From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 21:06:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDEA16A420 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAC943D68 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 21:06:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.50]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX200DB8ANBRP00@l-daemon> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:06:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX200JJ9ANBY010@pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:06:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.60] ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IX2004FXANAHBB0@l-daemon> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:06:47 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:07:12 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <442DD612.1080401@elitists.org> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-id: <442EEB80.2070508@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20060331120045.6814B16A565@hub.freebsd.org> <442DD612.1080401@elitists.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) Subject: Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD security development X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 21:06:52 -0000 F. Even - freebsd-security wrote: > 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/ There are a few reasons. First, the Foundation doesn't have unlimited money, and if I can raise funds on my own, they'll be able to spend more on things like bringing developers to conferences. Second, both FreeBSD Update and Portsnap are very tangible and self-contained -- people who benefit from my work in this area are probably very aware that they're using these tools, in contrast to more fundamental work like adding SMP locking to the network subsystem (which is extremely important, but not nearly as obvious). Third, phk and andre raised funds in the summers of 2004 and 2005 respectively, so I more or less followed their lead. :-) That said, if I come close to, but do not reach, my target, I'll ask the Foundation if they can make up the difference. Colin Percival