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Slashdot Story Helps Raise $43,200 For the FreeBSD Foundation In Three Days

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-done-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Foundation has posted blog article article talking about the remarkable surge in donations they've received in the last three days following a recent Slashdot article reporting on weak fundraising this year. Deb Goodkin reports that the FreeBSD Foundation, as with many non-profits, receives more than 50% of its annual funds at the end of the US tax year, but that the Foundation has never seen this rate of donations before, and will hit a new record for unique donors this year. She comments that it was Slashdot readers that made the difference! She does, however, appeal for further donations noting that they have a long way to go on their full goal."

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  1. Exaggeration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not sure that I agree with the implied attribution to Slashdot. As the Hacker News discussion revealed, the usual pattern of donations to FreeBSD is a late surge, apart from the fact that it got coverage in other places.

    It would be nice if Slashdot dropped the self references, as it erodes its credibility.

    1. Re:Exaggeration by Nyder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not sure that I agree with the implied attribution to Slashdot. As the Hacker News discussion revealed, the usual pattern of donations to FreeBSD is a late surge, apart from the fact that it got coverage in other places.

      It would be nice if Slashdot dropped the self references, as it erodes its credibility.

      Slashdot has credibility?

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  2. Re:It is official; Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dyin by Lisias · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying

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  3. Re:Slashdot... by SomePgmr · · Score: 4, Informative

    Being posted on Hacker News and Reddit and a few other sites probably had a much larger impact. Slashdot ceased being relevant about a decade ago.

    I see statcounter in the page source. I'd guess they know where their traffic is coming from.

  4. Re:Slashdot editor arrogance by BitZtream · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the summary at least troll, a FreeBSD rep reported that the income was from the slashvertisement based on actual data, like you know ... referrer headers.

    The brunt of BSD donations comes from larger organizations, but it certainly did result in some contributions.

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  5. Re:I keep being told by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's why they looked at referrer headers to see where the people who's been donating were coming from...

  6. Re:Whatever happened to the slashdot? by SomePgmr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever happened to the frantic efforts to post anti-anything-but-linux rants

    Wha? We hate everything. Most of all technology. Facebook, iphones, raspberry pi's, 3d printing, your favorite distro, medical technology, the maker movement, twitter, Nasa and Spacex, Arduinos, UAV's, gaming consoles... even Slashdot itself. We really like to hate Slashdot.

    So tune in tomorrow, there will be plenty of bitching and whining about everything. It'll be very emo... I promise.