Dear Personal Telco Supporters,
Well, the end of the tax year is approaching, and the opportunity to support a cause like the Personal Telco Project and deriving a mild tax-benefit in the process is beginning to narrow. Over the history of PTP, we have gone through considerable gyrations to become and maintain our status as a 501(c)(3), so we might as well try to take advantage of that. Last year, we had a project to fund the AlixCab project, and that went very well. This year, we don't have any specific hardware needs. One of the biggest impediments to most of the new-node requests we get is: "I can't afford the internet connection". Historically, that's something we couldn't do anything about. I'm wondering if, this year, we might try raising, say $600-$800 and actually buy bandwidth for some worthy location for a year, to enable people to get online somewhere they otherwise wouldn't. PTP has lots of things to do, but most of them don't involve money. This is one thing that does. Thoughts? -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
