how far have you gotten on this? I'm in the initial learning about freenet/WoT phase of something very similar.
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Tanya Pyatigorskaya <nekotanik at gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, now I'm writing my master's thesis. > Initially it was devoted to file searching application which would provide > search mechanism via new format indexes > Now I'm writing a spam-proof,user-friendly application which allows users to > share their indexes, maintain them and download others using special NNTP > messages. It operates NNTP messages using FMS like NNTP bridge. > e.g. user chooses what files he wants to insert in Freenet, add > metainformation it and click add. After it special xml message is generated > and inserted into? FMS, files are queued to be inserted into Freenet. Other > users can see that such index appeared. Also it allows to trust or not to > trust index-creators and their opinion about other people (as it is done in > FMS) to provide users from spam . It would look like something like Thaw, > something like FMS. > If you are interested in it I can give more details =) > > Best regards, > nikotyan > >> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:30:13 +0000 >> From: Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> >> To: Discussion of development issues <devl at freenetproject.org> >> Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Group Official Plugins >> Message-ID: <201111201930.17350.toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011 05:42:52 David ?Bombe? Roden wrote: >> > Hi Steve, >> > >> > > Looks good. I wonder if perhaps the final group should be called "File >> > > Sharing" instead of "File Transfer"? >> > >> > If only ?File Sharing? wouldn?t sound so illegal? :) >> >> Ian is of the view that "filesharing" is legitimate, he made that clear >> some time back during a debate I think about searching. And clearly that is >> what ThawIndexBrowser does. (It's what quite a few so-far-lawful sites on >> the net do too, although some of them are having to introduce filtering >> etc). >> > >> > Greetings, >> > >> > ? ? ? David >> -------------- 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: >> <http://freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20111120/f2da8b37/attachment-0001.pgp> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:10:23 -0500 >> From: Steve Dougherty <steve at asksteved.com> >> To: Discussion of development issues <devl at freenetproject.org> >> Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Filesharing application for Freenet >> Message-ID: >> >> ?<CAC+9PX4FXKurqmZHD83JDsDGK9=YTTWj+WPtB192ZOGw-jUSbg at mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> 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! >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devl mailing list >> > Devl at freenetproject.org >> > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >> > >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <http://freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20111120/a96924b8/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl at freenetproject.org >> http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >> >> End of Devl Digest, Vol 23, Issue 9 >> *********************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
