How can I help?

We get asked, “How can I help you?” or “How can I help the Linux movement?”

We'll list some of the things you can do below. They are broken down into two sections

What can you do for us (cruzit.com) and what you can do for the Linux and/or the Open Source Movement.

What can I do for cruzit.com?

First you should know that cruzit.com is an all volunteer and ad free site.

Check the following. Any help is definitely appreciated. This is an evolving, unordered list.

• Most of the pages of this site have some form of links for donations.
• We need a new server. We would prefer at a minimum: Dual 2Ghz Quad core CPU or better, 32GB ECC RAM or better, and SAS or SATA drives (7500 PRM or faster). If you or someone you know has components to make this work, we can build it. Components needed are chasis, motherboard & CPU (2 or more SMP). Use the contact information below.
• Any help on bandwidth would be appreciated. Anything from $1.00 a month to $200.00 a month would help a greatly. Use this contact information. donations@cruzit.com 
  We lost our corporate donation for bandwidth! Please consider a donation to help keep us on-line!

Personally, I think one of the most important things to do right now, is spread the word. Whether it is via email, websites, forums, burning CD's of your favorite OSS or by word of mouth.

The following may also help:

• Bug reporting is very important. All versions of Linux or the BSD family ( FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, etc.) have bug reporting mechinisms in place. If you experience a bug, please report it.
• Donate some time, money or contact someone on the distribution team to see what kind of hardware they might need. You may have some old computer or peripheral laying around, that they could use in testing.
• Spread the word via Libreoffice.org documents. (inuendo intended)
• Show someone your open source computer doing some magic. Things like 3ddesktop and Compiz inspire the masses.