Information Management Systems Association (IMSA) is a student organization on our campus (disclaimer: I'm their faculty advisor). IMSA decided to raise $199 through a collection of small amounts of, well, any amount. We figured people wouldn't want to part with $199, but denominations of $5 or $10 makes it a lot easier on the pocket. So, IMSA is running a micro-donation drive to raise this money.
The e-mail I sent out to my colleagues and friends (some of whom are on these lists) is: ===== I am writing to you as the faculty advisor for Information Management Systems Association (IMSA), a student organization on campus and their micro-donation drive for OLPC. This year, you can donate $399 towards two OLPC laptops, where you get one back and the other goes to some child in an under-developed nation. Pretty cool if you want to be seen in public with a strange green laptop! If you don't like the undue public attention though, you can simply donate $199 and one laptop will go to a child somewhere. If you missed the pictures of these laptops in use, see them all at http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc IMSA has come up with a micro-donation drive, where they are collecting -any- amount, and when it adds up to $199, they will donate it to OLPC towards an OLPC laptop. So, if you're feeling generous, but not quite in the $199 range, visit IMSA's page at http://imsa.sfsu.edu/olpc and donate whatever you can. They'll take cash, check and even credit cards via Paypal. For check or cash, you can write to Chas Yen, President IMSA ([email protected]) or simply reply to me ([email protected]) and someone will pick it up from you. So maybe skip a cup of coffee or that suspect muffin at 4pm, and pass along the cheer towards a great cause. http://imsa.sfsu.edu/olpc ===== Here's the surprise. We raised enough money for two laptops in less than 48 hours! Feel free to visit them and donate. http://imsa.sfsu.edu/olpcdonate or send it to your friends. Also feel free to replicate the process in your own circles! It may sound like chump change, but we now have two additional XOs that will go to some kid some place :-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
