[email protected]: > I won't make any details public about who is involved, but for now I can say: > - It sounds like the politician does indeed like Freenet and is serious in > thinking about how we could acquire further funds. > - This isn't some random local village politician, we're talking about higher > level parliaments! > - One of the main area's of interest of him *is* Internet politics, so he's > perfectly qualified. >
I would not get your hopes up too much about this. Definitely don't get in a mental state where you're already thinking about how to spend the money, because this mental state is going to distort your judgment and your adherence to any principles (technical or moral) that you might have held previously. In more practical terms, politicians are not the same people who process funding applications, and the most they will be able to do is "put in a good word". I doubt regional government institutions have much money to give for paradigm-shifting internet projects like this. OTOH if we're talking about EU money, then I hear the sort of bullshit this involves would basically require a full time employee with previous experience to properly handle it. The probability of success would have more to do with how much jargon bullshit they can produce that is "in phase" with whomever processes the application on the EU side, which would create very perverse anti-technical incentives on Freenet's side. That said, do keep an eye out on it, just be critical and not let the money cloud or distract your overall judgment. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
