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   technical writers and will be opening up another position soon, so keep an eye   
   on this page https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/.   
      
   We are still finalizing our 2024 fundraising numbers, but at this writing, we   
   have raised around $1,324,000. You might be thinking, why do not we have a   
   final tally now that it is 2025? First, we have not yet received all the checks   
   postmarked 2024 . We are also waiting on a few payments from invoices issued   
   last year. We will have a final report in the next quarterly status report.   
      
   Thank you to the individuals and organizations that made a financial   
   contribution in Q4! We received 325 donations from individuals totaling   
   $120,841 and six financial contributions from organizations totaling $326,000.   
   We also received a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Fund.   
      
   I would also like to send a shoutout to the anonymous donor who wanted us to   
   help get Framework laptops into developers' hands. Pietro Cerutti has been   
   coordinating that effort, and we are close to finalizing the process with   
   Framework so developers can place their orders directly with them.   
      
   We also funded almost $5,000 worth of AV equipment for the BSDCon AV team to   
   minimize the amount of equipment needed to rent at each of the two main BSD   
   conferences.   
      
   Now, back to our financials. We will be publishing 2024 financial documents and   
   reports in Q1. Our updated Q1-Q3 2024 Financial reports will be published by   
   the end of January and will better match the budget format. The Final 2024   
   financial reports will be published in early Q2. Going forward, our budget and   
   financial reports will provide more details on how funding is allocated to the   
   major software development projects. For example, we will include how much was   
   spent on the laptop project each quarter. We are working with our accountant to   
   improve our accounting systems to be more transparent on how we spend our   
   money.   
      
   We are excited about the opportunities for FreeBSD in 2025 and beyond, and are   
   growing our team to help support the work needed to take advantage of these   
   opportunities. However, we need your help to sustain this. Our investments will   
   only carry on this work for a year or two at most. If your company is invested   
   in the long-term sustainability of FreeBSD, please consider giving a financial   
   contribution so we can ensure it stays the secure, reliable, and innovative   
   platform you depend on. Not sure how to go about asking? Please reach out. We   
   can help you navigate the process.   
      
   Please go here to make a donation: https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/. To   
   find out more about our Partnership Program, go here:   
   https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/freebsd-foundation-part   
   ership-program/.   
      
   Advocacy   
      
   During the 4th quarter of 2024, we continued to raise awareness, advocate for   
   the project, showcase users, while also providing educational content to the   
   FreeBSD community. Here are some highlights of those efforts.   
      
     • Sponsored and helped to organize the Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit which took   
       place November 7-8, 2024 in San Jose, CA. Check out the event recap. Videos   
       are available on the FreeBSD YouTube channel.   
      
     • Updated the community on two of the new releases:   
      
         □ FreeBSD 13.4: What’s new, and how did we get here?   
      
         □ FreeBSD 14.2: What’s new, and how did we get here?   
      
     • Published the NYI Case Study   
      
     • Shared the FreeBSD Foundation 2024 Report on the Security Audit of the   
       Capsicum and bhyve subsystems. Learn more in the Security Audit.   
      
     • Created a series of year end retrospectives on the work we did in 2024.   
      
         □ Your Impact on FreeBSD: 2024 Milestones and What’s Next   
      
         □ 2024: A Year of Advocacy and Growth for the FreeBSD Foundation   
      
         □ Celebrating 2024’s Collaborative Achievements at the FreeBSD   
   Foundation   
      
         □ FreeBSD Foundation: A Year of Sponsored Development in 2024   
      
         □ Reflecting on a Successful 2024   
      
     • Published additional blogs including:   
      
         □ Why Your Open Source Project Should Prioritize Security: Lessons from   
           FreeBSD’s Proactive Approach   
      
         □ Why FreeBSD Should Be the Foundation for Your Security Product   
      
         □ Celebrating FreeBSD Day with Tara Stella: A Journey from Linux to   
           FreeBSD   
      
         □ Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing   
   Highlights   
      
     • Participated in the following contributed articles, interviews and   
       podcasts:   
      
         □ All Things Open Blog: Prioritizing Security: Lessons from FreeBSD’s   
           Proactive Approach   
      
         □ FreeBSD Foundation Releases Bhyve and Capsicum Security Audit Funded   
   by   
           Alpha-Omega Project   
      
         □ Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO’s Perspective   
      
     • Published the October 2024, November 2024, and December 2024 FreeBSD   
       Foundation Newsletters.   
      
     • Released the September/October 2024 issue of the FreeBSD Journal with   
   HTML   
       versions of the articles.   
      
   OS Improvements   
      
   During the fourth quarter of 2024, 382 src, 135 ports, and 17 doc tree commits   
   identified The FreeBSD Foundation as a sponsor.   
      
   The Foundation and its investment partners supported four major projects:   
      
     • Konstantin Belousov continued work on an AMD IOMMU driver for FreeBSD, a   
       project jointly funded by AMD and the Foundation. This effort aims to   
       enhance support for large-core AMD systems and other scenarios requiring   
       interrupt remapping. The driver was pushed to the src tree in early   
       November and continues to undergo testing and refinement.   
      
     • Alpha-Omega and the Foundation have been jointly funding a project to   
       improve FreeBSD security. For the latest updates, refer to the Security   
       Engineering at the FreeBSD Foundation entry for the latest updates.   
      
     • A project to improve FreeBSD laptop usability began this quarter. For   
       details, refer to the Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project   
       report entry.   
      
     • Work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency to modernize FreeBSD’s   
       infrastructure continued this quarter. The goal of this work is to help   
       achieve and sustain a manageable bug backlog. As part of this effort, The   
       Foundation worked with Bitergia to analyze and assess open Bugzilla bugs.   
       Muhammad Moinur Rahman finished porting Grimoirelab and deploying Grimoire   
       in the FreeBSD cluster.   
      
   Other projects:   
      
     • Alfonso S. Siciliano provided a FreeBSD Accessibility Project update.   
      
     • Aymeric Wibo began implementing suspend-to-idle and S0ix sleep support.   
      
     • Bjoern A. Zeeb shared a LinuxKPI 802.11 Wireless Update.   
      
     • Chih-Hsin Chang continued work to improve OpenStack on FreeBSD.   
      
     • Christos Margiolis shared an update on work to improve the FreeBSD audio   
       stack.   
      
     • Harald Eilersten began working on a project to improve OpenJDK on   
   FreeBSD.   
      
     • Isaac Freund worked on PkgBase-motivated improvements to pkg.   
      
     • Jian-Lin Li began a project to improve Syzkaller on FreeBSD.   
      
     • Joseph Mingrone spent time on a personal project to improve Common Lisp   
       support in the ports tree.   
      
     • Olivier Certner submitted a report entry describing the work he completed   
       with Baptiste Daroussin to allow controlled process credentials transitions   
       using the MAC framework.   
      
     • Pierre Pronchery returned to working on a umb(4) driver for MBIM USB   
   4G/5G   
       modems and he shared an update on work to improve the FreeBSD Installer.   
      
      
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