On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Niall O'Higgins wrote: > Hi, > > marco@ could desperately use an IBM Thinkpad for his ACPI work. This > work is very important and many of us really want to get him this > hardware. Everyone with a laptop running OpenBSD will likely benefit > from marco's work. > > Unfortunately no individual has yet stepped up and given him one. So > I have started a pool to buy him one. > > We need approximately $1200 USD to get him a T42 + docking station (which > is required to get a serial port for kernel hacking). > > If you want to help get marco a Thinkpad, please donate via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've personally donated $100, and a number of > other OpenBSD users have donated similar sums already. Remember that > the Euro is quite strong vs. the US dollar at the moment, so Euro > donations go even further. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to > deal with anything other than PayPayl, so you if you can't use PayPal, > sorry. > > Any money left over from the laptop donations will be given to the > OpenBSD project. Please feel free to email me any suggestions or > inquiries, and of course spread the word!
I'm working on selling my current laptop so I could buy a ThinkPad, which I was thinking of loaning for a time. But that's still in the future, so it doesn't count for anything. Instead, I went ahead and chipped in through paypal. If even a tiny fraction of the people on this list pitch in just a bit each then it'll be done. And you *know* you'd get benefit from ACPI support. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
