It’s the last 6 hours of the fundraiser and we have met our $2M goal! This was roughly the “we will continue existing and not go bankrupt” threshold, which was the most important one to hit.
Thank you so much to everyone who made it happen. I really did not expect that we would end up being able to raise this much funding without large donations from major philanthropists, and I am extremely grateful to have so much support from such a large community.
Let’s make the last few hours in the fundraiser count, and then me and the Lightcone team will buckle down and make sure all of these donations were worth it.
Ok, but you should leave the donation box up—link now seems to not work? I bet there would be at least several $K USD of donations from folks who didn’t remember to do it in time.
Those were mostly already in-flight, so not counterfactual (and also the fundraising post still has the donation link at the top), but I do expect at least some effect!
It’s the last 6 hours of the fundraiser and we have met our $2M goal! This was roughly the “we will continue existing and not go bankrupt” threshold, which was the most important one to hit.
Thank you so much to everyone who made it happen. I really did not expect that we would end up being able to raise this much funding without large donations from major philanthropists, and I am extremely grateful to have so much support from such a large community.
Let’s make the last few hours in the fundraiser count, and then me and the Lightcone team will buckle down and make sure all of these donations were worth it.
Ok, but you should leave the donation box up—link now seems to not work? I bet there would be at least several $K USD of donations from folks who didn’t remember to do it in time.
Oops, you’re right, fixed. That was just an accident.
Note for posterity that there has been at least $15K of donations since this got turned back on—You Can Just Report Bugs
Those were mostly already in-flight, so not counterfactual (and also the fundraising post still has the donation link at the top), but I do expect at least some effect!
Oh, fair enough then, I trust your visibility into this. Nonetheless one Should Can Just Report Bugs
Out of curiosity—what was the time span for this raise that achieved this goal/when did first start again? Was it 2 months ago?
Yep, when the fundraising post went live, i.e. November 29th.
I believe it includes some older donations:
Our Manifund application’s donations, including donations going back to mid-May, totalling about $50k
A couple of older individual donations, in October/early Nov, totalling almost 200k