<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-cbf91748-926e-640f-36f1-fa1061594351"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To Our Valued Open Source Hosted Projects,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past 14 years the OSL has been a cornerstone of the Open Source Community, providing neutral infrastructure hosting and project support to over 150 free and open source projects. We’ve done this as part of our core mission to provide rich, hands on experiential learning opportunities to our student workers, helping to train the next generation of DevOps and Open Source development engineers. And many of our OSL Alumni have since taken leadership roles in a number of core internet companies. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our funding model has always been a difficult balance of corporate sponsorships, hosting contracts, individual giving and some very limited support from the university. This year is proving to be particularly challenging and we are facing a deficit of approximately $240k that needs to be filled by June 30th, 2017. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope we can count on your support to help us overcome this shortfall and specifically request your help in the following ways:</span></p><br><ul style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Finding more corporate sponsors to eliminate our funding deficit (whether it be a company you work for or one you may have a relationship with)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Introductions to individuals or organizations that you feel would be interested in sponsoring our students or OSL projects</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Introductions to any medium to large FOSS projects that are looking for hosting and are able to pay for that hosting</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Promotion of, and participation in, an OSL Crowdfunding campaign that will be announced soon</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And of course, promotion of </span><a href="http://osufoundation.org/osl" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">individual giving</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> [1] to the OSL from your community always helps and is very much appreciated</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please contact me directly at </span><a href="mailto:lance@osuosl.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">lance@osuosl.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> if you are able to assist or have any questions.</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[1] </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://osufoundation.org/osl">http://osufoundation.org/osl</a></font></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your support!</span></p></span></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div>
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