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+Here is the third 2025 status report, with 36 entries.
+
+As usual, reports publication is slow due to some important reports arriving late.
+We are sorry about that, but most of us are volunteers and we do our best.
+
+Luckily, it seems that the number of volunteers is about to increase: last quarter I have seen much interest among new community members in getting involved in the FreeBSD Project.
+This will surely improve the efficiency of the whole development, including status reporting.
+
+Many new recruits approach us with the same question: "How do I start?".
+This is not the place to give an answer to this question, but actually a guide has been written precisely to reply to it.
+You can find it link://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/[here].
+Moreover, it is always good to remember that using FreeBSD, as much as possible, helps a lot: use it as your daily driver, run your webservers on it, install it on your virtual machines, support it when you contribute to existing software!
+And if you find bugs, do not forget to link:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/[report] them.
+
+Have a nice read!
+
+Lorenzo Salvadore, on behalf of the Status Team.