As some of you may have seen, VA Linux seems to be having problems, they just cut 25% of their staff, see:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/20/2242240&mode=thread For more information. This raises the distinct possibility that Freenet could find itself looking for a new home if they decide to reduce their commitment to Sourceforge - which must be a significant drain on their budget. Interestingly, Freenet Project inc, a non-profit designed to help Freenet, was recently formed. It will shortly own the freenetproject.org domain, and a small linux laptop called hawk donated by Uprizer. Uprizer is also providing a DNS server for the freenetproject.org domain to point to, along with connectivity for hawk, however Uprizer only has a T1 and could certainly not handle the heavy traffic experienced by the website (although we are currently handling the mailing lists since sourceforge was not doing so well). One option would be to use a system such as Amazon's honor system, so that people could send donations to the Freenet corp, and we could use this to pay for hosting. Of course, since Freenet is a non-prof you get tax benefits from donating to it etc. Ideas would be welcome. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20010220/b7d26bea/attachment.pgp>
