[Foundation-l] Fundraising season launch

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthere wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Last update from Michael (this summer) mentionned that we had about 550 
>k$ in bank.
>
>The technical team mentionned recently there was an urgent need for new 
>application servers (apache/squids), to address the record traffic the 
>site has been receiving. A couple of weeks ago, traffic reports 
>indicated > 18,000 requests per second, far above our routine traffic of 
>12,000 requests per second earlier this summer.
>
It would be nice if proper financial reports were made available befor 
the start of another round of fundraising.  We owe it to potential 
donors to let them know that we believe in fiscal responsibility. 

Ec