*Stunning News Website Fundraising Contribution:* Over 650 new donations raise $43,200 in three days!

Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation's annual year-end fundraising  drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign.  We were thus surprised by coverage on Slashdot and Hacker News suggesting that we were  behind in our fundraising goal. We’d never turn down additional news coverage of our work raising funds in support of the FreeBSD project, of course, but remain confident in our fundraising target.

The response to those articles was a remarkable outpouring of support — we have had over 650 new donations in the last three days alone, raising $43,196. Individual donations are absolutely critical to the business of The Foundation. Not only do they contribute significantly to our ability to financially support the FreeBSD project, but they also help us demonstrate broad public support in order to maintain our public non-profit status.

This massive increase in small donations will set a new record for individual donors in a single year. The readership of these sites has been instrumental to this success. You'll also be glad to know that the news article triggered a number of further corporate contributions from FreeBSD consumers. Our hard work is not done, however. We still have $195,000 left to go to meet our target this year–or exceed it!

Look forward to more news soon. . .