-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/30/2011 08:29 AM, Tom Elovi Spruce wrote: > 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.
I think you are a little confused how it works here. OpenNet is a stepping stone for having enough people use Freenet, the *goal* is to allow people to switch to DarkNet. If you can get the people to use Freenet in DarkNet right away, you will be doing a great service to the community. > 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], > i?computers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl - -- http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Echo of Freedom, Radical Podcast "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN4y4gAAoJENW9VI+wmYasNQQH/jvgk+ZNJaDo6uJFxFqkjofc h5PgQ6cVHI3DI9wnrH1AS5Tnh+DZoim4RYDGRi0FxplA8APjrI+QxCfqO/0jVDfn 1yKVzINrpAp/E6Hn+fle9kpWqLzDFopCagVLby7ppwrgXmIXIbGiK/oAJXg988HC M6LWVcyMMFeXNzy9OB2/HKMJzwnt7CQt/dbsjA4vBYqPd5oZ7mzfC+CZm9FIZ9R2 jEMgHty3mPpuwcYIVp6IQ8A/SRXZmmJxgi8JYJ9mzTg6fmTHiJhoP+J5V6tBLNzU 9fKgOcWmqwLaorvb3Tz65I1UpX4Mr6fUvfPupgT5pRlwreiqpw8Iu0K+9eBiM0g= =m40j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
