Our four successful Google Summer of Code applicants, and their projects. Google will pay these students $4,500 to do some work for us over the summer (and us $500 to admin them):
Jerome Flesch (jflesch): A file upload and download utility. This will be a cross between FUQID and FreeMule; it will be a cross-platform replacement for FUQID, but it will also have searching capabilities based on index plugins. Ian will mentor this project. Michael Rogers (mrogers): Congestion Control and Load Balancing for Freenet 0.7. Michael will be working on simulations, theoretical work, and maybe implementation, with me, to sort out Freenet's current load issues. Our present load limiting/balancing algorithm not only does not work as well as it should, but it also has some rather serious security issues. Michael and I have been discussing a replacement on the devl list for some time, but any new algorithm should be simulated. Dave Baker (dbkr): Secure, email-like messaging over Freenet. The Freemail project lives again! Dbkr will complete a portable Freenet-based email system, with strong spam prevention features and hopefully an optional web interface (for those who don't use SMTP/POP directly). This will probably be bundled with future versions of Freenet. It will be especially useful for human rights organizations and distributed development (bringing the "darknet" freenet community closer to the developers). Florent Daigniere (nextgens): Installer and related components. Nextgens' proposal encompasses creating an uninstaller, sorting out some serious issues with the installer, creating a systray icon, fixing some issues with the website, and especially sorting out the remaining issues with free java implementations (some recent JVM-related bugs have shown why this is important) and packaging Freenet for Linux distributions. Nextgens has served us well for some months now, writing the original installer amongst other things. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- 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/20060527/3eb26f7e/attachment.pgp>
