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Paul -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Message of support following the earthquake in Haiti Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:58:13 -0600 From: Paul Cutler <paul.r.cut...@gmail.com> To: Guy Lunardi <gluna...@novell.com> CC: marketing-list@gnome.org, sto...@gnome.org On 01/13/2010 01:25 PM, Guy Lunardi wrote: > Stormy and team, > > > Should the foundation consider sending a brief message of support > regarding the earthquake in Haiti? > > One thought would be to do a minor update to the gnome.org home page. I > am not aware of a badge (I am sure they exist) or we can simply had some > simple text (short and to the point). > > People are bombarded with requests for donating already so there is > nothing original with this though Haiti really needs the support. Haiti > only ranks 148th (out of 179 countries) on the UNDP’s Human Development > Index. Their PM estimates that the death toll is the hundreds of > thousands. > > About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were > affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated. About 10 million people > felt shaking from the earthquake, including 2 million who felt severe > trembling, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated. > > > We could use Unicef or the Red Cross as orgs people could donate to: > > The GNOME Foundation wishes to support the relief efforts > following the earthquake and many aftershocks that affected > Haiti. > Ways to donate: > Simply text "Haiti" to 90999 and give $10 to the American Red > Cross > Simply text "YELE" to 501501 and give $5 to the Yele Haiti fun > http://www.yele.org/ > > > > Best regards, > -Guy +1 from me - GNOME is a global community and I think putting this up on our webpage over the near term is a good idea. If Stormy agrees, I'll volunteer to update the homepage in git and commit the changes. Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list