{"id":2461,"date":"2013-12-05T20:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T04:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T04:05:41","slug":"help-me-obi-wan-kenobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/help-me-obi-wan-kenobi\/","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE GIVE to gittip.com\/sudoroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dearly implore you to slightly compromise your anonymity by signing\u00a0up for gittip and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gittip.com\/sudoroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">donating a few $\/week to sudoroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part is overcoming that psychological barrier by entering\u00a0your credit\/debit card # &#8211; after that it will be easy, and <strong>you will be\u00a0making a real difference<\/strong> for all the hard-working folks who volunteer\u00a0here everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you haven&#8217;t been to sudo lately for whatever\u00a0reason, I can&#8217;t emphasize enough how much it means to us on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Every dollar you give translates <strong>DIRECTLY<\/strong> into the\u00a0<strong>love-powered energy<\/strong> that helps us keep the space clean, open, safe,\u00a0accessible and hopping with life.<\/p>\n<p>None of us are paid for this, few of\u00a0us are wealthy, many of us are struggling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"love\" src=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/love.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what our expenses\u00a0cost approximately <em>per week<\/em>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>$9 for the server<\/strong> that powers this very mailing list, our homepage,\u00a0blog, wiki, and dev environments for many other projects!<\/li>\n<li><strong>$15 for services<\/strong> such as trash pickup that keeps our hackers from\u00a0being devoured by mutant flies and keeps our landlord&#8217;s head from\u00a0combusting spontaneously on every visit!<\/li>\n<li><strong>$25<\/strong> goes to our sweet, privacy-conscious, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lmi.net\/\">locally owned ISP<\/a><\/strong> to bring\u00a0internets to our public terminals, raspis, radio stream, and about a\u00a0billion laptops and phones every week!<\/li>\n<li><strong>$70-90 for our utilities<\/strong>, including power for our lights, computers,\u00a0devices, ac\/heat, fridge where we cool our mate, 3D &#038; 2D printers, power tools, dishwasher, crock pot, coffee pot!<\/li>\n<li><strong>$345 to rent our current space<\/strong>, with some prospective spaces\u00a0approaching $500+\/week. This space has so much value as an open\u00a0community space which enables so many people and groups to accomplish\u00a0awesome things!<\/li>\n<li><strong>$infinite<\/strong> for the inspiration to learn and create beautiful things,\u00a0which we have MORE TIME FOR when we are not struggling over the\u00a0basics!!! That&#8217;s where we are right now too often, and we ALL would\u00a0like more time for the fun stuff. That will be a lot easier if you all\u00a0give to sudoroom.<\/li>\n<li>So <strong>PLEASE CHIP IN now &lt;3&lt;3&lt;3<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gittip.com\/sudoroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gittip.com\/sudoroom\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Right now we make $96.67. If we make over $138.75 we get bumped to the\u00a0front page as a top receiver. If we make $500 we will finally have our\u00a0basics covered and be free to dream even bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Really though, they are pretty good about protecting your\u00a0identity: <em> &#8220;Gittip makes reasonable efforts not to share your personal\u00a0<\/em><em>information with the recipients of your gifts, so that particular gifts are anonymous. We do publicly share aggregated information about\u00a0your giving and receiving. You may opt out of publicly sharing your\u00a0aggregate giving.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gittip.com\/about\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gittip.com\/about\/privacy\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI dearly implore you to slightly compromise your anonymity by signing\u00a0up for&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/help-me-obi-wan-kenobi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;PLEASE GIVE to gittip.com\/sudoroom&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudoroom.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}