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FreeBSD Google SoC Projects started
The FreeBSD Project received many applications from students wanting to participate in Google’s Summer of Code program. This year 18 student proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project were accepted as part of this program. For those with projects that were not accepted this year, the FreeBSD Project is always willing to help mentor students so [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation accepting project proposals
30. March 2010
Love FreeBSD? Love coding, taking FreeBSD to new hights and getting paid for your work? If this is you, why not submit a proposal to the FreeBSD Foundation? The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce we are soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD related appointments
29. March 2010
Erwin Lansing has joined the FreeBSD Foundation board of Directors (announcement) The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that Erwin Lansing has joined the Board of Directors. For those of you who haven’t met Erwin, here is his bio: Erwin previously worked for an rapidly expanding webhosting startup and now holds a position as Network Systems Engineer at [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD HAST project completed
3. March 2010
Pawel Jakub Dawidek was awarded a grant by the FreeBSD Foundation last year to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations where data has to be shared across the cluster nodes. The HAST (High Availability Storage Project) is now completed. Pawel reports: I’m very happy to [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation accepting project proposals for funding
1. February 2010
The FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting the submission of proposals for work relating to any of the major subsystems or infrastructure within the FreeBSD operating system. Proposals will be evaluated based on desirability, technical merit, and cost-effectiveness. Interested? Check out what your proposal needs to include
Continue reading...How the FreeBSD Project’s Processes help companies build products
5. January 2010
George Neville-Neil has written the lead article for the January 2010 issue of the Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) and the FreeBSD Foundation is the sponsor for this month’s issue. The entire issue is available as a PDF and George’s article is also available in HTML. From the article’s abstract: The processes that open source projects use [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD fund raising drive – final plea
31. December 2009
The FreeBSD Foundation has not reached its fund raising goal for 2009 yet ($46,000 short of their $300,000 goal). The Foundation is hoping to to double spending on development in 2010 and needs our help: Why make a donation? Right now we’re putting together our 2010 budget. Our goal for next year is to double our [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD Foundation end-of-year newsletter (2009)
30. December 2009
Deb Goodkin announced the publication of the annual FreeBSD Foundation’s End-of-Year Newsletter (2009). Table of contents: Letter From the President End-of-Year Fundraising Update New Console Driver Flattened Device Tree Project Improvements to the FreeBSD TCP Stack Highly Available Storage Project FreeBSD Developer Summit, Cambridge, UK EuroBSDCon 2009 KyivBSD 2009 2009 Grant and Travel Grant Recipients FreeBSD Testimonial from iXsystems Financials The full newsletter can be read here. Previous years’ newsletters: [...]
Continue reading...Update on FreeBSD HAST Project
26. December 2009
Back in October we mentioned that the FreeBSD Foundation decided the fund the HAST project (new FreeBSD Project: HAST) Pawel Jakub Dawidek, the sponsored FreeBSD developer, has made quite a bit of progress since and finished the development of stage one: I want to report that first milestone of the HAST project is complete. Summary of the work [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD end-of-year fund raising drive (update)
18. December 2009
FreeBSD is free; it can be downloaded, used and adapted without paying any fees, unlike other major operating systems. This is why the FreeBSD Foundation needs donations to be able to fund new projects and conferences. The FreeBSD Foundation is collecting donations for the next year. The Foundation is a regular sponsor of many events, funds trips (including [...]
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31. May 2010
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