The Mac and iPhone development community is doing something pretty special to raise money and awareness for the victims of Tuesday's devastating earthquake in Haiti: donating the proceeds of app sales to Haitian aid organizations. Yesterday, Mac developer Mike Piatek-Jimenez did something really cool: He announced that through the end of January, 100 percent of the sales proceeds (minus the $3 processing fee) from his Mac OS X weather app, Seasonality, would be donated to Partners in Health for earthquake relief. Not only is the sentiment stellar, but the weather association adds a really neat twist.
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This got Mac and iPhone developer Justin Williams thinking. What if a bunch of Mac and iPhone developers got together and decided to donate a day's worth of sales to the Haitian relief efforts? He tweeted about the idea and then wrote a longer blog post. Immediately, other indie developers jumped on board with Justin's plan.
Garret Murray volunteered to help with setting up the website and spreading the word. Right now, about 25 developers have joined the cause, and that's just in the last 12 hours.
Indie Relief
The awkward steve duology mac os. The project is called Indie Relief and the website, IndieRelief.com, should be up later today.
Here's how it's going to work: On January 20, 2010 (so that's next Wednesday), all the participating companies are pledging to donate their sales for the day to a charity of their choice that benefits the Haitian relief effort. Doctors Without Borders and The Red Cross are two of the most common charities, but the developers can choose any organization they want.
Indie Relief is going to aggregate these efforts, listing the participating companies and what products they are offering (some are going to donate the sales from all their products, some might just do it for select titles) and their charities. The companies themselves will make the donation. This is kind of like the OneFingerDiscount promotion that some devs worked together to create in lieu of doing a more traditional Mac software bundle.
Indie Relief
The awkward steve duology mac os. The project is called Indie Relief and the website, IndieRelief.com, should be up later today.
Here's how it's going to work: On January 20, 2010 (so that's next Wednesday), all the participating companies are pledging to donate their sales for the day to a charity of their choice that benefits the Haitian relief effort. Doctors Without Borders and The Red Cross are two of the most common charities, but the developers can choose any organization they want.
Indie Relief is going to aggregate these efforts, listing the participating companies and what products they are offering (some are going to donate the sales from all their products, some might just do it for select titles) and their charities. The companies themselves will make the donation. This is kind of like the OneFingerDiscount promotion that some devs worked together to create in lieu of doing a more traditional Mac software bundle.
If you're a Mac or iPhone developer and you want to join in, just e-mail Justin at secondgearsoftware.com with your company name, product name(s) and the charity you want to support.
Mac Community Gives Back
Haitian Mac Au Gratin
It's stuff like this that makes me so proud to be part of the Mac community. Donate to the Haitian relief effort, get a Mac or iPhone app for free. Plus, who knows, you might even discover some new software you wouldn't have tried otherwise.
Haiti Mass
I'd also like to draw special attention to the employees at The OmniGroup, makers of such staples as OmniFocus and OmniGraffle: Between company funds and employee contributions, they are donating $45,100 to be spread across four different relief organizations. Kudos!
Do you know of any other software developers who will be donating sales proceeds to Haiti? Tic tac toe (construct 2 template) mac os. Let us know!
