Hi. We have applied to participate in Summer of Code 2010, we will see what happens. We have an ideas page for this year here: http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/GoogleSummerOfCode2010
I suggest you find an idea that interests you, or come up with something new and ask us about it. However, for us to accept you as a SoC student you will have to demonstrate that you can code in advance. The easiest way to do this is to pick an easy bug or feature from the bug tracker, and fix it. On Sunday 28 February 2010 18:54:10 Ximin Luo wrote: > Hi Umashanthi, > > Sorry for the late reply, but your question is quite broad, and it would take > anyone quite some effort to write a proper response. My reply here probably > has > a lot of gaps, because I'm not actually that heavily involved with the core of > the project myself. > > I don't actually know if Freenet is definitely going for GSoC this year, but > it's quite likely, since it's been involved for the past 4 (5?) years. Someone > else who knows more, will reply to confirm this in the next few days. > > Anyway, to get on with answering your question, Freenet is quite big and there > is far too much to talk about in a single email. It really depends on what you > want to do for GSoC. It's probably easier if you pick an area that you find > interesting, then ask us more specific questions about that one area. Here's > the page of ideas from last year's GSoC: > > http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/GoogleSummerOfCode2009 > > Previous years: > > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode > > Also, if you are interested in the theory / state-of-the-art research side of > things, you should start by reading some of the papers about freenet. > "Searching in a small world" (2005) is close to what the current freenet does. > You might need to brush up on probability theory (markov chains etc), and > distributed hash tables, before reading that. Also to work on this area for > GSoC will require understanding the current freenet architecture, which takes > some effort - when I did GSoC, the sheer volume of it put me off. > > If you want to learn more about the code, a good way is to have a look at the > bug tracker and find some simple bugs to fix, then work your way up to the > more > fiddly ones. > > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/ > > Code repositories are here: > > http://github.com/freenet > > I realise that this email probably doesn't answer your question completely, > but > it's the best I can do given the time I have. I thought I'd send something now > since you haven't had a reply for an entire day. > > Ximin > > On 02/27/2010 05:53 PM, Umashanthi Pavalanathan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am Umashanthi, a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate from > > University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. > > > > I would like to participate in GSoC 2010. When browsing the GSoC2009 sites, > > I found Freenet project interesting. > > I believe Freenet is applying for GSoC 2010. > > > > Since I am new to Freenet, I would like to get the guidance from some one to > > start working on the Freenet project. > > > > It would be great if anyone can help me to start working with the project. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Umashanthi -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100309/7d4973d3/attachment.pgp>
