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meetBSD California 2010

BSD Fund a meetBSD California 2010 Sponsor USA

November 5th – 6th, 2010

BSD Fund is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of meetBSD California 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!

Will you put you meetBSD travel on the card?


BSD Fund to raffle off an iXsystems 1U server at OSCON USA

July 21st – 22nd, 2010

Stop by the Linux Fund booth during OSCON 2010 to enter this awesome iXsystems 1U server:


iXsystems 1U Server
  • 1U with 2 Hot-Swap SAS/SATA 3.5" Drive Bays
  • Dual Gigabit EtherNet
  • Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Processor
  • Support for Intel® Xeon® 3000 Sequence and Core™ 2 Quad/Duo (LGA775 CPU)
  • 2 x 1GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM
  • 1 x Seagate 1TB NS SATA-II Hard Drive
  • Cabinet mounting rails included!

PGCon 2010

BSD Fund a PGCon 2010 Sponsor Canada

April 30th, 2010

BSD Fund is proud to be a Bronze sponsor of PGCon 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!

Will you put you PGCon travel on our card?


Portable C Compiler Fundraising Goal Met!

April 29th, 2010

An anonymous donor has made a $1,000 donation to pcc in honor of the OpenBSD Project, bringing us solidly past our fundraising target. Thank you everyone who participated in this effort and stay tuned for releases!


ISC

BSD Fund Receives ISC Grant

March 28th, 2010

BSD Fund would like to thank Internet Systems Consortium for its generous grant. We all have them to thank for their key role in the Internet's open infrastructure and their elegant permissive license.


Portable C Compiler less than $1000 from its fundraising target!

March 3rd, 2010

We would like to thank Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for making this important milestone possible.


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

December 28th, 2009


BSDCan 2010

BSD Fund a BSDCan 2010 Sponsor Canada

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!

Will you put you BSDCan travel on our card?


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 Today!

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 Sweden

September 13th, 2008


Announcing the Shipping Fund

August 15th, 2008


BSD Fund contributes 500 Euro to OpenCON 2007 Italy

November 30th, 2007


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