We completed the fundraiser on February 25th exactly one month after we started the fundraiser on January 25th. This is by far the fastest we've ever completed a fundraiser. Normally our fundraisers take 6-8 months to complete, and then we take 1-6 months to purchase and install the server in our cabinet. We purchased the server on March 5th, and installed Stevie in our cabinet on March 24th less than 2 months after we started the fundraiser. Stevie is now fully configured, secured, and tested. The next step is to create the new Ricky VM on Stevie and start developing our free Java hosting. We will send an email out to all the beta testers when Ricky is ready. Thanks to all of our 74 donors for making this a possibility.
This is absolutely amazing! We're only 4 days into this fundraiser and we're already 76% done, thanks in large part to Caleb's massive $1041 donation!
I was just telling people a few days ago that fundraisers usually start out strong and then taper off as donations slowly trickly in over time. I was guessing that it would take at least a few months before we reached the goal, but I may be very wrong. This is crazy how many people are supporting our mission, and donating. The messages of support we're getting from people is so heart warming too. It's great to see how many people we have helped over the last 20 years.
The fundraiser has now been active for about 24 hours now, and we're already to 20% of our goal! Yay! Thank you to the 25 people who have donated so far. You are all so awesome. It's easy to miss the news with so much going on in the world, so make sure everyone you know is aware that we have a new fundraiser going so they can contribute a little as well. This an amazing start!