From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: Free Unix to Romania:  Acknowledgements 1/1/93
Summary: Please help financially this effort and make it known!
Date: 1 Jan 93 12:12:52 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal


Hi:

I would like first of all to wish you a New Year in happiness and
prosperity. In prosperity, thus with the hope of increasing your
APPRECIATED FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS  to our drive of sending free Unix
in linux/bsd incarnations in Romania. 

I have shipped more books recently. They cost a fortune (look at the
bottom line, I am in deep red, I simply cannot go on like this). 

At the same time, the SLS linux sent to Timisoara via the efforts of
Romulus Vlasie and Viorel Negru is now fully operational, which is very
important, SLS being the backbone of a standardized distribution. Dan
Grecu has shipped SLS to Cluj. Florin Manolache has taken SLS with him
to Iasi.

386bsd has been sent to Timisoara and Bucharest via the efforts of
Ivonne Nicolescu and Mihai Datcu (thanks to Adrian Gheorghe and Adi
Neagu for transportation ... services).

The monster job of creating a master copy of the full X distribution to
be sent in Romania has been finished through the efforts of Edward
Nicolescu and of a generous anonymous contributor. 

Concerning our list of acknowledgements,
as you can see, contributions have started to appear from more places.

However, if students like Amelia Eslinger or Sorin Voinigescu can spare their
dollars, in short supply, we would hope to see  more names from the
professionals...Europe is not too much present on this list, even if
there's a large Romanian community out there...I wonder if they read
s.c.r. and romanians@.. at all.

Please contact all your friends, make sure they know about our effort
and try to convince them to contribute FINANCIALLY! Please send the
cheques to my home address:

Marius Hancu
3355 Queen Mary Road, Apt 610
Montreal, Quebec, H3V 1A5
Canada

(they are all acknowledged, please tell me immediately if I missed
anyone!).

Well, after this pep talk, let me give the updated list of these very
worthwhile contributions:




                    FREE UNIX FOR ROMANIA DRIVE

===========================================================================

FINANCIAL & MATERIAL DONATIONS


George Costache		16$(20Can$)	Nov. 10		U of Ottawa
Ludwig Galambos         20$     	Nov. 18		Stanford U
Sorin & Octavia Cismas 	50$		Nov. 23   	LSI Logic
George & Cornelia Haber100$		Nov. 25		Sun Microsystems
Mihai Dima	       100$     	Dec. 13		U of Colorado
Mihai Popovici		25$		Dec. 13		Columbia, MO
Samuil Mincu		60$		Dec. 22		Motorola
Christian Cojocaru 	20$(25Can$)	Dec. 16		Ottawa
Anonymous		32$(40Can$)     Dec. 18		-
Amelia Eslinger		30$		Dec. 18		Kalamazoo, MI
Paul & Mirela Bacinschi	16$(20Can$)	Dec. 22 	BNR
Sorin Voinigescu 	40$(50Can$)	Dec. 26		U of Toronto
------
Total financial        509$
 donations

Ted Lungu               40 diskettes Nov. 19	JPL/NASA
Judith Bodo 		20 diskettes Nov. 16	Stanford U
Anonymous		17 diskettes Dec.  7
Ivonne Nicolescu	16 diskettes Dec. 11	Freie U. Berlin
Mihai Datcu 		28 diskettes Dec. 11    IPB, Swiss F.I.T.
Edward Nicolescu	35 diskettes Dec  13	Cornell U
Radu Cotet		1 Mitsubishi 19" monitorNamur U, Belgium
			45 diskettes Dec.  1
Romulus Vlasie		30 diskettes Dec.  4	U de Nice
Dan Grecu 		30 diskettes Dec. 18	Worchester PI
Florin Manolache	30 diskettes Dec. 22	Weizmann Institute
(all diskettes
include shipping costs)
==========================================================================

CONTRIBUTIONS IN WORK
									For:

Ioan Nicolescu		linux (installation	Montreal		Buc
			& full testing)					Tms

Mihai Datcu		386bsd (srcdist		IPB, Swiss F.I.T.	Tms 
			+ etcdist)					Buc

Ivonne Nicolescu	386bsd (bindist, doc,	Freie U. Berlin		Buc
			bootable)					Tms

Traian Mitrache		Caltech set of tools	USC			Buc

Edward Nicolescu	sis (UCB)		Cornell U.		Buc
			X windows (mit-1,2)

Anonymous		X windows (mit-3,4)

Viorica Simion		simulators		Delft Inst. of Tech.	Buc

Ted Lungu		linux/SLS		JPL-NASA		Buc
			full

Dan Grecu		linux/SLS		Worchester PI		Cluj
			full

Radu Iorgulescu		docs/mail		Waterloo U.

Radu Cotet		docs/mail 		Namur U., Belgium

Sandu Mitaru 		docs			Tektronix		Cluj

Romulus Vlasie		docs (X)		Universite de Nice	Tms
			linux/SLS, full

Florin Manolache	linux/SLS		Weizmann Institute	Iasi
			full

==========================================================================
EXPENSES


Book: X O'Reilly 1      40$     Nov. 25
Book: X O'Reilly 2      41$     Dec. 13
Book: X O'Reilly 3      40$     Nov. 23
Book: X O'Reilly 4      40$     Nov. 25
Book: X O'Reilly 5      41$     Dec. 13
Book: C library		34$	Nov. 23
Book: Unix Network	61$	Dec. 23
Programming (Stevens)
Book: Adv. Programming	57$	Dec. 23
in Unix (Stevens)
Book: lex & yacc	36$	Dec. 23
(Levine, Mason, Brown)
Book: 4.3BSD Unix	48$	Dec. 23
(Leffler, McKusick)
Book: Unix Shell Pro-	33$	Dec. 23
gramming (Kochan,Wood)
Shipping to Romania 	29$	Dec. 28
Shipping to Romania	12$	Dec. 13
+ diskettes
Shipping to Romania     26$     Nov. 27
Shipping to Romania	91$     Nov. 17
 + diskettes
Shipping to Romania	91$	Sept.4
 + diskettes
Shipping to Romania 	89$	Sept.12
 + diskettes
Phones to Romania      170$
----
Total expenses 	       979$
Total financial        509$
 donations
Balance               -470$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(US$ throughout)

==========================================================================

Once again
Happy New 1993!
La Multi Ani!

Marius Hancu



-- 
Marius Hancu, Parallel Architectures Group 
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
3744, Jean-Brillant, Bureau 500, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1P1, Canada 
phone: (514) 340-5907, fax: 514-340-5777, email: hancu@crim.ca
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian