[Wikimedia-l] OSM Funding Drive success, extension

[Tom Morris]

Yesterday, the OpenStreetMap Foundation completed a funding drive of £40,000 ($60,000) to buy two new servers.

Because of the success of the fundraising, they have decided to extend the campaign to raise another £32,500 ($50,000).

See http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/06/26/extending-funding-drive/ for details.

If you've got some spare cash and want to support the technical development of the map anyone can edit, go to http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/

You can also donate via Bitcoin.

OSM is growing at a phenomenal rate. The success and ramping up of OSM Foundation fundraising shows that OpenStreetMap is perhaps experiencing the same kind of organisational growing up process as Wikimedia has...

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Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/