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BSD Infrastructure
Stewardship of core BSD ecosystem components on behalf of the operational and research communities that depend upon them.
PGSDF is a public-interest body convened to steward open systems infrastructure for environmental research, scientific computing, and the communities that depend upon it — on a horizon longer than any single project, vendor, or grant cycle.
The Foundation was convened on that recognition. PGSDF exists to hold such infrastructure in stewardship on behalf of the communities that depend upon it, and to maintain it on a horizon longer than any single project, vendor, or grant cycle.
Stewardship of core BSD ecosystem components on behalf of the operational and research communities that depend upon them.
Tools and frameworks for scientific computing and data analysis, held openly and maintained in the public interest.
Custody and stewardship of systems for the acquisition, processing, and publication of environmental data.
Command-line tools and libraries for daily engineering work, released openly and maintained for the long term.
A multimedia substrate for FreeBSD currently in active development. UTF spans the keyboard input path, HiDPI-aware terminal rendering, and kernel-level input infrastructure, organised around explicit guarantees rather than performance heuristics.
The Foundation is in its founding year. The documents below describe how PGSDF is constituted, how it makes decisions, and how that constitution will evolve as the organisation matures. Drafts are open to comment.
Purpose, scope, and stewardship obligations. Sets out what PGSDF holds, on whose behalf, and on what horizon.
Membership, voting, conflict-of-interest, and the procedure by which decisions are taken and recorded.
Criteria by which a project is accepted into, maintained under, or graduated from the Foundation's stewardship.
Standards expected of participants in the Foundation's work and of those representing it externally.
A public record of decisions taken, the rationale for each, and the persons accountable for the outcome.
Accountable during the founding period. A formal board will be seated upon adoption of the Operating Agreement.
The Foundation publishes its record as it is made. In the founding year that record is necessarily short.
Why the Foundation was convened, on whose initiative, and what it undertakes to do.
The first annual account of the Foundation's work, projects, and finances. Published at year-end.
Receipts, disbursements, and obligations of the Foundation. Published annually with the Annual Report.