Colin Percival recently wrote this blog post. With his permission, it is republished here as it may be of interest to other Foundation supporters.Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Pancha Ganapati,Hogmanay, Newtonmas, or simply the end of the Gregorian year, oddsare that you\'re giving gifts some time around now. We give giftst [...]
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‘Tis the season for giving
Colin Percival recently wrote this blog post. With his permission, it is republished here as it may be of interest to other Foundation supporters.Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Pancha Ganapati,Hogmanay, Newtonmas, or simply the end of the Gregorian year, oddsare that you\'re giving gifts some time around now. We give giftst [...]
Apache Software Foundation Testimonia...
Did you know that the Foundation that powers half the Internet uses FreeBSD for nearly all of its public facing services? The FreeBSD Foundation recently received this testimonial from the Apache Software Foundation:The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad rangeof open source softwa [...]
RideCharge/TaxiMagic Testimonial
Did you know that Taxi Magic, the first nationwide free online taxi booking service that is directly integrated with taxi dispatch systems, is entirely based on FreeBSD? Philip M. Gollucci, Director of Operations, recently explained why in his testimonial for the Foundation: RideCharge, Inc. creates innovative technology solutions that improv [...]
Foundation Newsletter Published
The Foundation has published its semi-annual newsletter. It contains updates on this year\'s projects and fundraising campaign, testimonials from TaxiMagic and the Apache Software Foundation, and the Q1-Q3 balance sheet. You can read the newsletter here. It begins with the letter from the President which is as follows:The Making of The FreeBS [...]
End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign
The FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 11 years now. Every year we sponsor BSD conferences and events around the globe, help developers with their travel expenses to attend these conferences, work to protect the intellectual property of the FreeBSD project, visit institutions and corporations [...]
Foundation at LISA
There will be a FreeBSD booth during LISA in Boston, next Wednesday and Thursday (December 7–8). We’ll have some cool Foundation swag, Foundation brochures, and will be available to answer FreeBSD questions and to accept donations for the Foundation. Entrance to the exhibition area is free, but you do need to register first. If you’re in Bost [...]
SoC Mentor Summit Trip Report
The Foundation provided a travel grant to Bjoern Zeeb to attend the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit and the FreeBSD Vendor Summit. Bjoern\'s trip report is as follows:Thank you for helping with my travel costs to the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit and the FreeBSD Vendor Summit.Google Summer of Code Mentor SummitGoogle\'s registration [...]
Trip Report: Andrew Turner
The next trip report is from Andrew Turner:On day one of the Developer summit, I attended the bmake/bus_bma and toolchain working groups. I contributed to these by announcing a patch to allow FreeBSD to be compiled from Linux. The patch is available; however, it is against an old copy of HEAD and does not apply correctly. An updated (Read mo [...]
Trip Report: Brooks Davis
The next EuroBSDCon trip report is from Brooks Davis:I arrived in Maarssen on the 5th of October and met up with fellow developers for drinks at the hotel and then dinner.On the 6th, we headed to the conference site and commenced with the developers summit. After an opening session, we broke up into working groups. For the first [...]
Trip Report: Gleb Kurtsou
The next trip report is from Gleb Kurtsou:Thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation, I was able to attend the Developer Summit and EuroBSDcon\'2011. It was my first Developer Summit. Two of my main goals were to popularize PEFS and meet in person people I communicate with via email. FreeBSD developers are all great people and nice to talk to. I (Read [...]
Trip Report: Niklas Zeising
The next trip report is from Niklas Zeising:This year I had the privilege and pleasure to attend EuroBSDcon 2011 and the preceding Developers Summit. I have had plans to travel to earlier EuroBSDcon conferences, but have never been able to partly because of the cost. What made this year different was the generous sponsorship [...]
Trip Report: Daichi Goto
The next EuroBSDCon trip report is from Daichi Goto:Thank you for the great support of my journey to EuroBSDCon 2011 and the FreeBSD DevSummit 2011. It was a great experience. Thank you again. On the first day of the DevSummit, I attended the Ports, Toolchain, and Capsicum working groups. These days, GPL-free tool [...]
Trip Report: Marius Strobl
The EuroBSDCon trip reports are starting to arrive and will be posted here. The first report is from Marius Strobl:The generous sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation for the first time allowed me to attend EuroBSDCon\'11 as well as the associated Developer Summit in its entirety (so far I could only attend one day of last year\'s EuroBSDCon D [...]
Implementing xlocale APIs Project Upd...
The following project update was written by David Chisnall who received a grant from us to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++. We\'re pleased that the project is almost completed!It\'s traditional to start this sort of thing by telling you who I am. I started using FreeBSD around 2001. At the time, I\'d used Linux but switched [...]
DIFFUSE for FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Swinburne Universityof Technology\'s Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures hasbeen awarded a grant to implement DIFFUSE for FreeBSD.DIFFUSE (Distributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using StatisticalEvidence) is an extension to the FreeBSD IPFW firewall subsystemdeveloped by CAIA. It allowsI [...]
Implementing xlocale APIs
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that David Chisnall has been awarded a grant to implement xlocale APIs to enable porting libc++.The C standard library (libc) is one of the most important parts of a UNIX system as most programs interact with the kernel through interfaces written in C. Porting code between platforms with similar [...]
Participate in Software Freedom Day
This Saturday, September 17, is Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an annual global event that encourages open source software users to reach out to their local community to educate others about the benefits of using open source.Frederic Muller, President of SFI, the non-profit organization behind Software Freedom Day, has been very helpful i [...]
Accepting Travel Grant Applications f...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expensesto EuroBSDCon 2011.The FreeBSD Foundation will be providing a limited number of travelgrants to individuals requesting assistance. Please fill out and submitthe Travel Grant Request Application bySeptember 5, 2011 to apply for this grant.How it works:This program is open to [...]
Semi-Annual Newsletter Available
We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation\'s 2011 Semi-Annual Newsletter. In this edition:Letter From the PresidentFundraising UpdateDevelopment Project UpdatesIPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSDImplementing support of GEM, KMS, and DRI for Intel DriversResource Containers ProjectFeed-Forward Clock Synchronization Al [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Baptiste Daroussi...
The Foundation recently sponsored Baptiste Daroussin to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
This year I had the privilege to attend BSDCan 2011 thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Foundation. I was invited by Erwin Lansing to participate in the Ports Workgroup by presenting the project I am working on with Julien Laffaye: pkgn [...]
