We won't be officially announcing until later today (PST), so please keep this quiet until we do (ie. hold off on those Digg and Slashdot story submissions).
John Gilmore, employee no. 5 at Sun Microsystems, co-founder of the EFF, and many other things, has generously donated $15,000 to the Freenet Project to support the ongoing development of the software. This virtually assures our ability to continue to employ Matthew for the next 6 months at least, and makes a nice change from the current situation where we have barely had enough to pay him from week to week. My hope is that our existing donors will continue to donate, as that might even open up the possibility of employing someone else, although not such that it would jeopardize Matthew's employment. We are currently working on the wording of the announcement, and we would welcome everyone's input - you can find the draft in the wiki: http://wiki.freenetproject.org/GilmoreDonationAnnouncement Again, please hold off on the Diggs and the Slashdot announcements, I am waiting for feedback from a number of people on the draft announcement, including John Gilmore himself. Ian.
