As many of you will be aware, several months ago we set up a non-profit corporation called "Freenet Project Inc", the intention of which is to support the development of Freenet (note that this is unrelated to Uprizer Inc). We also started asking for donations on our website, and the results have been impressive. We have received almost $2000 in donations over the past few months, and donations continue on a daily basis.
One of the stated purposes of this money was to hire a full-time programmer to work on Freenet. We are extremely fortunate that Oskar Sandberg has agreed to work full-time on Freenet this summer, supported by $2500 from the non-profit funds. Note that this is significantly less than he could earn in the same amount of time as a professional programmer. Oskar has been the lynchpin of Freenet development for over a year, and his full-time attention to the project will provide a significant boost to development. While the rate of donations should comfortably accomodate this cost, Steven Starr (who helps me to run the non-prof) and I have agreed to cover any short-fall should things go horribly wrong. As for the future, hopefully people's generosity towards the project will continue, this may give us the opportunity to hire additional people, or maybe extend Oskar's arrangement if that is acceptable to him. Anyone interested in donating to the project, or finding out more about the Freenet Project non-profit, should take a look here: http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=donations Ian Clarke Founder & Coordinator, Free Network Project. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010519/5e745233/attachment.pgp>
