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While researching for info about backing up to DVDs (my 3 CD method is getting too crowded), I happened upon an interesting human interest story. I thought I’d just focus on that today.

The program that works best and is included on most distros for burning CDs or DVDs is that nifty K3B program. On the home page of www.k3b.org, Sebastian Trueg, the original writer of that program mentions how his computer was getting old (senile, he called it), and he needed a new computer, so he posted on his site and at SourceForge.org that he was putting on a fundraiser over the month of March 2006.

The only prize would be that he’d continue to work on the program until he had version 1.0 ready. Currently K3B is at 0.12.16.

Sebastian was hoping for 1000 Euros, and was astonished to receive that much within two days! Mandrake and Linspire jumped in to make donations, and a number of other individuals did too. By the end of March he had raised nearly 5000 Euros.

This young university grad, now working for his professor full-time, was able to purchase a very nice computer from Deltatronic who gave him a 15% discount as their contribution. The Open Source Community has really shown him their appreciation and this confidence has given him a huge boost. He is now focused on producing that promised version 1.0 of K3B.

There’s a nice interview and photo of him on this blog; itreviews.blogspot.com/2006/05/sebastian-trueg-k3b-interview.html I wish Sebastian Trueg much more success!