MacBook replacement fundraiser

Edit #2 - Well, once again I'm completely astonished by the warmth and generosity of the Plone community. It took less than four hours to reach the target. After 48 hours, we're at 143%. People seemed destined to give me more RAM, it seems. :-) I've ordered the replacement machine now, looking forward to taking delivery and then installing a third party SSD and double the RAM shortly thereafter!

Many, many thanks to the following contributors (in the order they chipped in):

• Florian Schulze
• Andrzej Mleczko
• Asko Soukka
• Simone Deponti
• Timo Stollenwerk
• Simone Orsi
• Israel Saeta Pérez
• Peter Holzer
• Christian Schneider
• Andy Theyers
• Martijn Jacobs
• Christoph Boehner
• The folks at Redturtle Technology
• Jussi Talaskivi
• Simon Pamies
• Max M Rasmussen
• Kai Diefenbach
• Don Ross
• Godefroid Chapelle
• Silvio Tomatis
• Richard Watson
• Pedro Araújo
• Rene Pijlman
• Dejan Murko
• Laurence Rowe
• Alexander Pilz
• Damian Soto
• Clayton Parker
• Rafael Nunez
• Paul Roeland
• Radim Novotny
• Eric Tyrer
• Jane Lerner
• Geir Baekholt
• Ian Hood
• David Glick
• Francisco de Borja Lopez Rio
• Matthew Bowen
• Carlos de la Guardia
• Lee Joramo
• Kevin Mitchell
• Bernhard Loesch
• Stephen McMahon
• Dorneles Tremea
• Joerg Baach
• Jesse Snyder
• Edward Schumann
• Roch'e Compaan
• Vitaliy Podoba
• Arryn Pidwell
• Malthe Borch Thorup
• Fabian Reinhard
• Matthew Wilkes
• Dimitri Boone

Original post below:

As some people may have heard on Twitter yesterday, I had an accident with my MacBook that's left it broken. This comes at a very bad time, with a project to complete, a new edition of my Plone book to be written, and Plone 4 and Dexterity in need of much love and attention.

I will need to replace the machine, but my wife and I cannot really afford this right now, with a few other big, unexpected expenses recently having come our way. Therefore, I've set up a "ChipIn" to ask for contributions, which you can see over on the right hand side of this webpage.

EDIT - I'd originally taken the price from the US Apple Store, since ChipIn works in US $. Of course, it doesn't really work out that way - it's more expensive here in Australia. I've put up the correct price now, hopefully.

Why should you contribute?

• If you are using Plone, you are probably benefitting from a lot of code I've contributed over the years. I'd like to be able to continue to do that.
• If you're in the Plone community, I will hopefully have bought you a beer at some point. If not, I'll owe you one. :)
• You may have read my book. I'd like to be able to get the second edition under way, covering Plone 4.
• I'd do the same. In fact, I have, when various people's laptops have gotten stolen or damaged in the past.

If you want to contribute, please use the widget on the right, or this link.

Thank you!