Author: ian
Date: 2006-05-28 01:19:09 +0000 (Sun, 28 May 2006)
New Revision: 8892
Modified:
trunk/website/pages/news.php
trunk/website/pages/papers.php
Log:
Add news about Google SoC
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php
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--- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-05-28 00:23:20 UTC (rev 8891)
+++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-05-28 01:19:09 UTC (rev 8892)
@@ -12,7 +12,24 @@
our <a href="/index.php?page=donate">donations page</a>.
<h3>News</h3>
-<b>18th, May 2006 - New stable build: 5107</b><br>
+<b>27th May, 2006 - Freenet selects four students to work on Freenet-related
projects in Google's Summer of Code</b><br>
+We have selected four students to work on Freenet-related projects this
summer, sponsored by Google. These are:
+<ul>
+ <li><b>Jerome Flesch (jflesch): A file upload and download
utility.</b><br>
+ For those familiar with it this will be a cross-platform replacement
for Fuqid, with added search capabilities. It will provide a user-friendly
interface to the uploading and downloading of large files.
+
+ <li><b>Michael Rogers (mrogers): Congestion Control and Load Balancing
for Freenet 0.7.</b><br>
+ Michael will be working on simulations, theoretical work, and maybe
implementation, to sort out Freenet's current load issues. Our present load
limiting/balancing algorithm not only does not work as well as it should, but
it also has some rather serious security issues.
+
+ <li><b>Dave Baker (dbkr): Secure, email-like messaging over
Freenet.</b><br>
+ The Freemail project lives again! Dave will code a portable
Freenet-based email system, with strong spam prevention features and hopefully
an optional web interface (for those who don't use SMTP/POP directly). This
will probably be bundled with future versions of Freenet. It will be especially
useful for human rights organizations and distributed development (bringing the
"darknet" freenet community closer to the developers).
+
+ <li><b>Florent Daigniere (nextgens): Installer and related
components.</b><br>
+
+ Florent's proposal encompasses creating an uninstaller, sorting out
some serious issues with the installer, creating a systray icon, fixing some
issues with the website, and especially sorting out the remaining issues with
free java implementations (some recent JVM-related bugs have shown why this is
important) and packaging Freenet for Linux distributions.
+</ul>
+<p>
+<b>18th May, 2006 - New stable build: 5107</b><br>
A new stable build of Freenet is now available. This is a maintainance
release:<br>
* The updating script has been updated to use new mirrors<br>
* A fix has been merged from 0.7 (regarding NativeLibraries which were
preventing the node from starting up)<br>
@@ -26,18 +43,6 @@
href="http://wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode";>look here</a> for
more details.
<p>
-<b>25th April, 2006: Video of Freenet 0.7 talk at 22C3 now
-available</b><br>
-The video of Ian and Oskar's talk at 22C3 is now available for download.
-Grab the <a
-href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-complete-20050506-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>torrent
-here</a>.
-You can also download their <A
-href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a>,
-and the source for the Java <a
-href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-freenet-demo.tar.bz2";>demo</a>
-(requires Java 1.5).
-<p>
<b>21st April, 2006: New Frost released with 0.7 support</b><br>
A new version of <a href="http://jtcfrost.sf.net/";>Frost</a>, the
Freenet message board system, has been released, and it now supports
Modified: trunk/website/pages/papers.php
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--- trunk/website/pages/papers.php 2006-05-28 00:23:20 UTC (rev 8891)
+++ trunk/website/pages/papers.php 2006-05-28 01:19:09 UTC (rev 8892)
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
<h3>Papers</h3>
+<a
href="http://media.ccc.de/filez/congress/2005/lectures/video/mp4/22C3-videos-complete-20050506-torrents/22C3-492-en-freenet_new_version.mp4.torrent";>Torrent
of Small World talk, Berlin, December 2005</a><br>
+This is a video of a talk given by Ian Clarke and Oskar Sandberg at the Chaos
Computer Congress in Berlin, December 2005, describing the (then) new
architecture for Freenet 0.7. You can also download the <A
+href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a>,
+and the source for the Java <a
+href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-freenet-demo.tar.bz2";>demo</a>
+(requires Java 1.5).
+<p>
+
<a href="http://www.math.chalmers.se/~ossa/lic.pdf";>Searching in a Small
World</a> (PDF)<br>
Oskar Sandberg's licentiate thesis describing a simple decentralized mechanism
for constructing small world
networks that is inspired by Freenet's original design. Part II of the thesis
describes the basis for
