Christian T. Steigies schrieb: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:15:37PM +0200, Paulus Esterhazy wrote: >>>> If this fails, then I propose to try and raise the money needed to buy >>>> one or two laptops for the project. There is a sizeable community at >>>> [2], so I think there is a chance that this might work. madwifi.org have >>>> a possibility to receive donation through FFII. [3] >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm guessing you never heard back from Asus? >>> >>> Have you been in contact with madwifi.org to find out how donations best >>> could be handled? There doesn't seem to be a way to donate money for a >>> specific goal at ???http://madwifi.org/wiki/Donations >>> >>> Perhaps donations directly to Nick Kossifidis could be arranged? >> You're right, I never heard a word from Asus. So a direct donation is >> what I think is best, too. I posted a message a while back to the >> forum.eeeuser.com message board, and got some response: > > Couldn't the debian project sponsor one or two of these cheap machines? This > could be a temporary loan, until the drivers are finished, if Debian can not > afford to buy those machines to get a free driver developed. The previous > debian leaders have often approved hardware expenses, if you give them a > reasonable explanation. I have no experience with the new leader yet, but I > would not be suprised if he would allow this expense. Just send a nice email > to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think this is a very reasonable cause. > > Christian >
I'm not sure how successful this would be - Debian surely cannot financially support every single struggling hardware driver project there is? Though it might be worth a try, given that the Eee PC is a much-used computer. Someone else should ask, though, as I'm not a Debian developer (or even very regular contributor). Paulus _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
