[OpenAFS] Re: Donate to The OpenAFS Project

Esther Filderman Esther Filderman <mizmoose@gmail.com>
Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:49:59 -0500


Sorry for the cruddy formatting.

It's apparently a bad night for posting -- but a good night for
announcements :-).



On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:34:44 -0500, Esther Filderman <mizmoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, has formed The
> USENIX OpenAFS Fund, a means to financially support OpenAFS -- and as
> USENIX is a 501c3, your donations are tax-deductable [at least in the
> USA :-)].
> 
> http://www.usenix.org/about/openafs/ has all the information you need.
> You can send a check to USENIX or you can make a secure, online credit
> card donation.
> 
> You can also purchase t-shirts, mugs, and other stuff from the OpenAFS
> Cafepress Store: http://www.cafepress.com/openafs.  All proceeds from
> here go directly to the USENIX OpenAFS Fund.
> 
> WHY DONATE TO THE OPENAFS PROJECT?  Because, quite simply, there is
> more work to do than there are volunteers with time.  Donations will
> help us hire people to work on the things the already overworked [and
> never appreciated enough] volunteers don't have cycles for.
> 
> Please consider making a donation to the Usenix OpenAFS Fund, and/or
> asking your company to do so.  Every donation helps.
> 
> Thank you!
>