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Foundation at Texas LinuxFest
There will be a FreeBSD booth (booth #21) in the Expo area at Texas LinuxFest, to be held at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday June 1. Registration is required for this event at a cost of $25 or $55.Stop by the booth to discuss the Foundation\'s projects, check out the cool swag, or to (Read more...)
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 [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste\'s new role as the Foundation\'s part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation\'s board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.In this position, Ed will manage the Foundation\'s sponsored work, including projects funded [...]
FreeBSD Foundation announces second t...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Edward Tomasz Napierała has joined as its second member of technical staff. This is a continuation of the Foundation\'s plan to invest in staff in 2013.A FreeBSD committer since 2007, Edward previously completed a number of projects under Foundation grants, including safe device removal with [...]
Raise a Million – Spend a Milli...
FreeBSD is internationally recognized as an innovative leader in providing a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Our mission is to continue and increase our support and funding to keep FreeBSD at the forefront of operating system technology. But, we can’t do this without your help! Last year with yo [...]
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.
FreeBSD Foundation is Soliciting the ...
The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of projectproposals for funded development grants. Proposals may be related toany of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSDoperating system, and will be evaluated based on desirability,technical merit, and cost-effectiveness.Key dates for this proposal solicitation:Call f [...]
FreeBSD and Xorg on ARM
As part of the port of FreeBSD to the Efika Platform Project Xorg is now running on FreeBSD on ARM. Here\'s an update from the developer, Aleksandr Rybalko:You\'ve already seen or at least heard about ARM systems running FreeBSD. In most cases its routers, firewalls, network storage, etc. Why doesn\'t anyone use FreeBSD on an ARM based deskt [...]
Porting FreeBSD to Efika Platforms Pr...
We are pleased to announce the Porting FreeBSD to the Genesi Efika MX SmartBook laptop and SmartTop nettop devices projects has completed! While many FreeBSD developers are working on ARM on embedded systems we feel it\'s important to show FreeBSD running on ARM devices that people can easily touch and interact with. The port of FreeBSD to [...]
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 [...]
Faces of FreeBSD – Thomas Abtho...
Faces of FreeBSDAre you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the FreeBSD community? In conjunction with our fundraising efforts, we are spotlighting different people on our website and Facebook page who have received funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate f [...]
Thank You for Helping Us Exceed Our F...
We want to thank everyone for helping us exceed our fundraising goal for 2012. We are thrilled to report we raised $753,378. And, checks are still coming in! We should have final numbers by mid-January. Donation receipts will be emailed and mailed out by the end of January. If you made a donation and you can\'t find your name on (Read mo [...]
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 [...]
