Hi folks, I'm happy to tell you that the Wikimedia Foundation has received a substantial donation from the Stanton Foundation, a private foundation created to further philanthropic goals set by the late Dr. Frank Stanton. Dr. Stanton, who died two years ago at the age of 98, was a noted American broadcasting executive and longtime president of the CBS television network. The Stanton Foundation has given Wikimedia USD $262,000 to support the purchase of database servers, application servers, network equipment and other hardware. The tech team will spend the money throughout 2008, and will begin to have the new hardware installed and operating in just a few months. This gift is a major vote of confidence in the work we are doing together. I'm really happy that the Stanton Foundation has chosen to support the Wikimedia projects, and our goal of bringing free knowledge to people all over the world. Congratulations to the tech team :-) Sue -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l