The Foundation recently sponsored Julien Laffaye to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
During my trip in Ottawa, I met Baptiste Daroussin, with whom I developed the pkg_install replacement pkgng. It was nice to meet face-to-face and to discuss the future goals of pkgng development. I also met Will Andrews (who was interested by our [...]
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BSDCan Trip Report: Julien Laffaye
The Foundation recently sponsored Julien Laffaye to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
During my trip in Ottawa, I met Baptiste Daroussin, with whom I developed the pkg_install replacement pkgng. It was nice to meet face-to-face and to discuss the future goals of pkgng development. I also met Will Andrews (who was interested by our [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Simon Nielsen
The Foundation recently sponsored Simon Nielsen to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
My main goal of attending BSDCan 2011 and the preceding Developers Summit was \"networking\", talking in person to many of the people I normally only interact with via email or IRC. Both to discuss some of the many smaller and larger outstanding i [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Thomas Abthorpe
The Foundation recently sponsored Thomas Abthorpe to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
The first time I was privileged to attend BSDCan was in 2009, a generous sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation enabled me to attend. Of the many topics I could have reported on, I chose to identify the human aspect of FreeBSD, the people that [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Sergio Ligregni
The Foundation recently sponsored Sergio Ligregni to attend BSDCan 2011. Here is his trip report:
The travel started at Mexico City\'s International Airport, flying to Montreal and then to Ottawa.
The first day of BSD activity was Wednesday, May 11th, when the FreeBSD DevSummit took place at the University of Ottawa. We arrived, got our bad [...]
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems Anno...
The Foundation is pleased to announce that Bjoern Zeeb has made good progress in the Improved IPv6 Support project and that testing snapshots for both FreeBSD and PC-BSD are now available in time for World IPv6 Day. From the press release:
The FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems announced today their commitment to support the efforts of World I [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Daichi Goto
The FreeBSD Foundation recently provided a travel grant to Daichi Goto to attend BSDCan and the FreeBSD Developer Summit. He has provided the following trip report:What have you accomplished by attending this conference?I have written thirteen BSDCan 2011 related articles for the \"FreeBSD Daily Topics\" section of gihyo.jp. The articles desc [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Daichi Goto
The FreeBSD Foundation recently provided a travel grant to Daichi Goto to attend BSDCan and the FreeBSD Developer Summit. He has provided the following trip report:
What have you accomplished by attending this conference?
I have written thirteen BSDCan 2011 related articles for the \"FreeBSD Daily Topics\" section of gihyo.jp. The articles [...]
FreeBSD portmgr thank you to the Free...
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wrote a thank you note to the Foundation for providing travel grants to several developers who therefore were able to attend the very successful Ports Working Group session.We would like to publicly thank the FreeBSD Foundation for granting Baptiste Daroussin and Julien Laffaye a travel grant to travel to BSD [...]
FreeBSD portmgr thank you to the Free...
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wrote a thank you note to the Foundation for providing travel grants to several developers who therefore were able to attend the very successful Ports Working Group session.We would like to publicly thank the FreeBSD Foundation for granting Baptiste Daroussin and Julien Laffaye a travel grant to travel to BSD [...]
libcxxrt C++ Runtime Now Available Un...
The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation announced today that they have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64 and MIPS. The press release, available from the FreeBSD Foundation, Pathscale, and [...]
libcxxrt C++ Runtime Now Available Un...
The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation announced today that they have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64 and MIPS. The press release, available from the FreeBSD Foundation, Pathscale, and [...]
New Funded Project: Improved IPv6 Sup...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to improve the maturity of IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems.
FreeBSD\'s KAME-based reference implementation of IPv6 first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and can be found in a broad range of FreeBSD-derived comm [...]
New Funded Project: Improved IPv6 Sup...
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has awarded Bjoern Zeeb a grant to improve the maturity of IPv6 support in FreeBSD and PC-BSD. This project is jointly sponsored with iXsystems. FreeBSD\'s KAME-based reference implementation of IPv6 first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, and can be found in a broad range of FreeBSD-derived commer [...]
FOSDEM Trip Report: Brooks Davis
Brooks Davis has provided the following trip report for FOSDEM 2011; it includes some interesting notes on clang/llvm.
I attended the FOSDEM 2011 conference in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of February 5th and 6th.
As usual FOSDEM kicked off with the massive beer event on Friday night. An absurd number of geeks packed four bars and consu [...]
FOSDEM Trip Report: Brooks Davis
Brooks Davis has provided the following trip report for FOSDEM 2011; it includes some interesting notes on clang/llvm.I attended the FOSDEM 2011 conference in Brussels, Belgium on the weekend of February 5th and 6th.As usual FOSDEM kicked off with the massive beer event on Friday night. An absurd number of geeks packed four bars and consumed [...]
Foundation at ILF and FlourishConf
I\'ll be representing the Foundation at the BSD booth at Indiana LinuxFest this upcoming weekend and at FlourishConf on the following weekend. If you\'re near Indianapolis or Chicago, drop by and say hi as registration is free for both events. Dropping by the booth provides an opportunity to discuss what the Foundation has been up to, check o [...]
Foundation at ILF and FlourishConf
I\'ll be representing the Foundation at the BSD booth at Indiana LinuxFest this upcoming weekend and at FlourishConf on the following weekend. If you\'re near Indianapolis or Chicago, drop by and say hi as registration is free for both events. Dropping by the booth provides an opportunity to discuss what the Foundation has been up to, check o [...]
Accepting Travel Grant Applications f...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2011.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 15, 2011 to apply for this grant.This program is open to FreeBSD develop [...]
Accepting Travel Grant Applications f...
Calling all FreeBSD developers needing assistance with travel expenses to BSDCan 2011.
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 15, 2011 to apply for this grant.
This program is open to FreeBSD dev [...]
Ground Labs Announces FreeBSD Support
From the press release:Ground Labs, a global leader in the development of security and auditing software for the payment card industry, recently announced the introduction of native support for FreeBSD within its cardholder data discovery products for PCI compliance.\"Our goal is to provide support for all major operating systems that are use [...]
