I know I've not comment or contributed in some time now, but I just have some comments on this.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Toseland <mj...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > 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? > Freenet as darknet might technically be referred to as a social network, but not in the commonly known sense. Physical goodies can be a low power freenet node to run, since freenet is ideal in 24/7 conditions anyway. I am worried about competition from maidsafe, who is a business that claims to offer everything freenet does with the ability to farm. We need to differentiate from or beat them, IMO. That's all, thanks. > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
