The Campaign to get Leo a New Computer

If everybody coughs up $20, we can get Leo a new computer for the system that died.
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82 official members * $20/member = $1640
As yourselves this question:
"In one year's time, do I receive $20 of enjoyment out of this forum?"
We spend that much buying lunch. Is there someone here who would not buy Leo lunch, given the opportunity?

20 dollars? That is about 14 Euro's right. I'm in!

Keep up the good work Leo,
Stephan

ps: Does it make me a goldmember now?

Having received sufficient encouragment (one other poster who thought it was a good idea) I went to Leo's Pay button to try to make a donation. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to make the thing speak English. Can someone give me a clue?

20 bucks, I am in..

Sure, sounds very reasonable. Leo can you pm me a "giro" number, so I can finally use one of my old Dutch accounts again ;-)

dann corbit wrote:Having received sufficient encouragment (one other poster who thought it was a good idea) I went to Leo's Pay button to try to make a donation. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to make the thing speak English. Can someone give me a clue?

Hooray, I figured it out and coughed up 14 Euro.
Let's show Leo that all those years of dedicated effort mean something, and while we may be lazy leaches -- parasitically sucking the efforts of others -- when prodded to our senses we are capable of something worthwhile.

dann corbit wrote:
Hooray, I figured it out and coughed up 14 Euro.
Let's show Leo that all those years of dedicated effort mean something, and while we may be lazy leaches -- parasitically sucking the efforts of others -- when prodded to our senses we are capable of something worthwhile.

tell us, did you simply changed the language code in the url ?

HJ.

I just paid in Euros (14 Euro which is a few cents over $20).

To start, I just clicked on the little Visa logo on this page:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

Yesterday, all the menus were in (?) Dutch I think. Today they are in English.

dann corbit wrote:I just paid in Euros (14 Euro which is a few cents over $20).

To start, I just clicked on the little Visa logo on this page:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

Yesterday, all the menus were in (?) Dutch I think. Today they are in English.

Ok, I've donated 40 Euros and the paypal site was in Dutch at the time, it took me a while to work out that I had to use a comma for the decimal place when typing in the amount. Google's language tools also came in handy.

Has the cause of the fault with the machine been determined yet? I was thinking it could just be the power supply that has kicked the bucket. It's the most common fault in our office of PC's. I wish Leo lived close by because I would be happy to pop by and fix it myself.

Done.

I have posted a link to this thread at the Winboard Forum as well.

Olivier

dann corbit wrote:If everybody coughs up $20, we can get Leo a new computer for the system that died.
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Hi Dann,

Thanks for the idea and support!
This will atleast make it easier for me to buy a new one and fix the other if possible.

Best wishes,
Leo.

dann corbit wrote:I just paid in Euros (14 Euro which is a few cents over $20).

To start, I just clicked on the little Visa logo on this page:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

Yesterday, all the menus were in (?) Dutch I think. Today they are in English.

Thats right Dann, I did not even know it was in Dutch only but changed it into english when someone asked yesterday.

Leo

PayPal doesn't seem to accept prepaid Visa gift cards for donations.

Hi all,

Just to inform you, I received a total of 214 euro sofar!
Maybe I should publice the names of al donateurs here?

Thanks to all!!

Leo.

I am really glad that something good has come of the idea.
You have donated huge amounts of your time to the computer chess community. Now that a machine has died in the line of duty, it is the least thing that we could do to replace it.

Agree. But currently I whitout internet card - 1 month later.
WBEC tournaments like for using differently books.

dann corbit wrote:If everybody coughs up $20, we can get Leo a new computer for the system that died.
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Hi all,

Here is the complete list of donations until today:

Thomas McBurney    
Dann Corbit        
Olivier Deville    
Alexander Schmidt  
Harald JOHNSEN     
Andrés Valverde    
Bruno LUCAS        
Roger Brown        
Ferdinand Mosca    
Hinrich Buhr       
Pradyumna Kannan   
Grant Osborne      
Stefan Sattler     
Fonzy Bluemers     
Aart Bik           
Stephan Vermeire   
Jean-Philippe Karr 
Robert Pope
Salvador Pallares  
Will Singleton     
Edmonton Tek      
Paulo Soares       
Todd Martin 
François Karr 
Ian Morris 
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Totaal:  499,00 Euro!

Thanks to all who made a donation sofar!!

Leo.

I am in!