Affero's Hack-a-Thon

Henri Poole writes "I've got friends who ride their bikes for a week and get me and others to donate $100 to their cause. Spending more time on lists then roads, we've set up an analogous service for Free Software and Open Source projects. Substitute the physical sweat with a good hack, and you'll see the match. After you save your next newbie from tech-hell, just ask them to help your cause. In Lessig's blog, he writes "If there's one thing I've learned from watching, and tinkering, in this web-log space, it is that the many tiny brushstrokes of thousands paints more and more powerfully than the blast of even the most important and powerful papers...As I indicate on my Affero page, I count FSF and EFF as the two key players to support." And if you don't think you can make a difference, do this math: A $1 donation to the FSF for every user of GNU/Linux would increase their budget by 30 fold."

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[MeanMF]

Wow, I didn't know Slashdot was in the business of giving away free advertising... Good to know!

verification?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you verify that your "earnings" are really forwarded to the cause you've selected?

If so, how?

Huh?

[Otter]

Affero's Hack-a-Thon...Substitute the physical sweat with a good hack, and you'll see the match.

Ummm, not that you should be expected to read your own site before submitting a story about it but -- which is it? Donations for hacking or in appreciation for tech support? The site is entirely focused on the latter and your writeup seems to be half about that and half something entirely different.

every user of GNU/Linux

[DV]

Hum, seems that there is far less users
of GNU/Linux than Linux users. Maybe the
30 fold figure is a bit unrealistic.

DV, Linux user since '92 , a time where
the FSF could not care less about Linux

Re:Idea: donation thread

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh come on. If you're gonna post AC, you should donate $500,000 like I just did.

I'd donate, but...

[ryochiji]

I'd like to donate to FSF and EFF because of what they stand for. But the sad fact of it is, my own OpenSource project has only resulted in $10 in donations for over 2.5 years of work (despite the 10,000+ downloads and ~500 registered users in the 7 months since initial release...not to mention the estimated 15,000+ end uesrs).

As a college student who has a stomach to fill, rent to pay, and an education to complete, making monetary contributions really isn't an option. Hell, if I had money to spare, I wouldn't be trying to sell thongs (see sig).