>> Hmm? Hopefully it seems that Mozilla's donation has kicked off a
>> scrambling of companies to buy bragging rights about donating to
>> OpenBSD. Yay?
>
> A few things with a few vendors and larger company-users are moving
> ahead.
I'd like to take the opportunity to report on my own experience how I
was able to raise some funds for OpenSSH. Actually, because of one of
Theo's recent posts a la "do something" here, I felt touched somehow but
wasn't quite sure how _I_ could help in the first place.
After a few days of contemplating over it, I decided to write a friendly
but determined letter directly to the CIO's of University of Zurich and
of ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) - and guess what:
there feedback was rather positive. ETH will donate 1000$ and the
University even allowed me to send a mass mailing to all CIO's of the
connected Institutes (of which we are one of, too) to ask for even more
money.
Though the process of getting some bucks together is still ongoing, it
looks like I managed to get a few thousand Swiss Francs together. One
may think this is not much for such a rich country, but keep in mind
we're talking about tax money.
I don't post this here to be seen as a hero (other's are ;) ) but I did
want to emphasize how astonishingly easy it is to help - at least sometimes.
Thanks for Open{BSD|SSH} and thanks for the 'real' openness.
--
Stephan A. Rickauer
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