What options do I have to track UbuntuEdge fundraiser progress?

I guess we all are very excited about Ubuntu Edge, and hope for the best that the 32 millions will be reached.

I would love to track the progress, but loading and refreshing the fundraiser site is distracting and not really handy.

I am interested in different ways of tracking the money/precentage.

I thought a screenlet desktop widget might be useful here, but I am unsure how to achieve this.

An indicator displaying current % would be ideal, but I guess that requires some more work.

Maybe a simple script that displays a notification whenever a full million is reached could be easy to prepare?

Stuart Langridge has put together a quick-and-dirty indicator to keep track of the current and projected totals for the fundraiser. He posted about it at: https://plus.google.com/108243663090085262773/posts/irW4n4abMs8

You can download the indicator script from http://ubuntuone.com/1g1yTcmnpDhVTB0Rp2UnbT and simply run it from the command line, or if you are on saucy (or raring with upstart user sessions) you can run it from an upstart user job:

start on desktop-start
stop on desktop-end
exec python /path/to/ubuntu-edge-indicator.py

stick those lines (with the right path in the exec line of course) in ~/.config/upstart/ubuntu-edge-indicator.conf and run the first time with start ubuntu-edge-indicator. Since it's an upstart job it'll start with your session from now on (or until you remove the upstart file).

I should note that this was the first upstart user job I defined in ~/.config/upstart so after writing the .conf file I had to log out and log in before the indicator would run from upstart.

EDITED TO ADD: My colleague Chris Wayne has packaged this indicator for precise and (I think) raring. It's available from his PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwayne18/ubuntu-edge-indicator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-edge-indicator

I've packaged the indicator mentioned above, to install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwayne18/ubuntu-edge-indicator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-edge-indicator
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