date: 2003-01-01 16:24:19+00:00
slug: happy-new-year-2003
title: Happy New Year 2003!
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Happy New Year to everyone. We appreciate your being with us for another year, and hope that 2003 will be a very productive year for all of the projects which live on freenode. If you'd like to kick off the New Year on a helpful note, please consider [hosting a server](http://freenode.net/hosting_ircd.shtml) or [making a donation](http://freenode.net/contributions.shtml) to our parent organization.