Hey friends! Our WePay campaign is live, and it would be awesome if those of you who said you'd loan or donate to the cause could contribute there: https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network I will probably raise it to $3000 and articulate exactly what the budget is allocated to. Let me know if you think of copy/design tweaks, and please share widely on your networks. Praveen awesomely promoted a Facebook post about the campaign, which is getting some good attention now <3 Oh, and y'all are welcome to attend this event Open Garden is hosting at Orange this Thursday (after which I'm heading to sudo to meet with y'all!): http://we-are-the-network.eventbrite.com - Please RSVP if you want to come :) ~!~!~!~!~ Mesh the Planet! ~!~!~!~!~ Love, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

Ryan, Merely a way to get more donations, and hopefully pay you back for the loan with this! I'm thinking this could cover the initial routers, then we can put together a more ambitious crowdfunding campaign once we have something to show. If folks could reply to this thread with what percentage they're thinking of as loan or donation, that would be really helpful. I'll start a budget spreadsheet for purposes of transparency, including the other equipment people have purchased thus far. We also applied for an Awesome Foundation grant two weeks ago, so we should know in 2 weeks if that goes through. Mark sent along a high-res version of the logo an hour or so ago. I will forward that along to you and add you to the wepay account! Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://technomadic.tumblr.com `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Ryan Evans &lt;ryanlyleevans(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > This is an unexpected development. Did I miss a conversation? > > I can help supply a depixelated logo, if someone can send me the > highest rez version. > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jenny Ryan &lt;tunabananas(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote;wrote: > >> Hey friends! >> >> Our WePay campaign is live, and it would be awesome if those of you >> who said you'd loan or donate to the cause could contribute there: >> https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network >> >> I will probably raise it to $3000 and articulate exactly what the >> budget is allocated to. Let me know if you think of copy/design tweaks, and >> please share widely on your networks. >> >> Praveen awesomely promoted a Facebook post about the campaign, which >> is getting some good attention now <3 >> >> Oh, and y'all are welcome to attend this event Open Garden is hosting >> at Orange this Thursday (after which I'm heading to sudo to meet with >> y'all!): http://we-are-the-network.eventbrite.com - Please RSVP if >> you want to come :) >> >> ~!~!~!~!~ Mesh the Planet! ~!~!~!~!~ >> >> Love, >> Jenny >> http://jennyryan.net >> http://thepyre.org >> http://thevirtualcampfire.org >> http://technomadic.tumblr.com >> >> `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >> "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." >> -Laurie Anderson >> >> "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of >> defining it." >> -Hannah Arendt >> >> "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." >> -Stéphane Mallarmé >> ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` >> > > _______________________________________________