SpinTO is a fundraising project that kicks off with a party on May 15 celebrating the Friends for Life Bike Rally from Toronto to Montreal in support of the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation.

Toronto’s tech community steps up!

Once again, Toronto’s technology community has shown how social technology can create change and make our community a better place.

Thanks to a recent flurry of donations over Twitter, we are able to make the SpinTO event even more accessible to all by reducing the ticket price for admission to only $10, while they last!

Last Thursday evening, Microsoft developer evangelist and Toronto BarCamp orginator David Crow donated $500 personally to the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation through our SpinTO project, and he issued a challenge via Twitter:

Twitter / David Crow: I just made my donation to ...

David’s challenge was quickly taken up in the Toronto tech Twittersphere by Mesh web conference partners Mathew Ingram, Rob Hyndman, Mike McDerment, Stuart MacDonald and Mark Evans with their own donation. Not to be outdone or left out of the fun, Idée Inc. CEO and long-time HIV/AIDS advocate Leila Boujnane met the challenge, as did David Suydam of Architech Solutions and Jaimie MacPherson of Mischief Media.

All told, within a few hours in one evening this community raised over $3,000 to help men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS through the work of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation. Their commitment reflects the importance these people place on social responsibility and community.

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