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Annual General Meeting 2026

June 06, 2026 posted by Nia Alarie

Today, the NetBSD Foundation had an open annual general meeting in a public IRC channel. It began with presentations, and was followed by a Q&A session where we took questions from the public. Here's the full log.

14:06:44 * Cryo turns the lights down<br>14:08:01 @leot Hello everyone!<br>14:08:01 @Cryo I'll start off by thanking you for coming.<br>14:08:13 @Cryo and handing it to leot!<br>14:08:24 @leot Thanks Cryo and thanks for coming!<br>14:08:29 @leot .<br>14:08:31 @leot Welcome to The NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting 2026!<br>14:08:36 @leot .<br>14:08:42 @leot In the agenda we will have reports from:<br>14:08:45 @leot .<br>14:08:52 @leot - board ()<br>14:08:52 @leot - core ()<br>14:08:53 @leot - admins ()<br>14:08:53 @leot - finance-exec ()<br>14:09:03 @leot - membership-exec ()<br>14:09:03 @leot - releng ()<br>14:09:04 @leot - security-team ()<br>14:09:12 @leot - pkgsrc-pmc ()<br>14:09:12 @leot - pkgsrc-security ()<br>14:09:14 @leot .<br>14:09:24 @leot If there are any last-minute additions please /msg me!<br>14:09:26 @leot .<br>14:09:32 @leot The Q&A session will be at the end of all the presentations.<br>14:09:36 @leot .<br>14:09:44 @leot When Q&A begins please /msg me with "I have question for " or<br>14:09:44 @leot "I have question for " and I will give you voice when it is<br>14:09:44 @leot your turn.<br>14:09:56 @leot .<br>14:10:49 @leot Next presentation is prepared by and board@ for board!<br>14:12:00 @leot I will present on behalf<br>14:12:09 @leot .<br>14:12:16 @leot Welcome to the 24th Annual General Meeting of The NetBSD Foundation.<br>14:12:19 @leot .<br>14:12:25 @leot 2025 progress:<br>14:12:25 @leot - Recent stable releases include NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 2024), 9.4, and 9.3<br>14:12:29 @leot - Development is currently focused on the imminent transition to NetBSD-11 [RC4]<br>14:12:35 @leot .<br>14:12:43 @leot We are preparing for:<br>14:12:43 @leot - BSDcan in Ottawa, Canada<br>14:12:43 @leot - The ISF Common Good Cyber Fund (CGCG) application window, which runs<br>14:12:43 @leot from June 23 to August 4, 2026.<br>14:12:59 @leot .<br>14:13:08 @leot We recognize that different avenues may well be available to us regarding grants<br>14:13:08 @leot and funding, and we are looking for volunteers to help us investigate, apply,<br>14:13:08 @leot and deliver for the programs available. This includes, but is not limited to,<br>14:13:09 @leot potential opportunities from the Internet Society, the Linux Foundation through<br>14:13:09 @leot Alpha-Omega, Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency and Prototype Fund, or grants from<br>14:13:09 @leot the European Union through NLnet.<br>14:13:32 @leot .<br>14:13:41 @leot The NetBSD Foundation Board of Directors presents a consolidated list<br>14:13:42 @leot of the relevant and major actions that occurred since last AGM.<br>14:13:54 @leot Quite a few discussions, actions, and follow-ups crossed multiple meetings.<br>14:13:55 @leot Very few meetings resulted in not reaching quorum.<br>14:14:09 @leot During this period, new director(s) were elected by the members and<br>14:14:09 @leot officers were renewed or installed.<br>14:14:20 @leot We continued with our Bronze level sponsorship support of BSDcan,<br>14:14:20 @leot AsiaBSDcon, and EuroBSDcon to improve our representation at conferences<br>14:14:20 @leot and developer summits.<br>14:14:31 @leot .<br>14:14:41 @leot We participated in the Google Summer of Code for 2025 and we attended<br>14:14:41 @leot the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit in Munich, Germany.<br>14:14:41 @leot We are currently participating in GSoC this year with 5 students!<br>14:14:51 @leot .<br>14:14:58 @leot For 2025, these are the projects that passed:<br>14:14:58 @leot - Asynchronous I/O Framework<br>14:14:58 @leot - Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD<br>14:15:02 @leot - Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD<br>14:15:11 @leot .<br>14:15:18 @leot For 2026, these projects have been chosen:<br>14:15:24 @leot - Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD<br>14:15:25 @leot - Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD<br>14:15:25 @leot - improving RAIDframe<br>14:15:36 @leot - Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing<br>14:15:38 @leot - Convert a Wi-Fi driver to the new Wi-Fi stack<br>14:15:39 @leot .<br>14:15:54 @leot We continued to improve our interaction and relationships with<br>14:15:54 @leot vendors, as well as participating in industry PSIRT/CSIRT<br>14:15:55 @leot with commercial vendors and other open-source projects.<br>14:16:04 @leot .<br>14:16:18 @leot We successfully completed the large-scale migration of our repository<br>14:16:18 @leot infrastructure from CVS to a Git/Mercurial ecosystem,...