Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:02:50 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Garretson <nateg@blazenet.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I wanna contribute. Message-ID: <20000620200250.C418@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <99092311125700.02347@booyah>; from nateg@blazenet.net on Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:54:34AM -0400 References: <99092311125700.02347@booyah>
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Nathan, Sorry for the late (!) reply. . . On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:54:34AM -0400, Nathan Garretson wrote: > My name is Nathan Garretson and im currently attending Harrisburg Area > Community College for Computer Networking. I'm not much of a programmer but I > had read that you are looking for unsupported hardware to be donated, and this > I figure I can help with. In the past, being the poor soul I was, I managed to > be 'enrique swavvy' with local big business and computer places/manufacturers > and get lots of free stuff. I figured now that since FreeBSD is quickly > becoming my fav, I could try to help if you need it. My ideas were writing > local business telling them of my project to get hardware for the FreeBSD > cause. In the past, my experiences with big business' was that they would > rather give me the hardware for my educational use then throw it away. The > stuff that was rather useless to me I ended up selling. So, this is my plan, I > could get this hardware stuff, email you guys what I got, what you dont > need, I could sell and donate the money to you. I also have a similar plan > with large companies doing similar, except with new hardware. Anyway email > me back, and if you think my ideas suck, I would be glad to help with > something else (hopefully hardware/networking stuff). Later on. Sounds like a useful idea to me. Can I suggest you contact Justin Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>. He's in the final throes of setting up the FreeBSD Foundation in the US, which will be a non-profit organisation that can accept donations like this -- if I understand things properly, this also means that the companies doing the donating can write the donations off against tax (or something like that anyway). Hope that helps. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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