MacResearch Pledge Drive...Sort Of
Things have been slow on MR.org as many of us have been extremely busy with other projects. None the less, many of you still find the content, forums and other features of the site useful. Keeping the site up and running and putting together content takes time, effort and money, and because of our schedules we need your help.
There are a number of ways you can support MacResearch:
Consider Producing Content for the Site
We need news items, stories, tutorials, product reviews. Basically if it involves science and is somehow related to Apple technology, it'll probably be of interest to our readers. We can help get the content online. Many times people mention that they don't think what they can write about is of interest to others, you'd be surprised. Contributing also means you will live longer, become rich and have whiter and brighter teeth.*
Consider Helping to Offset Our Costs
If you want to purchase something from Amazon, consider doing it through the MacResearch.org store: MR.org Amazon Store. We can add items not listed, although I think you can purchase anything from our Amazon, even it's not explicitly listed in our store.
You can also make direct donations securely and easily using PayPal
Note that any purchases OR donations made between Nov 15-December 31 will be donated to help fund The Warren L. DeLano Memorial Award for Computational Biosciences. We'd like to raise $1000 (US), and so far we have $147 (15% of the way).
No donation is too small. In fact if each unique visitor to this site, over the course of just one month, donated $1, we'd be able to fund the entire award endowment (and then some). Please consider helping out. And if you already have donated, made a purchase, or contributed directly to the fund, thank you.
Advocate for MacResearch.org Online
You can help the site out by spreading the word about MacResearch.org and any content items you find interesting by posting references (appropriately please) on other sites you frequent, via Twitter etc... Including about helping out for our pledge drive.
Get More Involved
If you have experience with maintaining and running CMS' that run on Drupal, we desperately need your help. Please get in contact with me directly at: sdg0919 [at] gmail.com
Also, if you know the answers to questions posted on the forums, feel free to chime in, don't be shy.
Again, thanks to all of you for the continued support, contributions and patronage we received so far.
*Note: These statements have not been verified by the FDA, CDC, NIH, IRS, PDF, XYZ or any other agency that is commonly referred to by its acronym.




Comments
Amazon store
I have noticed that when I go into the Mac Research Amazon site my Amazon wishlist is there. So I guess anyone can select stuff @ Amazon main site then do the checkout from MacResearch. Can anyone confirm this idea works?
Regards
Re: Amazon store
I believe this is true. As we have a number of items that have been credited to our account that are certainly NOT in our store. So I think if you are logged into your account and enter our site, from there anything you purchase will be credited to the MR.org account.
Thanks!
Dave