On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Personal Telco Supporters, > > Well, the end of the tax year is approaching, and the opportunity to > support a cause like the Personal Telco Project and deriving a mild > tax-benefit in the process is beginning to narrow. Over the history > of PTP, we have gone through considerable gyrations to become and > maintain our status as a 501(c)(3), so we might as well try to take > advantage of that. > > Last year, we had a project to fund the AlixCab project, and that went > very well. This year, we don't have any specific hardware needs. > > One of the biggest impediments to most of the new-node requests we get > is: "I can't afford the internet connection". Historically, that's > something we couldn't do anything about. I'm wondering if, this year, > we might try raising, say $600-$800 and actually buy bandwidth for > some worthy location for a year, to enable people to get online > somewhere they otherwise wouldn't. > > PTP has lots of things to do, but most of them don't involve money. > This is one thing that does. > > Thoughts?
I like it! I think we could turn this into a grant, you know, so people can apply on behalf of a community, for a year of service and a node. cc -- Chris Chen <[email protected]> "The fact that yours is better than anyone else's is not a guarantee that it's any good." -- Seen on a wall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
