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posted by Satri on Thursday October 25, @04:29PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the community-as-in-community dept.
Announcements Slashgeo
New on the Slashgeo's main page is the Donation slashbox on the right side which will display the Slashgeo Top Donors and provide a link to the donor's website of choice. This is somehow a call for donations. Slashgeo.org, run by a registered non profit organization, is read by thousands of readers every day and has no other source of revenue at the moment. Ads may eventually come to alleviate the costs to run the site (here's our open budget), but of course, what weights more in the balance are the countless hours spent to read several geonews sources and feed the site with the best possible aggregated geonews. It's really up to you to donate or not, but be reassured that it will be appreciated :-) 5$ or less is fine and better than nothing ;-) A friend told me Slashgeo's pagerank was good enough that links on our site would help attract visitors to linked sites, that's why I'm happy to provide a link within this slashbox to our top donors. Of course, there's plenty of other means to contribute such as sharing your opinion in the comments and submitting stories to publish. Cheers! Alex

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