Comment Help support FOSS (Score 1) 185
I worked for a few years at an organization at my university, the OSU Open Source Lab http://osuosl.org/ which was founded as an effort to help give back to the open source community. The OSL now hosts a wide range of projects. Working there as a student required maintaining a large range of services for people all over the world and taught me more than I ever learned in class.
If your department is starting to have some free cycles and spare hardware and spare bandwidth perhaps you can offer your resources to help support some of the projects that you have depended on over the years. Feel free to contact the guys at the OSL, perhaps they could help you get started. I know the OSL's mirrors http://ftp.osuosl.org/ could use some more bandwidth, perhaps you could partner with them to provide another mirror node.
Cheers,