We won't be officially announcing until later today (PST), so please
keep this quiet until we do (ie. hold off on those Digg and Slashdot
story submissions).
John Gilmore, employee no. 5 at Sun Microsystems, co-founder of the
EFF, and many other things, has generously donated $15,000 to the
Freenet Project to support the ongoing development of the software.
This virtually assures our ability to continue to employ Matthew for
the next 6 months at least, and makes a nice change from the current
situation where we have barely had enough to pay him from week to week.
My hope is that our existing donors will continue to donate, as that
might even open up the possibility of employing someone else,
although not such that it would jeopardize Matthew's employment.
We are currently working on the wording of the announcement, and we
would welcome everyone's input - you can find the draft in the wiki:
http://wiki.freenetproject.org/GilmoreDonationAnnouncement
Again, please hold off on the Diggs and the Slashdot announcements, I
am waiting for feedback from a number of people on the draft
announcement, including John Gilmore himself.
Ian.
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