{"id":1698,"date":"2012-06-21T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:54:11","slug":"project-fedora-kickstarter-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Project Fedora Kickstarter Success!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1700\" title=\"Project Fedora Success\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ProjectFedora_Success-300x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ProjectFedora_Success-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ProjectFedora_Success.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In case you missed it last week, the <a title=\"Project Fedora\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/texmurphy\/tex-murphy-project-fedora\" target=\"_blank\">Project Fedora Kickstarter<\/a> was a complete success.<\/p>\n<p>The target was actually hit June 7th, but things really exploded on June 6th. \u00a0That was the day of <a title=\"Project Fedora Update #19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/texmurphy\/tex-murphy-project-fedora\/posts\/241765\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Update #19: The Magnificent 7!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See, after 22 days of modest growth the Kickstarter was pretty much on target to hit the $450K goal shortly before the end date. \u00a0Most days were averaging around $9K. \u00a0It was then that the folks at Big Finish Games posted their 19th project update.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this update, we were notified that as a result of hitting 4500 backers, the Magnificent 7 (7 unknown high donors) would be donating $4K for every $6K raised starting at $386K, as a means to leapfrog the way to the $450K project goal.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what they were expecting, but things exploded!!! \u00a0Within minutes $20K had been raised and within hours we were within $20K of the goal which was\u00a0achieved\u00a0the next morning. \u00a0it was all very exciting as you could imagine. \u00a0Overall almost $100K was raised in that 24 hour period.<\/p>\n<p>In the end over $600K was raised (including Paypal donations) which is pretty good compared to projects like <a title=\"SpaceVenture Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/spaceventure\/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceVenture<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"Pinkerton Road Kickstarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1005365109\/jane-jensens-pinkerton-road-2012-2013-csg\" target=\"_blank\">Pinkerton Road<\/a>. \u00a0I would have preferred a lot more, but considering $600K was raised by only 7000 backers (SpaceVenture &amp; Pinkerton had over 10K backers each) I guess we can&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it last week, the Project Fedora Kickstarter was a complete success.<\/p>\n<p>The target was actually hit June 7th, but things really exploded on June 6th.  That was the day of &#8220;Update #19: The Magnificent 7!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See, after 22 days of modest growth the Kickstarter was pretty much on target to hit the $450K goal shortly before the end date.  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