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We also provide travel grants to FreeBSD contributors, purchase and support hardware to improve and maintain FreeBSD infrastructure, and provide resources to improve security, quality assurance, and release engineering efforts.
We publish marketing material to promote, educate, and advocate for the FreeBSD Project, facilitate collaboration between commercial vendors and FreeBSD developers, and finally, represent the FreeBSD Project in executing contracts, license agreements, and other legal arrangements that require a recognized legal entity.

Happy 30th birthday, FreeBSD! For more than 23 years, we have proudly backed this remarkable operating system and its vibrant community, and we eagerly anticipate supporting them for many more years. In this update, we will outline our contributions to FreeBSD across multiple domains.
We will touch upon project development initiatives, some of which have detailed reports of their own. Additionally, we will showcase our advocacy for FreeBSD, our efforts to foster community engagement, and our expansion of partnership endeavors. Lastly, we will delve into our ongoing work to secure increased funding, enabling us to allocate additional resources to address any gaps within the Project.
Happy 30th birthday, FreeBSD!
For more than 23 years, we have proudly backed this remarkable operating system and its vibrant community, and we eagerly anticipate supporting them for many more years.
In this update, we will outline our contributions to FreeBSD across multiple domains.
We will touch upon project development initiatives, some of which have detailed reports of their own.
Additionally, we will showcase our advocacy for FreeBSD, our efforts to foster community engagement, and our expansion of partnership endeavors.
Lastly, we will delve into our ongoing work to secure increased funding, enabling us to allocate additional resources to address any gaps within the Project.

==== Fundraising

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The Foundation extends its heartfelt gratitude to everyone who made financial contributions to support our work during the previous quarter.
Besides many individual contributions, we were pleased to receive larger donations from NetApp and Blackberry.
In addition, we received FreeBSD Developer Summit sponsorships from Tarsap, iXsystems, and LPI.
In addition, we received FreeBSD Developer Summit sponsorships from Tarsnap, iXsystems, and LPI.
These sponsorships greatly assist in offsetting our expenses and enable us to offer affordable registration fees to attendees.

This year our budget is around $2,230,000, which includes increased spending toward FreeBSD advocacy and software development.
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For Partnerships, I am focused on building connections with companies that use FreeBSD.
I have met with several companies to learn about how they use FreeBSD.
Some of these meetings have generated discussions about potential partnership.
I continue to find out about interesting companies using FreeBSD and am reaching out to them.
I continue to find out about interesting companies using FreeBSD and I am reaching out to them.

My objective is to get in touch with every company building with and using FreeBSD to listen to their stories.
If this is you and we have not yet connected, please schedule a call on my calendar with link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[this link].
If this is you and we have not yet connected, please schedule a call on link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[my calendar].

Some other partnership-related activities this Quarter:

* I created link:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tDCpbfxbqIucmJF6H15vK-ETrQsCMOVtxoqLem_V0Z0/edit?usp=sharing[these slides] about how partnering with the Foundation helps advance FreeBSD.
If you have ideas for how I can improve these slides, or would like me to present them to your organization, please link:mailto:[email protected][shoot me an email], or link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[schedule a call].
If you have ideas for how I can improve these slides, or would like me to present them to your organization, please link:mailto:[email protected][send me an email], or link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[schedule a call].
And please feel free to share the presentation liberally, in whole or in part.
* I worked with my Foundation colleagues to create a number of industry-specific use case slides for a presentation to an industry analyst.
* I am also pursuing Grant opportunities with bodies including:
* I am also pursuing grant opportunities with bodies including:
** NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
** Sovereign Tech Fund
** NGI

In terms of Research, my broad aim is to make sure that all of the expertise in this community is reflected in the global conversations on computing performance, security, and energy efficiency.
In terms of research, my broad aim is to make sure that all of the expertise in this community is reflected in the global conversations on computing performance, security, and energy efficiency.
As a community, we have much to bring to this work.

So far, I have been tracking and plugging into the following threads:

* link:https://openforumeurope.org/open-source/[Open Forum Europe]
* link:https://www.nist.gov/chips/research-and-development-program[CHIPS Research and Development]

If you have research ideas or are interested in working together in this area, please link:mailto:[email protected][shoot me an email], or link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[schedule a call].
If you have research ideas or are interested in working together in this area, please link:mailto:[email protected][send me an email], or link:https://calendly.com/greg-freebsdfound/30min[schedule a call].

==== OS Improvements

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Here is a sampling of other Foundation-sponsored work:

* port kinst to riscv and related dtrace work
* man:killpg[2] bug fixes
* vendor import and update of tcpdump from version 4.9.3 to version 4.99.4
* man:fsck_ffs[8] bug fixes
* port fixes/workarounds for LLVM 16 and OpenSSL 3.0
* various LinuxKPI 802.11 improvements
* vmm improvements
* various riscv improvements
* hwpmc improvements
* update of libfido2 to version 1.9.0
* Bug fixes for man:fsck_ffs[8]
* Bug fixes for man:killpg[2]
* Improvements to hwpmc
* Improvements to vmm
* Port fixes and workarounds for LLVM 16 and OpenSSL 3.0
* Port kinst to riscv and related dtrace work
* Update of libfido2 to version 1.9.0
* Various LinuxKPI 802.11 improvements
* Various riscv improvements
* Vendor import and update of tcpdump from version 4.9.3 to version 4.99.4

The status of current and past Foundation contracted work can be viewed on the link:https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/projects/[Foundation Projects page].

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