While my commitment in Free/Libre Software was and is mainly volunteer and free as in beer (although abstemious ;)), when I reached the 70K visits on my site I wanted to ask a bit of help, because I found out that I wasn't having any more time to continue working as I was: school ended, and now I need jobs to pay my bills, the hardware and the fun, too (you don't want to see me stressed, do you? ;)).
I'm not begging for money, as I consider money donations just a little part of what people can do for Free/Libre Software, please read what comes here, and if you can, please help.

During Summer 2007 I was hospitalised for 42 days for an acute pancreatitis, and risked my life because of that. As the causes of that are still unknown, I would appreciate if any sum you'd have donated to me could be donated, instead, to one of the following organisations:

• Fondazione Italiana per la ricerca sulle Malattie del Pancreas - ONLUS; donations can be directed to these IBANs: IT 70 J 02008 11709 000040424060 or IT 03 N 05188 11701 000000164768; in Italy you can donate IRPEF's 5‰ using this Codice Fiscale in your Dichiarazione dei Redditi: 93175800239.
• National Pancreas Foundation; if you want to let me know of your support, then choose for a Donation in Honor and use this address: Diego Pettenò - Via Scaramuzza, 125 - 30174 Mestre, VE - Italy.

Thank you for your consideration. Reasearch on Pancreas might save my life if anything happens to me again.

If you know other foundations, donations to which could be deduced from taxes in other countries, feel free to suggest more by mailing me. Hopefully wherever the research is based, the improvements will come equally.

The most important help is, by all means, code contributions: pathces, translations, documentation and bug reports that help improving applications. For software on KDE's SVN (both extragear and playground), translations can be submitted through KDE translation system. For everything else, just mail me the translated po file.

Address your patches to flameeyes@gmail.com.

Please refer to Donations if you want to donate money.

I want to thanks the current donators: Fabio Gaggino, David Babcock, Ben De Groot, Daniel Cater, Jose daLuz, Pedro Romano, Steve Dommet and Daniel Drake. Also thanks to hardware donators Christoph Brill, Steve Romanow, Florian Steinel, and to misc donators Uri Sivan, Caleb Tennis and Claes Mogren.
Special thanks to Norbert Thiebaud for his conspicuous donation.

Special mention also to all the people who have donated for the new box after Enterprise broke down: Raimund Klonovski, Bolshakov Anton, Federico Colnago, William Blew, Jürgen Geuter, Jim Tupper, Jesse Farinacci, Ira Snyder, Tom Dison, Graham Murray and Marcel Meyer. Without you I wouldn't have been able to get a new box up and running before the hospital, thanks!

Another way to say "thank you" to me is through my wishlist at Amazon, that lists some CDs and Books (and rarely DVDs) that I'm interested in. I originally used it to let others know my interests; it was mostly a joke thing, but what's listed there is actually what I'd put in my wishlist, so I'll be grateful if anyone sends me something :)
If you want, donation can be addressed to my home address: Diego Pettenò - Via Scaramuzza, 125 - 30174 Mestre, VE - Italy.