On 17/11/14 20:46, Michael Grube wrote: > 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 think OSS projects are excluded? Kickstarter is really a business incubator. But I believe IndieGoGo allows more.
Low power freenet node is something somebody interested should work on... long run they will be important for darknet.
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