Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 11:27:12 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsdfoundation.org> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation's Year-End Fundraising Campaign Message-ID: <40A80CD5-847C-490F-A9C0-56FEDB278B71@freebsdfoundation.org>
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Dear FreeBSD Community, Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By = investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a = high-performance, secure, and stable operating system. Thanks to people like you, the FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly = supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 12 years now. We are = incredibly grateful for all the support we receive from you and so many = individuals and organizations that value FreeBSD. As of this writing we = have raised $250,000 towards our goal of raising $500,000. Would you = consider making a gift to support our work in 2013? Donations can easily be made here: = http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/. This year your donations helped FreeBSD by: o Funding development projects to improve FreeBSD, including: Capsicum = Application Sandboxing, Growing UFS Filesystems Online, the NAND Flash = File System, IPv6 Performance Analysis and Improvements, Distributed = Security Audit Logging, and porting FreeBSD to the Efika ARM platform. o Educating the public and promoting FreeBSD. We produced a = high-quality FreeBSD 9 brochure and visited companies to help facilitate = collaboration efforts with the Project. o Sponsoring BSD conferences and summits in Europe, Japan, Canada, and = the US. o Protecting FreeBSD IP and providing legal support to the Project. o Purchasing hardware to build and improve FreeBSD project = infrastructure. The FreeBSD Foundation is well known for its successful development = projects. Our 2013 plans are even more ambitious and we have recently = hired two full-time technical staff members to help achieve these goals. But are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of = the FreeBSD community? The words from one of our travel grant = recipients, Alberto Mijares, help tell that story: =93Attending EuroBSDCon motivated me so much that I organized a meeting = with my peers just to share my experiences. I gave a talk about IPv6 = and FreeBSD at a local student event. I also want to take the BSD = certification exam at BSDCan and I=92m planning a big BSD event in my = country in 2013 or early 2014.=94 Alberto also recently submitted a PR with a new port for the Ports = Collection and he=92s joining the effort to translate the updated = FreeBSD handbook into Spanish. He also wants to become a BSD = Certification exam facilitator. And there are so many others we support who are a part of the FreeBSD = movement! Stay tuned as we begin our Faces of FreeBSD Campaign. Starting = this month we will be spotlighting different people on our website and = FaceBook page who have received funding to work on development projects, = run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate for FreeBSD. The = numbers are growing thanks to your support! Donate today to help us continue and increase our support of the FreeBSD = Project and community worldwide! Making a donation is quick and easy. To = make a donation go to: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/. Thank you for your support! Sincerely, =20 Deb Goodkin Secretary/Treasurer The FreeBSD Foundation=
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