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BSD Fund is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit 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. The BSD or Berkeley Software Distribution family of open source licenses and operating systems emphasize permissive redistribution and high technical standards.
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BSD Fund a meetBSD California 2010 Sponsor
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
July 21st – 22nd, 2010
Stop by the Linux Fund booth during OSCON 2010 to enter this awesome 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!
BSD Fund a PGCon 2010 Sponsor
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?
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!
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
BSD Fund a BSDCan 2010 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!
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.
June 25th, 2009
We are pleased to announce that the BSD Fund Visa is availble now to US residents.
June 23rd, 2009
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
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August 15th, 2008
BSD Fund contributes 500 Euro to OpenCON 2007
November 30th, 2007
It was great to see everyone at...
“I am always happy to see another source of funding for BSD.” – Kirk
McKusick
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