Congrats! Did Gilmore say anything (public) about what motivated the donation? Also, could the announcement include a quote from him? I think it would read better that way.
Evan On 8/16/06, Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
