D8 Accelerate - Game over?

kattekrab
Thu, 27/08/2015 - 10:47

The Drupal 8 Accelerate campaign has raised over two hundred and thirty thousand dollars ($233,519!!). That's a lot of money! But our goal was to raise US$250,000 and we're running out of time. I've personally helped raise $12,500 and I'm aiming to raise 8% of the whole amount, which equals $20,000. I've got less than $7500 now to raise. Can you help me? Please chip in.

Most of my colleagues on the board have contributed anchor funding via their companies. As a micro-enterprise, my company Creative Contingencies is not in a position to be able to that, so I set out to crowdfund my share of the fundraising effort.

I'd really like to shout out and thank EVERYONE who has made a contribution to get me this far.Whether you donated cash, or helped to amplify my voice, thank you SO so soooo much. I am deeply grateful for your support.

If you can't, or don't want to contribute because you do enough for Drupal that's OK! I completely understand. You're awesome. :) But perhaps you know someone else who is using Drupal, who will be using Drupal you could ask to help us? Do you know someone or an organisation who gets untold value from the effort of our global community? Please ask them, on my behalf, to Make a Donation

If you don't know anyone, perhaps you can help simply by sharing my plea? I'd love that help. I really would!

And if you, like some others I've spoken with, don't think people should be paid to make Free Software then I urge you to read Ashe Dryden's piece on the ethics of unpaid labor in the Open Source Community. It made me think again.

Do you want to know more about how the money is being spent?
See: https://assoc.drupal.org/d8-accelerate-awarded-grants

Perhaps you want to find out how to apply to spend it on getting Drupal8 done?
See: https://assoc.drupal.org/d8-accelerate-application

Are you curious about the governance of the program?
See: https://www.drupal.org/governance/d8accelerate

And just once more, with feeling, I ask you to please consider making a donation.

So how much more do I need to get it done? To get to GAME OVER?