Hi "sustainable" is important for me as a community.
Thanks all, Katsuya 2011/3/23, Louis Suarez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com>: > All, > > On 2011-03-23, at 01:08 , Peter Junge wrote: > >> OpenOffice.org Community, >> >> our long term friend and OOo contributer Kazunari Hirano from Japan >> lives in Ichinoseki >> (http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201103/18/84/a0005484_21312387.jpg), which >> has been heavily shaken by the earthquake on March 11th. Ichinoseki is >> also located in the direct back-country of the coast areas of >> Rikuzentakada and Ofunato which have been devastated by the tsunami. >> Hundred thousands of people lost their homes and are still in need of an >> appropriate shelter. Now, Kazunari wants to prepare his little school as >> an emergency accommodation for evacuees. For the details please read: >> http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12298764/ >> >> What Kazunari needs most is money to take care of the expenses for his >> generous venture. For this reason, we are collecting donations for >> Kazunari using the channels of "Team OpenOffice.org e.V.". You can send >> money via PayPal, credit card, bank transfer or check. For details >> please refer: >> http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html >> Every donation, that indicates the intended purpose with "Earthquake >> Japan" or similar keywords will go directly to Kazunari. >> >> *Please help Kazunari to help others!* >> This is a great opportunity to make donations for Japanese earthquake >> victims, knowing where the money goes and as well avoiding loss due to >> administrative expenses as they occur in larger relief organizations. > > I second Peter's request, via Khirano, and am glad to learn that not only is > Khirano well, but that others involved in OpenOffice.org who live in Japan > are also well. As many of you know, the Japanese OpenOffice.org community is > one of the largest making up OpenOffice.org's global communities. > > Money is useful, but as recent reports have underscored, Japan is not Haiti, > which a year ago, we recall, also suffered a devastating earthquake, and > where Haiti constantly needs money, resources, and global attention, Japan's > needs differ. > > But the larger issue, which by no means occludes the request forwarded by > Khirano and presented here by Peter, is how can we, the OpenOffice.org > community, working in concert with other Free and Open-Source communities > around the world, help directly. > > I have been active in this effort and am seeking to help coordinate the > global efforts so as to provide *effective* relief that is *community* based > and that is *sustainable* as well as being *sustaining.* > > The distinction is that money is immensely useful and is always needed, but > what really makes a difference that lasts is the establishment of community > resources—informational, technological, personal—that allow the afflicted, > the refugee, the deprived to gain from the global communities. > > I thank Peter for sending this out. I'll be issuing more information on how > we, the OOo community and others, can complement the efforts outlined above > with community action. > > >> >> Best regards, >> Peter (OpenOffice.org Marketing Project) >> >> P.S.: Forwarding this call for donations is of course welcome. > > Best, > Louis > > > > -- > Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > Community Development Manager > OpenOffice.org > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands send email to sy...@marketing.openoffice.org > with Subject: help > -- * I recommend OpenOffice.org and ODF ! * :) Katsuya Kobayashi ( http://www4.plala.or.jp/k21/ ) A member of OpenOffice.org Ja and Marketing Project. kynh at openoffice.org -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
