While surfing the latest tweets from the ones I follow on Twitter, I came across a tweet from Veerle Pieters about a 3-day fundraising event that SitePoint is holding. Ending February 13th, you can purchase 5 books in PDF format for the price of 1 (29.95 USD). Now, if you’re a web developer/designer that hasn’t used or at least heard of SitePoint, they are a leader in providing resources and books in the form of PDF.
Upon seeing Veerle’s tweet and reading about the situation in Australia, I was moved to volunteering and chose 5 books for purchase. Below, I’ve included an excerpt from SitePoint illustrating the grim situation in Victoria, Australia right now:
SitePoint has its headquarters in Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria [1], a state in the south-east corner of Australia. A little over five million Australians call Victoria their home—that’s about 25% of Australians living in 3% of its land area. Approximately 15% of Victoria’s population live in rural farmlands and forests.
On Saturday the 7th of February Victoria had its hottest day ever on record, peaking at 47.3 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit), with hot gusts of wind travelling at over 100kmh (60mph). The fire danger rating climbed to 400, where a rating of 100 indicates an uncontrollable fire.
From now until February (Friday) the 13th, you can purchase 5 ebooks at a fantastic price and 100% of the proceeds are donated to Victoria to aid in the brushfires. This is a call to all web developers, designers, programmers, anyone interested in web design. These people and this country need our help. Please pass this on.