On Monday 30 May 2011 14:47:24 Luke R. wrote: > Hello, > Welcome to the freenet-dev list! I myself am "not" a developer, but I am > working a bit on the UI (or at least trying to). I've made some icons in > Inkscape (.svg) for the interface. Trouble is, I'm not a CSS guru.
Hey, we need icons too! :) There are lots of places where icons can help, depending on the theme - talk to ArneBab I guess. But if you can learn CSS too that's even better. > We definitely could use some help on that. The entire interface should have a > theme that is more user-friendly. If you join #freenet IRC channel you can > discuss that with us. > > Regarding file sharing, FreeNet isn't exactly cut-out for big uploads and > downloads. All though it can, it just takes forever. As an example you can > checkout the "Legal Downloads" flog on freenet, where linux distro are trying > to be mirrored for testing. The devs have been working on the speed problems > for years. True, but it has actually improved over those years, even if there may have been a small regression over the last year or so. (Which IMHO is at least in part caused by improvements to performance in terms of *data retreivability* i.e. how long content lasts). I am interested in any figures people have. > You can see the flog posts "Scream if you Wanna go Faster Parts 1-3" once you > join freenet. It's pretty technical... Yeah, that's worth a post... > > See you around. :) > > --- On Mon, 5/30/11, Tom Elovi Spruce <i.love.comput3rs at gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Tom Elovi Spruce <i.love.comput3rs at gmail.com> > Subject: [freenet-dev] Greetings Freenet Devs > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 12:29 AM > > 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],i?computers > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110531/4d834190/attachment.pgp>
