Proposal related to the development of PHP in China

Beijing Orient Rich Technology Co., Ltd. Address: Room 1516, Peking University Resource Hotel, No.1, Road Yiheyuan, District Haidian, Beijing, China Phone: 086 010 62750862 email:haydn@dotsino.com http:// www.orientrich.com Dear Sir/Madam, Firstly, I want to extend my heartfelt respect to you and your colleagues for your great contribution to the development of free software. With your great effort, people all over the world(incl. China mainland) can use PHP to build their impressive web site. Secondly, I represent Beijing Orient Rich Technology Co.,Ltd. to offer you a proposal of co-operation: Our company acts as a pioneer in China mainland that hammer at developing, propagating and spreading free software in China. We have strong belief in the spirit of Free Software Movement. We not only follow the rule of Free software society, but also devote ourselves to the development of Free Software Movement in China. We provide our customers the best network solutions based on free software and professional technical support services, and have achieved close ties with a great number of free software amateurs in our country. In today's China, more and more people begin to realize the advantages and importance of free software. They hope to benefit from these software resources. But, many of them still have trouble in doing so. Lack of software access and technical supports blocks their way towards free software society. We take it as our responsibility to help them. So, we have started a nonprofit project named Free Dragon which aim at the development of free software movement in China. So, We are in need of your support and cooperation. Your may take a look at our proposal: 1. We have established a mirror site of www.php.net on a server located in China, under the domain of www.php.org.cn (I'm sorry, www.php.net.cn has been taken by someone else), You may check the mirror site www.php.org.cn and add it into your mirror sites list. So that people in China can appreciate and benefit greatly from your works; 2. We will translate this mirror site into Chinese language, so that all Chinese people can easily visit the site and access your software products and technical support, and have their questions and ideas discussed; 3. We plan to add download service of a Chinese version of your software products on a ftp server, so Chinese people can get and use your excellent software conveniently; 4. By exchanging technical articles between us, both we can get good ideas on improving the function of the software and promote the development of free software movement; 5. We would like to provide and support network solutions based on your software products(PHP) and other excellent free softwares in our country; 6. We plan to provide free e-mail services for our respectful free software amateurs, e.g. username@php.org.cn; Thank you for your time to consider our proposal. If your organization has any plan to expand business in China, We are sure to give a hand. We expect your immediate reply. With much thanks! Sincerely yours Haydn Huang Beijing Orient Rich Technology Co.,Ltd. 8/18/2000