[Announce] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: John Gilmore donates US$15, 000 to the Freenet Project

[Ian Clarke]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

John Gilmore donates US$15,000 to the Freenet Project
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 17th August, 2006 - John Gilmore, one of the  
founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks  
mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions, has donated US$15,000 to the  
Freenet Project, to support the ongoing development of the Freenet  
software.

This donation will ensure the continued employment of Freenet's full- 
time software developer, Matthew Toseland and other expenses. Matthew  
has been working for Freenet full time for the last 4 years, funded  
entirely by donations to the project.

In April 2006 the Freenet Project released the first alpha version of  
Freenet 0.7, a new approach to anonymous peer-to-peer adopting a  
"scalable darknet" architecture, designed to offer a new level of  
privacy and security for those using the software, while addressing a  
number of other long-standing issues with Freenet. This donation will  
support the project as it works towards a beta release of Freenet  
0.7, improving the ease of use, speed, and security of the software.

The donation came from John Gilmore's donor advised fund at The San  
Francisco Foundation.

For further information please see http://freenetproject.org/

ABOUT THE FREENET PROJECT
Freenet is a 501c3 non-profit corporation whose goal is the  
development of free software that allows users to publish and obtain  
information on the Internet without fear of censorship.

CONTACT:
Ian Clarke
Freenet Project Inc
ian at freenetproject.org

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