This is a post to support two different friends of mine, who are helping improve the lives of people in Africa. You might also get some cool .NET software cheaply, too. Read on…
Jamie Cansdale of TestDriven.NET fame has organized a .NET software charity auction to raise money for a safe drinking water and irrigation project in Malawi; the auction ends today (21 Dec). His father was the technical advisor in this project.
Here’s Jamie’s plea, which is also repeated in his blog post, http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2006/12/14/net-developer-software-charity-auction.aspx.
To date the project has been funded almost entirely by the founders of the charity. Now the project has hit its stride, a little extra funding could go a long way. See the blog entry here for a progress report:
http://wellsforzoe.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/article-in-lucan-newsletter/There is lots more information on the 'Wells for Zoë' charity website:
http://www.wellsforzoe.org/Eric Sink (SourceGear), Eli Lopan (TypeMock), Mark Miller (devExpress), Atul Godbole (Sky Software), Jonathan Cogley (Thycotic) and Jeannette Arrowood (Syncfusion) have all kindly donated licenses for their software for an Ebay auction. I have also put up for auction 3 MSDN subscriptions with VS2005 Team Suite (using my MVP Invite cards). Together this is nearly $45,000 worth of software!
By bidding, you might be able to get .NET software much cheaper than you would have been able to before. What a great bargain; you can buy cool software and demostrate compassion at the same time.
Paul Konasewich has been raising some money for a community in Zambia. This is the site for Africa Vulnerable Children Project that he is working for and where you can make donations. Here is the original plea for donations that he mailed out his friends. To the right is one of the beneficiaries of the project.
Cool, thanks for letting us know, Wes. Sounds like a great cause to help.
Posted by: Judah | December 21, 2006 at 06:55 PM