The latest from the NIMBY announce list:

NIMBY has now reached the critical juncture we have seen looming for sometime. To further our progress with the city – where things are still going well – we have had to make many tough financial decisions. We have shelled out endless amounts of money for permit fees, engineers, and testing services. In the name of progress we have had to divert funds from everyday bills, like the rent, to finalize the city process.

Although Snook is a master cash flow juggler NIMBY is at the point where creative solutions end. We have attempted to raise as much money as possible from foundations, loans, and donations to avoid this – but here we are.

December is make it or break it for NIMBY. We need to meet our past due bills or look at the option of ending things here.

We have a beautiful space, our permits are going through, we are bustling with tenants and many new, amazing projects are on the horizon for spring. We would be financially viable month-to-month but the added expense of navigating the bureaucracy of Oakland is not something we could have prepared for. We are at the point where there is no more juggling, no more robbing Peter to pay Paul, this is it. NIMBY is struggling and needs your support to bring expenses under control or pull the plug.

If everyone on this list donated $20 we will make it though this lean period. For all the reasons you support art, community, DIY-ness and free-thinking goodness – please consider giving NIMBY a Christmas to remember once again. It's up to you at this point. Lets keep NIMBY's doors open and head into 2010 on solid ground - we have come too far to disappear now.

How to lend your support:

You can donate here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1362561841/nimby-industrial-art-and-diy-space

Donate directly:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=10559466

Tax Deductible Donations - email rachael(at)nimbyspace(dot)org


Keep up with NIMBY:

NIMBY Announce List - http://www.nimbyspace.org/contact/

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nimbyspace#/nimbyspace?v=info&ref=ts

Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/NIMBYSPACE

As always more detailed updates on our progress can be found at http://www.nimbyspace.org

Believe me, I know it's a lean time of year for people. I just got my first actual paycheck today in over ten months. But two weeks ago today, I watched one of my other communities (drink!) raise the money for a friend to pay for her husband's burial costs in less than eight hours. I have faith.

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Hello dear Burners!

My boyfriend and I are going to Seattle for a wedding on New Years day. We have a couch to surf for the 30th and 1st, but we are hoping to extend our stay by a day or two on either end because my BF has never seen the west coast and Seattle is such an amazing place, it would be a shame to not show him more of it since we're going to be there already.

We come fully equipped, have our own transportation, are self-sufficient and will leave no trace. We are likely to be out sightseeing most of the time and not underfoot too much.

We are happy, funny, easygoing, and will respect your home as if it were our own, which you are also welcome to come visit! Burners are the best!

Max, my BF went to his first burn this year. It was my 10th burn. I was in Silicon Village with the Mist'r Cool camp.

Apart from the wedding, and a tentative plan to be at Seattle center for the turning of the year, we have no real agenda.

Hope to hear from one of you Burning Lovelies soon!
Kitte and Max

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**FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009**

So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything.

And finally some answers to some questions:

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**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,