[tahoe-dev] TWN 38

Mon Sep 10 23:06:32 UTC 2012

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Announcement and News
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Tahoe-LAFS Turning Six
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On Oct 22, 2012, Tahoe-LAFS will turn six (6) years old.  Zooko |zooko|
is looking to host a celebratory party in Boulder, CO and there is talk
of a party at `Noisebridge`_ for those in the San Francisco area.  I
will be doing something in the Kansas City, MO area for those who are
interested.  How do you think we should celebrate?

.. _`Noisebridge`: https://www.noisebridge.net/

Cryptoparty
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`Cryptoparty`_ has sprung up as a grass roots movement to bring
cryptography to the people.  Topics covered range from Tor to GPG to
OTR.  However, one topic which I haven't noticed at any of the parties
was mention of Tahoe-LAFS.  This prevents a great opportunity for us to
introduce Tahoe-LAFS to the uninitiated.  I am willing to help cover
Tahoe at the Kansas City cryptoparty.  Anyone else with me?

.. _`Cryptoparty`: http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty

Glowing Quotes
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“Tahoe-LAFS is an amazing piece of work!” — Pål Ruud

Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter
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Tahoe-LAFS mentioned in the keynote at the world's foremost crypto
conference! “The End of Crypto”—Jonathan Zittrain https://bit.ly/ShkJ14
[`0`_]

#privacy #crypto MT @zooko Tahoe-LAFS appears as one point of light in
an otherwise grim big picture. http://bit.ly/ShkJ14 [`1`_]

@msimoni Tahoe-lafs goes at storage and its management indirectly;
securing data is where it excels. [`2`_]

Tahoe-LAFS = great example of FOSS community building :) RT @zooko:
Notes from the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Conference Call:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-September/007689.html
[`3`_]

Man this is awesome stuff Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem
https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/lafs.pdf hacks are impressive as well
https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/ [`4`_]

Tahoe-LAFS decentralized privacy/security-enhanced data storage for I2P
http://killyourtv.i2p.to/tahoe-lafs/install/ [`5`_]

.. _`0`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/243068166035623939
.. _`1`: https://twitter.com/jmcest/status/243069592585502720
.. _`2`: https://twitter.com/dehora/status/243363378356162561
.. _`3`: https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/243785768735232000
.. _`4`: https://twitter.com/wolfeidau/status/244616198283739136
.. _`5`: https://twitter.com/mrkoot/status/244732321167724544

Patches Needing Review of the Week
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There are four (4) ticket still needing review for 1.10.0:

* `#1539`_: stop putting pkg_resources.require() into .tac files
* `#166`_: command line order is problematic
* `#937`_: 'tahoe run' doesn't work for an introducer node
* `#1159`_: stop using .tac files: make it possible to change appname,
  Python package-directory name, perhaps other names

There are two (2) tickets still needing review of 1.11.0:

* `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus
  layout problem)
* `#1382`_: immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements

.. _`#1735`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1735
.. _`#1777`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1777
.. _`#166`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/166
.. _`#937`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/937
.. _`#1539`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1539
.. _`#1159`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1159
.. _`#1693`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693
.. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265
.. _`#1382`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382

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