They've also done some interesting research on I/O scheduling and storage in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WqOLolj5EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?

They've also done some interesting research on I/O scheduling and storage in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WqOLolj5EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WqOLolj5EU. They seem to frequently present at BSD conferences and I think are genuinely interested in advancing FreeBSD from what I can see.