[Foundation-l] Fundraiser update

[geni]

2009/1/7 Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>:
> 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.


It is also a opportunity to further annoy our readers. IT's pretty
clear they don't like it so the sensible thing to do would be to
remove it or if you have some weird desire to keep it make it a lot
smaller.

-- 
geni