A holiday present for developers

Good day, all,
	If you've looked for some way to contribute to the Open Source 
development movement, but are short of time, money or programming skills, 
might I suggest something a little simpler?

	How about a "Thank you"?

	Pick a project * that's been helpful to you and send a note to the
developers mailing list, or the developer him/herself if there is none,
and say "Thank you, Gleem-o-tron has been really helpful because...".  A
short, sincere thank you note can do wonders to developer morale.  It
doesn't even have to be a particular piece of software; an organization
like the Linux Standards Base, a meta-project like the KDE team, a news 
site like LWN, or a particular developer that's done a lot of work you 
admire are all fair game.
	You might want to put "Thanks" somewhere in the subject to make it 
easy for overloaded developers to organize their own mail.

	I'll start right now with a "Thank you" to Jon and the LWN team 
for condensing the Linux News down to relevant bits and pieces for me.  
The subscription was more than worth it.
	Cheers,
	- Bill

* I'm specifically excluding mine from this request so it isn't
self-serving.

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