On 16/11/14 17:50, Ian wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Toseland <mj...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On 16/11/14 16:36, Ian Clarke wrote: >>> We're in an interesting situation. The world finally appears to really >>> care about the things that Freenet has been about from the very >> beginning a >>> decade and a half ago (most of the publicity back then viewed Freenet >>> through the prism of Napster and copyright infringement). People finally >>> care about anonymity, privacy, government monitoring, etc. We should be >>> able to capitalize on this but it will take work. > >> And in the meantime every wannabe clone project gets all the funding, >> and we don't, because we're old news. Yeah. >> > I don't think it's because we're old news, although I think that's a > perception challenge we need to address. I think it's because we really > haven't been making much of an effort to market ourselves. In the past > journalists came to us, and I was fairly good at communicating with them on > the project's behalf, but we can't rely on organic press interest any more, > we need to make an effort to reach out. > > For example, we should be perfect for a kickstarter project, we just need > to do it, and do it to a high standard (good message, good quality video, > etc). Is it actually possible to do a Kickstarter-or-one-of-its-competitors project if you are a social network (therefore banned from Kickstarter) with no physical goodies to give to donors and no intention of making a profit? > I need to do a bit of research before responding to the rest of your email, > since I've been out-of-the-loop also (except for various administrative > tasks). > > Ian.
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