Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!apctrc!lbrown
From: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: buying equipment for people
Message-ID: <443@apctrc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 23:54:43 GMT
References: <3203@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <5263@utah-cs.UUCP> <6983@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3243@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown)
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Organization: System Administrator, Drilling Resources Development
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Keywords: organization through  anarchy BADGE DEMOS DONATIONS?
Summary:isn't this what the KILLER DEMOS CONTEST WAS FOR?


In article <3243@watcgl.waterloo.edu: rmariani@watmum.waterloo.edu (Rico Mariani) writes:
:>> [ discussion about buying someone some hardware ]
:>
:>    This sounds remarkabley like my idea, instead of doing it only once,
:> what we could do is.  We should make a "Great amiga contributer award,"
:>and it would consist of as many of us as posible donating a dollar or 800,
:
:I think this is a terrific idea!  I'd be happy to donate some amount of money
:towards the fund.  Maybe we could set up a 'scholarship' type thing where
:we keep drawing on the interest and awarding a prize when suffient funds

AH, guys, wasn't this the idea behind the Badge KILLER DEMO CONTEST?

Don't get me wrong, I think its a great idea, but maybe we don't have to
reinvent the wheel to do it.  Maybe we just need to add fuel to the fire of 
the great minds (Slightly warped, make offer) of the Oasis-inhabitants over
there at Stanford U. 

Maybe enlarge the catigory just a bit to give utilities and productivty
writers a chance at the goodies. (Example: I think the guys that wrote
"shell" or vt100 or whatever, could use a bit of glory, their chance at
the prizes, as much as the guys who whip up a flashy demo.

(Hi Tom!)(Hi Leo!)

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