From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 17:47:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13192 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:47:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from cps201.cps.cmich.edu (cps201.cps.cmich.edu [141.209.20.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13187 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:47:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cps201 (cps201.cps.cmich.edu [141.209.20.201]) by cps201.cps.cmich.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA25476; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 20:46:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 20:46:54 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Archive X-Sender: archive@cps201 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jonathan Cargille , Jon Loeliger , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Donations (was Re: Second appeal for sup ...) In-Reply-To: <21490.818297379@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 2. Hardware is a close second and a secondary freefall would be very > good to have, assuming of course that internet connectivity for it > could also be found. This is why just the parts for a freefall clone > wouldn't be quite enough - we'd need someplace to put it, and WC's T1 > is already starting to smoke. IF and only if people will donate the hardware for this. I can afford to spend the 100$ a month a friend of mine will charge to put a machine in Chicago Nap. This could be connected at atleast 10Mbit and possibly 100Mbit depending on wether or not the hardware is available. This would locate the machine in the worlds heaviest backbone node and be great access for everyone. All I ask from this machine is a spot to run a low use Web server from ( 300 - 400 hits a week) I would also be willing to maintain this piece of hardware for nothing more than this use. > 3. Money, well, money is always good for a variety of purposes.. :-) > > Unfortunately, I can't offer any special tax shelters for donations > since the FreeBSD, Inc. corporation that David and I set up isn't a > non-profit, it's just a standard California `S' corporation. I well if you build a machine here at our university to run SUP/FTP from which is a dual homed T1. We can provide the taz incentives you are looking for. All you do is ask the core team to collect money then have them send the hardware for the machine to the university. We can then write a receipt for the person that actually donated it (ie. if a scsi controller cost 200$ and two people donated 100 each we would write a receipt for 100$ for each of those two people.) This possibly could be of help. I don't know just more food for thought. Matthew S. Bailey mbailey@cps.cmich.edu Assistant Sys Admin