How an organisation can assist NetBSD
We are in the process of compiling a gallery of companies that assist the project in any of the following fashions, and would be very much interested in hearing from you at <www@NetBSD.org>.
From interface cards to complete machines, two of the greatest hurdles to supporting hardware are availability of technical documentation, and access to the hardware itself. If your organisation can provide either of these to NetBSD developers it can help NetBSD users worldwide, and benefit your company image.
Those companies that wish to assist further can contribute specific code for drivers which can reduce the NetBSD 'time to market' for the product and ensure the hardware is used to its full advantage.
A statement as to the degree of support available for NetBSD can increase NetBSD users' confidence in selecting a given product. Even if direct support is not available, information as to in-house testing with NetBSD will encourage users to choose a product over a competitor who does not perform such testing.
Some of the other options are:
- Directly donate hardware, or financial aid to the project.
- Become a NetBSD mirror site.
- Finance specific hardware support or features (see the consultants gallery)
- Hire a NetBSD developer to work on in house NetBSD projects.
- Many of the same methods open to ordinary users.
If you have any questions related to the above, please let us know at <www@NetBSD.org>.
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