According to Ian, we now have $1,700 in the paypal account! Looks like putting the balance on the homepage has helped!
Input would be appreciated on the last change I made to the wording. It now says: "The project's current balance is $6519.72. We have enough money to pay for the project's full time developer and the server for around another 78 days. If you would like to help support the Freenet Project, click here to make a donation." "around another 78 days" has a tooltip which explains: approximate figure not including work already paid for (1 month or less) Is "around another 78 days" readable? Should we explain it in a bracket? Should we get rid of the tooltip? Etc. On Thursday 30 October 2008 12:48, Matthew Toseland wrote: > I'm CCing this to devl, hope you don't mind. > > On Thursday 30 October 2008 05:13, you wrote: > > Bank balance: $4,820.11 > > > > Paypal: $1,250.11 > > That's another 2.5 months at current exchange rates ... less if the UK economy > rises / US economy falls. We should reinstate the paypal counter (including > the bank balance) before begging for money. > > > > We need to start thinking about raising more $$$. I can try Google > > again, but who knows whether they'll be willing to contribute :-/ We > > may need to rely on existing users, and the shitty economy won't help. > > Tor had funding from all over the place - EFF, DARPA, ... :| I guess we're > considerably more controversial, and more conceptually complex (everyone > wants anonymous web browsing) ... I doubt Google would give us any more, but > do what you have to. It probably doesn't help that by traditional measures > our anonymity is relatively weak, but then only those who watch the > literature will know this ... :| (IMHO in practice it's not *that* bad, > especially on darknet, but there is more work to do). > > > > Any chance we can do a significant release in the near future? > > 0.8alpha1 would certainly be feasible within the period ... I don't think we > have time to stabilise for a full 0.8.0, but I could be wrong. Thoughts? > > 0.8.0-alpha1: > - The db4o branch merge (any week now) > - The salted hash store (we need to turn this on for new nodes) > - Hopefully a first draft of the FMS plugin, p0s is doing great work on it (we > need a better name for it since it since won't be compatible with the C++ > FMS) > - FOAF routing and no-swap-on-opennet : likely improve overall performance and > data persistence significantly, although hard to measure (anyone listening, > has freenet improved performance in the last few months??) > - Nextgens' recent work on compression should significantly improve > performance for freesite browsing once they have been updated by roughly > cutting container sizes in half. (.zip -> .tar.lzma) > - Better bandwidth limiting. > > One thing we need to look into before that is bootstrapping. Recently a lot of > bootstrapping tests have been failing. :( > > > > Ian. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081103/a43fdab6/attachment.pgp>
