Hi all, I'm a CS student who is more into design and art than I am with technical implementation. (However, I can't help but get obsessed with technical details when the project asks for it.)
Anyways, I've talked with sanity on reddit and it seems you need some UI contributors: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ehep2/why_do_wikileaks_supporters_propose_designing/c1wm4y5 Now let me make something clear, my interest in this project is to work off what you guys are doing and create an application that serves a utility to the general public. I want to create utilities in order to aid you guys in the deployment of a censorship-free publishing platform that you strive to create. Pretty much, I'm more into the non-political aspects of your project, but I see no harm in helping your free-speech endeavors. (it's not like the Chinese government is going to hunt me down, right? right!?). Nonetheless, I would like to see Freenet grow in popularity in the same light as bitcoin and bittorrent. Moving on, I see two utilities with Freenet: 1. Utilizing a darknet for creating an internet among friends. I see this as a stepping stone for getting people started with the opennet. People love to share files among their friends, what Freenet can offer is an easy-to-use and robust sharing platform. 2. Creating a free web publishing platform for everyone. This way, you can convince people to be part of the opennet and get more nodes. Maybe this will lead to having the opennet "feel" just as responsive as the typical client-server platform of HTTP (I'm likely wrong on this; you guys know better). In fact, this is what got me hooked on Freenet. This idea that you have all these computers on the internet, why can't you utilize them to host files instead of a client-server model? The hurdle I see with this is convincing people that the information they will store on their computer will not harm them or make them liable for the content they host for others. Now I will be busy this summer, I have plenty of responsibilities to address to. The best I can do as of now is to keep studying your current infrastructure and, on my free time, create and share mockups to receive some feedback from y'all. Looking forward to...well whatever happens by the time it gets dark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvyUWhpRJY [insert valediction], iā¤computers
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