[FM Discuss] Manual-a-thon fundraiser

[Mel Chua]

Greetings! Adam asked me to post this to the list.

We're planning on doing some FLOSSmanuals projects for the Summer of 
Content program (summerofcontent.org - those of you at Wikimania might 
remember myself and/or SJ talking about it) and are looking for ways to 
raise funds to sponsor interns. One idea we came up with was a 
manual-a-thon. Clipping from email follows:

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If we get a good project proposal out, we might be able to convince some 
other companies & organizations to pitch in - or we could do a FM 
fundraiser specifically for this project - maybe a manual-a-thon? Get 
people, companies, organizations to donate $1, $5, $10, $100 (whatever) 
for every chapter completed (start to finish) in a FLOSSmanual within a 
  48-hour time period, all proceeds go to fund the XO manual project.

Double bonus since we raise funds for the stipend (I'm pretty sure we 
can score at least $1000 US, probably several times that) and get 
publicity & content for FM.
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Thoughts? Anyone interested in organizing a manual-a-thon in the next 
few months? Discuss on-list.

-Mel