freebsd announce - Dec 2012 - FreeBSD Foundation's 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 now. We are incredibly grateful
for all the support we receive from you and so many individuals and
organizations that value FreeBSD. As of this writing we have raised $250,000
towards our goal of raising $500,000. Would you consider making a gift to
support our work in 2013?

Donations can easily be made here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.

This year your donations helped FreeBSD by:

o   Funding development projects to improve FreeBSD, including: Capsicum
Application Sandboxing, Growing UFS Filesystems Online, the NAND Flash File
System, IPv6 Performance Analysis and Improvements, Distributed Security Audit
Logging, and porting FreeBSD to the Efika ARM platform.

o   Educating the public and promoting FreeBSD. We produced a high-quality
FreeBSD 9 brochure and visited companies to help facilitate collaboration
efforts with the Project.

o   Sponsoring BSD conferences and summits in Europe, Japan, Canada, and the US.

o   Protecting FreeBSD IP and providing legal support to the Project.

o   Purchasing hardware to build and improve FreeBSD project infrastructure.

The FreeBSD Foundation is well known for its successful development projects. 
Our 2013 plans are even more ambitious and we have recently hired two full-time
technical staff members to help achieve these goals.

But are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the
FreeBSD community?  The words from one of our travel grant recipients, Alberto
Mijares, help tell that story:

?Attending EuroBSDCon motivated me so much that I organized a meeting with my
peers just to share my experiences.  I gave a talk about IPv6 and FreeBSD at a
local student event. I also want to take the BSD certification exam at BSDCan
and I?m planning a big BSD event in my country in 2013 or early 2014.?

Alberto also recently submitted a PR with a new port for the Ports Collection
and he?s joining the effort to translate the updated FreeBSD handbook into
Spanish. He also wants to become a BSD Certification exam facilitator.

And there are so many others we support who are a part of the FreeBSD movement!
Stay tuned as we begin our Faces of FreeBSD Campaign. Starting this month we
will be 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 for FreeBSD. The numbers are growing thanks to your
support!

Donate today to help us continue and increase our support of the FreeBSD Project
and community worldwide! Making a donation is quick and easy. To make a donation
go to: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.


Thank you for your support!


Sincerely,


 

Deb Goodkin

Secretary/Treasurer

The FreeBSD Foundation