On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:48:32PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 16 Feb 2012 23:26:03 Florent Daigniere wrote: > > > > Different codebase, arguably no active developpement (7months since last > > commit? - https://github.com/sanity/tahrir/commits/master), no release yet, > > no userbase, ... different goals > > > > I am not sure it's a good fit for GSoC tbh... but then again, it's up to > > Google to judge that. > > Why do you think Freenet would be the right umbrella? Is there any > > integration in between both planned on the roadmap? > > > > Why not presenting it as a mentoring organization on its own? > > Because setting up a nonprofit is a lot of work, and it's political enough > that it'd need its own nonprofit, the standard ones might not be appropriate. >
That's a valid point I'm happy with :) > And because its goals are broadly similar ideologically even if its technical > goals are, in the short term, somewhat divergent. And a lot of the technology > is similar too, although of course he's done everything in New And Wonderful > Ways. > Agreed > Long term, Freenet needs pub/sub (for chat e.g.), and a good microblogging > UI (well duh), and Tahrir needs routing and file storage (where are you gonna > put your suppressed pictures/phone footage?). > Yeah, I thought about that, hence I was asking about the roadmap. > Hence bringing it under the FPI organisational umbrella may make sense. > Having said that, I don't think it would be appropriate to call Tahrir > Freenet 2.0, at least not at present. :) You have convinced me :) My grumpy style probably suggested that I am against the idea... whereas I was just trying to build my opinion on the matter. Florent > > > > Florent > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:32:14PM -0600, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether people would object to this, but I would quite like > > > to > > > mentor a student to work on Tahrir under the umbrella of the Freenet > > > project. > > > > > > Thoughts? Opinions? Insults? > > > > > > Ian. > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Florent Daigniere < > > > nextg...@freenetproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > Should Freenet take part to Google Summer of Code 2012? > > > > > > > > Is anyone motivated to mentor candidates? > > > > > > > > I'd like to mentor but probably won't do it if I'm the only one. > > > > > > > > Florent _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
