Holidays, Fundraising, Live CDs & more

Sunday, October 2. 2005

Holidays, Fundraising, Live CDs & more

It’s been a hectic two weeks. University got the better of me, then I forgot about it and went down to Melbourne for 10 days. The best thing I have done in a while - to get out and forget about everything which was bombarding my world.

It’s now a public holiday in Sydney, 31°C and beautiful weather. I’m planning on going down to the beach soon.

In the world of amaroK, we have launched a fundraising campaign to aide us in reaching a couple of goals - developer meetings, web hosting (amarok.kde.org currently uses over 50Gb of traffic a month - thats not cheap. Thanks to http://pwsp.net), and maybe even some hardware. We are aiming to reach US$5000 before November, so if you would like to give a hand, we would be very appreciative.

Additionally, the amaroK 1.3 live CD has just about gone live. Excuse the pun . With 26 wicked tracks to listen to, the best of KDE and the ability to remaster and create your own CD with your own music, what’s not to love about the CD?

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 23:18 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Hope you came back rested and ready to improve our favorite player some more

I sent some money your way. I wish I has more to give.

#1 Db0 (Homepage) on 2005-10-03 08:06 (Reply)

Well, no matter what the amount was, we appreciate it. Thank you.

#1.1 oggb4mp3 on 2005-10-03 09:24 (Reply)

yep, thanks a lot, really!

#1.2 muesli (Homepage) on 2005-10-06 17:49 (Reply)

Now stop that! You're making me blush

Funny thing though. Ever since I started using digital music players I've never paid a dime for them and always used them cracked (Winamp) or on cracked systems (Windoze Media Player). Now that I use a completely free player on a completely free OS I've given more money than I ever spent on a downloadable program and will probably continue giving as long as I can.
And that does not only go for amaroK, I've donated to anything that I feel is worthwile.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing?

#1.2.1 Db0 (Homepage) on 2005-10-06 18:12 (Reply)

that's open source, baby.

#1.2.1.1 pavel on 2005-10-09 12:30 (Reply)

yes, i have. it's the security, that the product is worth "its money" (although, it's actually free of course): there will never be a way for us to charge you for 2.0 or any other update. not even the chance, that we stop developing amarok, since anyone could just continue developing it.

cheers,
muesli

#1.2.1.2 muesli (Homepage) on 2005-10-10 06:57 (Reply)

Me too. I've given money to amaroK, to Wikipedia, to Fastmail.fm, and will continue giving, even though US$10 may not be that much for you guys as it is for a brazilian girl =)

I give money for projects I love and I am very happy with that =D

Keep up the good work!

Cheers!

#1.2.1.3 Maira on 2005-10-18 08:43 (Reply)

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