BSD Fund

Carry the card that supports BSD events and development!

BSD Fund is a United States 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to assist and fund BSD-related events, development and initiatives around the world. BSD Fund raises money through direct donations and the BSD Fund Visa that supports BSD with every purchase. BSD or Berkeley Software Distribution is a family of open source licenses and operating systems that emphasize permissive redistribution and high technical standards.

BSD Fund News

Portable C Compiler can now build a bootable OpenBSD x86 kernel with AMD64 support coming soon!

December 28th, 2009

BSD Fund a BSDCan Sponsor

December 18th, 2009

BSD Fund is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of BSDCan 2010 using funds raised exclusively with the BSD Fund Visa. US residents are invited to carry a card to support events like this with every purchase!

pcc Call to Action Update: $770 donated to pcc in three days

December 3rd, 2009

Day three and $770 has been donated to pcc, leaving under $3,000 to go!

pcc Call to Action: Let's reach the pcc target by New Year!

December 1st, 2009

With just under $4,000 to go for pcc, let's all agree to raising it by December 31st.

The Art of Community presented to the OpenBSD project

November 19th, 2009 – Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon

BSD Fund presents OpenBSD project developers Bob Beck and Theo de Raadt copies of Jono Bacon's The Art of Community.

BSD Fund Visa Availble Now!

June 25th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the BSD Fund Visa is availble now to US residents.

Portable C Compiler AMD64 functionality is complete!

June 23rd, 2009

Portable C Compiler C99 functionality is complete!

May 20th, 2009

Portable C Compiler work completes second step of C99 functionality

April 20th, 2009

Portable C Compiler work continues with all GCC and first C99 steps completed

March 30th, 2009

Shipping Fund ships a donated Sun Sunfire X2100 to Robert Nagy of the OpenBSD Project

March 27th, 2009

Portable C Compiler work begins with over $4,000 raised

November 17th, 2008

Announcing the Portable C Compiler Fund

November 1st, 2008

Announcing the Events Fund

November 1st, 2008

BSD Fund contributes $1000 to Slackathon 2008

September 13th, 2008

Announcing the Shipping Fund

August 15th, 2008

BSD Fund contributes 500 Euro to OpenCON 2007

November 30th, 2007

It was great to see everyone at...

• Supercomputing 2009
• OpenSource World 2009
• OSCON 2009
• LinuxTag 2009
• SCaLE 7x 2009
• OpenCON 2008
• Systems.de 2008
• EuroBSDCon 2008
• Slackathon 2008
• LinuxWorld 2008
• OSCON 2008
• Linux Tag 2008
• FOSDEM 2008
• SCaLE 2008
• OpenCON 2007

“I am always happy to see another source of funding for BSD.” – Kirk McKusick