What will I do to help OpenBSD?

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

Modest donation ~$20.

Tell us why or why not.

The CD's are kind of expensive, and while I could buy a shirt, I expect the profit margin for the project on clear-cut donation is higher.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

Just my desktop: Tetex, emacs ('cause mg repositions the cursor when you reflow a paragraph ... no other reason), xFig, Firefox, mplayer, Quake.

I pre-order new release CD sets for myself as soon as I can get around to it each release, and I usually also order the release T-shirts. And of course a new wireframe daemon head shirt, because they do wear out.

Whenever I help somebody set up a macine, I urge them to buy stuff or make a donation. I have no real way of tracking my success rate there, tough.

As a student, I'm on a rather tight budget. So I just bought the CD's (I've been doing that since 3.0, though I did occasionally buy a tshirt also).

Hopefully next year, when I get a job, I'll finally be able to make a real donation also :-)

As a matter of deployment; I use OpenBSD (almost) exclusively on my desktop (for several years already). Also, my test-network (just old throwaway hardware I managed to get) runs OpenBSD, which I use to tinker with all kinds of stuff, and learn things.

Subject says it. Preordered two CD sets, three T-Shirts and a poster from Wim and paypal'ed 300 EUR directly to the project.

I'm Using OpenBSD on desktop, router (a soekris), zaurus, powerbook and on a server rent from Strato (a german hoster).

Except for that server I'm more or less running -current, so my only reasons for buying CD sets are

- to own them ;-)
- to give them away to others for trying out OpenBSD.

Pre ordered the 3.9 CD, and gave a 50 EUR donation. The CD will probably end up as a gift like the previous one.

At the moment just the cd set + shirt and poster. Maybe next month (when I have the money to do so) a real donation.

I'll employ it on my desk and firewall. Maybe I'll start a small clamav/squid proxy for my parents, so they're getting a bit more securer.
If so, that proxy will be most probably hosted at easyspeedy.com

Frank.

How?: First time Donation (I'll try to make this regular and a consistent amount for planning purposes). Purchase CD (only missed a few since version 2.3)

Why?: I've used OpenBSD for both my benefit (installed on my servers) and the benefit of others (free hosting on those servers) since version 2.3

Where/How?: Servers in Australia and the UK for hosting and home firewall on i386(soekris included)/sparc64. Using netboot/remote upgrade and local CD installs. Seriously considering adding a Sun X2100 to the mix for a main hosting server in 2007

write code?

I'm buying a CD set and t-shirt for myself. Happy birthday to me. I use it on two pc's at home, my soekris, and a pc/server. I donate time and effort as a ports maintainer too, so don't jab me on CD qty. :)

My employer agreed to buy a CD set for each server we have running oBSD. Next go around I will convince them that one cd set and a donation for the rest is a better solution. Didn't want to confuse the financial aspect too much this time. The trouble with paying for free software... :)

And HP is a big vendor for my employer. I'm going to ask my connections about the donations HP has made since they repackage OpenSSH. Heck, if they have marketing dollars to throw at a Linux on Proliant servers initiative, they surely can pony up some dough for OpenBSD.

T-shirts, poster, 1 CD for home, 1 CD for work, donation. Running at home for learning more about BSD, programming, networking, etc. Running at work (two machines ... so far 8-) ) for general data-munging (Tcl, PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, XML) and network/web applications (Apache, PHP, MySQL client, SMTP) It has proven rock solid so far (18+ months.)

I usually visit the OpenBSD booth at FOSDEM to donate some money and buy some stuff. This year, I bought a shirt and one of these key fobs. I always round up the sums they want for this stuff. That's how I keep my conscience clean ;-)

I use OpenBSD for one of my workstations at home and at work for various bridging and firewall/VPN setups.

Keep up the good work.

I'm poor. Working on my masters degree and making 1/2 of what I made years ago. Years ago I used to donate $$$ (I'm on the list) and buy the CD's for every release (2.4-3.6). But now, sorry. "cvs update -dAPC" is my friend.

Every release I order a copy of the CD and a T-shirt.

I buy the CD, so I have a copy handy.
I buy a T-shirt to protect my CD, I generally give the T-shirt away.

