Have you made progress on writing up your ideas? I'm eager to help.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Tanya Pyatigorskaya <nekotanik at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks guys for your responses, it's really important for me!
> I would determine more precisely what I want to create in a next few days
> and would consult with you after it
>
> Best regards,
> nikotyan
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Matthew Toseland <
> toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 20:58:13 Tanya Pyatigorskaya wrote:
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > I would like to say hello to all of you after my rather long absence. I
>> have
>> > been working on the task "filesharing application for freenet" due gsoc
>> > 2010. Than I had to postpone my Freenet activities due to personal
>> > circumstances. Now I am back, and I am happy to be able to continue my
>> work
>> > on my Freenet task. This application allows
>> >
>> > - select files/directories to be shared and tag them for search;
>> >
>> > - search file indexes published by other users (effectively view of WoT
>> > filtered by filesharing context);
>> > - manage trust settings for other user identities (using WoT).
>> >
>> > Since I was out of the day-to-day work in the community for quite a long
>> > period of time, what I need now is to become up to date and to join
>> > efficient development ASAP. May I ask you to let me know whether this
>> task
>> > is still interesting for Freenet? Which details of the task should I
>> > consider to be of most help? Who is working on something similar, and
>> whom
>> > should I contact to combine our efforts for quicker and better results?
>> > Certainly I would be grateful for any other relative suggestions,
>> advices
>> > and considerations.
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for your time!
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Tatyana Pyatigorskaya aka nikotyan
>> >
>> It is undoubtedly interesting, please press on!
>>
>> My view is that insert-on-demand isn't all that urgent, and when you do
>> do it you'll need to be rather careful with it for security reasons. On the
>> other hand, data persistence is less than perfect and filesharers
>> habitually reinsert so you'll need something eventually.
>>
>> But maintaining an index of your files and searching others' indexes is
>> core functionality. There are ways to optimise it quite dramatically, e.g.
>> fetching the top and bloom filters for each identity, but these can wait if
>> need be. The other core issue is how to handle spam/poisoning attacks - the
>> WoT should make this easy, but you will need to provide UI. It looks like
>> you're on top of all these issues, so I wish you every possible luck!
>>
>> My own involvement in Freenet at the moment is rather limited at the
>> moment due to academic commitments, but hope to see you around!
>>
>
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