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August 1st, 2nd and 3rd (Friday - Sunday), I'll be riding my bike across the state of Massachusetts in the PMC, along with about 4400 other riders. Riding the bike for 300 miles is the easy part. The real challenge is meeting my $10,000 goal for this cancer-care-and-treatment charity.
If you donate software, here's how it will work (for most folks):
If you want to know more about the ride, or my participation in it, start here or even try the pmc channel on the weblog.
The biggest part of my fundraising plan this year is this Software Auction.
I need HUNDREDS of donations in order to meet my goal this year. Last year was awesome, but I want to do even better this year.
If you'd like to link to this story, or want to encourage your favorite software developer to participate, that's great! I can use all the help I can get. Please use this link.
The auctions will start in June, or whenever enough software has been doanted.
This page is specifically for software developers (both indies and larger companies!).
I'm looking for donations of mac software from the developers. The donated software will be burned to CDs. The CDs will be auctioned on eBay. The winning bidders will receive the CDs and a printout (and/or email) with their license codes for each application on the CD. (Note that some winning bidders just want a disk image, which they can download and save the shipping fees.)
There will be more than one "set". When enough donations are received, I'll do a few different collections (general, developer, games, etc.).
There's obviously no way to know if every application on the discs will be useful to every potential bidder. My hope is to have a wide enough spectrum that it's appealing to everyone.
Two ways to sell the software. Last year I allowed people to "make me an offer" for bundles of at least two apps. If the offer was good enough, they would make a donation to the PMC and send me the receipt as proof. This worked so well I will definitely repeat it this year.
Last year these auctions raised over $5,000. This year, I'd like to raise the majority of my $10,000 goal.
All proceeds will be donated to the Pan-Mass Challenge, and in turn to the Jimmy Fund, for the research and treatment of cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Pan-Mass Challenge is one of the most efficient charities in the world (over 99% of all rider-raised funds are passed through directly to the Jimmy Fund). I won't make a penny from these auctions.
Please help me to make these auctions irresistible! I'd like to have over one hundred different titles before I start the auctions.
To my friends, peers, and heroes in the industry: are you willing to step up and donate some software? Please contact me, ASAP. I'd like to start the auctions in early June, but I need your help.
Warning: don't take the "What is it?" column too seriously. ;-) Most of the developers don't provide these "one-liners" so I make something up after looking at the software's web site.
| Donor | Product | # | What is it? | Retail Val. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now Accepting Donations! | ||||
| • Your App Here • | ||||
Total Applications: (Goal: 150)
Total Licenses:
Total Value: )
These numbers are based on the "#" and "Retail Val." columns in the table above.
Many donors offered all the licenses I need to make the project a success, but I've only listed the minimum I expect to use.
In other words, if a donor said I could have all the licenses I need, then I listed them as "5+", because all I know for sure is that I'll use five copies.
* The "Developers Wanted" image was provided by Carmelyne Thompson. Thanks!
Page last updated: 4/21/2008
Until August 31
My Amazon sales
benefit the PMC
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