Cardiac Challenge - main page - 2011

Cairns to Cooktown for the FNQ Hospital Foundation
(It is done! Would you like to see where inducements went?)

I'm riding on the Cardiac Challenge 2011 Cairns to Cooktown fundraiser for the FNQ Hospital Foundation in the JCU team and this means I'm asking (and maybe grovelling) for support.

The 334km route is shown on the right: we cycle up the Kuranda Range to Mareeba and on to Mt Carbine for day 1; cross the Desailey Range on the way to Lakeland Downs for day 2; and arrive in Cooktown on day 3. I guess it is called a cardiac challenge because we raise money for cardiac equipment at the Cairns Base Hospital, and we also optimise our cycling rate so as not to have our very own more personal cardiac "challenge".

Please visit my donations page and handover your loot ... after reading about the rewards! Questions: please contact me.
Notes: receipts (sample) are emailed but please let me know if you donate anonymously so I can thank you; and why we should keep donating beyond the target.

Inducements

I figure we should have some rewards to encourage support (remember, these are not bribes ... that would not be ethical).

Good Prize Synergy

• Are you friend or family? Well, thank you! And yes, I'll pop your name into a draw for a nice bottle of Barossa 2008 Shiraz from the Trevor Jones/Kellermeister folks in SA. As a second prize, another donor will receive a nice poster of a beautiful garden scene as used in this blog's background (or maybe we'll just give it to the first donor to guess the name of the painter ... come on, you art experts). See note 1 below.
• Are you an ex-student?  If you studied real-time systems at RMIT or operating systems at JCU with me, then I hope you came through that OK and have moved on. Or if you studied CA (Patterson & Hennessy) or Advanced CA (Hennessy & Patterson), well wasn't that fun! Maybe having someone or something to look after you can still boost your recovery. I've tracked down some delightful baby daemons to watch over you - one for JCU graduates and one for RMIT graduates. Please note: the bigger daemon is not a prize and if you were one of those students who kidnapped this daemon, shame shame shame! See note 2 below.



A less good prize

• But there is more! If you were a software engineering student (or other engineering student from anywhere/anytime) of mine, I must have a backup so no one misses out. Maybe you missed the proselytising about a "best" OS. Oh yes, we can fix that right now. One of you will receive a current FreeBSD distribution (the good reward on an eraseable memory device, not that one would ever do that) and another will receive a genuine unopened copy of windows-95 (less good but ideal for collectors). Trivia: the first engineering ex-student donor to name the most important chip inside Bender of TV show Futurama will also receive a nice poster (of some sort). My 2011 engineering students might like to support class mate Tom Gersekowski. See note 4 below.
• New prize (3/9/11): Have we worked in the same startup company? If I hired you or you hired me, you enter a draw for some mystery culture & coffee & computing rewards that I am now building (parts). If you have an idea for a startup we should establish, please contact me.
• Are you in our Cairns ashtanga group? I'm still searching for a reward that might be acceptable - suggestions welcome. Uli and Dagmar, ideas from Bali perhaps?

Want to suggest a reward you prefer?
You can add a message during the donation process. Just include a tag when donating: W means wine, P means poster, D→daemon, F→FreeBSD, groan→w95, M→Mystery. Or post a preference in the blog. To help with practical issues, please state the country you are based in.
Can you trust the raffling process?
Absolutely. A certain mother has offered to be a witness for the raffling so it will be all above board.  (this mother is also a support team volunteer which looks like a cunning plan to audit my ride)

Notes: (1) Some friends and family live in SA or along the Murray River, in grape and wine areas. To keep it interesting, we'll find something tasty from WA if preferred; (2) I'm sorry but small penguins are not available. Can I suggest Apples like royal gala or Lion 10.7; (3) For overseas donors, we might swap Kellermeister for a different Aussie drop (the word Penfolds followed by a 3-digit prime ending with '9' comes to mind); (4) Anyone who wants an almost historical TINI or TINI2 module, just ask. Please; (5) Melbourne & Sydney donors may receive inducements hand delivered. Damn - should I hack to get a smaller unreadable font for my fineprint...

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