With four days remaining in our launch fund-drive, a generous donation from Linux Fund put us over the top for our stretch goal of $8,000 at the Tilt Open campaign. Adding the outside donations via Paypal, Dwolla, and Bitcoin, our total raised is over $14,000 from over 200 supporters.

Less than two weeks after starting, our launch fund-drive has now *tilted*. We passed the minimum goal of $3,000 for legal costs. We now push ahead toward our stretch goals.

Our launch campaign at Snowdrift.Tilt.com is now live! The open.tilt.com hosting we chose requires the main video to be at YouTube (which involves tracking and proprietary formats and other issues). So, we've also uploaded the video to Archive.org…

Most of the writings here at Snowdrift.coop are on our [wiki pages](https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/). This blog serves a special function as a place for more personal writings from the team, timely writings that don't make sense for the wiki, and general update announcements…