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About the Network
You've reached freenode, a service of
Peer-Directed Projects Center (PDPC).
freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source
Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related
communities and organizations. In 1998, the network had about 200 users
and less than 20 channels. Ten years down the line the network currently
peaks at just under 60,000 users,
freenode
provides facilities to a variety of
groups and organizations.
Give £7 for seven
We are happy to announce that after a long period of development, we have
changed the software which runs our IRC servers. At the end of January 2010, we
switched from the legacy hyperion to ircd-seven.
You can read more about the changes on our blog.
The 2009/2010 fundraiser is now underway, progress can be seen on the pie-chart on the
left. Our fundraising goal for 2009/2010 is £7500.00, please
dig deep, be generous and help us reach our target!
Thanks go to donors from the following channels who have chipped in with this years fundraiser so far:
Previous years:
We would like to express our thanks to those individual donors and corporate sponsors
who made the 2008/2009 fundraiser a massive success! In particular,
Canonical Ltd (you know, the company behind
Ubuntu, who generously donated £1700.00!).
After a 2+ year break in fundraising it was an overwhelming experience to see so many of you
muck in to help us reach our 2008/2009 goal! Your support is invaluable to us and I hope we can continue
providing the FOSS communities with useful services for years to come!
Polite Notice to donors regarding renewals:
When you make a one-off donation, your donor cloak will expire after one year. We will attempt to
make contact with you on freenode before disabling it, either by private message or MemoServ.
This allows you to renew your donation should you wish to continue supporting the PDPC, or to
request an unaffiliated or project cloak otherwise.
Should your donation automatically renew, or you manually renew it prior to the expiration date
you will simply keep your existing cloak, or should you change levels, have it upgraded to
reflect this.
Have you checked out
fossevents.org yet? It's designed to bring you a up to date list of
events, barcamps, expos, lug meetings.. any event relevant to Free and Open Source Software, across the
globe! Have a look for events near you, or list one if you know of one before us or you're involved in
organising one!
Peer-Directed Projects Center is a
not-for-profit organisation, limited by guarantee
and incorporated in England and Wales.
Your
donations
help keep us running.
If you're interested in looking around the network, please
find a server
and
come see us,
or have a look at our
network policies
and project
news
and
philosophy.
freenode is run entirely by volunteers
hailing from the wider FOSS communities which we serve. Our combined
network staff and development base is made up of around 40 dedicated
men and women. We can all be found in
#freenode
on the network, staff are all voiced and happy to help, or just have
a chat with you about what we do and why we do it!
Welcome to freenode!
Copyright © 2002-2010 by Peer-Directed Projects Center.
Network date and time: Saturday, 31-Jul-2010 11:26:11 GMT.
Comments to email address: web at freenode dot net.
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