[Volunteers] Darwin150 Facebook group update (daily thru Nov 24)

[Phil Terry]

Hey folks,

As we approach the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's  
"Origin of Species" on November 24, I will start sending *daily*  
updates about the status of our campaign - particularly where we stand  
on getting to 1 million members by November 24.

Not surprisingly - we had expected this - we are finding that the rate  
of growth of the group is beginning to accelerate. The birthday  
campaign grew to 200,000 members in 12 days - the 12 days before the  
birthday. We are 23 days out from the anniversary date so we are going  
to start to grow a bit faster (as long as we all put effort into it)  
and the rate should keep accelerating as we get closer to the date  
(I'll note that most did not believe we'd hit our goal for the  
birthday - because they projected out based on the then current rate).

Here are the stats:

- Members: 257,285 (as of 6:24pmET, Sun 11/1)
Help us reach the goal - ask people to join and invite everyone they  
know.

- Discussion topics:
      - 139 topics
      - many thousands of posts

- Database of articles
        552 links to articles about Darwin, evolutionary biology and  
related topics.

- Videos
      - 15 videos uploaded (not including many links to videos in the  
links database)
      - Links now to videos from the Darwin150 lecture series

- Wall posts
There are something like 10,000+ wall posts but Facebook does not give  
a way to count the number of wall posts in a group (or we haven't  
found one).

Thanks for all your support. Let's keep up the effort to reach the  
goal and make a large cultural statement about the breadth and depth  
of support for the importance of evolutionary biology.

- Phil Terry