[Odb-help] brief update on ODB and Organizers' Collaborative

[odb-help@lists.democracygroups.org]

Happy New Years!

In our main email newsletter, we just wrote about
ODB plans for next year.  The link to this is here:

http://lists.democracygroups.org/pipermail/octech/2003/000028.html

And if you want to be on the Organizers' Collaborative
e-newsletter, just go to:
http://organizenow.net/octech.html

Secondly, the conference call for 6pm on the 6th of
January is still on.  The 23 people that signed up so
far will get an email from us on January 2 with the
call in number.  There is still time to sign up.

Finally, you all might be interested in the
web page we set up here:

http://organizenow.net/join/join.php

This is a display, updated daily, of how our annual
fundraising appeal is doing.  We actually have software
that is based on the software for ODB, that goes to
our login area (https://secure.groundspring.org) for
the Groundspring nonprofit donation service and pulls
out the contributions as of yesterday.  There is about
a 12hour time lag in updating this info.

Then the software we created will connect to our
web site (www.organizenow.net) and place a couple
of text files onto it reflecting the date of the
groundspring report, the number of dollars given,
and the number of donors.

So our contributors can go to the site every day and look
at how our end of year appeal is doing!

-rich

p.s. you might all know this by now, but we have
a special end of year offer going.  If you donate by
8pm on the 10th of January at our site:
http://organizenow.net/join/join.php  or

http://organizenow.net/join/join.html 

We will send your a CD containing the latest version
of ODB plus many other open source software
programs that are useful for nonprofits.  Plus you
can join at a reduced rate of $25.  We have had
20 people sign up for this so far, just check the
web site to see how the number keeps increasing!

have a great new year!