This is great, thank you Sameer. one addition: our flickr can be reached at http://flickr.com/olpc as well as flickr.com/photos/olpc
Just FYI. --Seth On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Sameer Verma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >
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