Upcoming Fundraiser - 11/09/2006 19:43 GMT

Last week I wrote about swapping the banner on the site to the new ebay banner; In response I got many emails from people offering bandwidth, money, etc. In response I will be hosting a fundraiser for both this site and gentoo-wiki.com starting this friday. (The new banner is not doing any better then the adsense banner was)

How much we will be attempting to raise I have not determined just yet, but my hope is to raise enough to cover the gap between what adsense pays and what the servers cost for a period of 1 year, as well as cover the cost of a few upgrades to the servers that gentoo-portage.com and gentoo-wiki.com run on.

Also I would like to share with everyone one of those emails offering to donate money, I found if very clever:

Hey there....
Yes, I'm a Gentoo nut. An enthusiast, bordering on religious fanaticism. I preach the word of of the Good Book (Gentoo Install Handbook) whenever possible, and spread the gospel of the mighty Emerge to anyone willing to listen. I've converted all 6 of the systems in my home, sparing them from the evils of the devil colored head covering (R3dH4t), I have shown them the true path to system maintenance, portage enlightenment, the all mighty depclean, and the benevolent forgiveness of revdep-rebuild.

As such, I'm not opposed to tithing, giving back to the powers that be who have provided me with such joy and fulfilment in my administrative life. Please, let me know where I might deposit my offerings of PayPal, and I shall endeavor to help bring down the beastly costs of servitude and hosting of the powerful gentoo-portage.com.

Let us pray...

Our system, who art on raised tile,
Hallowed be thy OS.
Thy portage come, thy emerge be done,
On servers, as it is on workstations.
Give us this day, our daily sync,
And forgive us our broken ebuilds,
As we forgive those who break ebuilds against us.
Lead us not into dependency frustration,
But deliver us from rpm evil.
For thine is the make.conf, the USE flags,
And the profile forever...
Gentoo.

Sincerely,
Jason Johnson
Unix Systems Admin
Oracle Corporation

On friday I will be posting a nice donators page, placing a donate button on every page and a couple other things (like donate $50 and get hosting for a year, etc.). However for those wanting to get donating early, here you go: