But today, the iPhone giant confirmed that it was cancelling the first of those two projects, after too many delays in the approval process, which today appeared to be extending in a way that could go on for a long time to come.
Over about 20 years, Benesse Corporation has financed one project after another.
Mixing coding with a sense of public purpose, Swartz spent his short life launching one project after another — little code bombs designed, in ways large and small, to change the way the world is.
Over the next three years, the Katzes embarked on one project after another, among them redoing the hardwood floors and creating a space in the basement in which Ms. Katz, who is an aesthetician, can give facials to close friends and relatives.
As one project after another was scratched, an elaborate plan to pay for it all with money from private investors fell apart.
One project, after all, was schooling me in ambiguity — I'd never guessed that a red-light area could be haunted by such guilelessness — while the other was training me in history.
All three projects foundered at various points after the stock market crash that October.
After mounting three projects in three years in the nearby Presidio, the group's founder, Cheryl Haines, happened upon the fort and realized she had never been inside.
Worldcoo has supported nine projects to date, after raising €25,000 (£20,000) from 12,000 donations.
I did three or four projects with him after that.