I donate from time to time, especially if there is a certian need for something e.g. a G5 or some such

I donate hardware that I see on the want lists if I have it lying around and it hasn't been used in 6 months, or I am moving house.

I'd like to arrange space, networks and accomadation for a hackathon, but I am sure it is none of my business.

I use OpenBSD mainly for development, I write or port stuff to work on OpenBSD, I also like to see how stuff is done in the OpenBSD codebase, as it is generally easier to read than most OSes ( and apps I guess, ) and their aim is code corectness.

I will buy CDs + make a small donation (10-20 Euros) + maybe buy some swag (I like the Blob T-Shirt).

I will deploy it everywhere, of course, starting with my new workstation.

i can't buy cd's, etc., because i live in russia.

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

I am going to get my office to buy one CD for each system we have running OpenBSD, counting up right now, it looks like 15. It actually costs more to buy 15 rather than 20 with the 40% discount, but hey, I'm into helping the project make money. I have a good relationship with my boss, simply pointing out that purchases keep the develpoment going. Last count, I think we have over 100 cds purchased over the last few years. I get shirts every so often, but I have a tie on at work right now.....

Tell us why or why not.

Been doing it for years. Because I think it rocks! I don't always like the flames on misc@ or some of the artwork, but it is rock solid.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

Central nameservers, dhcp servers, nework monitoring, my primary desktop, web graphs of network activity, some mySQL/PHP/Apache to track our 10,000 users on switches

Since I'm at a big policy bound place, getting a donation contributed is pointless, but purchasing CDs is easy. I am going to hit up our Cisco rep the next time he comes out to see if he or Cisco will make a donation. After all we just bought $600,000 worth of their switches in an upgrade, and they all come with OpenSSH inside.

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

I've been buying a cd set since 2.7, and usually will donate 20$ or so at the same time. T-Shirts and posters are bought too depending on if I'm into the artwork for that release.

I use both OBSD at home for firewall/server/etc projects, plus at work for the same type of applications, plus other special projects, described below.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

3.9 will be deployed on one of my latest work projects. The project calls for 120 embedded systems in remote locations across the US. These embedded systems run on a Via Technologies PD6000 fanless mini-itx board. They monitor our satellite links across the country, doing upload/download tests, measuring latency, security scans, and other network related monitoring. I could not have pulled this project off if I did not use OpenBSD. I'm sitll trying to get work to buy a few cd sets, as some of our monitoring now relies on OBSD.

> Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!
>
I buy my OpenBSD CD-Sets since release 3.0. Hopefully the cue I published in my Blog will also help to remind people of
supporting this great project: http://blog.pebcak.de/archives/266-OpenBSD-3.9-pre-orders-are-up.html

> Tell us why or why not.
>
I use OpenBSD since about 2.9 and I use software that came out of this project (e. g. OpenSSH) day by day -
it's worth to support this project at all!

> Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.
>
On either desktops and servers

I've already pre-ordered the 3.9 release and I've bought the CD sets for some time now... It really is dependable software. Since I've got my own fiscal deficit, I'll look at getting friends and family to buy a set. Also, maybe work can petty cash another CD set for here at work..

In my place of business, petty cash is generally more available for Books and technical documentation than anything else...
Is the donation margin as good for the project for books?

--james

I do not regularly purchase CD's (it's not that I'm cheap, it's honestly that I don't think about doing it). The download to purchase ratio I'm sure has been increaseing steadily as broadband becomes available to most major cities in the world.

As I am an avid user of the product, and have come to depend on it for day to day life (I use it as a firewall at home, OpenSSH is used at work, etc., etc).

My plan (it's the only thing I can think to do) is to purchase the equivalent number of cd's, as if I had been purchasing them all along (I've been using Open since about 1995). I figure a minimum purchase of 2 to three for each year (bringing the total to about 20 - 30 cd kits). Beyond that, I will make a donation to the project.

In the future, I'll begin more regular support of the project and be more conscious of their needs.

I will give €20 to support this f/oss project.

I don't use it 'yet' however I think I will do so in the future.

