Mark Shuttleworth has given us a tremendous boost by lending his name and financial support to OVC. Today, he pledged $5,000 for our current fundraising drive. He wrote,

I will contribute $5,000 personally, and you are welcome to use that endorsement to help raise additional funding.

Shuttleworth funded the development of Ubuntu (the Linux operating system we use).

See his Wikipedia entry [1] for more information.

Thanks, Mark!