Daniel Robbins leaves Gentoo. Donation time!

stonedown · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 5

So apparently, this is the place to go for donations: http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?products_id=30

puggy · Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: donations for Daniel link

Currently both links have been going to drobbins. In the very near future, the link on the gentoo home page will point to gentoo's account and the one at the store will point to drobbins.

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mudrii · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 789 Location: Singapore

New t-shirts came on but no picture

Pleas add some picture.
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Deebster · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 11:16 am Post subject:

http://store.gentoo.org/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=41

There is a picture; not as detailed as we're used to, but more than enough to tell you what you're gonna get.

However, it does say they don't have any in stock yet, so maybe photos will appear once they are.

fdavid · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

Donated $30.
Gentoo is just the distro for me.
Thank you Daniel.

bmichaelsen · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 11:18 pm Post subject:

Finally found someone with a credit card. Donated 10$.
I just cant effort more right now needing the rest to support my life as a student.
A big thanks to Daniel Robbins.

Daniel, I think you really started a great distro - One of the reasons gentoo is so great is because of some basic choices, that I think you made. Like the decision not to offer a installer, because it wasnt possible to make a installer that doesnt suck. This might change now as the requirement become more clear, but the policy of "dont automate something that you cant automate - offer good docs instead" was the right decision and yielded the great success of gentoo and a fabulous user community. In gentoo things dont get finished "when its done", but they get started "when its doable". Others too often skipped to think about this step and failed.
gentoo is already great and still grows steadily and unstoppable ...
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alfmatos · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

Is there no turning back for D. Robbins ? Even if we donnate alot through pay-pal ?
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jthompson · Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

Ya know what is it with the name "Salvation Army"?
Does it automatically imply religion?

Apparently over the years I have missed this key concept...

So if you're religious about Gentoo, does that make you also a nut?
You can be religious about anything you know...

Bah! Useless dribble...

Just DONATE!
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Slyde · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 314

Best wishes and Good luck.

aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

Since everyone in this thread seems to be commenting on the Salvation Army without actually knowing much about it, I thought I'd look up some facts:
The Salvation Army:

RedRaider · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 7

I bought 2 T-Shirts. Hope Daniel stays in the Gentoo board... Thanks alot for your work!

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

I ordered one universal cd, 1 t-shirt and donated 29$ along with it bringing the total to $50 from me.

That's about $3200 total. Let's see if we can get it up some more

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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

Goodbye drobbins! Thanks for the wonderful gift of linux. :-)

I've learned so very much from Gentoo and it's community and none of it would have been possible without your vision and hard work. Best wishes in your next endeavour.
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pathose · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

$20 and a T-shirt. Worth every penny. Thanks for all your time and effort; I hope my part can help out in some small way.

n8wood · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

Also picked up a T-Shirt.

jacob · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: Thanks drobbins!

eNTi · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject:

farewell fellow penguin lover. you did a great job and i was able to leave the m$ completly only through your inspiring work. keep it up pal.
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Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

This is all terrible...
I'd love to donate but don't have a credit card, sorry guys...
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chatgris · Guru Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 383 Location: Canada

Well since people are running totals on this thread..

I had $20 in my paypal account.. bought a T-Shirt and donated $5 (T-Shirt plus S&H is 14.xx)

It know it's not a lot but... if even a small percentage of the gentoo community donated as much as I did then robbins would be way out of debt

Good Luck Robbins
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WZot · n00b Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Skien, Norway

I can't say I have been too active in the Gentoo community (I did translate some documentation to norwegian though...). Eventhough I use Debian and FreeBSD on my computers today I will definitly go back to Gentoo next time I buy myself a computer. After all...Gentoo was the reason I started to love GNU/Linux.

So I consider it just fair that I help out with a donation of $25, + preorder of tshirt, + a 2004.1 CD.

I hope everything will work out with your current financial issues Robbins! I do hope the contributions from the users of this forum (and others) helps you a lot (wich I am very sure they are).

HydroSan · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

Donated $20 a week or so ago. I'm sorry, I swear it's all I have right now... :cry:

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MaxDamage · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject:

I also want to thank you for a wonderful Linux distribution. I have been using Gentoo since this Christmas and I love it. Thanks for such an excelent work. I will find out how PayPal works so I can donate a bit to help.
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mudfly · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 3:08 am Post subject:

I just got done reading this whole thread. I donated when I got to page 3, and I am now posting my reply now that I have reached the end (page10).

I purchased 2 t-shirts and donated $25.

I started using Linux around the time of Red Hat 5.2. I bought a book that included Slackware 3 or so. I still have both of these Cd's to remember those days. I have burned through many different Linux distros and remember when mandrake was Red Hat + some extra cool shit. I remember when gnome was started in opposition to KDE using a then closed source QT. I remember upgrading to Xfree 4.0 the day it was released. I remember the race for the first journeled file system. I also remember reading about gentoo when it was thought of as a developers distro. I have been a happy user of gentoo now for several years, and I will continue to keep it as my desktop and server of choice until the inevitable day that something better comes along.

Cheers Daniel

mudfly

gigatexal · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: So where do I send my paypal?

So where do I send my paypal?
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