Happy New Year and greetings to all Warmshowers members!

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Once again, thanks to all of your for your kind generosity to touring cyclists this year. And all of us who have stayed with you thank you as well.

And thank you to the volunteers who spent countless hours making Warmshowers.org work this year:

• Kevin O'Leary and Mark Martin did the day to day work of corresponding when members have questions, removing spam and spam accounts, and generally keeping the site running. Kevin also made a number of upgrades to the site, including HTML emails and member recommendation emails.
• Chris Meyer enhanced the  iPhone app for Warmshowers.org yet more, and it soon will have a version that runs full-screen on the iPad.
• I (Randy) was the webmaster and dealt with technical problems and helped with supporting our users. And we got a separate bank account for this initiative this year, with better bookkeeping.
• But most of all, to all of you who so generously hosted members, THANK YOU.

As always it's time to remind you to please log in and check your registration information even though you know it hasn't changed. That tells the system you're still there, and gives you a chance to update everything.

As I write this our membership is almost 20,500, but each year we delete about 10% of our members who have not logged in for a year. Please don't let that be you!  On January 6 we will delete over 2,000 members who haven't logged in.

We remind you in these annual notes that your financial support is always welcome. All of the registration and technical work and the work of keeping the site going is done by volunteers. Our hosting fees and related expenses run between US$70 and US$110/month, so that means we're spending about $840 to $1320/year for hosting alone, and there are related expenses for monitoring and such. We received US$2092 in donations this year. THANK YOU!  If you would care to donate, please just click the "Donate" button or go to the donate page.

For those of you who would be interested in volunteering to help build the site through Drupal development, sitebuilding, or in developing an Android app for Warmshowers, we're always hoping for committed volunteers who can take on these roles, so let us know.

Again, thanks to all of you for your generosity to touring cyclists. If you have any questions at all, just reply to this email and we'll try to resolve them.

Thanks,
-Randy


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