Category Archives: advocacy

New Contributor Survey

Do you consider yourself to be a new contributor to the PC-BSD project? In this context, new means within the last three years and contributions can be in the form of patches, code, documentation, translations, QA, or testing.

Kevin Carillo, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington, is gathering information for his research topic about the influence of newcomer experience on contributor behavior and performance in Free/Open Source Software communities. He is interested in hearing from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and who have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences.

If you would like to participate, complete his anonymous survey. Kevin will post news about his progress with this research and the results at his blog.

When completing the survey, select FreeBSD in question number one and specify PC-BSD and the type of contribution in question number two.

Who uses FreeBSD?

One reason why I maintain this blog is to do some advocacy for FreeBSD - attempt to spread the word about new developments and generally promote it.

It's not an easy job as the system constantly struggles for popularity aside the much more popular Linux (and on the other side - older Unixes and Windows). I've accidentally come across this page on www.freebsd.org listing some popular FreeBSD users but I think it badly needs updating.

Are you a big FreeBSD user? Working in an organization which uses FreeBSD on a larger scale? Write about it here (in comments)! No need to mention details if you think they are confidential!

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Who uses FreeBSD?

One reason why I maintain this blog is to do some advocacy for FreeBSD - attempt to spread the word about new developments and generally promote it.

It's not an easy job as the system constantly struggles for popularity aside the much more popular Linux (and on the other side - older Unixes and Windows). I've accidentally come across this page on www.freebsd.org listing some popular FreeBSD users but I think it badly needs updating.

Are you a big FreeBSD user? Working in an organization which uses FreeBSD on a larger scale? Write about it here (in comments)! No need to mention details if you think they are confidential!

Read more...

Who uses FreeBSD?

One reason why I maintain this blog is to do some advocacy for FreeBSD - attempt to spread the word about new developments and generally promote it.

It's not an easy job as the system constantly struggles for popularity aside the much more popular Linux (and on the other side - older Unixes and Windows). I've accidentally come across this page on www.freebsd.org listing some popular FreeBSD users but I think it badly needs updating.

Are you a big FreeBSD user? Working in an organization which uses FreeBSD on a larger scale? Write about it here (in comments)! No need to mention details if you think they are confidential!

Read more...