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At 03:41 PM 12/9/2012, Adrian Chadd wrote:
 
>I'll amend my "stuff that will help" list:
>
>* Donate to the freebsd foundation, along with opening discussions to
>them about how your organisation uses / relies upon freebsd;
>* Volunteer to join the release engineering / package building teams,
>and actively donate manpower to the project.

I've thought about donating manpower; tried to many years ago, in fact.
But I was deterred by the egos, the politics, and the territoriality and
hotheadedness of some of the developers. So, most of my contributions
of code (and I have made quite a few) have been passed quietly through 
committers so as to avoid this. Maybe the situation is better now; I don't
know.

As for monetary donations: We are not a large corporation, and so could only
make relatively small ones as opposed to more valuable "in kind" donations.

--Brett Glass