[committee] seeking possible sponsership

[Davyd Madeley]

The University Computer Club [1] is part of the student Guild at the
University of Western Australia. It was formed in 1974 as a way for
students to get time on the mainframe. Since then it has grown in one of
the widely recognised computing groups in Australia, and its members
have gone on to even greater things. Ian McKellar, was a UCC president.

The UCC recently started tinderboxing [2] GNOME on it's Sun E6000, manbo
[3]. Unfortunately, while the machine has been upgraded to have fast
disks and a large amount of RAM, we have so far been unable to purchase
new CPUs for it.

Recently the opportunity has arisen to purchase two lots of 10 faster
CPUs for the machine [4, 5]. While this is Ebay, we have dealt with this
seller before in aquiring other spares for this machine.

In short, the UCC is seeking sponsership to aquire these units and get
them to Australia. While it is a lot of money (especially in Australian
dollars) and hard to ask students for donations when they are sometimes
struggling to eat, it is significantly less money for an American
corporation. In exchange, we will send you a letter of gratitude, and
list Redhat as a sponser of the UCC for the lifetime of the machine, on
our website, in official publications and on the MOTD of the machine.

Thankyou for taking the time to read this. Please feel free to contact
us via the address committee at ucc.asn.au.

Yours Faithfully,
--Davyd Madeley
UCC Secretary, 2005
GNOME Applets Maintainer

[1] http://www.ucc.asn.au/
[2] http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/gnometinderbox/
[3] http://www.ucc.asn.au/machines/manbo.ucc
[4]
http://cgi.ebay.com/Qty-10-Sun-X2580A-400MHz-8MB-Cache-CPU-E4500-E6500_W0QQitemZ5796982727QQcategoryZ56097QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
[5]
http://cgi.ebay.com/Qty-10-Sun-X2580A-400MHz-8MB-Cache-CPU-E4500-E6500_W0QQitemZ5796982709QQcategoryZ56097QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

-- 
Davyd Madeley

http://www.davyd.id.au/
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