[tahoe-dev] Google Summer of Code chooses to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS!

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Folks:

The startup that I work for, http://simplegeo.com, is fast approaching
launch (scheduled for April 1). Exciting! But this means that I am
very busy. Would all students who are interested in Google Summer of
Code please write to all of the Mentors -- Jack Lloyd, David-Sarah
Hopwood, Brian Warner, and myself, in addition to carbon-copying the
backup administrator, Peter Secor. So far we have two students who
have expressed interest in GSoC, and both of them are most interested
in the Redundant Array of Independent Clouds project.

That's a good project, but I feel like it needs more detail and
clarity to let you know if you are succeeding at implementing it.
Kevan Carstensen wrote a private email to me containing a lot more
detail about RAIC a few weeks ago, but at the moment I can't find that
email.

I've been intending to write up Medium Sized Distributed Mutable Files
(#393) as a GSoC project. It would be a very valuable improvement --
opening up a number of new use cases -- and the amount of work
required is probably just right for a summer, and the scope of the
work is clearly delineated and measurable.

But, I haven't gotten a chance to write it up on the GSoCIdeas page.
If anyone else (including students!) want to edit the wiki and write
up #393 please feel free.

Regards,

Zooko

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393# mutable: implement MDMF