Did I assert that you weren´t? (edit: optimistic… or did? grammar is tricky)
The founders of the project are deploying something useful, asking for donations, and hope to offer additional plans from what they have so far.
We´re working on a bunch of open source stuff with a similar mindset, optimism isn´t so bad. They seem to have it, it keeps us going… and it isn´t so easy to come by in some quarters.