I think Darksilk will have a crowdsale. Silk will have a 1:1 swap (you will need to use Poleniz)without a no fee and unlimited time to swap.
Sorry, the timing for the crowdsale and release dates are unknown. Our team consists of mostly part time developers/engineers that get paid little to nothing.
Have you considered starting the crowdsale before completely finishing Darksilk and Weaver? There aren't many other crowdsales done this way (creating the finished product first). It'd give you guys some funds and might speed things up a bit.
Spencer is leading this project so we need to defer to him regarding the crowdsale. I would agree that would make sense and might speed things up. I would also invest BTC in a Silk Network crowdsale if I could.
I personally can not accept any monetary funds due to a contractual obligation with my new employer. I was cleared to work on the Silk Network and other open source projects but not for reimbursement. I suppose my employer might accept funds on contract but they charge $200 per hour for me. We have other C++ programmers but they too are expensive ($100-175) and we try to focus on clinical informatics software.
Great. No block explorer and now priming the community for a crowd sale for vaporware.. cmon guys