Desperately trying to attract new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my terrible HTML skills. Is it working?
If any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me.
Thanks, but unfortunately I found nothing new there that's applicable in my case. Not looking for project grants or rigid commitment/goals based funding at this time.
Maybe they mixed up usenet by doing what I used to do back then - use gmane so I could follow various mailing lists via NNTP for better thread tracking and not filling up my inbox.
Perhaps relevant, Students from the University of Southern Denmark released a paper earlier this month, which once again noted the fact that over ~90% of the OpenBSD base system uses pledge(2). Almost certainly all of the network speaking daemons in base do.
Defending open source should begin with real, tangible support for both the projects and its developers. Not just words.
With my OpenBSD developer hat on, getting new hardware in the hands of developers is really important, many of us are hacking on 5-10 year old thinkpads that need replacing.
Also in addition to funding the open source projects you use, if you can, please consider directly supporting individual contributors/developers personally who work on those projects, many are volunteers and even a small monthly contribution could mean the difference.
