From: hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
Subject: DONATIONS NEEDED for the free Unix for Romania drive
Summary: We need MONEY to continue the action
Date: 13 Dec 92 23:09:32 GMT
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal

Hi:

Our effort of spreading the free Unix in Romania needs your FINANCIAL
HELP!!

The concerted action proceeds well:

- Ivonne Nicolescu and Mihai Datcu have shipped 386bsd to Timisoara
and Bucharest

- Profs Mircea Bodea and Irina Athanasiu are now in the process of
giving their students and colleagues the copies of linux for the
reproduction process 

- in Timisoara, Viorel Negru has just brought the SLS edition of linux
and is ready to spread it

- here, Edward Nicolescu and a generous anonymous contributor have
finished the fantastic (one could say monstrous) job of copying on
diskettes a master copy  of X11R5 from MIT (something like 60
diskettes!!) for the whole Romania.

However, our finances are badly strapped for money. We have to send
more books, and this requires money, both for buying them, and for
shipping them. The email system does not work quite well, we have to
use lots of phone calls in order to advance and coordinate things,
especially in the province.

Yes, this is free Unix, but it requires money to distribute, believe
it or not.

I myself am in the red in this respect: have contributed more than 600$
and have recouped via donations only 160 or so. Simply cannot go on
like this... 

Many of our volunteers are PhD students studying abroad, they cannot
contribute more. 

While grateful for all the  present financial contributions, I have to
say it does not represent the financial strength of the romanian
professional community. Many of us, employed by more or less famous
companies, are earning nice salaries, to which a considerable contribution
was made by the good educational system in the schools and
universities in Romania. Let's give back!

Please circulate this to your friends!

Forget for one moment about your / family needs, and think back to
those working in difficult conditions in the universities and research
institutes in Romania. They need your/our help. Even modest amounts
can add up, if more would contribute.

Paraphrasing JFK,

"Don't think about what Romania can do for yourself, think about what
you can do for Romania".

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Financial donations sent to my home address

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

will be gratefully acknowledged and their use fully documented.

Following is the present state of our drive, in financial and other
terms.

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                    FREE UNIX FOR ROMANIA DRIVE

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

FINANCIAL & MATERIAL DONATIONS


George Costache		20$	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
------
Total financial        165$
 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.
Radu Cotet		1 Mitsubishi 19" monitorNamur U, Belgium
			45 diskete   Dec. 1

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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

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EXPENSES

Book: X O'Reilly 3	40$	Nov. 23
Book: X O'Reilly 1      40$     Nov. 25
Book: X O'Reilly 4      40$     Nov. 25
Book: C library		34$	Nov. 23
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 	       620$
Total financial        165$
 donations
Balance               -456$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(US$ throughout)

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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
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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