Donations to The NetBSD FoundationFund Drive
Your donation to the NetBSD Foundation allows the project to make major
improvements to the code base. With work having begun on NetBSD 6.0,
we announce the 6.0 Fund Drive, targeting 60,000 USD by the end of
the year. We would like to continue funded development in various
areas of the system, including:
Improving network stack concurrency and performance.Development of modern file systems and improvement of
existing ones.Features which are useful in embedded environments,
for example, high resolution timers and execute in place (XIP) support.
Automatic testing and quality assurance.
We are inviting the NetBSD community and organizations using NetBSD to
help us in achieving these goals. This fundraising drive is an excellent
opportunity for everyone to contribute to the NetBSD project and to help
us improve NetBSD.
Please read below for more information how
to donate. Thank you for supporting the NetBSD project!
Why donations are important
The NetBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces open
source software, and has Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) status.
This means that it has no regular source of income, instead it is
relying on generous donations from third parties.
Funding for the NetBSD Foundation comes from a variety of sources.
Organizations and individuals interested in NetBSD contribute money,
hardware and rack space to support important NetBSD Foundation services,
and to enable developers to support new hardware platforms and peripherals.
It's important to understand that every donation matters. Without servers
and rack space at colocation facilities, we would not be able to provide
high-quality services such as regular builds and the various web and
FTP services to our developers and users. Without donations of development
hardware, we would not be able to support the huge range of
platforms and
peripherals we do today. Promotional work
at events enables us to present our work to others and acquire new
developers and users. Each of these functions is important to the ongoing
health of the NetBSD Foundation.
So, whether you're a Fortune 100 company shipping NetBSD in a product, a
company running your web server on NetBSD, a home user with NetBSD on your
desktop, or just someone who thinks NetBSD is cool — or all four
— please consider donating something to the NetBSD Foundation.
There are, of course, other ways that both individuals and
organizations can contribute to
The NetBSD Foundation.
Making a donation to The NetBSD FoundationIndividuals
Individuals who donate to the NetBSD foundation will have their
name, website and email address displayed on the NetBSD website.
Corporate Sponsorship
The NetBSD Foundation has recognized the generosity of our
corporate sponsors and are pleased to offer them the following
options when donating to NetBSD.
Silver Sponsorship ($100 up to $1,000)
Company name (including a link to your website)Contact email addressGold Sponsorship ($1,001 up to $5,000)
Company name (including a link to your website)Contact email addressCompany logo (size not exceeding 150×350 pixels)Platinum Sponsorship ($5,001 and more)
Company name (including a link to your website)Contact email addressCompany logo (size not exceeding 350×500 pixels)
For companies that donate $10,001 and above, in addition to the
benefits listed, your logo will be displayed on the home page of
Where more than one
company takes this offer up, the logos will be rotated every
24 hours.How to donate
The simplest way to donate is to sent money via Google Checkout or PayPal.
To send money via Google Checkout enter your desired amount below:
$
You will need to create a Google account (this can be done at checkout
point). Payment using Google Checkout send funds directly from your
credit card to the NetBSD Foundation account.
To send money via PayPal use this button link:
You do not need to have a PayPal account to send money to NetBSD. You can use
a credit card on PayPal's site to send funds directly to the NetBSD PayPal
account, or you can use funds from your own PayPal account if you have one.
The PayPal address for NetBSD is paypal@NetBSD.org.
If you would prefer not to use either of these methods, you can
mail a cheque or do a bank transfer. Please contact
finance-exec@NetBSD.org for address and account
details.
All donations to the NetBSD Foundation are fully
tax-deductible in the US!Donation Policy
The NetBSD Foundation has a policy of acknowledging donors on their
web pages (see below). After we received your donation, we will
send you an acknowledgment letter, containing a confirmation section
for the IRS and a small questionnaire about how you wish your entry
to appear on the donor web pages in accordance with the level of
sponsorship selected.
Gold and Platinum sponsors will need to provide their logo in
JPEG format in the following size range (X×Y):
Gold: logo size no larger than 150×350
pixelsPlatinum: logo size no larger than 350×500
pixelsPlatinum
(more than $10,000):
additional logo for index page size no larger than 150×150
pixels.
If you have any questions about the donation process or if you want or
don't want your name to be added to the list of
contributors, please let us know at
finance-exec@NetBSD.org.
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