Who's up for helping out daniel robbins a bit

Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

As the topic suggests, since this is a fairly BIG thing for the guy who has created a Distro that has become extremely well known the world over, that maybe for those interested we can look at starting up a "help Daniel Fund"

A Paypal account could be setup for donations to be made, and the details for this account given to daniel once we have the ball rolling.

I, for one, am proud to offer the first $50AU (hey, not much, but something) if anyone's up for it.

Lets see what we can do for a man that's essentialy made something that's given geeks worldwide a reason to smile. That reason is Gentoo

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Iron_Mike · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 83

i was going to post the same thing...
i completly agree with you

codergeek42 · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:07 am Post subject:

I for one would be able and willing to pitch in some money, albeit not alot (maybe $50-ish?)

/me does not have a PayPal account
/me is a poor college student...
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chizu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 127

This is certainly a good thing to do, but isn't the donation button on the front page good for this? I'm not mistaken in thinking some of that must go to daniel robbins?

If it doesn't then yeah, we should set up a special fund for him. 20k is rough. I for one would be honored to donate my next paycheck (it's meager but it's something, I make 7.50 an hour doing database stuff after school

). Gentoo is worth it.

I bet we could flash-donate that $20k

Xan · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Austin

I don't believe anything from the link on the front page goes to Robbins... It goes to Gentoo, the new nonprofit thing.

I'd be glad to donate to a drobbins fund. He's the reason we're all here now, and if we can chip in to help out his wife and kids, it's the least we can do. We got our favorite OS out of the deal!

Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

I'm currently seeing what I can do to set my Paypal account up as a starting point, and will be glad to email daniel to let him know the community is willin to stand behind him, plus also get a way of getting all the possible funds we might be able to raise to him
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paroneayea · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 87

Yeah, sign me up! It'll take me a few weeks until I can get a paypal account, so will this be up for a while? I want to help this man out! He made me my dream Linux distro!
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BlueEar · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

Yep, I'll support it. If possible please set it up. I'll contribute. It is a shame that somebody who created an excellent ditro is going broke...

Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

My housemate is currently helping me code up my website, which I can make on there a button for the paypal account....he's frantically codin away for me, so yeah, were going at maximum pace here to get what we can done :wink:

Already investigated my paypal account, there's just a few things left to do before I can officially post the link to it, got a few other things to do today, so hopefully should know something more by tonight
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paroneayea · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 87

Awesome! Don't worry about me not having time to set up a paypal account. I was comissioned to make a logo for someone recently... I'm not getting paid too much, just about 75 bucks, but he was gonna pay via paypal, and as I said, I don't have an account. Well, what's the obvious solution? Have him pay Daniel instead!

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chizu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 127

I appologize for doubting your honest, but from my perspective you're a random net user who wants me to give you money

So I think we shouldn't use a private paypal account if this is to work. Someone official would have to create it and such.

Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

hey pjp

Didn't necessarily say we were going to use mine, I was rustling through some of the options in it, seein what there is that might help

I might end up just making a new paypal account for this purpose, it could be easier, that way pjp, u could possibly even list it on the site somewhere for those of us who want to help out

Just my ideas so far

And yeah, I think that's probably an idea chizu.....see if we can get one of the admins of the site to help us get the account setup, as there would be some details needed to set it up no one else has access to but the admins. Good thinkin there

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paroneayea · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 87

Well, alright, how should we go about that then? We need to at least raise awareness to our desire to set this up. (on getting an official donation system, and such)
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I've just verified that donations can be made through the store. Daniel is currently "the store", so anything going through the store will go to him (excluding merchandise and other associated costs). No need to set up a new account.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

As a side note, it is also possible to donate w/o receiving something. I mainly mention it, because it seems silly to "buy" something you don't really want (or will use), just to make a donation.
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1623 Location: U.S.A.

That is good to hear. I would rather have something official like that then a user setting up an account. Just wish they would have a little more merchandise like they did before.
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Hypnos · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

tbenson · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 4

The Gentoo store has a button for donating to Gentoo as opposed to purchasing a CD, etc. Given the above post saying that store proceeds go directly to Daniel, I assume this would be better than buying a CD (you can give $20 or $50 or whatever and he doesn't have to send out a CD). Of course, I'm sure buying a CD helps too.

And it looks like shirts may be available soon too.

iswm · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 5:15 am Post subject:

Can't wait till the shirts are ready. I'm going to buy a few of those for sure.

Nutterpc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 83

Well as soon as I have some spare $$ I'm gunna be puttin in an order, most definetly

Next week methinks I'll order a few bits, see if I can get some mates to do the same as well
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

greg_g · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 180

Both the donations through the paypal account on the front page and through the Store go to Daniel directly:

Dire Penguin · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:41 am Post subject:

/me just ordered a gentoo cd for 10$

Weren't there cups with gentoo logo on before and other stuff?

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