Author: ian Date: 2006-08-17 18:04:04 +0000 (Thu, 17 Aug 2006) New Revision: 10172
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php Log: add news of gilmore's donation Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-08-17 16:49:30 UTC (rev 10171) +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-08-17 18:04:04 UTC (rev 10172) @@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ our <a href="/donate.html">donations page</a>. --> <h3>News</h3> +<b>17th August, 2006 - John Gilmore donates US$15,000 to the Freenet Project</b><br> +John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions, has donated US$15,000 to the Freenet Project, to support the ongoing development of the Freenet software. +<p> +This donation will ensure the continued employment of Freenet's full-time software developer, Matthew Toseland and other expenses. Matthew has been working for Freenet full time for the last 4 years, funded entirely by donations to the project. +<p> +In April 2006 the Freenet Project released the first alpha version of Freenet 0.7, a new approach to anonymous peer-to-peer adopting a "scalable darknet" architecture, designed to offer a new level of privacy and security for those using the software, while addressing a number of other long-standing issues with Freenet. This donation will support the project as it works towards a beta release of Freenet 0.7, improving the ease of use, speed, and security of the software. +<p> +The donation came from John Gilmore's donor advised fund at <a target="_blank" href="http://sff.org/about/index.html";>The San Francisco Foundation</a>. +<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>
