[Asterisk-Users] final call for Departments

[Alspach Family]

Today is the day.  The most up to date list is attached. I will forward 
it to Rob Friday night so, anything you want and can get to be by then I 
will add.
The below is probably old news to most of you but, just in case you were 
like me and did now know...
I learned today that Allison (the voice of Asterisk. 
thevoice.digium.com  <http://thevoice.digium.com>) generally charges $12 
for a single phrase or $160 for 20 phrases however, when we do batches 
like this, we get a discount rate of  $120 / hour. Now this is recording 
time only.  If we wanted her to edit them as well, there would be 
additional charges.  In comes Rob Fugina (who is actually spearheading 
this recording run).  He takes a couple of weeks to edit them himself, 
letting us get more phrases with he same donated money. He told me today 
that we are almost to the 1 hour mark in donations but, since the list 
is getting so long,  he would feel more comfortable if we had a total of 
about 2 hours.
I don't want to sound like a TV evangelist from the 80's and 90's but if 
you have it to give, please do.  We have operators standing by to accept 
your donation. All you have to do is PayPal it to robf at geekthing.com 
<mailto:robf at geekthing.com> (Note, this is not me.  Rob  is the guy 
doing all the work.)
Let me make up some quick, car dealer, numbers:
I understand that there are thousands of readers subscribed to this  
list.  Lets say half of them are active readers and half of those are 
using Asterisk seriously.  If those 250 people remaining could just 
donate $.50 each, we would reach our goal.. This will make Asterisk even 
better and facilitate our retirement to "A Salty Piece of Land" 
somewhere. (ala a Jimmy Buffett tune or book)

In the words of Fred Bartles (Ed Jaymes was the quiet one): Thank you 
for your support;

James

PS If you do not know who Bartles and Jaymes were, and you are from the 
USA...as much as it stings me to say this...ask your parents. (or if you 
are in a hurry, search tvacres.com or google).
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