Posts in category FreeBSD Foundation
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 [...]
*Stunning News Website Fundraising Co...
Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation\'s annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign. We were thus surprised by coverage on Slashdot and Hacker News suggesting that we were behind in our fundraising goal. We’d never turn [...]
Faces of FreeBSD – Alberto Mija...
Faces of FreeBSD
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 [...]
OpenHelp Trip Report: Warren Block
Warren Block of the documentation team recently submitted his trip report for the OpenHelp Documentation Conference:The Open Help Conference was held in Newport, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. Shaun McCance, the GNOME documentation team\'s \"Fearless Leader\", organized the conference to bring together open sourc [...]
BSDCan Trip Reports: Hiren Panchasara...
The last of the BSDCan trip reports have been received. Hiren Panchasara posted his on his blog. Adrian Chadd\'s report is as follows:The last couple of years has seen me take stewardship of the net80211 stack and Atheros wifi driver development and maintenance. The FreeBSD Foundation provided me with a travel grant to enable me to participat [...]
Accepting Travel Grant Applications f...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to EuroBSDCon 2012.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 September 19, 2012 to apply for this grant.This program is open t [...]
FreeBSD Foundation’s Semi-Annua...
We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation\'s 2012 Semi-Annual Newsletter.The newsletter begins with the letter from the President, \"An Unsatisfied Market\", where Justin Gibbs discusses the goal of a credible marketplace offering FreeBSD support and services.Development project updates are provided by the develo [...]
Foundation at TLF
The Foundation will be at the FreeBSD booth at Texas LinuxFest. As usual, we\'ll have a bunch of swag and will be accepting donations to the Foundation.The booth is #37 in the Red Oak Ballroom of the Norris Conference Center in San Antonio. The expo is open on Saturday, August 4 from 10–6. Registration is required for this (Read more...)
Foundation at OSCON
Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the Foundation will be at the FreeBSD booth in the Expo area of OSCON on Wednesday, July 18. If you\'re at OSCON, drop by to say hi, discuss the Foundation\'s projects, check out the cool swag, or to make a donation.OSCON is being held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. You (Read more...)
New Funded Project: Capsicum Improvem...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to develop a comprehensive userspace framework for writing Capsicum-based applications, building on the kernel features originally developed by the University of Cambridge and Google Research.This framework will include a Capsicum runtime linker an [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Florian Smeets
The next trip report is from Florian Smeets:I arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday afternoon, together with Giovanni Trematerra who was on the same flight as I. After dropping our luggage off at the Residency one of the first people we met was Beat Gaetzi, my gecko@ companion. After a very short discussion it was decided to go to the (Read more...)
BSDCan Trip Report: Ben Haga
The next trip report is from Ben Haga:Without the generous support of the FreeBSD Foundation my trip to BSDCan 2012 would not have been possible. It was a great experience and I cannot thank the Foundation enough for the opportunity. Attending BSDCan was an excellent chance to meet the folks currently driving the future of FreeBSD. The exp [...]
