Dear our blog followers and readers, we are very pleased to announce that "our 100 days of crowdfunding campaign" ended with a big success.

From generous donations of our supporters we reached our goal amount of 20,000 Swiss Francs, and not only we reached the goal, our campaign ended up by 111.1% funded! Yay!  Thank you for all the support and attention you have given us during the campaign.

This post is long overdue as it has been already a week since our crowdfunding campaign finished, but our team has been too much occupied responding to phone calls and emails with congratulations and good wishes, from opensource software community, coworking space community, local and national businesses, and our friends.

And we shouldn't forget to mention that in the meantime we made it to the cover of the newspaper. 

Have we already said how cool it was to see our project leader on the front page of the newspaper, talking about our success?

In case we haven't, it was really, really cool. As our team member Dominique would put it, it was “ mega cool ”.

And it was also super cool to see our coworking space renovation project being covered by the evening news at 6pm. If this is how success feels like, we can get used to it very fast! 

Even though the campaign has ended we have a lot of work in front of us, or, the real work only begins now. The crowdfunding campaign was only the beginning of a marathon, and we're in for a long run now. According to the campaign platform 100-days.net, we'll receive the fund in 2 months : we will try to be as transparent as possible regarding the use of the fund in the course of coworking space transformation. Our goodies for supporters such as postcards and T-shirts are under production, and renovation of the space will start in the spring. Not because we want to wait any longer for renovating the coworking space, but only because...

...because we are in Switzerland and the weather is like this here now. The whole town will stay under the snow for some more months, not ideal weather for opening the roof let alone the windows. We will plan in the meantime, and will start the work under the better weather when the spring comes.

We can not thank enough our supporters for this success, we know that nothing could have been possible without our supporters who listened to our ideas and encouraged our vision. We would like to express once more how grateful and excited we are for the love and support we have received. 

 

If you haven't seen it yet, we have put a nice timeline slider on our project Digital Glarus on our bilingual website. The slider is a nice simple visual aid for watching our growth so far from a simple inspiration to a crowdfunding success.

For those who didn't get to donate on our crowdfunding campaign in time, our donation channel is still open and by contribution you can have your name as a virtual supporter of project Digital Glarus on our website. You can contact us at info@digitalglarus.ch for more information. We might be a little bit biased, but we must confess that this is a really fun and cool project to be a part of.

Last but not least, happy new year everyone.

Keep watching us grow in 2016, We heard it is the right year to start coworking in Digital Glarus!