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The MySQL community is united for a noble purpose. Leaving aside their usual differences about release cycles and openness philosophy, the community is united in helping the son of Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL Support engineer, to overcome the difficult challenge of financing a life saver bone marrow transplant. The MySQL project has made its e-commerce site available to help raising the funds as quickly as possible. A very young life is in danger, and many people from inside and outside the company have donated for Ivan. |
This is not the first case of open source and life saving tied together. For example, Matthew Swift, one of the lead developers of the OpenDS project, has combined a sport challenge with help for research on Leukodystrophy. Check out his Tri4Joe blog.
I could not believe that such a cute kid has to go through the surgery. I wish Andrii and his son all the best and hope he would get well soon. I am heading to paypal donation.
Abhijeet
http://www.lifeiscolourful.com
Posted by Abhijeet on July 15, 2008 at 07:05 AM PDT #
I wish Andrii and his family to be strong and cope with this. Hope Ivan will get well soon.
Just made a donation.
Posted by AlexFace on July 29, 2008 at 04:11 AM PDT #