On 02/09/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
For what it's worth, income over the past few days to the fund drive has been roughly constant. I'd say that indicates it isn't in direct competition in any way; were we holding a drive for $random_charity, then perhaps.
OK. I see our value here as pointed out by Fredrik Johansson.
For what it's worth, I regularly hear Wikipedia praised in situations like this. It's not quite what the project is intended for, but it works damn well at it.
I hope no one thinks I was suggesting that we're wrong to continue the scheduled drive. I was listening to a report of the lack of effective relief efforts while reading Wikipedia's article on Katrina, and noticed our appeal at the top of the page and I suddenly felt very small. On reflection, even the goal for our drive is very small as well.
Looking at the figures we have had a bit of a drop-off - the figures for the 1st weren't summarised so I missed them - but given we note the scope (both in time and money) of the drive...