Investing in staff is a primary goal for the Foundation for 2013. The staff members who have been announced so far are Konstantin Belousov and Edward Tomasz Napierała, with announcements at http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/03/foundation-ann... and http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/04/freebsd-founda... .

In the past the FreeBSD Foundation has sponsored quite a number of specifc projects; having technical staff members employed by the Foundation allows for new kinds of work to be performed. Operational tasks are one example, and include the release process, handling security issues, system testing, and maintaining project servers. Having Foundation-employed staff also provides ability to provide continuity to longer term projects that require smaller but repeated efforts.