[sudo-discuss] [sudo-announce] PLEASE GIVE to sudoroom gittip!

[Matthew Senate]

We have *$96.67 <https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/> / week **coming in from
Gittip!*

*If we raise $42.08 / week more, we're likely to make it on the front page
of http://gittip.com/ <http://gittip.com/> *

*Let's do it!*

*// Matt*


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:

> I dearly implore you to slightly compromise your anonymity by signing
> up for gittip and donating a few $/week to sudoroom.
>
>    https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/
>
> The hardest part is overcoming that psychological barrier by entering
> your credit/debit card # - after that it will be easy, and you will be
> making a real difference for all the hard-working folks who volunteer
> here everyday. Even if you haven't been to sudo lately for whatever
> reason, I can't emphasize enough how much it means to us on the
> ground. Every dollar you give translates DIRECTLY into the
> love-powered energy that helps us keep the space clean, open, safe,
> accessible and hopping with life. None of us are paid for this, few of
> us are wealthy, many of us are struggling. Here's what our expenses
> cost approximately per week:
>
> $9 for the server that powers this very mailing list, our homepage,
> blog, wiki, and dev environments for many other projects!
>
> $15 for services such as trash pickup that keeps our hackers from
> being devoured by mutant flies and keeps our landlord's head from
> combusting spontaneously on every visit!
>
> $25 goes to our sweet, privacy-conscious, locally owned, ISP to bring
> internets to our public terminals, raspis, radio stream, and about a
> billion laptops and phones every week!
>
> $70-90 for our utilities, including power for our lights, computers,
> devices, fridge, ac/heat, printers, dishwasher, crock pot, coffee pot!
>
> $345 to rent our current space, with some prospective spaces
> approaching $500+/week. This space has so much value as an open
> community space which enables so many people and groups to accomplish
> awesome things!
>
> $infinite for the inspiration to learn and create beautiful things,
> which we have MORE TIME FOR when we are not struggling over the
> basics!!! That's where we are right now too often, and we ALL would
> like more time for the fun stuff. That will be a lot easier if you all
> give to sudoroom, so PLEASE CHIP IN now <3<3<3
> https://www.gittip.com/sudoroom/
>
> Right now we make $96.67. If we make over $138.75 we get bumped to the
> front page as a top receiver. If we make $500 we will finally have our
> basics covered and be free to dream even bigger.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> P.S. Really though, they are pretty good about protecting your
> identity: "Gittip makes reasonable efforts not to share your personal
> information with the recipients of your gifts, so that particular
> gifts are anonymous. We do publicly share aggregated information about
> your giving and receiving. You may opt out of publicly sharing your
> aggregate giving." https://www.gittip.com/about/privacy/
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