Author: ian Date: 2006-08-16 07:50:20 +0000 (Wed, 16 Aug 2006) New Revision: 10106
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php Log: remove status update, which is now unduely negative Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-08-16 07:48:47 UTC (rev 10105) +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-08-16 07:50:20 UTC (rev 10106) @@ -14,53 +14,6 @@ our <a href="/index.php?page=donate">donations page</a>. --> <h3>News</h3> -<b>3rd July, 2006 - Freenet Status report</b><br> -The pace of coding on Freenet has increased dramatically since the -release of the 0.7 alpha. We now have an active group of core developers -working with Matthew Toseland (our full-time dev), and a growing -community of developers working on third-party applications through the -Freenet Client Protocol. After the rather stagnant period before the -decision to switch to a darknet model, Freenet is now more active and -vibrant than it has ever been. -<p> -Current estimates put the size of the darknet between 300-400 nodes, not -bad for a hard-to-use alpha release, and we are seeing an average of -about 50 commits per week from developers. We have 4 Google Summer of -Code projects working on everything from a new load-balancing mechanism, -to a cross-platform file upload and download utility (called "Thaw"), -and a flexible user-friendly installer. -<p> -We have also been thinking hard about how to minimize the inherent -usability challenges posed by a darknet approach, and with this in mind, -have implemented support for third party applications to add and remove -darknet connections via FCP. This means we can do things like write IM -plugins to make it very easy to establish connections to friends. -<p> -We will also be deploying "opennet" functionality, so that users who -don't need the security offered by the darknet, can just start up a node -and get going immediately, as with previous versions of Freenet, but -this time with the benefits of NAT circumvention and a UDP-based -transport. -<p> -On the more administrative side, Florent Daigniere has been a big help, -setting up a bug tracker, and a -variety of other tools to help streamline Freenet's development process. -<p> -Its not all good news though, despite the generosity of many of our -users, donations to the project have been unable to keep-up with the -$2300 per month (a meager salary for a software developer in the UK) -needed by Matthew Toseland, and right now we are on the verge of not -being able to continue to pay him - which would obviously be terrible -for the project. In the past, users and supporters of the project have -been extremely generous when we have asked them to help us out of a -financial hole, and I am hoping that you can be similarly generous on -this occasion. -<p> -With this in mind, I would ask that you visit our donations page on the -website, it can be found <a href="http://freenetproject.org/donate.html";>here</a>. -<p> -And please donate anything you can spare. -<p> <b>2nd June, 2006 - Freenet lecture available on Google Video</b><br> You can now see the talk given by Ian and Oskar in Berlin last December conveniently embedded <a href="/22c3vid.html">on this website</a> thanks to Google Video. <p>
