I hope the Subject: header is informative enough that you may stop reading without loss, if you don't need further details. If you do have interest in more details, however:
- New Blankets *Benevolent Netcasts* are designed to make people aware of
free/open community-building activities. The point is that listeners may pitch in and give of their own time and effort and/or cash to these "worthy causes."
1 - Some NB netcasts are for the benefit of "registered non-profit" organizations; New Blankets simply passes the money along to such organizations.
2 - Some netcasts benefit community groups who are not registered non-profit charities. New Blankets keeps those donated funds internally, but separately accounted for, so that the community group may direct how New Blankets will expend those resources on their behalf.
3 - Some NB netcasts are to raise "blue sky" future-funds that New Blankets would like to build up. These funds will be used (as just one example among many) for all the activities and ways that New Blankets has helped the Puredata Community in the past. In addition, New Blankets will launch a "mini grants" program in 2017 so that Pd-folks (and others) may apply to NB for a bit of equipment, travel-support or what-have-you -- within the limits of New Blankets' limited budget and proceeds from these fledgling-fundraising activities of ours.
Thanks for listening.
PS If you want to hear other archived Benevolent Netcast shows (e.g. with Julian and/or Katja&Fred Jan) just send me an e-mail (joe_deken@newblankets.org) and I'll point you to the right spot in the archive. All disclaimers apply about the netcasts; we're winging-it, and learning as we go. Thanks to ALL NETCAST GUESTS for their patience and good humor; let me know directly if you'd like to be a guest on the program yourself.