-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ======================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 39, October 16 2012 ========================================================
Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN38.html Announcement and News ===================== Thank You - --------- We interrupt your regularly scheduled TWN to bring you this special announcement. Well maybe not regularly scheduled, how about we interrupt this interruption to bring you this special announcement? Zooko |zooko| posted on the tahoe-dev mailing list, `this message`_ regarding the extended absence of TWN. In it, he expressed his appreciation of my effort in writing TWN and encouraged you, if you felt the same, to contact me as well. You amazed me with the number of emails which filled my inbox stating how much you appreciated TWN. The emails did not stop with just praise. There were offers of assistance, ideas for new stories. This show of support from this community left me utterly speechless. However, I needed to find a way to express my gratitude and respect. Lacking documentation is a common theme in many open source projects. I don't think this is a result of lack of good documentation writers nor due to concepts which are too difficult to document. Rather I believe that those of us who write are amazed by the community's ability to create. Reporting on the doing, doesn't seem to hold the same thrill as the actual doing. Or at the very least, this is my feeling. This community amazes me in its ability to create and not just with Tahoe-LAFS. This community has spawned companies, amazing spinoff projects and inspired numerous others. The cryptography and security discussions force me to stretch the bounds of my knowledge and imagination. This community makes me better person simply through observation and thank you for it. Unfortunately, being an observer, occasionally makes me feel as if I am not an essential cog in the machine. You start to wonder if your contribution really provides any value add. After all it isn't a patch which provides a new feature or corrects some long standing bug. Instead it is merely a discourse on your observations. Who is really interested in hearing that? Apparently from your resounding response, you are. I will be sending personal thank you to each of you who sent me emails over the last several days. I would like to take this opportunity send some special thank yous. First, to Zooko. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do TWN. This has become one of my favorite activities and your constant support and encouragement has allowed it to become so. You are always willing to provide a hand with ideas and a kind word of support. Thank you. Next to Brian Warner |warner|. Brian thanks for your kind words of encouragement. Every time we chat, you have always thanked me for TWN. I highly value our friendship both inside and outside of Tahoe-LAFS. Lastly, thanks to Peter |peter|. I read through your interview and was once again inspired. You remind me that I don't need to be a genius programmer to make a meaningful contribution. You showed me that every contribution is important in its own right. I would do well to remember that. So this Saturday TWN will return with talk of IPv6, birthday parties and the like. Thank you for allowing me the time to express my thanks and for taking the time to express yours. .. _`this message`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-October/007757.html - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* *. Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald* |marlowe| *, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn* *, Editor Emeritus: Zooko.* `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. Send your news stories to* `[email protected]`_ *— submission deadline: Friday night.* .. [email protected]: mailto:[email protected] .. |peter| image:: psecor.jpg :height: 35 :alt: peter :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |marlowe| image:: marlowe-x75-bw.jpg :height: 35 :alt: marlowe :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |zooko| image:: zooko.png :height: 35 :alt: zooko :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |warner| image:: warner.png :height: 35 :alt: Brian Warner :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQfb2TAAoJEAT4nRyi0elyRvsP/RGCdp69TvELSyc+tGollqDg RF+zZ3tzRPk3fM5ItSIhqz34XetG3x4R8rgGi9YIe/IjZJBsTjfz6Kz3Jb9ImW0s 4siajUEsO6xUydf6pQTQAZITrHvC7C//1nvz2QxDZxytPcIS3oGd4xkHcOTXbJUH +lxtEmrWNdUgFurSYu0EegASALiK5QXZsacmpdNPGLKiaNsIg1zw5KCn9HRta5bB ydTjqwGZkDSRMeenM0vG+hBTo45yWdbxl8CNrU7R6QEQe4zkU5HRqrS5j7gh6LgL Zr+uyP13sBYLbpInH1sfWOoRtkfayPHpy578ITBvJrmDHUZiK3GJNuzmYn8LBAJl r/ly7KgfQ9TG4CrArjkNXo0UGZRXfUUw5AvYdHb2x6K8cqrCqnqdbNreAQ5XjZ8D j3pCRPIcF44Wofcul2R9Tn92xpwC1vzicTUuE8qanWZ3BBtyfJtivDqVjG1XvZYW gVRGDJFDaJ4+ratk4Dh4xFZWQo3ok9NKpQ5m8bbSe/l5Oks0GrtNOrzf8G0mJRcw XibbFmu8nGJ5sUpLAytCDPxskMzLO7dySlFK04OGTAb0HBNpuUUFxvAkoKK929M8 7uqxq0T6+H7G89wXn3JOYLuA2gMwFujEV5rb+EIXepsCxDOynEy69e+TMjce4TG8 Gf6LvDwZIwoB95tPTk5e =cPBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