I have 3.8 (came with linuxformat magazine, they have a BSD theme this month), and frankly the cd shipping set is to expensive!!
(like I said elsewhere;) make it cheaper, like 19,50 and more people will order and more often, which will attribute to the spread of the 'ware.

I see this project as important also cause of the crossbreeding between distro's..

I have ordered a 3.9 set already.

Currently my little firewall box has a PPPoE ADSL connection, serves the Internet to 4 PCs, internal web server, and acts as a dshield node, happily reporting the logs from my hand-rolled iptables script to www.dshield.org

Right now, it's running Slackware. I'm going to put 3.9 on it and go beyond just running OpenBSD as a desktop machine. I hope to replace the current functions, and learn a lot along the way.

This reminded me I haven't bought a CD in a while, so I put in my pre-order for OpenBSD 3.9. I really value having the CD set within reach, whenever I want it. The inserts are pretty cool too.

For deployment it'll go on my laptop and personal servers. Perhaps more, depending what I'm doing over the summer.

Keep up the great work, OpenBSD team!

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

Instead of just a t-shirt, I'm going to spring for a CD set. I usually borrow the CD from work. My IT deptartment buys OBSD every 6 months.

Tell us why or why not.

My internal net needs OBSD. It runs plenty fine on the cute quiet hardware I just bought.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

Edge box/router at home. I make the baby Jebus cry by also running all my public and private services on it.

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

I had some money in my paypal account (a little less than $40) so I gave the balance to OpenBSD.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

On my laptop and home firewall.

> Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

Because Marco notified that the amount of FTP-downloads compared to bought CDs had risen et vice versa, and that this had caused debt to rise critically for the project as a whole -- I'm going to preorder a CD-set for OpenBSD release 3.9.

> Tell us why or why not.

I'm going to help with this because I use and appreciate OpenBSD every day. I think we need systems like this that are simple, of high quality and reliable and safe to use.

> Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

I'm going to install it on my laptop. Actually I'm going to upgrade from release 3.8 which I downloaded from FTP and installed as the sole system on my machine -- being a student and wanting to give OpenBSD a serious trial.

So far is has been great! Keep up the spirit and good work!

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

We bought CDs and I made a little donation to the project...along with a little swag to wear on the next bike ride...that little wireframe puffy is nice.

Tell us why or why not.

Not everybody has $$$ - that's part of the attraction of OSS. However, if our company is going to deploy it, even "just" as a firewall, we ought to help out the project.

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

Well, as soon as I figure out how to use pf, I will be deploying it. I suspect it will take that long to learn the firewall properly...after all, I'm an MD, not a PhD in CS - throw me a bone here =)

Tell us how you are going to help OpenBSD this time around!

Besides this year's order? Spread the word, I guess. Try to cough up some small donation out of next month's damages^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsalary.

I don't really think it qualifies as ``help'', but I also peek at some code sometimes since I have one or two itches to scratch. It remains to be seen if this ever manifests itself in any submissions.

Tell us why or why not.

One word: Quality.

It's like dope: once you experience it, you're stuck! Grokable documentation! Documentation in a few, agreed upon formats in a few, agreed upon locations! Consistency! Developers mature enough to do what they do well, and not do what's not going to be done well! In this context, the better security is just a bonus. Then if one want OpenBSD to be around, well...

Also tell us where and how you are going to deploy 3.9.

I'm gonna upgrade my laptoy and the servers in my home network (they're all at various snapshots between 3.7 and 3.9) on a rolling schedule the month after receiving the discs. Finally get done installing that soekris firewall I've had for over a year now (but that's probably gonna be Damien Millers flashboot).

We're almost exclusively a Solaris shop at work, with islands of Linux and some legacy WinTel, so not much hope of doing something there. But I'm looking into using OpenOSPFD to hack up a rather ugly statically routed network mess in one corner of our org, that would be one place. Still that's probably far away, and most likely not the right solution either.

just cash. CDs are expensive to produce and distribute.

For the first time, I have preordered a CD set. (Yes, I was a filthy FTP leech.) With news of financial troubles, I felt it was time. I also bought the 2.9 poster because it isn't a release-specific design. Not too long ago I purchased the wireframe Puffy shirt. If I weren't nearly broke, a cash donation would have followed as well.