A quick update: the "Thank You" banner is currently scheduled to stay up until January 9, 4 PM PST. We're keeping it up a while longer in part because it's the first work week after the holidays for many people, and in part because it's an opportunity for chapters to get some more visibility (we may have reached our goals ahead of time, but the chapters were operating under the assumption that the fundraiser would continue until January 15). As explained in the "Thank You" letter, the funds donated to WMF from now until the end of the fiscal year will go into our reserve fund and will help us to not live from hand to mouth as we head into the new fiscal. We'd always planned to raise at least $1.3M in reserve funding throughout the fiscal year.
Obviously we're thrilled by the success of the fundraiser: many thanks to Rand and the rest of the team here for making it happen. :-) Special _huge, huge_ thanks to Casey and all the translation volunteers for their help throughout the process. It's hard to overstate the value of the volunteer contributions of time and effort to the fundraiser, and I think it speaks to the strength of our sustainability model. :-) As always, there'll be lots to learn & improve as well. We'll start preparing some follow-up reports and analysis soon. (We still intend to share raw data files with the community, but we have to do some more clean-up, especially on check data, before it'll be useful.) In the meantime, if you already have some thoughts & immediate comments on the fundraiser -- what worked, what didn't, what we should focus on -- please feel free to post them in this thread. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l