I'd actually like to clarify something about the way fundraisers work,
because it may not be readily apparent to everyone.... remember that the
date that the goal is "hit" is always fuzzy, because we actually don't know
it until it's viewed in retrospect. There's money that comes in on a date
that isn't actually posted until later (for instance, check transactions,
which aren't posted the day they're received or transactions from payment
processors that may report on a 24 hour delay - I don't know if there are
any of these right now, but there used to be - or something similar).
So you actually don't know what date you "hit" the mark until you're
quite
a bit farther down the line. Systems are markedly better this year than
ever before, but I remember the year that I worked the fundraiser, we were
a week or more behind on posting checks. That's just a manpower issue.
So while it's easy to talk about the "date" as though there's a magic
total
board, there's not. It's mostly good guesswork by Zack, his team, and the
payment processing chapters in approximating when it happens.
pb
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:21 AM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley
<zexley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement! We're really
sorry that this decision came
so close to the fundraiser. But I think it's necessary and is going to
make
things so much better. I'm hoping that we can
get the fundraiser down to
something like 30 days this year (from 46 last year)
Is that 46 day figure when the goal was reached and exceeded or when
they were turned off, Since last year (and a few others if i'm not
mistaken) those were two different dates.
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