State of the Fund Drive: 31 Hours Left
Added 2016-10-16 23:19:07 +0000 UTCHi all,
I struggled a bit with the graph options this week, and then decided that the best thing was simply to go back to the start so that you can see how far we've come. It hasn't been, and probably will not be, our best fund drive ever; but it has ended up as a very solid one. The final-week effect kicked in with a vengeance -- as you can see from the graph, and could probably tell from the flurry of posts this week (have you read all of our bonus content yet?) -- and we've raised $6,867 since last Sunday, above the historical average, with the final day still to come.
It means we've reached our main goal with time to spare, and as I write it puts us less than $50 away from our first stretch goal (increasing our reviews pay rate), and gives us a good shot of reaching our Spanish SF goal of $18,000. Can we get any further than that? We'll have to wait and see.
Oh, and one other thing: once you factor in Patreon, we're very likely to end this fund drive by breaking last year's record of 629 donors in a single year. If it happens, that would be a very satisfying note on which to wrap things up.
-- Niall
