[Foundation-l] Donation drive stopped early with insufficient funds collected

Tue Sep 6 10:01:43 UTC 2005

On 9/6/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> I'm wondering why the donation drive was stopped early, before the
> enough money was collected to cover the Foundation's Q3 budget of
> $198,000. After our discussion in August about the German chapter, I
> thought it was fairly clear that those funds could not be used for the
> general operating expenses of the Florida Foundation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revert

I expect the people editing the sitenotice were unaware that the drive
was meant to be a "21-day" one rather than one which would end when
the initial goal was met, as it was last time.

Angela.