Thank you Ximin Luo and Matthew for your replies. I will be looking at the ideas page and come to you back with my questions.
Thanks, Umashanthi On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org>wrote: > 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 -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100310/00614480/attachment.html>
