Donation campaign for Gandalf to fund a new server

[lch]

As you should know, Gandalf Parker has been hosting servers for the members of the Dominions community, from which the main server has broken down last month, and Gandalf is unable to cope with the cost to replace the server hardware.

In the immortal words of Pashadawg:

Pashadawg said:
Dear Fellow Dominions Lovers: As you might have noticed, Gandalf Parker's server has gone down and is in need of repairs. Unfortunately, times are tight for the Old Man, and he is not in a position financially to make the repairs on his own. He's been very giving to our community, and a group of us think we should rally together and offer some assistance to the Old Man so he can speedily make the repairs and keep the Domini... [END OF TRANSMISSION]

Unfortunately Pasha's IRC client ate up the rest of that, so with my limited skills in phrasing a request like this, I have started a donation campaign on Pledgie for this.

Just click on this button:


You can then donate any amount to the pledge via PayPal, you will be listed among the donors (unless you chose to donate anonymously, which is possible, too), and the image above will update to reflect the current status of reaching the donation goal of $400. We have 5 weeks to reach that goal!

You do not need to register on Pledgie, you only need a PayPal account!

Here's what I came up with:

Gandalf Parker has provided a server for the Dominions community since years, where members could get free email and webspace and even host Dominions games on their own.

Last month, the main server died, which seems to involve the power supply and maybe the mother board and CPU. Since Gandalf's money is tied to pay mortgage fees, he can't afford to get new replacement parts for the server hardware. The costs that are expected to fix this total out at about $400.

If you have enjoyed the services on his server, his contributions to the Dominions games or the games being hosted on his servers, for example lch's games, then please consider donating some money to help fund new server hardware. Any amount helps, even as little as you'd pay for a coffee at Starbucks or a visit to the local cinema. And if you have played in one of the games hosted on the server, then consider that you probably got a lot more out of it compared to drinking one coffee or watching one movie.

I hope that this pledge convinces some people to donate a few bucks, even just a little donation by a lot of forum members will make a huge impact in the end and help out Gandalf Parker.