Re: donations wishlist?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:15:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:51:05AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > I sent something like this to mako@debian.org, since he's supposed to
> > > be our donations coordinator (at least, that's what I read at
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/debian-devel-announce-200207/msg00001.html),
> > > but haven't heard from him in a week. Not that I think he's ignoring me,
> > > but this could be discussed here too.
> > > 
> > > At http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html, the FreeBSD
> > > developers have a list of computer-related stuff they could use to
> > > improve their work on the FreeBSD operating system. I think this is a
> > 
> > In general, I guess, this is a good idea.  However, I see that the
> > FreeBSD list is a bit cluttered with "private" requests that don't
> > seem to ensure me that the project will generally benefit from it as
> > well.  In case the above is not understandable, I believe, that
> > requests like 2x256DIMMs for home machines are not the proper type of
> > requests.
> 
> That is correct; however, I'm sure potential donators are smart enough
> to see that too, and not donate such things. Which is the beaty of such
> a list.
> 
> [...]
> > I could imagine that some people who spend time on improving the
> > debian-installer could use some non-ia32 machines as well, but I don't
> > really know.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> <plug>
> I could use some non-mac m68k boxes to do exactly that :-)
> </plug>

I could get Wouter Verhelst an older Amiga 1200 with mtec 68030
accelerator board. Would it somehow be possible to get some kind of
debian money for the shipping of it or something such ? And if yes, what
would be the procedure to ask about it ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther