The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
The NetBSD Foundation serves as the legal entity which owns several of the NetBSD Project servers, handles donations of money, services, hardware or time to the project, and administers NetBSD copyrights.
The NetBSD Foundation is incorporated in the State of Delaware, and is governed by a set of bylaws.
The NetBSD Foundation is a non-profit organisation as per section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The NetBSD Foundation has a Board of Directors, who may be contacted at
<board@NetBSD.org>.
The Board members were elected by the NetBSD Developer
community, following the Board election procedure.
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Various committees have been set up by the Board: the finance-exec and membership-exec Executive Committees, the pkgsrc-pmc Project Management Committee and core (the NetBSD Core Group).
The current members of the NetBSD Foundation's Board of Directors are:
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Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org>Member of board: 2002-2003, 2004-now; Term expires: 2009; Last elected: 2006
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Ross Harvey
<ross@NetBSD.org>Member of board: 2007-now; Term expires: 2009; Last elected: 2006
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Martin Husemann
<martin@NetBSD.org>Member of board: 2006-now; Term expires: 2010; Last elected: 2007
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Jared D. McNeill
<jmcneill@NetBSD.org>Member of board: 2008-now; Term expires: 2010; Last elected: 2007
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Krister Walfridsson
<kristerw@NetBSD.org>Member of board: 2008-now; Term expires: 2010; Last elected: 2007
The office holders of the Foundation are:
- President: Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org> - Vice President: Martin Husemann
<martin@NetBSD.org> - Secretary: Jared D. McNeill
<jmcneill@NetBSD.org> - Treasurer: Lex Wennmacher
<wennmach@NetBSD.org> - Assistant treasurer: Andrew Brown
<atatat@NetBSD.org>
Other (non-Board member) officers of the Foundation are:
- Andrew Brown
<atatat@NetBSD.org> - Jeremy C. Reed
<reed@NetBSD.org> - Christos Zoulas
<christos@NetBSD.org>
The NetBSD Foundation has implemented the following policies:
The NetBSD Foundation has passed the following resolutions:
- Formation of administration-exec@NetBSD.org. (2003/01/14, amended 2003/03/11)
- Formation of communication-exec@NetBSD.org. (2003/01/14, amended 2003/03/11)
- Formation of finance-exec@NetBSD.org. (2003/01/14, amended 2003/03/11)
- Formation of membership-exec@NetBSD.org. (2003/01/14, amended 2003/03/11)
- Formation of technical-exec@NetBSD.org. (2003/01/14, amended 2003/03/11)
- Formation of core@NetBSD.org. (2003/09/23)
- Formation of pkgsrc-pmc@NetBSD.org. (2003/12/02)
- Formation of www-pmc@NetBSD.org. (2004/10/06)
The administration-exec, communication-exec and technical-exec Executive Committees do not exist anymore.
The following status reports of the NetBSD Foundation are available:
- Financial report: 2007
- Quarterly Status Report: January - June 2007
- Financial report: 2006
- “Quarterly” Status Report: April - December 2006
- Financial report: 2005
- Quarterly Status Report: January - March 2006
- Quarterly Status Report: July - December 2005
- Financial report: 2004
- Quarterly Status Report: April - June 2005
- Quarterly Status Report: January - March 2005
- Annual Group Meeting: 2004
- Quarterly Status Report: October - December 2004
- Quarterly Status Report: July - September 2004
- Quarterly Status Report: April - June 2004
- Quarterly Status Report: January - March 2004
- Annual Group Meeting: 2003
Press releases from NetBSD Foundation and media information are available at the Media and Press Information webpage.
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