Hi friends,

Thanks so much for your patience as we completed our submission review process. We're happy to share that we now have a draft bundle page for you to review! All accepted contributors should receive an email this morning requesting final confirmation of participation in the sale.

In order to launch the bundle by our target start date of March 3, 2025, we need 100% participant approval. We don't want to have to cut anyone, so please get this step done ASAP!

If you don't receive an email and expected your work to be included, please contact us at cripsforesimsforgazabundle@gmail.com. We had a handful of applicants who skipped part of application process but we were unable to reach. No guarantees, but if you get in touch we might still be able to sort things out!

What are our next steps?

Our goal is to launch the bundle March 3, 2025 and run it for at least 2 weeks. Additionally, we will be working on creating social media graphics templates for you to use to promote your participation and help spread the word. We'll let you know when those are ready.

Please feel free to email us with any questions. In the meantime, thank you for your support and solidarity.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 

The Crips for eSims for Gaza Itch Bundle Team

I have since found another way into the email account and also will note that the link you gave confirms that there are no issues with the submission. Still, thank you for making the link visible there.

Really hoping that when this launches the impact it makes in the situation will be substantial. 

So many people are suffering due to the horrors of war for no justifiable reason. 

Hey, not to be a nuisance, but it's well past March 3rd at this point. Are final approvals still ongoing?

The whole thing had to be restarted and pushed back for reasons I am a bit confused by - check the email associated with your itch account. They sent out a message to everyone.

Hey all,

As Matthew pointed out, we had to restart the approvals process in order to actually get the bundle live. The simple explanation is that our original approval timeline was too short, so we ran into our intended sale dates. When we contacted Itch to have the sale dates amended (a common enough support query as we understand it), we were unable to reach staff. We tried repeatedly to connect with someone at the platform for over a month, at which point we decided it would be easier to just recreate the bundle and go through approvals again. We don't understand why we were/are unable to reach Itch, but we've learned from other bundle organizers that this is not an uncommon bottleneck, so we're doing what we can to circumvent and get the bundle live.

Thanks in any case for your patience, and please let us know if you didn't get the re-approval email sent to original contributors!

Take care,

bryan / The Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle Team