* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2006-05-03 17:06:03]:
> How many SoC projects can we realistically mentor? We have 7 > applications at present, and have set our target to 3. One of the > applications is sufficiently whacky that I will need to read several > papers on his site in order to evaluate it; all the others would be > useful. > > Ian, will you be available over the summer to mentor people? Many people > can assist students, even if they themselves are working for us under > SoC; what you can't do is VOTE on proposals and also be a submitter of > proposals. It's not clear : previous statements from google, including the FAQ now say that it's not possible :/ that we should 'focus' on either beeing a mentor OR a student. > I should be here for the vast majority of the summer, > although there will definitely be shortish periods when I am not > available at all. > > IMHO: > - The FUQID replacement is important. see below > - The search engine is moderately useful. > - JFKi is moderately useful. > - Load balancing/limiting simulations and implementation is very > important. Our current algorithm *mostly* works, but opens up a new > class of attacks on direct peers, which probably will not be mitigated > sufficiently by premix routing. I don't think it matches the "self-contained" requirement :) Moreover, it involves a fair bit of understanding of how freenet works and possibly the black magic behind the routing... Not a SoC project imho. > - Local messaging and file sharing is useful. Eternal debate : do we want to link freenet with tools possibly incitating to do copyright infringment ? Even if we don't bundle it, shall freenet be the mentoring organization of such a project ? btw, according to Bombe, Freemule is on the road ^-^ > - STUN and UP&P is useful. I'm not convinced :) > - The ant routing proposal; I have no idea, need to investigate his > site. we can't see proposals ^-^ maybe we should incitate people to cross post their applications on @tech ? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060503/434d67fc/attachment.pgp>
