Many thanks to all the very generous people who donated. The hardware marco@ needs is on its way to him now. That so many OpenBSD users were willing to chip in is very heartening indeed. It seems a lot of people are interested in ACPI support :-)
I have tried to send personal thank you notes to everyone who donated. Hopefully I didn't miss anybody. Cheers! 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!
