BSD software has powered the Internet from day one and is maintained by a global community. "BSD" began as the Berkely Software Distribution at U.C. Berkeley and now represents a family of software licenses, software projects, and complete operating systems.

BSD Fund has fueled BSD development since 2008 and invites you to support this critical work and the community that performs it.

2025 BSD Fund Projects and Partners

Production User Call Feature Incubation

User/Developer communication is proving invaluable

The Production User Calls have fostered discussions between users and developers that are resulting in refined feature requests suitable for funding by organizations like the FreeBSD Foundation. For 2025, BSD Fund is focusing on funding developers for feature feasibility research and formal proposal development. This research sometimes results in near-complete features or can determine that a feature is unfeasible. Either way, it is time-consuming and requires subject matter expertice. We invite you help fund this feature incubation and the list of candidate projects is completely transparent.

bhyve TPM Emulation Development

Corvin developed TPM Pass-Through. Now it's time for TPM Emulation

Long-time illumos developer Hans Rosenfeld has developed TPM Emulation for bhyve on FreeBSD and the work is committed.

• 2025-03-01 Goal of $1100 USD reached and delivered!
• 2024-12-01 bhyve TMP Emulation scheduled for inclusion in FreeBSD 14.3

January 2025 BSDTV A/V Hardware Update

The BSDCons have paid WAY too much in rental fees over the years!

The BSDTV A/V team deployed our first-generation portable streaming solution for a single track at BSDCan 2024 with excellent results. We then fully funded equipment for a second track for EuroBSDcon 2024 and the OpenZFS User and Developer Summit. Come 2025, we have successfully covered the cost of streaming equipment and cameras for three tracks.

Call For Testing and the Production User Calls

Over a decade of BSD support and leadership

Michael Dexter of Call For Testing and BSD Fund has hosted and posted over 80 hours of bhyve, Jail, Zones, and OpenZFS Production User meetings, is a frequent conference speaker, hosts bhyvecon, and has organized the Portland Linux/Unix Group since 2009. Michael's leadership role provides tangible community benefits through code review and upstreaming, not to mention the inspiration of new and returning community members.

Please help support his work today!

AsiaBSDCon 2026

AsiaBSDCon reaches audiences not served by the larger BSDCan and EuroBSDcon conferences and can always use your help. Please write secretary@asiabsdcon.org to learn more about sponsorship opportunities!

BSDCan 2025

June 11th – 14th, 2025

BSDCan is the largest annual BSD conference and welcomes presenters and attendees from around the world. We raised over $50,000 USD for BSDCan 2024 in less than six months and it is time to look at 2025. Please consider a PayPal donation and review the Sponsorship Opportunities, and write with any questions!

EuroBSDcon 2025

September 25th – 28th, 2025

EuroBSDcon changes city every year and welcomes presenters and attendees from around the world. Please review the EuroBSDcon Sponsorship Prospectus to learn more about sponsorship opportunities!

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