Dear All, I'd like to thank you for filling out the calendars order form. With Belgium and Luxembourg being the last countries :-) I've finally collected all the orders.
In total, we have ordered a _massive_ sum of 1,000 (a thousand) calendars -- hurray! :-) I have, however, learned that there are some other organisations (who are not to be named as of yet) willing to order our calendars, so if you know anybody who might be interested in ordering them, too, please let me know off-list.
I'll be placing the order in the upcoming days, and in order to collect the money for the remaining ~400 calendars, I'll be contacting all the contact people privately, off-list, with all the payment information, so please stay tuned! :-)
Having written that, I would like you to think about the budget for shipping the calendars to all the participating countries; for now, we are going to ship the calendars to 14 different places around Europe (excluding Belgium & Luxembourg, Andorra and, for obvious reasons, Poland), which is going to cost us about €270-300, depending mainly on the cost of the euro (€), which has been significantly rising for the past few months (the more expensive the euro is, the better for us :).
As agreed upon our working meeting in Berlin in May, up to now, all the European-wide Wiki Loves Monuments expenses have been covered by either Wikimedia Germany, Wikimedia Netherlands or Wikimedia Poland. This time, however, I am counting on the willingness of the other chapters to chip-in to cover these expenses :-))
I hope that we can reach an agreement over this case in the upcoming two-three weeks. All comments and questions are, as always, welcomed.
Again, thanks!