Dear registered active and temporarily inactive members of Citizendium:
I am writing to you as Managing Editor of Citizendium, to let you know that if we members of Citizendium as a group do not do something cooperatively right now, or in the very near future, Citizendium will likely have close down within the next 2 or 3 months. The reason: Citizendium is simply not receiving monthly donations sufficient to pay for its monthly hosting cost to run its servers. See: CZ:Financial report (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Financial_report). If monthly donations, averaging $103 against ~$332 hosting costs, do not increase substantially, Citizendium must inevitably shut down. At this time, we are not asking anyone to commit to a monthly donation of any amount for, say, a year’s period. What we need right now, and as soon as possible, are individual donations of $10-$15 for each of the next three months (August, September, October, 2012), to keep us operating while we continue our pursuit of a permanent funding solution. If you find $10-$15 a burden for three months, even $5 might suffice if we receive enough members donating. If you can afford more than $15 in any of the three months, and feel generously inclined, that, of course, would be great. Without revealing amounts donated, and with names listed alphabetically, we will honor all donors on the wiki. To donate, go to: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Donate Thank you for reading this long message about a crisis situation for Citizendium. Anthony.Sebastian, Managing Editor Co-signing, Hayford Peirce, Treasurer Co-signing, Pat Palmer and Larry Sanger, Management Council
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