I'm working out what we can say in the announcement now. Thanks,
Ian. On 16 Aug 2006, at 14:30, Evan Daniel wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > Ian Clarke: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Revver, Inc. phone: 323.871.2828 | personal blog - http://locut.us/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060816/b9eabf64/attachment.html>
