Ottawa. The event runs on Saturday, February 9 from 10:00-17:00 at Shopify in the Byward Market.The Foundation will be represented at a FreeBSD booth and will be accepting donations. If you\'re in the Ottawa area, drop by an [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter
The December issue of the FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter has been published:FreeBSD has a flourishing community. Innovative technology is packed into every release. Thousands of products and services the world relies upon are built on FreeBSD, and the adoption rate of FreeBSD accelerates year after year. By all of these measures, FreeBSD is an [...]
MeetBSD Trip Report: Mark Linimon
The Foundation sponsored Mark Linimon\'s travel to California from October 28th to November 9th, 2012, to attend MeetBSD, the preceding Developer\'s Summit, the postceding Vendor Summit, and to perform work on the FreeBSD systems at ISC. Here is his trip report:Developer Summit:I gave a brief overview of the state of the Ports Collection, and [...]
Foundation at LISA
There will be a FreeBSD booth in the exhibition area of LISA, to be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, December 12 from 12:00–19:00 p.m and Thursday, December 13 from 9:30–14:00. Registration is required for this event, but is free for the exhibition area.In addition to accepti [...]
Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Dear FreeBSD Community,Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system.Thanks to people like you, the FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 12 years n [...]
EuroBSDCon Trip Report: Gabor Pali
The next trip report is from Gabor Pali:This year the FreeBSD Foundation helped me with travelling to EuroBSDcon organized in Warsaw, Poland, in the beautiful building of the Warsaw University of Technology. It is an excellent opportunity to meet fellow developers in person and discuss some of the on-going issues or just to hang out som [...]
EuroBSDCon Trip Report: Gabor Kövesdá...
The next trip report is from Gabor Kövesdán:It was my very first time at a FreeBSD Developer Summit and a EuroBSDCon and I was very excited about it. Recently, I have been actively working on two important projects, which I wanted to discuss and report about. On [...]
EuroBSDCon Trip Report: Alexander Pro...
The Foundation sponsored several developers to attend the EuroBSDCon DevSummit and conference in October. Here is the trip report from Alexander Pronin, a GSoC student who worked on parallelization in the ports collection and pkgng utility.I arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday. After dropping off my luggage at the hotel Gromada Centrum, I stayed f [...]
New Funded Project: Porting Efika
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Aleksandr Rybalko has been awarded a grant to port FreeBSD to the Genesi Efika MX SmartBook laptop and SmartTop nettop devices.Both use the Freescale i.MX515, an ARM Cortex-A8 System-on-Chip (SoC). These low power devices will provide convenient reference platforms for FreeBSD on ARM, as they [...]
Foundation Gold Sponsor of EuroBSDCon
The Foundation is proud to be a gold sponsor of EuroBSDCon, to be held at the Warsaw Univeristy of Technology in Warsaw, Poland from October 18-21. EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with BSD based operating systems family and related projects. This year\'s keynote s [...]
Foundation at OLF
The Foundation will be at Ohio LinuxFest on Saturday, September 29 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in the downtown arena-district Columbus, Ohio. As usual, we\'ll be accepting donations for the Foundation, answering questions about funded projects, and will have some brochures and cool swag. Registration is free for this even [...]
