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FreeBSD Foundation donations

When money abounds, you buy office furniture and gamble with investments, when it's tight, you do something with it.

Keywords: FreeBSD

The FreeBSD Foundation has done a lot this past year:

Provided $100,000 in grants for projects that improve FreeBSD in the areas of:
- DTrace support
- High availability storage
- Enhanced SNMP reporting
- Virtualization and resource partitioning
- Embedded device support
- Networking stack improvements

Allocated $50,000 for equipment to enhance FreeBSD project infrastructure.

Sponsored 8 FreeBSD related conferences.

Funded 16 travel grants giving increased community and developer access to conferences.

Provided legal support to the FreeBSD project.

Consider donating to the FreeBSD Foundation!

Posted on 2010-12-29T23:05 by ivoras

#1 Re: FreeBSD Foundation donations

Added on 2011-02-28T12:07 by gcooper

I know it isn't much, but I scored $10k worth of equipment for the foundation and I donated ~$400 in the past year personally... *shrugs*

#2 Re: FreeBSD Foundation donations

Added on 2011-02-28T12:18 by Ivan Voras

And that is great! I don't think there is anyone who isn't greatful!

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