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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello Michael, and GRASS Team,</span></p><br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’m the Community Manager over at SourceForge, where back in 1999 the site was founded to help foster long-term retention of source code.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One of my coworkers brought your project to my attention.  First, I wanted to thank you for your contributions of code to our community, and your work for the greater good.  I’m reaching out today to see if we can help preserve your legacy through a gratis (free of charge) offer to host your download distribution.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SourceForge maintains a global mirror network to help ensure worldwide availability of Open Source projects. We would be glad to host either primary distribution of your software (both binaries and source code), or to mirror your releases as a further backup to ensure availability should your primary provider go offline.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since we started in 1999 our services have remained à la carte (use what you need) and gratis (free of charge), focused on providing the Open Source Software development community a great download service, web hosting, SCM services and browser-based tools for user engagement.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simply reply and I can help get the ball rolling.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel.</span></p>
</span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Daniel Hinojosa</b></font><div><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Community Manager, SourceForge / Slashdot Media</b></font><div>
<font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif">p: 415.890.3608</font></div><div><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif">e: <a href="mailto:d@slashdotmedia.com" target="_blank">d@slashdotmedia.com</a></font></div>
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