Community: RIABeardoff, For the Kids

12/02/2009 in Community View Comments

Inspired by Elad Elrom, and all the great Flash designers and developers already contributing, I have decided to give some incentive to donate to the RIABeardOff. The RIABeardOff, started by Chuck Freedman, is a very generous charity event that lets the members of the RIA community grow beards to raise funds for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. I myself am somewhat of the unknown in the group of unbelievable contributors, most of which I have looked up to for a number of years and have learned a lot from all of them. Some of the contributors are:

Jose Antonio Marquez Russo (@joseeight)
Art W
Val Head
Tom Green
Rachel Luxemburg
LordAlex Leon
Stacey Mulcahy ( BitchWhoCodes)
Bernie & Erikka Perkins
Mims H. Wright
Scott Janousek
Chris Allen
Curt Staubach (@curtStaubach)
Paul Gregoire (@mondain)
@BenStucki
Todd Anderson (@bustardcelly)
Robert Hall (@rhall)
Joseph Labrecque (@JosephLabrecque)
Jesse Freeman (@theflashbum)
Kevin Suttle (@kevinSuttle)
Brian Connatser (@connatser) <- me
Elad Elrom (@EladElrom)
Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar)

So, I will donate not only my “attempt” at growing a beard but 1 (one) full year of web hosting on my Cloud Account at The Rackspace Cloud, from 1-1-10 until 12-31-10. One lucky winner will be chosen at random on the close of the beard off and I will hand the keys to a full year of hosting over to them at that time. The account would consist of 1GB of storage, 2GB of transfer, 15 email accounts, 5 MySQL databases, and I will even throw in the 24 hour awesome support account from The Rackspace Cloud team at my cost. The winner can use this account however they please, as long as it falls within the rules of Rackspace…sorry no porn! All you need to do to enter is donate in my name (@connatser). Karma has been good to me this year and it’s time to give back, please do the same and make a needy child’s holiday one to remember.

Donate to the RIABeardOff here.