Folks: I've just added an idea to the GSoCIdeas page: a Firefox plugin using the new Jetpack SDK!
http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/GSoCIdeas If you are a student interested in GSoC, now is the time to contact the Mentors listed on the GSoCIdeas page and let us know. You have less than a week to turn in your project proposal to Google to be considered for funding this summer. Six students have contacted us so far and we are helping each of them update their proposals. (If you are one of those six and you haven't heard from us in a few days, I apologize. Please write to us again and send us your current draft of your project proposal.) If you are also one of the six students you should feel free to change your project proposal to the Firefox Plugin one if that tickles your fancy more than your current proposal does. Regards, Zooko == Firefox Plugin == Implement a plugin for Firefox using the new [https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ Jetpack SDK]. This plugin will extend Firefox so that it knows about Tahoe-LAFS caps. It will provide user-friendly and safe gestures to share caps, for example, it will require a different gesture to share a write-cap than to share a read-cap, to prevent people from accidentally sharing a write-cap to a file or directory when they meant to share a read-cap, thus solving one of the major outstanding problems in Tahoe-LAFS user interface (see [http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004139.html this tahoe-dev mailing list discussion]). It will also provide a fast, pretty, and highly usable browser for exploring and manipulating a Tahoe-LAFS filesystem. It will also provide a re-usable Jetpack component which makes it easy for other plugin developers to add Tahoe-LAFS features to their Firefox plugin. It may also provide more features for Firefox users or developers, which features may be discovered during the course of the summer. Brian Warner, the most prolific contributor to the Tahoe-LAFS codebase and one of the leaders of the Tahoe-LAFS project and a Tahoe-LAFS GSoC Mentor is also an employee of Mozilla Labs who works on the Jetpack SDK full-time, so he would be an excellent Mentor for any student interested in this project. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
