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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by emaste on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:03PM (#8620952)
The Foundation's financials are open, so you can see how the money has been used in the past. The short version is that our 2014 budget was on track to spend about half that amount (i.e., approaching half a million) on funded project development, through permanent staff and development contracts. The other portion goes into supporting conferences, hardware purchases for the FreeBSD cluster, and staff time to support the FreeBSD project.

Keep in mind that this donation won't be spent in one year; we'll be able to find qualified uses for this money.

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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by lamby on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:08PM (#8620990)
> funded project development, through permanent staff and development contracts

Somewhat of an aside, how do you guys manage the relationship between volunteers and paid work? Mixing the two has a historically poor track record in the open source community (eg. Dunc Tank, etc. etc.)

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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by cperciva on Monday November 17, 2014 @05:47PM (#8621227)
emaste may be able to give an "official foundation answer" for this question, but from what I've seen the Foundation employees do the work which everybody agrees is important but nobody wants to do -- like haswell video acceleration and release engineering.
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Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation by evilgjb on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:04AM (#8622451)
Who would be crazy enough to want to work on release engineering?

:-)

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