Vostrocity
March 8th, 2010, 11:02 PM
To put it short, I'm asking you to vote for me in a contest.
But before you walk away, let me tell you that I will donate $4000 of the $5000 prize money if I win: $2000 for disaster relief/environmental organizations and $2000 for open source projects. I will probably split each of the $2000 so that they can go towards multiple organizations/projects.
To avoid looking like I'm scraping for votes just because I pledged to donate, I've made my submission hopefully worthwhile. Each person can vote once per day until March 17th, and it's nothing more than entering your email (no spam). For your time, each vote is also an entry to win your own Core i5 laptop.
This is not a generic message I'm spamming everywhere. I'm posting this because I feel like the Ubuntu Forums is the best place to get this kind of support.
Go here to view my entry and vote. Thank you. (http://www.accessyourcore.com/entry/121) :D
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The original post was too long-winded, so I cleared it up a bit. I'm going to keep the old version here anyway just for reference.
To put it short, I'm asking you to vote for me in a contest.
But before you walk away, let me tell you that I will donate $4000 of the prize money if I win. $2000 for disaster relief/environmental programs and $2000 for open source software, two things that I'm very supportive of. I will probably split each of the $2000 into ten partitions and have you guys vote on which organizations/software developers each $200 partition goes out to. I will be left with $1000 (which will go towards my college tuition) and a new Core i5 laptop. The contest is sponsored by Intel, and has three different categories: Video, Slideshow, and Photo with prize sums of $7000, $5000, and $3000 respectively.
To avoid looking like I'm scraping for votes just because I pledged to donate, I've made my submission hopefully worthwhile. It's entered for the $5000 slideshow category, whose current leader has around 1000 votes. We have until the March 17th to pass the leader and win the contest. Each person can vote once per day, and it's nothing more than entering an email. For your time, each vote is also an entry to win your own Core i5 laptop.
This is not a generic message I'm spamming everywhere. I'm posting this because I feel like the Ubuntu Forums is the best place to get this kind of support.
Go here to view my entry and vote. Thank you. :D
(Let me warn you the slideshow is three and a half minutes long and slightly depressing.)
But before you walk away, let me tell you that I will donate $4000 of the $5000 prize money if I win: $2000 for disaster relief/environmental organizations and $2000 for open source projects. I will probably split each of the $2000 so that they can go towards multiple organizations/projects.
To avoid looking like I'm scraping for votes just because I pledged to donate, I've made my submission hopefully worthwhile. Each person can vote once per day until March 17th, and it's nothing more than entering your email (no spam). For your time, each vote is also an entry to win your own Core i5 laptop.
This is not a generic message I'm spamming everywhere. I'm posting this because I feel like the Ubuntu Forums is the best place to get this kind of support.
Go here to view my entry and vote. Thank you. (http://www.accessyourcore.com/entry/121) :D
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The original post was too long-winded, so I cleared it up a bit. I'm going to keep the old version here anyway just for reference.
To put it short, I'm asking you to vote for me in a contest.
But before you walk away, let me tell you that I will donate $4000 of the prize money if I win. $2000 for disaster relief/environmental programs and $2000 for open source software, two things that I'm very supportive of. I will probably split each of the $2000 into ten partitions and have you guys vote on which organizations/software developers each $200 partition goes out to. I will be left with $1000 (which will go towards my college tuition) and a new Core i5 laptop. The contest is sponsored by Intel, and has three different categories: Video, Slideshow, and Photo with prize sums of $7000, $5000, and $3000 respectively.
To avoid looking like I'm scraping for votes just because I pledged to donate, I've made my submission hopefully worthwhile. It's entered for the $5000 slideshow category, whose current leader has around 1000 votes. We have until the March 17th to pass the leader and win the contest. Each person can vote once per day, and it's nothing more than entering an email. For your time, each vote is also an entry to win your own Core i5 laptop.
This is not a generic message I'm spamming everywhere. I'm posting this because I feel like the Ubuntu Forums is the best place to get this kind of support.
Go here to view my entry and vote. Thank you. :D
(Let me warn you the slideshow is three and a half minutes long and slightly depressing.)