Atlassian at KQED
February 8, 2007
Last night, six of us from the Atlassian SF office volunteered for the KQED pledge drive. While Jeffrey and Eugene were competing for chump change, I got a healthy $1000 pledge… very nice. Mario wins, however, for having the best sales technique (he had a whole technique that he had worked out in the first 10 minutes on the phone), and he’s one of the tech support guys!
(Another quote from Mario, who was a C# programmer before coming to Atlassian… “Java’s easy.” Uh-huh.)
National Public Radio feels like one of the last bastions of independent, non-partisan news sources, so it was nice to help fund a little free speech.
At my house, we’ve abandoned commercial radio. Way to go! I’ve had XM for longer than I can remember, runs through DirecTV in the basement and family room. The only “radio” station programmed on my receivers is WXPN, a non-commercial, member-supported radio service based out of the University of Pennsylvania.