Update: Thanks to@nech, I now have two more invites.

Update 2: I’ll convert my nominations to invites as well, so I can send out instant invites.

Update 3: I have now converted all of my nominations, so they are instant!

Google Wave is a new collaboration/email/Instant Messaging platform, that I and other, have yet to understand the complete reach of. There are Multi User dungeons(MUDs) on there already, book-editing and much more.

I recently got some invites to Google wave. Now I’m seeing people auctioning these off on eBay and other sites.

These invites are really sought after and instead of just handing them out, like I did last time, I was thinking about selling them.

For 35$ a piece. Now you can choose a sum.

I don’t have too many, as it stands now, I’ve got 12 22, but I might get more. That should net me a nice profit of $420. All great so far, but I’m guessing you’re a bit put off by this thinking, as was I.

That’s why I’m selling these invites and donating all income to charity. Think of it like my own little OLPC-project. People can do what they like and I’m no moral guardian, but I think this is a way to turn the interest for Wave into results in the real world. :)

I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith, but why shouldn’t I try to see if this could work? If you think it’s stupid, sound off like you got a pair in the comments, or add chrleon[at]googlewave.com.

What’s in it for you?

I will nominate you for Google Wave, and you’ll receive an invite in a couple of days. It’s not a quick process as Google is experiencing massive interest in this platform. As they say themselves, they ‘have a lot of stamps to lick’.

Thanks to nech the first two will get an instant email to an invite.

I’ll also try to convert my nominations to invites so they’ll get out real quick.

What charity should we choose?

It’s a hard time choosing which one of the charitable organisations should receive this measly sum, so I’m thinking you can help decide.

The only thing I want to do, is to select an international non-religious organisation, since people would be buying from all over the world (I’m optimistic, but hey we have to be don’t we :))

Do you have ideas of others? Put them in the comments, and we can decide where this princely sum of money should be headed.

Thanks for reading. Now donate. Or argue.