Category Archives: FreeBSD Foundation

FreeBSD Foundation announces Ed Maste as Director of Project Development

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste‘s new role as the Foundation’s part-time Director of Project Development.  Ed has served on the Foundation’s board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position. In this position … Continue reading

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FreeBSD expands activities as funds flow in

FreeBSD developer Marshall McKusick has been speaking to iTWire. They talk about last year’s donations, newly hired staff and what else can be expected from the FreeBSD Foundation this year. The FreeBSD Foundation was so successful in raising funds last … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation to spend $1,000,000 on FreeBSD development and promotions

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced it will invest $1,000,000 this year to fund FreeBSD development and the promotion of it. FreeBSD is internationally recognized as an innovative leader in providing a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Our mission is … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation Announces Capsicum Framework Project

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a development grant to further improve the Capsicum framework. The grant is jointly funded by Google’s Open Source Programs Office. The project includes the integration of previous work, … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation is soliciting submission of project proposals (2013)

The FreeBSD Foundation annually (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) asks the FreeBSD (developers) community for any project proposals that they’d like to work on, and, this is the interesting part, get funding for from the Foundation. The Foundation has invited the Community again … Continue reading

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FreeBSD Foundation announces new technical staff member

The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Konstantin Belousov has been hired as its first full-time member of technical staff, a key milestone of the Foundation’s investment in staff for 2013. Konstantin has been a FreeBSD committer since 2006, and he … Continue reading

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New FreeBSD Foundation Funded Project: FreeBSD/ARM Architecture Superpages Support

Following the successful 2012 Year-End Fundraising Campaign the FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Semihalf, an embedded solutions company, has been awarded a grant to develop transparent superpages support for the FreeBSD/ARM architecture. Semihalf is co-sponsoring the project with the Foundation. The ARM architecture is … Continue reading

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Happy 2013 and miscelaneous news

Happy 2013 to all regular readers and the occasional visitor. It’s been a while since this site was updated, but this was due to work and holidays. Hopefully we’ll see FreeBSD 10 released this year and the use of FreeBSD … Continue reading

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