Name: Michael Grube Email: michael.grube at gmail.com
Project Title: Automatic generation of Freesite indexes using the WoT concept Benefits to the Community: Manually generated freesite indexes have some obvious limits to how many freesites they can organize and allow for the possibility of censorship. The end result of this project would be a plugin that allowed the freenet community to automatically generate and maintain a freesite index. This would save time on the creation of freesite indexes and allow users to discover material relevant to their interests much more easily. It is also important to note that this would allow creators of new freesites to have their site become known much more easily, which imho is a road block against the creation of new content on freenet. Expected Results: - The creation of a plugin that allows users to recommend a key for submission to a certain group or category(analogous to a Freetalk board) - The creation of a simple, easy to use user interface - The ability of a user to create a new group/category as well as subcategories - The ability of an individual to apply WoT to filter poor or unfitting suggestions, categories - The ability of a user to save an automatically generated index as an html file suitable for distribution as a freesite. It should be noted that this system can extend to beyond simply suggesting a freesite for an index dedicated to a user-defined category, but that adding features such as a Project Schedule: The time required to complete the above listed goals should be about 3 months. This will not be a problem, as I will have no other obligations. I will be able to start on this project as early as the first week of May and, if successful, plan on continuing work on this project well after GSoC has ended. Bio: I am a second year Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate student and the University of Toledo, Ohio and have completed the majority of my programming courses using Java. I am passionately interested in the idea of creating a decentralized, self organizing communication network and have ideas I believe to be original for organizing information in a system that is democratic in nature. Since discovering the Freenet project several months ago I have become extremely interested in contributing to the improvement of performance and "user-friendliness" of freenet. The development of these features I believe are essential to seducing a larger population of Freenet users. My simple wish is to make Freenet an attractive, viable solution for the general public! Thank you for your consideration. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090331/2dcd0b2b/attachment.html>
