Well, we’re on the last day of our campaign! I’m excited to say that on our second to last day you all pulled off some incredible things, which means that the second funding milestone is now unlocked! This puts us in a stellar position, but we should keep the momentum going! If we can keep raising money today, things will get even more exciting… more on that in a few!

But first, let’s talk about this incredible thing you all did yesterday.

In one day, this community both met the full 10k matching grant and unlocked the second funding milestone in one epic sweep! Let me just say that it’s a very strange problem to have where you have to discard an entire blogpost you were about to post about being reasonably close to unlocking the second milestone because by the time you were going to upload it, your community had just blown past the target! But that’s what happened.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. ;)

So, where are we at then, things-we-have-unlocked-wise? Let’s take a look:





Wow, that is a lot of exciting stuff! This is going to be an exciting year ahead in MediaGoblin-land!

You may also be wondering… What about that donor voted feature? What about that premium hosting reward! Yup, you all have earned both for sure! We’ll start looking into the best way to do the donor-feature-voting shortly. As for the premium hosting reward, it would be unfair to get all the way to 60k on the second to last day and then on the last day have you all scramble to get in on the premium hosting. So instead, after the campaign wraps up we’re going to close down all the rewards, but in a couple of weeks, we’ll make an announcement and reopen donations-with-rewards, but with only premium hosting as the reward option. That’ll give us a chance to plan this way out in the optimum way possible for you all, and give you all a chance to actually get in on it.

So, is that it? What’s next? We’ve still got a whole day left of crowdfunding! Well, first let’s look at what the next milestone is:

Holy moly! That is some exciting stuff! It also seems like a bit of a ways away, but it might just be possible after all… we did do an incredible job yesterday, after all, and the last day of crowdfunding tends to be the strongest!

We don’t have to make it all the way to the next milestone for extra cool things to happen, though. Everything additional donated today will make more exciting things over the next year more possible. We are on the verge of making some really thrilling announcements, including looking into the possibility of having multiple dedicated resources on the project. We can’t make any promises… how feasible such things are partly depends on how we do today. And even though some of that is extra surprises to come, if you have any doubts about how responsibly we’ll use the money, you can judge for yourself… we are totally financially transparent.

So make us proud… help us make internet history by donating today!