From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 6 12:42:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BE01065679 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (mx1.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66AC8FC1C for ; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:42:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n56CeSuc030251; Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:40:28 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:40:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906061440.27891.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Wojciech Puchar , Neal Hogan Subject: Re: sponsoring ZFS development on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:42:04 -0000 On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar < > > wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS > > > >> development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person > >> so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month), > > > > donations@freebsd.org > > > > and of course you may sponsor it too by improving ZFS code, or maybe - > > making some better FS. > > > > but I keep seeing FreeBSD core team members keep mentioning "we value > > > >> donations of all sizes", so what the hell :) Anyways, in the past I > >> have directed my donations to The FreeBSD Foundation, if I want to > >> ensure that as much of my money as possible goes directly to benefit > >> the development of ZFS support on FreeBSD, should I continue donating > > > > just tell them about it. > > hahahahaha I'm not sure why you are laughing, because you _can_ tell the FreeBSD Foundation how you would like them to spent your money. If you click on "Donate" there's a box where you can enter the project(s) you'd like to see funded. Although ZFS isn't currently listed as a project, I'm sure there's enough interest from the community. -- Pieter de Goeje