Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:23:30 -0600 From: "F. Even - freebsd-security" <freebsdlists@elitists.org> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development Message-ID: <442DD612.1080401@elitists.org> In-Reply-To: <20060331120045.6814B16A565@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060331120045.6814B16A565@hub.freebsd.org>
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...sorry for spamming the list, didn't fix the subject, etc. from my digest response in the last one. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:20:53 -0800 > From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> > Subject: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <442C3DA5.9010901@freebsd.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear FreeBSD users, > > Slightly more than three years ago, I released FreeBSD Update, my first > major contribution to FreeBSD. Since then, I have become a FreeBSD > committer, joined the FreeBSD Security Team, released Portsnap, and > become the FreeBSD Security Officer. However, as I have gone from > being a graduate student at Oxford University -- busy writing my thesis > -- to a researcher at Simon Fraser University -- busy doing research > and writing papers -- my "to do" list of FreeBSD-related work has > continued growing, and I have now come to realize that some of the > items on that list will probably never be finished until I get a chance > to work full-time on FreeBSD. > > This is where you come in. I'm hoping to raise $15,000 Canadian (about > US$13,000) to pay me to work full-time on FreeBSD for 16 weeks over the > summer. This will allow me to devote more time to my role as FreeBSD > Security Officer, perform a complete overhaul of FreeBSD Update, and > make some significant improvements to Portsnap. > > Based on my estimates of the number of systems currently using Portsnap > and FreeBSD Update (about 8500 and 4500 respectively based on my server > logs) this works out to one US dollar per computer (or two dollars for > systems using both Portsnap and FreeBSD Update); I don't think this is > an unreasonable amount to ask for even if I only receive donations > from people who are using Portsnap or FreeBSD Update. That said, if > I don't reach my target for donations, I'll get as much work done within > the time I have funds for before returning to other paying work (most > likely at the university again). > > Donations can be sent by paypal to cperciva@freebsd.org; if you would > prefer to send a cheque (which is probably only worthwhile for cheques > in Canadian or US dollars), please contact me by email to obtain my > mailing address. In either case, please let me know if you wish to > remain anonymous. > > For more details, see http://people.freebsd.org/~cperciva/funding.html . > > Colin Percival I'm just curious, is there any particular reason this wouldn't be or couldn't be facilitated through the FreeBSD Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ Thanks, Frank
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