Just like boyceiom I am a very non-technical person who participated in the crowdsale, followed the project since just before then and been lurking on the forum. However, as a female of African descent, I am not the typical person you would find in the cryptocurrency space.
Since being introduced to bitcoin by another non-tech person like me, what has caused the most frustration has been my technical illiteracy. Considering I often times feel like my questions are viewed by technical people as stupid, I hesitate to ask questions and prefer to read and try to understand as much as I can (which does not get me very far). I wish I could read and understand the Maidsafe code for myself but I have just had to trust the positive feedback you constantly get from the more technical community members.
It’s hard to trust anyone in the wild wild west of the cryptocurrency world but when I heard David say in one of his interviews that mining destroys resources while farming creates them I found hope. I could never figure out how to mine no matter how hard I tried and I always felt like it was wasteful. Farming is what technical and nontechnical people alike can instantly participate in. This is the most exciting and significant part of Maidsafe in my opinion. Because of your respect for nature, self sacrifice and desire to reach across the board to nontechnical people like me, I am confident that Maidsafe will produce a harvest 10/100 times what you have sowed.
This is less of an introduction and more of a way to say a heart felt thank you to David and the whole Maidsafe team for what they are doing as well as encourage you with the diversity of people you can reach with the farming approach. Keep up the good work and I wait patiently for the launch.