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Notebook update
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 01/Aug/2006, @10:01

I really hate making this kind of post, because frankly we've had really fantastic support from the community for years. Earlier this year a simple post to our mailing list resulted in an amazing fund raiser. The thing is, it seems to be the same people all the time just giving more, and I really hate asking the same people to help when they do so much already. I know there are other people using our tools and realizing not only a personal benefit but a financial one.

If I take the funds we have now and put them towards notebooks for the guys we are a few hundred dollars ahead, but our regular sponsorship money is short every month and we depend on donations. In fact what we've raised so far doesn't cover the part of our sponsored developers costs I have to pay for the conference. Once we get there any development done on Andras' or Michal's notebook will be abysmally slow. My hope is with such a large user base we can find a tiny fraction to give modest support and do something about developers using hardware from the last century. I'm not sure how big of a check I could write as this is the time of year my business costs the most to operate.

So far in around a day we've taken in less than $200. So... If you were thinking maybe it's finally time to step up and contribute to a project you like then I can only say... You'll feel really good afterwards. Trust me. I started six years ago and I could have bought a car with the money and wrote a book with the time, but I don't think either would have satisfied me as much as this project. I have some grand plans. Please consider helping me do something great for our users, KDE and a world that needs to be empowered to communicate and do business on the internet. If we do great things with this project we need you to be able to take some satisfaction in helping. Okay, begging mode off. ;-)

http://kdewebdev.org/donate.php

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