The inducements have been found homes.
- Friends draw: the Kellermeister/Trevor Jones 2008 Shiraz goes to Peter Beinssen from the Sunshine Coast (Peter and I were once residential tutors at John Flynn College in Townsville);
- Friends draw: the first "Farm Garden with Sunflowers", Gustav Klimt (1912), goes to Grace McLashan from Mildura (Grace is one of my cousins);
- Art Spotter: the second "Farm Garden with Sunflowers", Gustav Klimt (1912), goes to Genevieve Lietz from Hamburg. Genevieve and I worked together in and are friends from Melbourne and I'd like to point out that she grew up in Geelong so she had to discover Klimt like the rest of us;
- Ex-student draw/RMIT: the first FreeBSD Daemon goes to Peter Eccles from Melbourne. Peter studied microprocessor systems & languages & other stuff, and later worked in a printer startup with me;
- Ex-student draw/JCU: the second FreeBSD Daemon goes to Mark Harriss from Cairns. Mark studied IT and later we did a project on a lizard speed measurement system used by biologists to estimate ecosystem health;
- Engineering student: the "real" prize of a FreeBSD operating system on a flash memory device (read only!) goes to James Webb who studied electrical engineering at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Around 1999, we used to fly James from Canberra to Melbourne for intense bursts of hardware design that helped printers to actually print (he lived in the spare bedroom with Burmese cats and 10Mbps internet but this is probably too much info);
- Engineering student: the "collectors" prize of an original shrink-wrapped copy of Windoze-95 goes to Evan Greensmith from Melbourne who studied computer architecture & OSes & languages etc. Evan and I have worked in two different startup companies #;
- Common Startup Company: the Texas Instruments TMS320C6711 high powered DSP (even now 10 years after first use) coffee cup platform goes to Marianne Brown. We worked in the same software tools development startup company in 2007, and it so happens that we also taught Operating Systems at JCU in the early 2000s *;
- Ashtanga group: well we still haven't figured this one out yet (as in, how many and what) but Uli Darch and Oliver Bacchus had their names go into a draw and Oliver's name came out first. Given the recipients have some central European heritage, the name Klimt comes to mind again!
Here are some photographs from the ride (and the inducements draw and some training rides). I didn't take any photographs while riding but I wished I did (a short say 3 minute replay of shots from a head or bicycle mounted camera taken over the whole trip would be fascinating ... maybe in 2012).
Thank You
Thank You
I would like to thank everyone for the support. Currently 55 people and over 50 families have donated with over $2500 raised - this seems pretty amazing to me. I had no real idea of a realistic target to aim for in funds raising but we are in the top 10 to 15 which is pretty good, and with no large individual corporate donations like some of the top few funds raisers.
I wasn't really sure how the ride would go but it was a little easier than I anticipated, although the bike setup took about a day to get right as I hadn't tested it enough in mountain climbing and it was only ready just in time for the toughest climb (google map logs, day 2 Mt Carbine to Palmer River). I found that yoga breathing control made a straight climb fairly easy and so I made up time and arrived 4th over the Desailly Range in pack 2. The organisers had 10 packs with riders allocated according to experience ranging from pack 1 who had a lot of road cycling experience through to pack 10 who had recently started riding. People were able to switch packs if necessary, according to their ability and condition.
I can't explain why just about everyone who has ever worked in the same startup as me received an award. It really was a random selection process (see photographs, some annotations will be added tonight).
Note: the final total in November is now $2607. Thanks again.
# Evan: I'll deliver this at your wedding next month (it seems the most efficient way, really).
* Marianne: I'm still organising the top perspex cover but it shouldn't take long. It seems I still have a couple of these for future rides...
* Marianne: I'm still organising the top perspex cover but it shouldn't take long. It seems I still have a couple of these for future rides...
