[committee] seeking possible sponsership

[Matthias Liffers]

Davyd, I suggest you spell-check things before you send them out to 
potential "sponsers".

- Matthias

Davyd Madeley wrote:
> 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
>