X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/irc/freenode/web-7.0.git/blobdiff_plain/081fddf8827817f3f1ed8bbcbae3bd119a3ac245..247c2c433d23c40db595200402bba2537e5537c1:/content/pages/project.md diff --git a/content/pages/project.md b/content/pages/project.md index 268f3dd4d..45bd1fd85 100644 --- a/content/pages/project.md +++ b/content/pages/project.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ +--- Title: The Project --- -### About - The freenode project began as _#linuxneo_, a tiny GNU/Linux support channel, created by Rob Levin in 1994 on EFNet IRC. The channel soon changed its name to _#LinPeople_. By 1995, after moving to Undernet and then DALnet, _#LinPeople_ became a small network, _irc.linpeople.org_. In early 1998, it became _Open Projects Net_, with about 200 users and fewer than 20 channels. In 2002, Open Projects Net became freenode, a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center, a tax-exempt corporation. @@ -10,10 +9,10 @@ In 2013, the Peer-Directed Projects Center shut down; however the freenode proje Today, the freenode project plays host to somewhere in the region of 90,000 users and just shy of 50,000 registered channels. -The freenode project is managed entirely by a small team of enthusiastic volunteers who all share a passion for free and open source software and peer-directed project communities. You can learn more about the people behind freenode [here](../people/). +The freenode project is managed entirely by a small team of enthusiastic volunteers who all share a passion for free and open source software and peer-directed project communities. You can learn more about the people behind freenode [here](pages/people). The freenode project has experienced immense growth over the years and, in line with its original vision, the project provides interactive discussion facilities to a number of free and open source software communities and other peer-directed projects. -Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation with broad licensing and wide dissemination of output. +Peer-directed projects combine open, informal participation with broad licensing and wide dissemination of output. -You can read more about the Philosophy on which freenode is founded [here](../philosophy/). +You can read more about the Philosophy on which freenode is founded [here](pages/philosophy).