Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:04 +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: If you think you can step in and help oga and the project, then please contact me off-list. We can accept donations by wire, Visacard and Mastercard (creditcard fees are covered by my company). I am flat ass broke. If you can provide a URL with donation links, I will ensure that everyone I know stumbles, diggs, reddits, slashdots and (all the rest of those things) it, which should help replace the laptop. That really $(*# stinks. Hopefully no uncommitted code was on it :( I started myself by tossing in CHF 200 (approx $ 200). As a matter of principle I live in self imposed poverty, but perhaps I could help a bit. Please create a page. (And any excess money would go as a donation to OpenBSD, btw.) I could give a rat's ass where excess money goes. Anyone who 'donates' should feel the same way. Helping someone under scrutiny is stupid. The point is he needs some help, since we can (even without donating), we should. Since we should we must. Cheers, --Tim -- Monkey + Typewriter = Echoreply ( http://echoreply.us )
Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you think you can step in and help oga and the project, then please contact me off-list. We can accept donations by wire, Visacard and Mastercard (creditcard fees are covered by my company). is there a specific account or URL for this, or should we simply use one of the channels listed at http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html? - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
Hello guys, I'm very pleased to announce that about 2.5 hours after the initial email went out, enough money had been donated to fulfill the needed amount! I'm shocked at how fast that all happened. I'd like to publically thank everybody who donated any money towards this, I can't express how much I appreciate the help. I'd also like to thank Marc for organising this for me. I suppose that i'd better go get hacking, then. Once again, thanks! Regards, -0- -- Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that _needs heroes. -- Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
Owain Ainsworth wrote: I'm very pleased to announce that about 2.5 hours after the initial email went out, enough money had been donated to fulfill the needed amount! I'm shocked at how fast that all happened. Well, actually it took a little bit longer than just 2.5 hours, but nevertheless it was very quick and I shall say that we have a user community we can count on if needed. That was very motivating, thanks to all that donated.
Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:02:43PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: Owain Ainsworth wrote: I'm very pleased to announce that about 2.5 hours after the initial email went out, enough money had been donated to fulfill the needed amount! I'm shocked at how fast that all happened. Well, actually it took a little bit longer than just 2.5 hours, but nevertheless it was very quick and I shall say that we have a user community we can count on if needed. That was very motivating, thanks to all that donated. But don't let the fact that enough funds were raised for a new laptop for oga@ stop you from donating ;) If you missed this chance, feel free to donate anyway .. this is an excellent time to donate some extra cash, with a new hackathon just around the corner. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop
Dear OpenBSD Users A short while ago, Owain Ainsworth's (oga@) laptop was stolen. As you all know, oga@ is working on DRI/DRM and on X11 (xenocara) together with Matthieu Herrb. With the general hackathon in Edmonton just ante portas, this brings oga in the very uncomfortable position to have no laptop to hack on. But oga's work is crucial for the X11 support on OpenBSD. His laptop was insured, but the insurance will only cover 1000 british pounds whereas a replacement will cost 1700 british pounds. We are short of 700 pounds. oga knows exactly what model of laptop he needs, these figures are accurate. Being a PhD student, he needs the community's help. If you think you can step in and help oga and the project, then please contact me off-list. We can accept donations by wire, Visacard and Mastercard (creditcard fees are covered by my company). I started myself by tossing in CHF 200 (approx $ 200). (And any excess money would go as a donation to OpenBSD, btw.) Thanks, Marc Balmer
