[vox-tech] Open Source Appreciation Day (Was re: You are here -><- )

[Alex Mandel]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:14:15AM -0700, Gandalf Parker wrote:
>> IMHO its because people have forgotten how to pay for free things.
> 
> Sometimes Kudos is enough.  I seriously need to sit down and put together
> a world-wide "Open Source Developer Appreciate Day" (kinda like
> "Secretary's Day" or "Mother's Day").
> 
> Everyone would be encourage to send a gift (money, postcard, chocolate,
> beer, chocolate beer) or just a 'thank you!' email to the developers of
> their favorite OSS software.
> 
> One day, I tried to send email to as many developers I could of the
> software I use on a day-to-day basis.  From Konsole to the Kernel, if
> I rekall^H^H^H^Hcall.
> 
> 
> -bill!
> (whose Tux Paint is mentioned in today's "The Unofficial Apple Weblog"
> and in April's "Macworld Magazine", and who got $10 via paypal from some
> happy user a coupla days ago... so _I_ feel appreciated... for the moment ;) )
>

Thank you for Tux Paint Bill, did you see it's back on the latest OpenCD 
from Feb 07. That project is back on track now that Canonical(of Ubuntu 
fame) is managing it.

Alex