On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:34:03PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > As many of you will be aware, several months ago we set up a non-profit > corporation called "Freenet Project Inc", the intention of which is to > support the development of Freenet (note that this is unrelated to > Uprizer Inc). We also started asking for donations on our website, and > the results have been impressive. We have received almost $2000 in > donations over the past few months, and donations continue on a daily > basis. > > One of the stated purposes of this money was to hire a full-time > programmer to work on Freenet. We are extremely fortunate that Oskar > Sandberg has agreed to work full-time on Freenet this summer, supported > by $2500 from the non-profit funds. Note that this is significantly > less than he could earn in the same amount of time as a professional > programmer. Oskar has been the lynchpin of Freenet development for over > a year, and his full-time attention to the project will provide a > significant boost to development. While the rate of donations should > comfortably accomodate this cost, Steven Starr (who helps me to run the > non-prof) and I have agreed to cover any short-fall should things go > horribly wrong. > > As for the future, hopefully people's generosity towards the project > will continue, this may give us the opportunity to hire additional > people, or maybe extend Oskar's arrangement if that is acceptable to > him.
Yah! Go Freenet! (and Oskar :)) -- Need some Linux help or custom C(++) programming? Drop me a line and I'll see what I can do. Resume at http://retep.tripod.com/resume.html GCS d s+:-- a--- C++++ UL++++ P L+++ E W++ N- o K- w-- O- M V- PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP+++ t 5 X R+ tv-- b+ DI+ D++ G e- h! r-- y-- pete at petertodd.ca http://www.petertodd.ca -------------- 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/20010519/aa1e4238/attachment.pgp>
