i have just finished my final day with my employer. his parting gift to me after 9 years of service was to give me only half my final paycheque. i had resigned after having to make a tough choice between finishing the open source onedotzero controller, or staying in work to do his closed project and letting down all the people in the collaborative endeavour. i had hoped and prayed for the future to be bright and was planning to use this final paycheque as a buffer. I have put applications for jobs at nokia and surrounding companies, but I have simply run out of time. i believe in this platform with all my heart and have been involved with it for a long time and think I have been making a difference. i cannot afford now to go to the summit (hotels and airfare is only one small fraction). i have to stop everything and concentrate on finding a local job to keep my family afloat. we simply cannot afford to pay the bills. if anyone can help, i have a paypal account on my server: http://liqbase.net