Sunday, Dec 29th - Last X2Go and orca e.V. Sponsorship Drive for 2024

[Vorstand ORCA e.V.]

Dear $ALL,

We hope you had some happy, relaxing and peaceful holidays over the last 
few days.

As a quick reminder, tomorrow would be a good time to help out X2Go (and 
orca e.V.) financially.

While we have received some donations to the general X2Go donation pool, 
which we can reassign as needed, donations towards our event budget have 
stalled for the last 5 months or so - only one recent donation has since 
shown up. This budget is used to cover costs for having handouts/posters 
printed for our booths, as well as travel/accommodation costs for our 
volunteers.

It would be really cool if you could send some $$$/€€€/£££/¥¥¥ our way, 
so we can reimburse our volunteers, who have been covering all the costs 
up-front our of their own pockets.

We can accept donations via PayPal, Credit Card, Direct Debit, 
giropay/paydirect and wire transfer. Best of all, donations towards X2Go 
and orca are usually tax deductible for German tax subjects.

Until December 29th, non-recurring donations up to 100 Euro made on any 
Sunday during December 2024 will be matched by Betterplace with an 
additional 15%. This offer is only valid until a funding pool of 4 000 
Euro is depleted (per Sunday). So the earlier you donate on these 
Sundays, the higher the chance that your donation will receive the bonus.

As tomorrow is the last of those Sundays, we hope you are willing and 
able to chip in, so we can keep hosting and attending events like these.

To donate towards X2Go's events (posters, handouts, travel, lodging, …), 
please use one of these links:

  * English-language donation form:
    <https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/131360?wirwunder=235>
  * German-language donation form:
    <https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/131360?wirwunder=235>

Further donation links (infrastructure, X2Go in general, orca e.V.) can 
be found right at the very top of the X2Go Wiki: <https://wiki.x2go.org/>

If times are rough for you and you can't afford to donate, don't feel 
bad! You can also help us by forwarding this announcement to whomever 
you seem fit - e.g. your local Linux user group, your social media 
followers, etc.

Another way to help us is to be vocal about what you need X2Go for and 
how it would hurt you if it would no longer be available - we're trying 
to apply for public funding, so if you're using X2Go in the public 
sector (i.e. education, research, health care, energy, industry), please 
do let us know how X2Go ceasing to exist would affect you.

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur, first chairman of the board,
Open Remote Computing Association - orca e.V.