A Brief History Of Project Hope

Below is a very brief history of Project Hope.

Perhaps the first mention of a "Team Discovery Hope Machine" (term coined by Caliban) can be found in this post by Slava. A few days later, he ordered up a vote!. This began on 3/21/03 with high hopes.

A few short days later, we started looking for potential hosts. This was a good heated discussion and we found our first 4 hosts: Babacher, Nightfall, JMartin and Dersgniw. We also had a poll where the name "Project Hope" edged over "Team Discovery Hope Machine" by 5 votes. There was another poll where we decided to call the blades TD-MOJO1,2,3,etc.

In the beginning of April, we had our first discussion about a Board of Directors and then by May our first board was announced. We had a Chairman (Slava), Treasurer (Simplykristi), Secretary (Jmartin) 4 hosts (Babacher, Nightfall, JMartin and Dersgniw), and general members (HiVolt, RXDOC, SlashDot14 and ColdinCbus ). We had a new website put together by owN3D and were ready to roll.

Now was the time for our members to put their money where their mouths were. And they delivered with flying colors. In the middle of May, people started donating and we saw some unexpected challenges. Our very generous members offered large amounts of cash if certain challenges were met. A lot of people went broke during this month giving all they could. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. By June 8th, we had collected $1,553.20 .

On June 9th, we found our first Chairman's Report made by the always inspirational Slava. By July 6th, Kristi informed us that we had collected $2348.02, then Slava posted his next Chairman's Report. In this time we also voted on CPU and Memory.

In August Bruce (Babacher) announced Mojo1 and Mojo2 were running and posted some construction pics. Slava posted another report soon after. In August a wonderful monkey, Mojo Jojo, introduced himself and was an inspiration to the project a great little mascot. And in October, Madzookeeper announce his very generous challenge.

In January of 2004, Slava posted another Chairman's Report where he discussed the new TDPH Cafe Shop and that we now had 12 blades running for Project Hope.

Fast forward to the beginning of 2006. Our members have donated over $7,000. We have 26 blades having crunched for a total of over 38 years. The TSC blades are number number 2 on the team (9 overall), and the UD blades are number 13 on the team (626 overall). We are still growing and our members are still incredibly generous.

Below is the history of the Project Hope Board:

2003-2004

Slava Ryklin (Chair)
Simplykristi (Treasurer)
JMartin (Secretary)
RXDOC (General)
SlashDot14 (General)
HiVolt (General)
owN3D (General)
lilhurricane(General)
ColdinCbus (General)
Babacher (Host)
Dersgniw (Host)
JMartin (Host)
Nightfall (Host)

2004-2005
JMartin (Chair)
ColdinCbus (Treasurer)
lilhurricane(Secretary)
Optimized (General)
RXDOC (General)
Lilly (General)
mlemon (General)
Babacher (Host)
BadHat (Host)
Dersgniw (Host)
JMartin (Host)
Nightfall (Host)

2005-2006
Dersgniw (Chair)
JMartin (Treasurer)
lilhurricane (Secretary)
stretchdy (General)
Mgknight (General)
Slava (General)
Coldincbus (General)
babacher (Host)
Dersgniw (Host)
JMartin (Host)
Nightfall (Host)
Arelay (Host)
Mew6977 (Host)

2006-2007
Dersgniw - Chairman & Host
JMartin - Treasurer
lilhurricane - Secretary & Host
babacher - Host
Nightfall - Host
Arelay - Host
Mew6977 - Host
White Rose - Host
Jfgnet - Host
Golfhou - Host
jlhugh - Host
Mgknight - Member
grobinette - Member
Dolphin - Member & Host
Coldincbus - Webmaster

2007-2008
Dersgniw - Chairman & Host
JMartin - Treasurer
lilhurricane - Secretary & Host
babacher - Host
Nightfall - Host
Arelay - Host
Dolphin - Host
golfhou - Host
jlhugh - Host
rescue85 - Host
grobinette - Member
Digibits - Member
Slava - Member
Coldincbus - Member & Webmaster